“Drunks,” “Bullies,” “Traitors,” “Fringe,” and Other Things Mitch McConnell Has Called Conservatives

redstate.com ^ | 3/11/14 | Erick Erickson

[Din Maker]

Gee...what does this say about Rand’s full throated support for him I wonder.
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It says that Rand Paul has become and inside-the-Beltway political whore. (And I will leave the “full throated” adjective alone, but oh boy, what I could do with that.)

[Theodore R.]

What is worthless to us is outstanding in KY and OH.

[Theodore R.]

He never was a real conservative, a John Sherman Cooper and Gerald R. Ford, Jr., partisan in the 1970s.

[Theodore R.]

Many Kentuckians are so uninformed that do not know there is even an election involving McC.

[Din Maker]

Good. We don’t want them to know. They’re the type who vote on name recognition only and would probably for McConnell.

[Ohioan]

I think that Rand's support for McConnell was merely an effort to preserve some cohesion in the Kentucky Republican Party. He made that commitment which showed a willingness to forgive past injury, before McConnell went over the edge, as described in this thread.

It is not necessary to let McConnell pull down others, to recognize that McConnell has in fact gone over the edge.

[AllAmericanGirl44]

If I had the time and inclination, I would pull up the dates to show you that you are mistaken in your assumption.
Rand endorsed Mitch well AFTER the fact of some of the ridiculous and pitifully stupid things Mitch has said
about conservatives. Nice try though :)

[lentulusgracchus]

(Oh, and I didn't excuse Nixon... did you?)

Oh, no -- I didn't. I remember a generational family argument in which we juniors (we were about 25 at the time) took the charges against Nixon very seriously and gave full attention and credit to Sam Dash and Sam Ervin's narrative as they developed it in sessions of the Watergate Committee. I even learned to spell "eleemosynary".

So I gave the Democrats credit, and it was the older family member, a World War II infantry veteran, who called us naive and foolish young men, and stoutly called b.s. on the Dems' "shocked, shocked!" professions of astonishment that anyone could abuse the White House so, by doing the same things Lyndon Johnson, Prince Jack, and Franklin D. Roosevelt did every day, and which DimRat double-domers like Arthur Schlesinger (bless his twinky little heart) and James McGregor Burns, an Official Intellectual Heavyweight of the 50's and 60's, had advocated and warmly approved when done by The Good Prince -- namely, any 'Rat, but especially His Elegance Jack I.

So the Imperial Presidency and all its "implicit" "discretions" (meaning, authoritarian encrustations left over from two wartime 'Rat administrations) was hunky-dory and the Best of All Possible Worlds until Dick Nixon showed up and promptly crammed it up those guys' kiesters (Arthur Schlesinger at least should have squealed with delight), and showed them the potential cost to everyone in the Permanent Ruling Class if all that power fell into the hands of someone with the moral perspective of the emperor Caracalla.

And so of course as soon as Slick Willie slithered into office, 'Rat nodding sages, their heads weighed down by that enormous mass of Intellectual Gravitas, promptly regretted the Watergate reforms publicly, insofar as they tied the hands of the incoming Good Prince. From what we've seen and heard about Slick's operation .... not so much. He wasn't inhibited or slowed down a hell of a lot by any of the old Good Government institutions and firewalls. (Glass-Steagall .... Hatch Act .... Fourth Amendment.)

Example (Hatch Act): He and Beastwoman promptly set about demonizing white men in the Civil Service, and politicizing the Civil Service by organizing what amounted to "let's get Whitey" consciousness-raising rings led by "change agents" (sc. "Alinskyite agitators") none of whom could be, in Hillary's braying sophistry, "too male, too pale, too stale".

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The point I remain stuck on is, I thought ever so many of the NGO's attacked by the Obama Administration were conservative 501(c)3's, not (c)4's. That the subject of (c)4's came up as a Regime play to induce the Tea Partiers to hamstring themselves in an effort to get IRS clearance. Or am I wrong?

[Fedupwithit]

He’s gonna be calling them for a job when he hopefully gets thrown out on his ass come election day...I hope he’s not suprised when they don’t answer.

[GOPJ]

He and Beastwoman promptly set about demonizing white men in the Civil Service, and politicizing the Civil Service by organizing what amounted to "let's get Whitey" consciousness-raising rings led by "change agents" (sc. "Alinskyite agitators") none of whom could be, in Hillary's braying sophistry, "too male, too pale, too stale".

LOL - she was a beast... did you know Hillary wrote her Master's thesis on (TWO) The Woodlawn Organization - an Alinsky group in Chicago?

[lentulusgracchus]

I knew it was something about Alinsky.

What is puzzling is, she was a Goldwater Girl at home (we are told) and her folks were UMC Republicans.

A couple of years at Wellesley succumbing to the LUG's, and she's doing this?

Sounds like she had an identity crisis and packed it in -- and turned into the child-eating demoness Tiamat.

[Norm Lenhart]

McC was over the edge long before Rand got on his wagon. That shows the stuff he’s made of. Anything trying to justify/excuse that is more of that stuff.

Cohesion of liberal/anti TEA pols is never a good thing. Unless one WANTS what they are pushing.

[skinkinthegrass]

you don't live here..the stench is unbelievable,
if ignorance/stupidity had an odor..

[H.Akston]

That Ann - not a big fan of hysteria:
http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2014-03-12.html#read_more

“...Here are my facts:
(1) For more than a decade, Sen. Mitch McConnell has stood alone in fighting unconstitutional campaign finance laws, earning him the undying enmity of The New York Times. (The Times is probably the largest contributor to the Senate Conservatives Fund opposing McConnell.)
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(2) As minority leader, McConnell managed to get every single Republican in the Senate to vote against Obamacare — even “Strange New Respect” Republicans like John McCain, Susan Collins and Lindsey Graham. No other Republican leader has ever accomplished anything like that.
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(3) McConnell tricked Obama into accepting the only spending cuts to the federal government in more than half a century.
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(4) On the most important issue — immigration — McConnell not only voted against Marco Rubio’s amnesty bill, but at the moment, he may be the only thing standing between us and a scheme to import 30 million new Democratic voters. As House Speaker John Boehner works feverishly behind the scenes to push amnesty through, McConnell recently announced that there would be no immigration bill in 2014 (thank almighty God).

[cotton1706]

(4) On the most important issue — immigration — McConnell not only voted against Marco Rubio’s amnesty bill, but at the moment, he may be the only thing standing between us and a scheme to import 30 million new Democratic voters. As House Speaker John Boehner works feverishly behind the scenes to push amnesty through, McConnell recently announced that there would be no immigration bill in 2014 (thank almighty God).

Don’t be fooled on immigration. McConnell voted FOR Amnesty in 2006 and 2007.