Posted on 10/08/2014 6:49:41 AM PDT by cotton1706
If Republicans fall short of expectations this fall, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) could face a leadership challenge.
Republican senators say there is much riding on the Nov. 4 elections for McConnell, who is gunning to become majority leader while also attempting to defeat a well-funded Democratic opponent.
“If we don’t win the majority then all bets are off,” one GOP senator told The Hill when asked whether McConnell could face a leadership race if Republicans remained in the minority in 2015. The senator, who requested anonymity, said some members of the Senate Republican Conference would call for a re-evaluation of McConnell’s tactics, which the lawmaker described as maintaining total party unity in opposition to the Democratic agenda.
The senator acknowledged that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is difficult to work with because he has severely limited the ability of Republicans to offer amendments.
“There’s no question Harry Reid is very tough to deal with, but some of us wonder whether we should have tried to go around him to work with other Democrats,” the senator said.
Conservative critics, on the other hand, argue that McConnell has been too accommodating and has not been fierce enough in waging the battle to repeal ObamaCare or slash federal spending.
Sen. Ted Cruz, a Tea Party favorite, has been at odds with McConnell on a number of issues. The Texas Republican declined to say in an ABC News interview last month whether he would even vote for McConnell as majority leader if Republicans pick up six seats or more.
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This is due to McConnell's numerous "handshake agreements" with Reid, ceding enormous powers to the position of Majority Leader...because McConnell thought he'd be Majority Leader by now.
But the slew of "electable" candidates he and his cronies put forth in 2012 ALL LOST!
McConnell has been a piss-poor minority leader! He should be challenged one way or the other.
Go Grimes Go!
• A young Democrat who could stay in the Senate for decades, or a 70-something man running for probably his final term.
• A vote to usurp Reid from the Senate Majority Leader position, or a vote to keep him there.
• A man with a 96% rating from the American Conservative Union, or an Obama rubber stamp.
You're not sending any message with a Grimes victory either. The GOP establishment will simply elevate John Cornyn to the GOP Senate leader position, and it'll be business as usual; like it never even happened.
McConnell and leadership should never appear in the same paragraph let alone the same sentence.
Watch it RS. You are not entitled to express that you would have no problem seeing McConnell defeated because you are tired of being abused, used, screwed and tatooed by the RINOs of whom Mitch McConnell is chief, and because of how he helped orchestrate the rape of 150,000 Tea Partiers and other true Conservatives in Mississippi. Be prepared to be called names by fellow FReepers such as: A troll, a fascist, a liberal Democrat and other names that I’ll not repeat.
The GOP will win the Senate even if the low-life, scumbag, in-bred Kentucky hillbilly loses against Grimes. The Senate RINO brothel will just be short one more political whore..
We need every senate seat we can get for the caucus vote.
O’Keefe Strikes Again! Senate Campaign For Democrat Alison Grimes Admits She’s Lying To Get Elected!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3211986/posts
Way to go O’Keefe!
McConnell might not like 0’Keefe, but he better swallow his Elitist pride and work with that young firebrand [even if it’s in secret]. That’s the ticket to a sure win. And while he’s at it, he should encourage O’Keefe to help in other battleground races.
The GOPe got all their “winner” candidates like Cochran, Roberts and Tillis.
Lets get this straight shall we...
We as conservatives have heard now almost every election cycle since the 1990’s THAT, we must conform. We were told that voting the less of two evils is the only way we can secure a chance in the future to change the direction DC was heading.
What that thinking has caused is for not only DC to worsen but as like a plaque of Ebolic proportion spread its rather inept ways to our states and even our cities.
So excuse me but those that suggest voting against Mitchie or not voting is somehow contrary to what we should do...i say this.
Go Pound sand...this is my country and in every voters mind whether it be democrat or republican it is defined as broken, so doing the same damn thing over an over again only suggests one thing;
it’s the voter that is broken and that is we and from now on I will be me.
Don’t vote for a guy who in unabashedly stated a few months ago he was at war with conservatives.
Primary time was and will be the best time to nail an establishment near-RINO.
Not one word about primaries. As if you have to go ‘Teddy Roosevelt’, only way to reform your party. I hear THAT every election cycle too.
I heard Boortz and Savage say they were glad when Obama won in ‘08 to teach republicans a lesson. Gee, how’s that working out?
Why not work for the other side and split the leftist ticket?
Please one election cycle wont change minds and if by the time it does and there is no America left then that’s fine too.
I will be there, with my head held high and my morals intact to help glue the pieces back together.
Spare me the drama...obama is nothing more than a product of what the lesser of two evils has brought or bought.
“If you can’t ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn’t be in the circus”
Interesting tagline.
The thing that concerns me is that if we don’t come off strong, then the GOP will most certainly cave on immigration. Illegal immigrants’ right to vote — checkmate.
I don’t like depending on this weak party either, but it’s the only show in town. People had to rally under more dangerous flags than that throughout most of the world’s history.
And McConnell's response has been to roll over and play dead.
“Please one election cycle wont change minds”
WHAT????!!!!!
Remember 1998?
We had just impeached Clinton, and then he picked up seats. After that, did you notice how the GOP folded up like a cheap suit and sabotaged the impeachment trial?
It was instant.
Let me guess one of your jobs in the past was a case subject for Ivan Pavlov?
“... if by the time it does and there is no America left then that’s fine too ... Spare me the drama.”
That’s the kind of thinking I expect from a ticket splitter.
“... if by the time it does and there is no America left then that’s fine too ... Spare me the drama.”
When children lose primaries they pick up their toys and go home. Grownups learn how to do better in the next primary.
Listen on some level I can certainly understand the absolving nature of voting for someone who is not ideal. Sure, at least u did not vote for that wicked person.
In reality though...we offer no future choice to those that will vote in future...we provide for an avenue of confusion and obfuscation.
In other words by voting for a man or supposed republican like Mitch you are indeed insuring the future relevance of the Democratic party.
That is logic..
We had our chance in the primaries and we didn't prevail. (I know, it is hard for you to accept that not everyone toes the line you have drawn, but it happens!)
Now, it seems to me that you are no better than Karl Rove and his ilk. If you cannot get your way, you would rather have the other side win. Well, by your actions, you are now officially on the other side, and you are making the rest of us conservatives look bad in the process.
But, of course, in your juvenile manner, you will jump up on the steam pile of your own BS and accuse me of being a RINO or worse.
If every soldier deserted because his officers make mistakes, we wouldn’t have an army.
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