The way you disable Reid's agenda is to remove him as Majority Leader.
To do that, you simply need more R's than D's.
If you don't attain that, you lose. If you do, then it's time to elect a proper Republican Majority Leader and land on the wobbly R's.
You dream. If Mitch wins, and the pubs take the senate, Mitch will be Majority Leader. And he will continue to reach across the aisle to help his buddy Reid. Mitch is already talking about how he'll treat the Dems much better than they treated the Pubs.
The last time the pubs had a majority in the senate, they didn't suddenly govern conservatively. They governed liberally. Remember the gang of 14?
/johnny
Then McConnell should have not trashed and bragged about crushing
the same voters he will need to win.
It’s than simple. It’s one thing to win an election.
It is another to trash and crush the same voters to win the general.
And another thing. And if McConnell wants to make peace, let
McConnell do it himself. Don’t send out that mini-me, Rand Paul
to clean up McConnell’s dirty laundry.