"A picture is worth ten thousand words.."
Posted on 12/02/2013 1:30:23 PM PST by xzins
Mitch McConnell Caricature Shoots Gadsden Flag The Senate’s Republican Minority Leader has now made it official – he’s declaring war on conservatives.
McConnell’s latest attack on conservatives came in an interview with The Washington Examiner, which ran last Friday. In it McConnell claimed the he is a “conservative” and went on to offer this interesting take on the present situation in Washington:
“What they do [the Senate Conservatives Fund] is mislead their donors into believing the reason that we can’t get as good an outcome as we’d like to get is not because of a Democratic Senate and a Democratic president, but because Republicans are insufficiently committed to the cause — which is utter nonsense.”
There are many points worth criticizing in McConnell’s interview with The Washington Examiner, but here we will focus on just these two: McConnell’s claim that he is a conservative and his declaration of war against conservatives.
Senator McConnell seems to think that movement conservatism is some kind of smorgasbord from which he can pick and choose ideas and policies and that merely by bellying-up to the smorgasbord occasionally he can claim to be “a conservative.”
Our perspective is quite different. As we see it, conservatism is a wholly formed world view, and that while organizations and individual conservatives in the movement may argue passionately for their favorite solutions to the various public policy challenges before Congress, they are all coming at the problem from this same world view.
And this world view is that the federal government should stay within the strict bounds the Constitution placed on it to protect the God-given liberty and rights of the individual citizen against the encroachments of foreign invaders, other citizens and the state itself.
To us, Senator McConnell getting a big fat earmark for a dam in Kentucky tucked into in the bill that funded ObamaCare, instead of holding fast and fighting ObamaCare, does not seem to fit into that conservative world view. Nor do McConnell’s long list of other big government votes and policy prescriptions.
There’s an old saying to the effect that “he who strikes the second blow starts the fight.” And for over 100 years progressive Republicans have been at war with the conservative grassroots of the Republican Party – except they conveniently forgot to tell us the war was going on.
We kept working every election trusting that if we elected establishment Republicans the growth of government and the erosion of freedom would stop – it didn’t. Indeed, when George W. Bush was in the White House and establishment Republicans like Mitch McConnell held sway on Capitol Hill it accelerated.
Since grassroots conservatives have figured out that there is and has been a war going on, and they have started to fight back – and win – establishment Republicans are not only outraged, they are scared they are going to lose their power.
Mitch McConnell’s popularity has been sinking like a stone now that Kentucky’s grassroots limited government constitutional conservatives have begun to differentiate between establishment Republicans and actual “conservatives.”
Should Senator McConnell survive the Republican primary to face Democratic candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes, the polls show he’s in for the fight of his life. Mitch McConnell is in trouble not because he has been “too conservative,” but because voters don’t see the difference between a big government pork barreling Republican and a big government pork barreling Democrat.
To read David
Since grassroots conservatives have figured out that there is and has been a war going on, and they have started to fight back – and win – establishment Republicans are not only outraged, they are scared they are going to lose their power.
What a scum.
Like we didn’t know already.
Probably feels emboldened after 0 told him he has his back if he will convert to the dark side.
"A picture is worth ten thousand words.."
I really do think it’s time for a war. I wish every conservative voter would take the pledge that they will not vote for any more RINOs period.
And if that means a Democrat majority, so be it.
Republicans need to understand that if they want to win elections, they can only do it by moving drastically to principled conservatism.
Time to kill the political prospects for the entrenched so-called “moderate” Republican establishment.
“Mitch McConnell is in trouble not because he has been “too conservative,” but because voters don’t see the difference between a big government pork barreling Republican and a big government pork barreling Democrat.”
Dead on target.
I left the republican Party more than 15 years ago for this very reason. When they call me for money I tell them I am an independent voter. The Republican caller continues to ask for money. Perhaps McConnell’s time has come.
I left the republican Party more than 15 years ago for this very reason. When they call me for money I tell them I am an independent voter. The Republican caller continues to ask for money. Perhaps McConnell’s time has come.
Tortoise soup
One large pot, salted boiling water
Mitch McConnell
Box of saltines
Using sharp butcher knife, shuck turtle from shell.
Dump bloody mess in pot.
Boil for three hours.
Enjoy with fellow crackers & hobbits!
And the US Chambers of Commerce are helping him!
I think that tactic is known as Bait and Switch. Let him dare to switch parties and join all his new friends having such a ball. The moment they have his vote on something like Amnesty or a Value Added Tax (VAT( to be put on everything) they will drop him like a hot, stinky potato, thrown far out to the back pasture. Sort of like a grenade.
Senator, you are in control of the House of Representatives. It must approve all legislation, and is of equal power twith the Senate.
If it is because of the democrats, why do the unfavorable laws continue to get passed on your watch?
You cannot say no, and stick to it. You cave. You always cave.
Otherwise, Obamacare would not be funded, and many other things as well.
The problems is that you have allowed yourself to be labeled by the Democrat party as obstructionist, without actually obstructing.
You may call yourself anything you like, but you still are in charge of a House that supports Democrats, especially on the big stuff.
Shakes head, Mitch... Mitch... Mitch...
Honestly..., doesn’t break my image of establishment Republicans one bit.
I agree with you, but it would be nice to get all conservatives to agree to vote on particular good republican candidates OR on the same 3rd party alternative. It's the latter that would be of huge concern to the progressives.
The Constitution Party is a joke. It didn't even try the last election.
The Libertarians try, but they need their platform tweaked to be pro-life, pro-defense, and within reason pro-law and order.
I’ve ALREADY made that pledge. . .heck, for Congress, I’ve voted against our RINO Congresscritter since 2008. . .
And I’m not voting a RINO in 2016. Even if it’s NOT Krispy Kreme. . .
“If it is because of the democrats, why do the unfavorable laws continue to get passed on your watch?”
What laws are those ? The govt. is on a sequester and the budget never did pass. Spending is done on a continuing resolution. The Bush tax cuts were renewed for everyone under 200,000, because the alternative was the bush tax cuts would expire for everyone. Immigration reform died. Obamacare passed when the democrats had huge majorities in both houses.
Mitch just needs to switch over to being a Dem instead of a RINO
We kept working every election trusting that if we elected establishment Republicans the growth of government and the erosion of freedom would stop – it didn’t.
Pretty sure the actual history is more complicated than that.
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