Posted on 02/02/2015 11:29:15 AM PST by cotton1706
Say what you will about Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, but the man can deliver a joke.
Speaking at Washington’s tony Alfalfa Club dinner on Saturday night, the Republican spared few targets, the New York Times reports. McConnell poked fun at himself, new inductee Mitt Romney, and fellow members of the U.S. Senate, including a particularly incendiary Tea Party Republican from Texas.
McConnell noted that Cruz — the anti-Obamacare crusader who spearheaded the 2013 government shutdown, thereby earning the enmity of many fellow Republicans — had once proclaimed that he would throw himself in front of a moving train, if that’s what killing health reform would take.
“That idea has some merit to it,” a wry McConnell jabbed.
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
“...McConnell poked fun at himself, new inductee Mitt Romney, and fellow members of the U.S. Senate, including a particularly incendiary Tea Party Republican from Texas.”
I read this as a light-hearted speech jokingly naming republican politicians both left and right - as is always done at these affairs. I suspect Salon is trying to stir things up, as usual.
Or am I missing something?
Careful there, you are getting awful close to sounding like you think we should no longer vote for the "lesser of two". Do that and you'll start hearing the shrieking of "It's your fault the leftisits win!", and "Hillery will be the next president becasue of you".
“It’s your fault the leftisits win!”, and “Hillery will be the next president becasue of you”.
How about when Hillary trounces Jeb because all the non-perfect contenders got shot in circular firing squads, leaving the mediocre-all-around man standing. This has already happened twice, just the names are different.
Some people will not learn from history.
You’re damned right we gotta stop voting for the lesser of evils. I’ve been doing it for damn near 30 years and all it’s done is push the party further and further to the left. Hillary wins? You betcha, especially if the GOP puts some rotten filthy leftist like crispy cream or jeb out front. No, truth is, it don’t matter who runs on the GOP ticket at this point. After the sh!t sammich Conservatives got with 2014, it’ll be a cold day in hell when I vote GOP again.
Wasn't this crackhead pol the one who suggested the GOP was going to crush the Tea Party? Perhaps that's the part you're missing?
Looks like she uses the same barber as Rachel Maddow.
The fact you seem to ignore or perhaps don’t know is that conservatives could not muster the raw political power to prevail to nominate a candidate.
I knew what was going to happen because I could see irrational conservatives right here beating their chests about their principles and dividing the conservative vote on issues that have fallen out of the mainstream.
It is fashionable, even doctrinaire consensus among many , to blame the GOPe. In reality, fragmented conservatives touting their own special interests that lost.
Unless conservatives can drop the nonsense and coalesce around the most conservative candidate, likely a governor, we will lose again.
Well, the idea is in there.
You’re not missing anything. The Alfalfa Club dinner is similar in format to the Al Smith dinner up in NYC. It’s only considered bad form if you don’t skewer yourself in the process (as Obama has done on several occasions).
Does someone have the full transcript of McConnell’s speech? Until we do I think it best to presume that Salon is cherry-picking, probably exagerating to stir up Conservatives.
Here they go again trying to blame a “government shut-down” on a backbencher of the minority party
You knew the answers to your question before you asked me. What’s with that?
And “Salon” smearing the name of a real conservative. I can see why “Salon” would enjoy quoting Yertle.
Is that really the person who wrote this? Or is that his sister?
self-sacrifice for the cause of freedom?
McConnell would never understand that
:)
I didn’t expect 1 Timothy 2, frankly. That’s why thanks was due. Romans 13:1-5 is the most common answer I’ve received from most.
And the converse notion, that one must not curse the ruler(s), is brought up more commonly. We are, after all, told to pray for our enemies too (e.g. Matthew 5:44).
Here is the Drudge poll...... conservatives seem to be flocking to the conservative candidate......
He will be beat black and blue by tomorrow by the sanctimonious self righteous here that view life through a paper towel tube
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YOUR VOTE FOR REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
Bush5%10,971 votes
Carson7%16,781 votes
Christie2%3,549 votes
Cruz14%32,038 votes
Fiorina<1%1,092 votes
Huckabee1%3,466 votes
Palin4%8,229 votes
Paul13%29,149 votes
Perry2%3,801 votes
Rubio4%9,017 votes
Santorum1%1,754 votes
Trump1%3,370 votes
Walker47%109,404 votes
232,621 Total Votes
Posted yesterday.
Agreed. But that just means that whoever DOES get elected is probably just the lesser of evils. If I don't stand on principle, I won't stand for anything. I refuse to hold my nose and vote for the lesser of evils. I've been doing that for the better part of 20 some odd years. All it does is push the party further to the left. That may be ok with you, but it's the very antithesis of everything I stand for and believe, and I refuse to do it any longer.
Cruz threw himself in front of a bus?
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