Don't forget those in Ohio!
Posted on 06/29/2015 10:38:47 AM PDT by cotton1706
Sen. Ted Cruz is suggesting current Majority Leader Mitch McConnell misled him about the objectives of the National Republican Senatorial Committee last cycle.
The Texas Republican’s vice chairmanship of the party campaign committee was always a bit mysterious, and in his new book to be released Tuesday, Cruz contends that McConnell, the longtime Kentucky senator who faced perhaps the most vociferous tea party primary challenger of the year, said the NRSC would not be defending its own incumbents.
“When I mentioned to Mitch that if the NRSC had its way, every one of those four conservatives would have lost, he promised that the committee would stay out of primaries from here on out. He said he wanted to bring the tea party and the grassroots together with the GOP. I agreed with that goal and based on that commitment — to stay out of primaries — I signed up,” Cruz says in “A Time for Truth,” which is part memoir and part political blueprint for the conservative presidential candidate.
If a party committee decided that it was not going to support its own senators when they face electoral trouble, the committee might have difficulty getting members to contribute during the election cycles that they do not appear on the ballot, however. Both the NRSC and its Democratic counterpart are dedicated to retaining their incumbents.
A source familiar with the NRSC’s work in 2014 called the idea that the committee would do otherwise “absurd.”
“I doubt there has been a voice less conflicted on the principle of protecting his members than Sen. McConnell,” the source said.
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Gasp! Would the Turtle actually lie?
You people in Kentucky should be ashamed of yourselves.
Don't forget those in Ohio!
Most certainly. I put these two right on up there with Benedict Arnold. Hands in hands.
Yeah the turkey necked turtle lies just like everybody said he would and we tried to warn ‘em but they voted or him anyway just because he had an (R) in his title...
Benedict Arnold had the decency to declare which side he was on after he betrayed the US.
They had to elect McConnell or else they would have had a Democrat. That would have been worse in some way. TPP might not have passed!
-PJ
Okay....maybe a better class of traitor then. We sure don’t seem to get that from the twins here and now.
For fricks sake. He’d just given that state $4.3 billion in freebie crap just a short time ago. What the hell do they need with a TPP with that much money choking them?
I hope his book is full of this. If he goes full steam ahead at the GOPe, people will vote for him, ESPECIALLY if he defines the GOPe and the DNC as one entity.
To me he looks like a cross between Ichabod Crane and a goiter-necked doofus.
It’s hard to imagine any scenario where the NSRC would not contribute to incumbents’ campaigns. Isn’t that one of their primary functions? It will be interesting to see how McConnell responds to this, if he does.
Ted Cruz Ping! Once in awhile, a good guy gets through, like sessions, turned down for a judgeship by the Senate, ran and won a seat in the Senate.
Cruz is smart enough to get through too.
““I doubt there has been a voice less conflicted on the principle of protecting his members than Sen. McConnell,” the source said.”
Probably Senator Wicker, now chairman of the NRSC, who secured NRSC funds to be spent on behalf of Rino incumbent Senator Cochran in his runoff with “Conservative” and ethical challenger Republican State Senator Chris McDaniel. I’ll never vote for Wicker again, not just because of this but he has a very poor Conservative voting record for a Republican.
The fork in the road ahead you've suggested made me laugh out loud.
Definitely on the mark, however.
I would guess that Cruz knows it and most of us fighting for him know it too.
It's a battle I'm glad to be part of.
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