Donald Trump Endorses Mitch McConnell for the Wrong Job [9-2014]

The Wire ^ | SEP 22, 2014 | ARIT JOHN

[SoConPubbie]

Billionaire, reality star, and perennial possible candidate for a series of political jobs Donald J. Trump isn't quite sure how congressional leadership works, but he definitely thinks Sen. Mitch McConnell should be in charge of something.

Trump dipped his toes into the close Senate race in Kentucky between incumbent McConnell and Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes. The problem is, he nominated McConnell for a job he probably doesn't want — speaker of the House:

The Senate, the body McConnell is in, has a majority leader. That's Democrat Harry Reid's job. The leader of the majority party in the House is the speaker.

 

The first reaction to this is that Trump is maybe not familiar enough with the way our political system works to be endorsing candidates. At the same time, technically the Constitution doesn't require that the Speaker of the House be a member of the House of Representatives. But in that case, McConnell's best bet would be to lose his seat this November.

Update Monday, 12:54 p.m.: According to the Grimes campaign, this all started with a tweet from the Democrat's twitter account. Trump told Fox & Friends this week that he might do robocalls for candidates like McConnell and Scott Brown, who is running for Senate in New Hampshire. In response, the Grimes account made a "You're Fired" joke, which possibly promoted Trump's "rookie Senator" comment. The Grimes campaign also tweeted:

Thank you @realdonaldtrump for firing @Team_Mitch and running him for "Speaker." Kentucky needs a new Senator. #kysen — Alison L. Grimes (@AlisonForKY) September 22, 2014

McConnell, meanwhile, has bigger internet problems to deal with — someone updated his Wikipedia page finally outing him as an otherkin/turtle.

Update Wednesday, 4:02 p.m.:

Someone unknown tweeted incorrectly that I'm for Sen. Mitch @McConnellPress for speaker. I'm supporting him for Senate Majority Leader — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 24, 2014

 

[SoConPubbie]

"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

[bkepley]

Yeah but that was then, this is now. Now Trump says that McConnell looks like a parrot and smells like a goat and can’t afford to buy his own pants.

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

Is that you, Jeb?

[JayAr36]

The only time anyone sees Mitch McConnell is when he comes up for air after having his head so far up Obama’s rear end on a daily basis. Between him and the boner I am not sure if there is any opposition to our affirmative action president.

[bkepley]

Not very likely, Jeb would also endorse McConnell you know.

[BlackAdderess]

Mitch, who?!

[Huskerfan44]

The job he best qualifies for is a shovel job in a dairy.

[Servant of the Cross]

Donald Trump Endorses Mitch McConnell for the Wrong Job [9-2014]

Exactly. If someone has their nose out of joint due to the the Corker bill's 98-1 vote, the blame should be focused on the Majority "Leader" of the US Senate who put us there ... and on those who advocated for him to retain that position ... like Donald Trump.

What gets me is that the same people who rush to DQ Ted Cruz out of hand due to a "parking ticket" infraction are the same ones who give The Donald a complete pass on "murder in the first degree".

[conservativejoy]

Or a chain gang.

[Servant of the Cross]

And to be clear, I applaud Trump's way of attacking the liberals, unapologetically calling them out on their lunacy and changing the conversation.

What I mean is he is nowhere near a conservative, but is getting a pass from too many on this board because we are starved for a courageous straight-talking leader. But that doesn't make him a POTUS by any stretch.

[Mariner]

""murder in the first degree""

And more.

Donald Trump has not said a word about the Iran deal so far..

Nothing. Zip. Nada.

And that's a BIG friggin' disappointment.

Additionally, he has not saide a word about the PROCESSES used to move the Iran Deal, or TPA/TPP, all of his comments have been on how he would do it better...but under the same sh!tty processes?

You'll never see me defend the indefensible. For Trump. For Cruz.

For any of them.

[conservative98]

Laura Ingraham also endorsed McConnell but doesn’t support him now.

[Servant of the Cross]

Fair enough. Then I gotta know ... who, or what, is your strategy to take back the country? Or is it over?

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

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[BigEdLB]

I think Trump was being snarky

[Mariner]

"who, or what, is your strategy to take back the country?"

Never who.

But essentially I believe we need an opposition party to statism and communist/fascism.

Therefore...

First the GOP must die.

Everything else comes after that.

[Las Vegas Ron]

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/donald-trump-weighs-iran-deal-n391926

No, I am not a Trumpite, but I do support what he is doing right now.

[Servant of the Cross]

Everything else comes after that.

Will there be a country left to save after that?

I do get where you're coming from. For me, it's Cruz or lose. If Jebby or a moderate gets this primary nomination, I'm with you.

[mbrfl]

Actually, he did criticize Obama for not securing the release of four Americans being held by Iran as part of the deal. I believe it was yesterday, when he said that. He also criticized the deal today on CNN