Posted on 02/14/2021 11:47:48 PM PST by knighthawk
Mitch McConnell has said he is open to opposing any 'unelectable' candidates in 2022, even if they are strongly backed by Donald Trump, as he wrestles with how to handle a deeply-divided party following Trump's impeachment hearing.
McConnell voted on Saturday to acquit the former president, but then publicly attacked him, accusing him of a 'disgraceful dereliction of duty' in his most critical remarks ever uttered.
His tightrope walk between defending and demonizing the former president impressed few.
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LOL. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue disagree.
If I was a GOPe leader I’d be alarmed at those Georgia races because of what they offered as a glimpse of the future. Trump’s core supporters stayed home for those runoffs even though Trump himself pushed hard to get those two re-elected.
Not as bad as they spinned it.. The turtle’s actual quote:
““My goal is, in every way possible, to have nominees representing the Republican Party who can win in November,” McConnell said by telephone. “Some of them may be people the former president likes. Some of them may not be. The only thing I care about is electability.”
Deceptive article, that spins a politico piece. Even politico spun it, but the quote is just normal mitch stuff. I don’t like the turtle at all, but fair is fair.
+. Thanks. UR right - typical Mitch pol speak.
McConnell is absolute proof why the 17th Amendment needs to be repealed. This situation shows that the uniparty is in power, not the voters and taxpayers.
The political class rules along with mega donors and the media have too much power.
It’s well past putting the check and balance back on the Senate.
What we saw Saturday was McConnell’s last moment of influence in electoral politics. He may hold some sway with establishment donors, but they won’t have enough voter support to get a dog catcher elected.
Dream on. McConnell is going nowhere. Thinking you can purge the Republican Party of its uniparty traitors is a fantasy.
If anything at all can be said good about the current political situation our nation is in, it’s that the communist sympathizers and other un-Americans within the GOP are outing themselves.
I bet there’s enough dirt on this old ChiCom loving cretin to try him for treason. I despise traitorous RINO’s more than I do a democrat.
“Marjorie Taylor Greene was elected, so what is his problem?”
She’s not a communist.
Something to remember...
In the 2016 presidential race, Trump was the only electable Republican candidate.
I don’t think ol’ mitch really understands how this “We are President Trump’s base” thing works.
Eyes on the candidates to replace his leadership position. That person needs to go, too. It is John Thune at the moment.
Of course.
But politics (and law in general) is war by non-violent means.
One does not win a war by fighting fair.
I’ll contribute whatever I can to any candidate that Mitch opposes, even if it’s just a poem.
Right, he purposely threw the George Senate election.
He’ll be 79 in just a few days. Time to go.
Hahahahha, series?
With the help of both Fox and I predict the MSM the GOP bushie globalist RINOs will once again be in charge of the Republican Party. Trump and MAGA will be just a distant memory by 2022.
We should have created a new MAGA party. 2 years from now FR will lament not doing so ....
Mitch needs to keep his mouth shut
Their is no civil war. The GOPe is firmly back in command peons. No more MAGA you hear? Now heel.
Wouldn’t surprise me, after all he gave Alabama Roy Moore as a candidate and Doug Jones as a senator.
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