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“Cotton advocates that conservatives sit it out, and I say that is nutz because it leads to dirty harry as the majority leader.”

Have you read much history of the republican party since the depression? For decades, the attitude of the republicans has been “all we have to do is get our guys the nomination. We can’t win without the conservatives so we’ll just spoon-feed them some stuff and they’ll vote for whoever has the “r” next to their name.”

Another dynamic has been the “lesser of two evils” argument. You used it yourself, “the democrat’s worse, so vote for the republican,” or “vote for the republican so we get control of the senate!”

This argument is always used with conservatives, that is, between a moderate or establishment republican and a democrat, the moderate or establishment candidate is the “lesser of two evils.”

But notice the point of view of the moderate or establishment types. To them, between a conservative and a democrat, the democrat is “the lesser of two evils.”

Again, I point to Dede Scozzafava, who endorsed the democrat over the conservative; Richard Lugar, who has endorsed the democrat in Georgia, who is apparently preferable to any of the conservatives running; John Warner, who would not endorse Oliver North in 1994 and who this year, endorsed the incumbent democrat over an ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICAN; Lisa Murkowski, who instead of endorsing the republican victor after the primary, ran an independent campaign with the help of democrats, who knew she would be better than Miller, a conservative; Arlen Specter, who with the help of Bush and Rove, convinced Rick Santorum to endorse him in 2004, and then in 2006 when Santorum was running, Specter refused to endorse Santorum. And on, and on.

I think McConnell knows he’s going to lose in November, and he sees his mission now is to prevent another conservative from getting into the senate (especially one to replace him). So it’s destroy, destroy, destroy!

I am done with rewarding with a vote who pretend to be conservative around election time. I left my ballot blank for US Senate in 2012 and thousands like me did the same and Scott Brown is not trying to get power in another state because he couldn’t be elected dog catcher here.

McConnell has openly and behind the scenes undermined and lambasted conservatives, but then he wants their vote every six years. He thinks they won’t remember his treachery. And he may be right. We’ll see. But I hope he’s removed from power this year one way or the other. Because either way, either in the minority or in the majority, republicans in the senate will have new leadership. And frankly, I think we will take the senate even if McConnell loses.