Will John Cornyn Unite his Faction of the Party Behind GOP Platform?

redstate.com ^ | 5/22/14 | Daniel Horowitz

[cotton1706]

With some of the primaries behind us, many within the Republican Party are calling for a unity effort to help win back the Senate in the fall. Undoubtedly, we need to defeat Harry Reid, the worst leader of the Senate in modern history. But we also need to unite behind the Republican platform and not use that new GOP majority to promote Obama’s lame duck agenda.

Shortly after Tuesday night’s contentions primaries came to a close, Senator John Cornyn put out the following statement on twitter:

“Anyone who calls themselves Conservative or Republican, who doesn’t vote for the nominee of the party in the general election is neither.”

The question is will Cornyn ask his former top staffer, Rob Jesmer, to do the same?

Rob Jesmer, former NRSC Executive Director and Cornyn campaign manager, is the manager of “earned and paid media” for FWD – the pro-amnesty group funded by liberal billionaire Mark Zuckerberg. That group is running ads against Rep. Steve King for not supporting Obama’s amnesty plan. They appallingly accuse him of “attacking” our troops for not supporting Obama’s effort to use our military as a conduit for the open border agenda.

Remember, Steve King does not have a primary challenger and could potentially face a competitive general election like he did last year. FWD is run and advised by a number of other former leadership staffers. This campaign against King coincides with Schumer and Reid’s floor speeches attacking the Republican for holding up amnesty in the House.

So will these former leadership staffer stop helping Reid and Schumer defeat a Republican (who has no other Republican challenger) for supporting the party platform on immigration against Obama’s most important initiative? Will Cornyn and McConnell call on them to stop running ads against Republicans?

[GeronL]

John Cornyn is neither as far as I am concerned

[GeronL]

I agree with you!

[Cboldt]

When the GOP is in charge, it grows the federal government. When the GOP is in the minority, it opposes growing the government. A determined minority of 41 in the Senate can block almost everything.

[88keys]

Tend to agree...

Harry Reid is a huge stumbling block to any sort of effective governance, but seeing as how McConnell is the anti-Dem. nominee from KY, then deposing him NOW without also regaining the Senate majority doesn't seem to advance the cause much!

[Lisbon1940]

>>the worst leader of the Senate in modern history

Wasn’t that Daschle?

[Defiant]

So you are saying a Republican minority in the Senate is better for the country? I am not sure about that as a general proposition. But a Senate run by Mitch McConnell is not much different than one run by Harry Reid, and by defeating McConnell with conservative votes, we can get the Roves, Cornyns and Boehners to perhaps realize they have to work with us. Plus, we may get a better speaker. If there is a battle for the leadership, and the compromise candidate is Rubio or Ron Johnson or someone like that, we will be better off as a country. And we'll get Kentucky back soon enough.

McConnell is no different than Arlen Spector, except he is in charge of the Republican caucus. He needs to go.