But but they told us the Doles, McCains and Romneys are the candidates that CAN win!
Posted on 12/18/2015 4:06:22 PM PST by PROCON
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Friday warned Republican voters to steer clear of nominating Tea Party candidates who can't win in next year's general election.
"The way you have a good election year is to nominate people who can win," he told reporters during his final Capitol Hill press conference of 2015.
He urged Republican primary voters to avoid the mistakes of the past, mentioning several Tea Party candidates who went down in flames in recent Senate elections. "What we did in 2014 was we didn't have more Christine O'Donnell's, Sharron Angles, Richard Mourdocks or Todd Akins. The people that were nominated [last year] were electable," he said of the last midterm cycle.
"That will happen again in 2016. We will not nominate anybody for the United States Senate on the Republican side who's not appealing to a general-election audience," he added.
O'Donnell famously imploded in the 2010 Delaware Senate race when she aired a television ad in which she earnestly assured voters that she was not a witch.
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I sure wish we had politicians who represented us.
No more Doles! No more McCains! No more Romneys!
NO MORE RINOS!
“Leader” huh.
WE NEED CANDIDATES WHO ARE FOR AMERICA, NOT THE REPUBLOCRAT PARTY.
Yes McTurleman that’s exactly what we need.
McConnell and McCain used the IRS to attack TEA Party
and conservatives. They belong in jail.
Candidates who can win... like Bush. What a maroon.
Leader of the Vichy Republicans..
FUMM!!!!!!!
We need candidates who will follow up on their promises after they are elected. ;-)
Meaning the GOPe has given up the effort to forward responsible candidates and favors candidates that just gives away the farm.
Epic failure. We are so screwed.
We need a new party. IF Trump wins, I hope he spends some time forming a new Independence Party or Constitutional Party and begin the process of destroying this carcass called the GOP.
Todd Akins was never a Tea Party candidate. O’Donnell WON her primary, she beat Castle in the GOP primary and got backstabbed by the RNC.
Like Thad Cochran....like McConnell...
McCain was nastier to JD Hayworth than he ever was to Obama.
I despise these people. They have no honor.
Romney. McCain.
Agree. Don’t give us more of those!
They’d prefer Hillary win over a Trump or Cruz.
What a jerk.
The Tea Party is what gave him the majority and the opportunity to be the top dog in the senate.
Bite the hand that feeds you and see what you get.
Somebody needs to tell Mitch that it won’t be the GOP, then. All they know how to do is sell out!
But but they told us the Doles, McCains and Romneys are the candidates that CAN win!
FU Turtle!
This little tantrum by McConnell leads me to think that they just MIGHT be a little wary of, ‘We The People.’
And, GOOD! I’m going to study and study HARD this next year and I will work for and support candidates that will take out these POS RINOs wherever we can.
To hell with them. What a fecking mess!
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