Sometimes those “FR commenters” to whom you refer are not unaware at all, just prone to slips of the tongue — or, in this case, fingers. I know full well that McConnell is a Senator.
I am simply disgusted that FReepers who consider themselves patriotic Americans could be so sanctimonious as to endanger our very real chances of flipping the Senate from Democratic control in November.
I wouldn’t go that far.
I get the frustration and anger over McConnell’s behavior. I sympathize with it.
But emotion-based decisions are how Liberals make people vote the way they want them to. There comes a time when emotion needs to be put in check and cold logic needs to take over.
This is one of those cases. Last Fall we saw a freshman junior Senator, member of the minority party, drive his caucus into making a stand and shutting down the government. That was a good thing at the time (as was ending the shutdown because an even better thing: the initial collapse of Obamacare, came along).
Imagine what Cruz and Lee (even Rand Paul, mostly) bolstered by more solid Conservative Senators like McDaniels and enabled by their party holding the majority can accomplish.
Few cycles back, then Chair of the DNC Howard Dean ran a “crazy” 50-state campaign based on supporting Dems EVERYWHERE, regardless of ideological differences. It propelled them not only into the majority, but ALSO gave them the supermajority needed to ram through Obamacare.
We need to learn from that.