Support Matt Bevin to oust Mitch McConnell in KY
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
Mitch takes from Charlie Rangel’s fellation demands: it is because they are racist and do not like Obama.
The party and me, always, damn the nation.
He also needs to come out the closet and say he is just in there for himself and his idiot club he takes refuge in.
very nice
So I guess he lied in all those ads he ran this summer and fall against Matt Bevin, the ones where he said he was a strong conservative. Lying POS just like Obama.
Who knows what has been “given” to MM. The bottom line is that we do not have a functional opposition party. The public had better wise up or lose it all...we are very close right now.
The Washington elites care about NOTHING but their own useless butts.
I do not understand why the Republicans keep electing the most inept worthless leaders to represent them in Congress. McConnell is such an old relic dinosaur. He is utterly worthless to the Republican cause, worthless!
Mitch, you should be declaring war on Obama and his MARXIST friends, but since you are a RINO, you are fighting with the Tea Party. You are a jerk and you’ll be retired in 2014. Ted Cruz for Senate Majority Leader!
CC
...with this in mind, it is my intention to try to take out RINO's in the primaries.
I will vote for the most conservative candidate in the primaries...and vote for the winner of the primaries in the gen election.
I WILL NOT STAY HOME FOR ANY REASON, IF I AM STILL ALIVE...
You have to know that the "worst" Republican is light years better than the "best" Democrat...
A distinction without a difference.
So Obamacare was funded by a House vote with only Democrats?
Maybe I should read up a little more. I thought we held the house.
well, at last ole RINO Mitch McConnell has now confessed that there is this ruling elite establishment in DC that can not allow the voice of the people to exact any form of significance of how the DC establishment rules over us. Can’t have that, it just wouldn’t be prudent.
It’s amazing when you compare the ferocity with which these people go after the conservatives in their own party with they way they play pitty-pat kissy-face with the most devious evil scumbags in the other party.
What were the lyrics to that old song? “You always hurt, the one you love, the one you shouldn’t hurt at all. You always take, the sweetest rose, and crush it ‘til the petals fall...”
Congress has two houses. It is a confusing post given the generally applied labels.
Obamacare funding was not part of the budget negotiations.
It was separate as is social security.
It could have been part of the debt ceiling except the Obama administration could have picked and choose which bills to pay and which not to pay.
Aside from a default, there is no way to defund obamacare without passing a bill which the senate and potus would block.
OK. You are right. McConnell is a great leader and no negative legislation has passed under his tenure as leader. I’m convinced.
I was sloppy- sorry
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