Spoken like a true Kamikaze Conservative.
Please explain how one more liberal Senate voter for the next Supreme Court nominee is good for our country.
So called 'Conservatives' will remain as disgruntled spectators on the national scene until they learn how to win elections
Gee if only Mitch the B&&ch would attack Democrats half as hard as he is attacking Bevin, we’d have a different outcome in the Senate.
“Spoken like a true Kamikaze Conservative.
Please explain how one more liberal Senate voter for the next Supreme Court nominee is good for our country.
So called ‘Conservatives’ will remain as disgruntled spectators on the national scene until they learn how to win elections.”
If McConnell were a republican back-bencher, with his voting record, I would support him. But he is the republican leader, and he has willfully and intentionally undermined conservatives in both the Senate and the House time and again. He is constantly assisting Harry Reid and the democrats behind the scenes. He is an odious man.
In a race between a democrat and McConnell, McConnell would not be the “lesser of two evils.” The repulican caucus in the senate would be more consevative without him. He must be removed from power one way or the other, because he won’t retire and will not step down as leader because he’s power hungry. He’s a wolf within our fold.
That is an entirely fair question, and I'll be happy to answer it:
Because an "electable" GOP "moderate" will vote to confirm the same left-wing judicial nominees as would any Democrat. They always have.
The duty of the opposition is to oppose, and in Washington D.C., that means refusing to advance the interests of the power structures of both parties, which are quite often in our time, one and the same.
Republicans would certainly benefit from having greater representation in Congress. It does not automatically follow that conservatives would so benefit.
The 'pragmatic' and liberal GOP wing has won it's last election because they have alienated the base. That's the new reality.
/johnny
The logic is this:
Either way, you're going to get a liberal in the seat.
One says he's on your side--until he isn't. The other is a known enemy.
Next time, you run someone more conservative against the Liberal.
It is a long term strategy.
Frankly, we've settled for the liberal Republican over the Liberal Democrat to the point where the 'pubbies can't even be counted on to vote party lines any more, and every time the cry has been to vote for the lesser evil.
Well, those lesser evils stack up, and although it may have taken a little longer, now there are people in those seats with political positions conservatives would not have considered a generation ago.
Weeding them out isn't going to be easy or painless, but it has to be done.
It's better to get stabbed in the front by your enemy than get stabbed in the back by your “friend”...
now maybe you can spread the word with all your other RINO buddies....
Dear GOP - run a conservative if you want my vote. Otherwise “bite me.” I’ve withheld my vote from Snowe and Collins, and will continue to do so.
Please explain how having a RINO, who will stab us in the back when we need them most, is any better than an outright liberal?
Part of winning elections is the service of notice to the GOP that "business as usual" for them is a non-starter for conservatives. If the base is disgruntled, then politicians usually have to do something to firm up their base support. The GOP has decided they don't need to do that.
It's easy to explain unfortunately. A RINO will vote just like a Democrat on every piece of legislation that is truly important like supreme court appointments. That is why they are RINOs. Sure they might play games like voting for cloture but then not voting like the nominee...but does that matter to you?
I was going to correct you on your stupid non-point, but I see that others have pointed out your intellectual vacuousness already.
McConnell has repeatedly allowed cloture votes on items that advance the liberal agenda -- like Kagan and Sotomayor, for example -- and then votes conservative so he can claim to be in opposition. He also says all the right things about how 'we may block a vote' but then he caves. Every. Single. Time. But I'm sure you know that.
With "friends" like Mitch McConnell, America doesn't need enemies.
“Please explain how one more liberal Senate voter for the next Supreme Court nominee is good for our country.”
You first. McConnell voted against both of Obama’s nominees to serve on the Supreme Court. He did, however, support both of President Clinton’s Supreme Court nominees.
“So called ‘Conservatives’ will remain as disgruntled spectators on the national scene until they learn how to win elections “
Fair enough! So please tell us all just how effective has the GOPe been in taking control of either House or the Presidency? And further, when they have had majorities, thanks in no small measure to the additional conservatives the folks have managed to elect in spite of the GOPe’s negative efforts, just what have they done with their mandate? The Bush Years were a disgrace from a legislative perspective. Bush and the GOPe are wholly responsible for this march to Marxism with the RATs and FUBO! Bush “going to meet with the wounded warriors” doesn’t make up for his piss poor leadership. At the end of the day, he was a terrible president who squandered his mandate with a couple of useless wars that consumed our treasury and the precious lives of our young people needlessly. Just look how well his “nation building” has gone!
Well, I for one and torn about this type of thing, but you asked for an explanation and I can give it a shot.
A Democrat will vote against your beliefs That's understood. A Rino Republican on the other hand will vote both for and against your beliefs, which make this seem to the casual observer as a "win" over a Dem. What is missing is that a Rino also has access you our strategies which can then be shared with the Dems. A Rino can attract other squishy Reps into a block that gains power to determine party direction. A Rino sucks up party money to support their re-election, depriving it from true conservatives. When a Dem does something against the interests of the country, it can be used as an example for why you should support Reps, but when a Rino does the same thing it works AGAINST Reps.
I don't know what the true answer is, but it's not as cut and dried as it may seem on the surface.