Posted on 08/31/2014 10:50:02 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
The re-election campaign of U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has gained momentum in the last month, propelled by huge leads over Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes in Western and Eastern Kentucky and among men, according to a new Bluegrass Poll.
With less than 10 weeks until Election Day, the poll of 569 likely voters shows McConnell with a 4-point lead over Grimes, up from a 2 point margin a month ago. McConnell now leads Grimes 46 percent to 42 percent...
(Excerpt) Read more at kentucky.com ...
Yeah, back into your robotic stuff again. Have a nice day.
But it doesn’t belong in the voting booth if it leads to self-destructive voting. The voting booth is a place to cast a vote coldly calculated to advance a principled agenda as best as possible under the circumstances. It is not a place to throw a principled temper tantrum that leaves you feeling better about yourself but is really just pissing in the wind.
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Well said, cynwoody, well said. Don’t let these folks beat you down.
Converting the Senate to one led by Ted Cruz and dominated by the Tea Party is not going to happen in one election cycle. Voting to install yet another Marxist Democrat for six long years that will, in all probability, grow to twelve or eighteen is simply slow suicide for our cause.
The idea that in six years we will see a Tea Party candidate sweeping an incumbent Democrat out of office is a fantasy. The most likely outcome is the Democrat wins against yet another weak GOPe candidate. No thanks.
/johnny
Liberal republicans must be politically destroyed to have a conservative republican party.
/johnny
As far as "Real Conservatives" go , I would put Johnnie up beside you any day.
Exactly. I’m as conservative as the day is long. I love this country, love the Constitution, and am so red hot angry with the left that it almost can’t be expressed with words. Yet I’m lectured by these “purists” that I’m some kind of liberal for not getting on board with their smallminded burn it down tactics. It’s pretty annoying to say the least.
Maybe down the road, Prince Riebus can find himself a job as head of the new “Liberal Whig Party” - a tiny, little fringe 3rd Party. They can have their annual convention in some YMCA gymnasium.
Any kind of candidate that supports obamacare by giving Harry Reid critical cloture votes to allow a vote to keep funding obamacare is a liberal.
Any candidate that provides critical cloture votes on removing the debt limit isn't conservative.
You don't get a conservative party by rewarding liberal politicians with a vote.
/johnny
...”It would be interesting to know, but probably impossible to find out just how many of these “principled” patriots actually live in and vote in Kentucky. Not enough to effect the outcome of the Senate race I’m betting.”...
Hollywood money has been pouring into KY to defeat McConnell. Perhaps that is where they are from..You know, Ashley Judd thought about running against him though she her home was in Tennessee. She, wisely, decided not to do that. The corrupt from far and near are into this race against McConnell. People just cannot see what is ahead if we become a Stalinist country. The Senate counts in the battle to save our Republic.
*plonk*
Of course. That's the reason for primary elections. You win some. You lose some. General elections are not the place to vent your anger. Your "Feel Good" approach is well supported by the MSM, the Democrat Party and Obama who are pushing your ideas to the hilt. Support them if you like. Not me.
McConnell wins. The Republicans have 51 votes. The first thing McConnell does is change the filibuster requirements back, necessitating the Republicans get 60 votes (votes they can't get) to move bills forward.
McConnell promised this, even though Dingy Harry made this rule change to give cover to McConnell so he could have plausible deniability and “look” conservative. McConnell, as leader, gives this power back to Dingy Reid to again give himself plausible deniability (because, “we can't pass anything without the Democrats onboard”).
McConnell has been up 0bama’s butt so long that if his head was removed, he could no longer adapt from a pure methane atmosphere back to oxygen, and he would die of suffocation.
Your point makes more sense with Republicans who aren't so “smart” as to always only do something to “get along” with Democrats. McConnell is, by principle, either a liberal or a limp-wristed moderate who can't ever be counted on for standing upon conservative principle.
McConnell has already promised that he would undo much of the hard-ball politics and allow the Dems much greater power, should McConnell become Senate Majority leader.
McConnell supports Reid's agenda, and did so with critical cloture votes, against the base, and against Cruz.
I will keep trying to destroy liberal republicans, in the primary, and in the general election.
/johnny
He’s awful but Grimes is even worse. I’m all for destroying McConnell but electing Grimes as senator isn’t the answer. Lousy choices but Grimes is more lousy.
That train has already left the station when Bevin lost to McConnell. We must find conservatives that can win in the primary. It’s a shame that Bevin didn’t pull it out because he was so much better on the issues.
McConnell and Reid are twin sons of different mothers.
Talk to me after you've been on FR for one full presidential election cycle.
You don't get a more conservative republican party by rewarding liberal republicans with your vote.
/johnny
The GOP-E won a lot of primaries. I think they are going to lose a lot of general elections, because people won't vote for their liberal candidates.
/johnny
Now you fellas gotta dump that cancer, Joe Straus.
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