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Planning ahead: GOP leadership - You vote - John Boehnor, Mitch McConnell - stay or go?
10/30/2010 | Steeltrap

Posted on 10/30/2009 9:34:48 PM PDT by SteelTrap

When we retake the majority, who do you want to lead the GOP in the House and Senate?

Understanding that this is largely a measure of who wants to be a leader (not all the peeps we like want the headaches that come with leadership) and who is persistant enough to get what they want, who do you want to see step up and take the reigns? I want my party to reflect my beliefs. The current leadership does not voice my beliefs and are not even close to voicing my burning anger at the corruptocrats that inhabit DC.

Boehnor is running on residual good will left over from the 90's. On the downside, he makes Michael Steele look like Reagan when it comes to getting our message out. Incoherent and inarticulate. Not a good combination.

McConnell is a mini-Trent Lott as far as I am concerned. He says things I agree with 100% but never delivers legislation that backs it up. He is Kay Bailey Hutchinson in reverse drag. A cheerleader that is too comfortable cheering to the visiting team.

What say you? Who do want to drive the bus?


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If I could be kingmaker, and limit myself to name two possibilities, I would pick Jeff Flake or Jeb Hensarling in the House and Tom Coburn or Jim Demint in the Senate.
1 posted on 10/30/2009 9:34:48 PM PDT by SteelTrap
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To: SteelTrap

Go, and Go


2 posted on 10/30/2009 9:36:04 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: SteelTrap

Out with both.


3 posted on 10/30/2009 9:37:41 PM PDT by afnamvet
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To: SteelTrap

Bachmann in the house and Demint in the Senate, with Tom Delay advising them on procedural stuff, with Liz Cheney and John Bolton on foreign policy. Add in Rove just to irritate the libs.


4 posted on 10/30/2009 9:40:29 PM PDT by ABQHispConservative (A good Blue Dog is an unelected Blue Dog. Ditto Rino's!)
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To: pissant

1st, we need some real conservatives who truly believe in smaller government, less spending, etc...and not mealy mouth men with fat jowls and a red tie. If we don’t have candidates like that the Dems will retain control of the Senate and the House. Let’s get the conservative candidates entered into these races and then worry about who’s gonna be Speaker in the House and Majority Leader in the Senate.


5 posted on 10/30/2009 9:40:37 PM PDT by TheStickman
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Jim Demint in the Senate, Mike Pence in the house.

Sarah Palin in the WH with John Bolton as VP and Tom Delay as her chief of staff...oh yeah...


6 posted on 10/30/2009 9:43:27 PM PDT by perfect_rovian_storm (The worst is behind us. Unfortunately it is really well endowed.)
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To: SteelTrap

Boehner stay. McConnell go.


7 posted on 10/30/2009 9:58:01 PM PDT by Blogger
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To: SteelTrap

Boehnor doesn’t impress me. McConnell does, as Jack Webb understating an attempt to master “just the facts.” But I saw the first bailout last fall pointing just about where we are now, and begged the best man in the House to vote against it. He voted for it. Twice. I will support no one, and will vote for the best we’re offered, feeling more and more that the current presidency is likely to end very badly.


8 posted on 10/30/2009 10:04:03 PM PDT by JohnQ1 (Pray for peace, prepare for war.)
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To: perfect_rovian_storm

Make Joe Arpaio Atty General, Tommy Franks Sec Def and you got a helluva lineup.


9 posted on 10/30/2009 10:04:44 PM PDT by clintonh8r (My country. Not my government.)
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To: TheStickman

Agree


10 posted on 10/30/2009 10:05:46 PM PDT by SteelTrap
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Frankly I think they've both done pretty well considering the forces arrayed against them. If I were either one of them I'd be hoping that somebody would take my place!
11 posted on 10/30/2009 10:06:34 PM PDT by clintonh8r (My country. Not my government.)
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I like it!

vaudine

12 posted on 10/30/2009 10:12:27 PM PDT by vaudine
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Boehner’s not a great speaker, but he may be a great Speaker. I don’t know who to credit, but the GOP House caucus is very conservative and very disciplined. I just can’t explain the RNCC to myself.

McConnell and Cornyn, however, deserve to anally raped by Satan with a pineapple for the rest of eternity. Fake conservative plantation lords doing everything they can to discredit conservatism.


13 posted on 10/30/2009 10:32:24 PM PDT by dangus (Nah, I'm not really Jim Thompson, but I play him on FR.)
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To: clintonh8r

Add:
- Ann Coulter for SCOTUS
- Karl Rove for Sec State
- Todd Palin at Dept of Energy

Disband the rest of the alphabet agencies.


14 posted on 10/31/2009 1:14:58 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners)
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I’d rather have a real Conservative party and forget about the GOP. When they are in charge they expand government and spending and give support for foreign meddling and wars.


15 posted on 10/31/2009 1:25:46 AM PDT by gorilla_warrior (Metrosexual hairless RINOs for hopey-changey bipartisan-ness)
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Mike Pence for the House and anyone Conservative with bollocks in the Senate.

LLS

16 posted on 10/31/2009 4:43:14 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussama will never be my president... NEVER!)
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Boehner is awful. How he reclaimed a leadership position AFTER he was bounced out of it in the ‘90s for a subpar performance is dumbfounding. McConnell is subpar as well.


17 posted on 10/31/2009 10:51:10 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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I disagree fieldmarshal. With the exception of one vote he has been a solid conservative. He may not be a firebrand - but he is solid.


18 posted on 10/31/2009 10:56:59 AM PDT by Blogger
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To: Blogger
No, no. You're misunderstanding me. Bill Frist was my Senator, and aside from a couple of times, he generally voted the right way. But what I'm talking about is leadership. You can have an excellent voting record and be a terrible leader. Frist was an excellent backbencher. As long as he was just called upon to vote, he did fine. He was one of the worst Senate leaders of either party in the history of the body. He was not up to the task, he didn't have the experience as a political activist (organizer, if you will) or the accomplishments in getting others elected. Fred Thompson conversely, WAS the one who did have some of those qualities Frist decidedly lacked, but he was already out of the Senate by then.

The problem with Boehner is that he was axed as House Republican Conference Chairman after a subpar performance. When he was elevated back to leadership 6 years later, I winced, because I knew he was NOT a good choice to become Majority Leader. Indeed, he's been a complete disaster. Since he took that job, the GOP has lost 54 seats. He should've been summarily fired at the start of the '07-'09 Congress, and it was absolutely inexcusable he was retained after we suffered even MORE losses for '09-'11. Under his leadership in the House, we've not gained a single seat during Zero's Presidency in a special election. Technically the one in NY, even with Hoffman's election would count as a LOSS, because Hoffman will not have been formally elected as a Republican (although he will caucus with us, which will still leave the gain at zero). Again, remember, this isn't about the voting record, this is about presenting an aggressive and unapologetic challenge to the opposition, getting more of your people elected, and the like, and he has failed categorically.

19 posted on 10/31/2009 11:08:55 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Don’t you think the hate Bush press had a bit to do with that?


20 posted on 10/31/2009 11:25:18 AM PDT by Blogger
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