Is Mitch McConnell Sabotaging MAGA Candidates to Stop the Trump 2024 Run?

Townhall ^ | 08/22/2022 | Todd Starnes

[SeekAndFind]

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell just said the quiet part out loud -- he's throwing Trump-endorsed Republican candidates under the campaign bus.

“I think there’s probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Senate. Senate races are just different — they're statewide, candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome,” he said last week in Kentucky. “Right now, we have a 50-50 Senate and a 50-50 country, but I think when all is said and done this fall, we’re likely to have an extremely close Senate, either our side up slightly or their side up slightly.”

I suspect it's a calculation on McConnell's part that if Trump's candidates lose, it will end a 2024 presidential race. It’s despicable, but it’s exactly what we’ve come to expect from the Establishment wing of the party.

President Trump rightly called out McConnell.

"Why do Republicans Senators allow a broken down hack politician, Mitch McConnell, to openly disparage hard working Republican candidates for the United States Senate," he wrote on Truth Social. "This is such an affront to honor and to leadership. He should spend more time (and money!) helping them get elected, and less time helping his crazy wife and family get rich on China."

McConnell is behaving just like an old-school Establishment Republican. They expect conservatives to bend over backwards to campaign for the establishment. But when it comes to doing the same for conservatives, the establishment is nowhere to be found.

The same thing recently happened in Memphis. I'm a rock-solid conservative. I actively campaigned for conservative candidates. When the candidates I supported lost in the primary, I went out there and gave my support to the moderate nominees. I didn't like all of their policy positions, but their Democrat opponents were much worse.

One caveat - I refuse to support any Republican or Democrat who defends abortion.

On the other hand, the two top-of-the-ticket GOP candidates (both Establishment Republicans) refused to show up for the Lincoln Dinner - the local GOP's signature event. The reason? Paid consultants told them not to be in the same room with former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.

Establishment Republicans want your manpower to put up signs and knock on doors. They want your cash. And they want you to shut up and vote for their pre-ordained candidates.

And conservatives are doing the same thing.

I don't care if you are conservative or establishment -- how about some party loyalty? How about defending the party platform? How about defending the former president who made this nation great again?

I understand McConnell is hurt by MAGA World, but stopping the progressives from turning this nation into a godless, third-world socialist hellhole is a smidge more important than his ego or sipping cocktails at the country club.

[silent majority rising]

It appears to be the case. He would rather lose the Senate than lose control of the Republican Senators. Write your Senators to request that they NOT vote for McConnell as Leader. I have.

[RummyChick]

He has come out to help Oz..which is suspicious

[Intar]

Yes. Next question.

[V_TWIN]

Anyone who remembers what that backstabber put into the official senate record about Trump after he left office knows the answer to that question a big fat YES

[A_Former_Democrat]

Get rid of that POS self centered bastard

His old lady too

[wardaddy]

Yes

He withholds his cash pile

That’s his power

[Intar]

Oh, and if candidate quality has a lot to do with a statewide election outcome, then based on the outcomes we have so far that must mean the lowest quality wins.

[rfp1234]

Does a fake-catholic ‘president’ crap his pants in the Vatican?

[Bratch]

A Potential Republican Club Midterm Strategy – Nationalize the January 2021 Georgia Outcome

August 22, 2022 | sundance | 162 Comments

Acceptance is the first step.

• If we accept or acknowledge the RNC and DNC are private corporations, existing like all other corporations to the fulfilment of their for-profit charter, to make money; and
• If we accept or acknowledge their business model is structured around people and businesses giving them money; and
• If we accept or acknowledge that in the process of raising money their interests may or may not align with the goal of those contributing to the business; and
• If we accept the history that Mitch McConnell and the RNC worked purposefully to remove the influence of the Tea Party; then
• This factually accurate statement from Steve Deace takes on a new meaning:
• (LINK)

[…] “the GOP (club) would rather lose to Democrats than lose control of the [club] to it’s base.”  Electability boils down to the right kind of approved candidate.

That is an accurate context for this midterm election cycle. Factually, the income stream for the RNC improves if they have the ability to campaign against the opposition club.  The larger the outrage, the more substantial the fundraising.  The corporation makes more money in defeat, or in the minority, than it does when it wins or holds majorities.

As a result, there is a disconnect between the financial incentive of the corporation and the expressed intent of the corporation. When the RNC club wins, they have a more difficult time raising money, because people who previously contributed are now looking for results.

Combine that business model reality, with the accurate statement from Steve Deace about the club perspective of MAGA, and you begin to see the weird dynamic that surfaced in Georgia in the first week of January 2021.  Did the club want to win the two senate races?  Or was the club content to let deflated Trump voters see a lackluster club response to the 2020 election issues in Georgia, a frustration which led to wins by the opposition?

The same dynamic is established now.  Senator Mitch McConnell and the GOP club corporate donors are not happy with the unapproved candidates winning many of the 2022 primary contests.  They are not hiding their disdain, nor are they hiding their shift in midterm expectations as a result of their desire to see the unapproved republican candidates defeated.

However, there is a more looming scenario that we have been discussing.

As we have seen from their non-response to the FBI raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, the GOP club would not be disappointed to see the DOJ take down Donald Trump prior to the midterm elections.

In a national version of the Georgia result, there would likely be widespread voter anger and frustration, if the DOJ indict President Trump and the republican leadership pull the Ron DeSantis routine and stay hidden and silent.

The GOP gets rid of the issue of Donald Trump, and a 25% drop in MAGA voter turnout – the result of anger and disenfranchisement – leads to overwhelming victories for Democrats in the midterms.  The result, both Donald Trump and MAGA are essentially removed from the RNC/GOP structure.  Nothing would make that group happier than to return to the status quo of controlled and approved party candidates. 

[Insert Ron DeSantis here]

In the biggest of big pictures, the important issues for the club to control surround trade, finance and economic policy.  There are trillions at stake. The multinationals and Wall Street in general would both benefit from the elimination of a political movement based on America-First national economic policy (ie. Main Street USA).

The common bond amid all of the diversity within the Trump coalition is the working-class economic connection.  No other republican politician of significance has any national economic outlook unfavorable to the multinational corporations who finance the club priority.  The only economic nationalist in the republican party is Donald Trump.  Remove him and the America-First policy is removed with him.

Let us also not be naïve or intellectually dishonest with each other.  The decision on whether to indict or not indict Donald Trump is going to be made by Democrats and Republicans alike.  Personally, I worry that decision has already been made, sometime around early June when the DOJ first inspected the documents at Mar-a-Lago, as part of a larger collaborative midterm strategy, noted above.

The picture would essentially be, have the DOJ remove Donald Trump; have the republican leadership do nothing except express faux outrage at the outcome; and then watch as a blue wave midterm election benefits both Democrat and Republican clubs.

Democrats advance their radical agenda, republicans gnash their teeth and fundraise off the radical agenda, and the 2024 presidential candidates pull out the fainting couches, gasp in horror, bewilderment and outrage over the events, while reminding the republican base that supporting law enforcement, and following the constitution, means sitting quietly and voting harder…

 

…. cue Ron DeSantis.

Karl Rove: These six talking points can help Republicans win in November

[From The Deer Stand]

Mitch has outlived his Senate usefulness.

[dfwgator]

[proust]

Trump should be able to overcome Mitch easily.

[Dr. Franklin]

Mitch the B*tch prefers to control 49 senators than to have over 50 senators, but not be in charge. Yes, he prefers to be in power than to serve the MAGA agenda.

[Williams]

that’s a duh.

[Chgogal]

Yup! The Bastard McConnell is throwing the country and it’s people under the bus. I have had it with him.

[Jonty30]

McConnell is a problem.
But, why is Tim Scott a problem?
What positions has he taken that a conservative might have a problem with?

[entropy12]

Not suspicious at all. Dr Oz is not considered all out right wing or all out Trumper.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Are the rumors true that Mitch was a bottom in the military and was kicked out because of it?

[SunkenCiv]

• McConnell Senate Leadership PAC Pumps $34M Into Oz Against Fetterman [08/21/2022]
• Trump calls McConnell a 'broken down hack' after he doubted GOP chances in 2022 [08/21/2022]
• Conservatives rail against McConnell's Senate skepticism amid Trump feud [08/20/2022]
• McConnell makes grim prediction about Republicans in Senate races, references 'candidate quality [08/19/2022]
• Come On, Mitch McConnell, Republicans Need You To Step Up And Lead [08/20/2022]