Expanded map boosts GOP confidence

The Hill ^ | Jan 19, 2014 | Alexander Bolton

[Innovative]

In order to flip the six seats they need to win back control, Republicans now believe they have widened the map to nearly a dozen competitive contests — a marked jump from earlier this year.

But while Republicans are feeling increasingly optimistic, they are stopping short of bold public predictions, remembering the dashed expectations of recent election cycles in which Tea Party candidates torpedoed their chances.

...McConnell faces a challenger backed by the Senate Conservatives Fund and the Madison Project.

[nascarnation]

even if McConnell falls to a Democrat, the message is sent to the surviving Establishment that we’re coming after them.

Yeah because the message got broadcast so well when we traded Lugar for Obama Joe.

[GeronL]

How is he making sense?

We shouldn’t care about Republicrats who have declared war on conservatism (McConnell) and we should vote for them anyway?

Hell no. They are my enemies by their own words and deeds.

I have no intention of supporting or voting for that.

[RitaOK]

Thx.

Kentucky is ripe for going blue if they think McConnell is “conservative, huh?

Rand Paul better straighten them out after McConnell falls. (I know Rand supports McConnell now, for his own purposes, but he can learn too.)

RINOS are slow learners and we’re out of time.

[Rome2000]

Hes obviously a nobody, he just endorsed Mitch Mcconnell

Ive seen dead guys in a coffin at a wake more animated and in charge than good OLD Mitch!

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

“.....remembering the dashed expectations of recent election cycles in which TEA Party candidates torpedoed their chances.”

What? TEA Party candidates saved the GOP’s sorry butt in 2010.

[RitaOK]

You’re coming right along. Huckabee is has been a squish for years.

[Timber Rattler]

The incumbent Republicans are no better than the Rats. Vote them all out.

[Timber Rattler]

I guess you both like Harry Reid as Senate Majority Leader — you are right, much better than having a Republican majority in the Senate with Mitch McConnell as Majority Leader, yes, absolutely.

No difference. Period.

[tennmountainman]

Exactly.

[Vigilanteman]

Murdouck didn’t lose because he was the TEA Party candidate. He lost for the same reason Todd Aiken lost in Missouri; because he was dumb enough to take the rape bait and produce a sound byte that scuttled an otherwise excellent opportunity to win.

[Cyber Liberty]

Their toil has not even begun. Can you imagine the s***storm coming when Chinless McConnell loses the Primary?

GOPe has a long-run purpose here...They are going to punish any conservatives who defeat their candidates in the Primaries by shafting them in the Generals. They are fine and dandy with losing every race to the Rats if that’s what it takes to teach the Young Turks a lesson.

[nascarnation]

You’re absolutely correct.

And the sad part is that Journ-0-list Stephanopolus telegraphed this attack in January of 2012 in the first R POTUS debate, and Limbaugh talked about it for weeks.

[GeronL]

If McConnell loses the primary, he is going to want to end all party support and funds of those conservatives he dislikes so much. And he has the internal power to try too.

[Cyber Liberty]

I guess you both like Harry Reid as Senate Majority Leader — you are right, much better than having a Republican majority in the Senate with Mitch McConnell as Majority Leader, yes, absolutely.

You don't realize it, but you just sort of swerved into the truth there. There wouldn't be much difference in deeds, if Chinless were the Senate Majority Leader. Rather...Innovative of you, to coin a phrase.

[Cyber Liberty]

Count on it. “If Chinless can’t have it, nobody can.”

[GeronL]

Yep. I also don’t see how a conservative supports McConnell in the primary

[Cyber Liberty]

If Chinless keeps up his war on conservatives, you’re correct. I think that will be doubly so in KY because he’s going to have to fight pretty dirty in the Primary, and that’s not going to sit very well.

[CASchack]

Many here used to consider Huckabee conservative and voted for him in the primary, so now all of a sudden, when he is making sense, he is nobody

There were Huckabots here who supported the Huckster, but there weren't that many. Huckabee wasn't, and isn't, conservative.

"We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan

[LachlanMinnesota]

I vote for ideas, not a party affiliation. What distinguishes one party from the next on any important issues?

If I can’t tell, I don’t care.

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

I do not-I will not-I cannot ever vote for a RINO merely because he is the lesser of two evils.

I’m done with that game. I’m watching the establishment spend more time, money and effort to attack the conservative base than in preparing for the mid-term elections. I’m watching the establishment change the rules of the presidential primary system to skew it in their favor and guarantee an establishment candidate again.

The establishment loves open primaries such as South Carolina and will never close them. Because they KNOW the conservatives would eliminate RINOs like Graham. They NEED open primaries to allow liberals to cross over and keep the weak and compliant RINOs in office in states where the liberals cannot win statewide elections.

For RINOs they prefer party control over what is best for the nation. I will never support another one. I’d rather stay home or vote for the conservatives down-ticket.