With respects to Barbour and Cochran, just about EVERYONE in MS was a registered Dem at one time, at least prior to the 1980s.
McConnell’s voting record is FAR more conservative than that of Arlen Specter.
McConnell DOES in fact vote conservative on just about every policy question imaginable.
1) He is pro-life
2) He supports lower taxes
3) He has voted for the Balanced Budget Amendment
4) He supports the Keystone Pipeline
5) He supports increased drilling, drilling Alaska (ANWR) and offshore drilling.
6) He supports natural gas drilling
7) He supports coal
8) He supports nuclear power
9) He opposed Obamacare
10) He opposed the Porkulus
11) He opposed Dodd-Frank
12) He opposed Cap and Trade
13) He opposed BHO’s Supreme Court Appointments
14) He supports a strong military
15) He supports gun rights
16) He supports spending restraint
17) He supports the death penalty
18) He supports tort reform
19) He supports business in general and reining in unnecessary regulations and overreach by agencies such as the EPA and IRS
20) He opposes same sex marriage
I could go and on.
Is he 100% perfect? Of course not! no one is.
I live in CA and have to put up with likes of Boxer and Feinstein for over 20 years. I would kill to have a US Senator like McConnell over the two far left wing ding bats I am stuck with. It would be great to have someone in there who represents you most of the time as opposed to none of the time.
I used to live in Ohio and there I did some volunteer work for the late Congressman John Ashbrook, one of the most conservative and principled congressmen ever IMHO. For a number of decades, the late Sen. Jesse Helms R-NC was my all time favorite US Senator with a near perfect voting record.
But I also learned to recognize and acknowledge that congressmen and senators of that caliber are few and far between. Hopefully others will arise over time and certainly Ted Cruz has bright future ahead of him.
Fact is McConnell is right on just about every issue I agree with. I think it is nothing short of insanity to sacrifice a GOP Senate seat just because of some tactical and procedural disagreements.
As long as BHO is president, nothing positive will be accomplished from our point of view. BHO will simply veto anything he doesn’t like even if the GOP ends up controlling both houses of Congress this fall. The best we can hope for right now is to keep BHO in check and not pass anything until a new POTUS is elected.
You can list all kinds of things that McConnell supposedly supports. But the bottomline is he is bought and paid for by the same entities that have bought off democrats.
McConnell was there when we worked our butts off to give W the House and the Senate in his 2nd term. And still they did their master’s bidding and those masters are the Banksters on Wall St. and the US Chamber of Commerce. They grew government and spent the public’s tax revenues like drunken sailors.
Out here in conservative land, they hate us and will do the same things the democrats will do to marginalize, defund and demoralize us.
And we are in position as a result of their maneuvering that we cannot win as long as they hold power. They can wag their fingers at us, call us names, belittle us and tell us we have nowhere else to go, and we better vote for them else the democrats get the power.
It is better that they go away so that we have a chance at getting the republican party back in our control. Either that or go 3rd party. We win nothing by voting in McConnell’s people. We lose no matter what unless we gain control of the GOP or go 3rd Party.