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Collateral Damage in a GOP Civil War
National Review ^ | November 25, 2013 4:00 AM | Jonathan Strong

Posted on 11/25/2013 9:09:33 AM PST by SharpRightTurn

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To: SeminoleCounty

“McConnell must be crushed...and it needs to be very painful
Anyone being supported by the NRSC or McConnell cannot be conservative”

Agreed. Instead of at least pretending to turn conservative at election time, which is what these Big Government Republicans typically do, McConnell has thrown caution to the wind and declared war on conservatives. His advisers must be telling him he can win without conservatives.

The war is on.


21 posted on 11/25/2013 9:45:43 AM PST by SharpRightTurn
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To: pabianice

“Using the rules, McConnell has the ability to bring the Senate to a complete stop after the Dems’ filibuster outrage. He won’t because he’s useless.”

Worse than useless, since he actively works to undercut conservatives.


22 posted on 11/25/2013 9:46:42 AM PST by SharpRightTurn
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To: Nifster

“The cure for this dolt is Matt Bevins”

Absolutely.


23 posted on 11/25/2013 9:47:28 AM PST by SharpRightTurn
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To: SkyPilot

“And he is doing all of this while there are zero cuts to Entitlements - and HE has been there from the beginning, including the 2011 Budget Control Act formula that punished the DoD with 50% of the Sequester cuts despite being only 17% of the budget. Screw this guy.”

As you point out, McConnell’s certainly screwing conservatives.


24 posted on 11/25/2013 9:48:38 AM PST by SharpRightTurn
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To: Reddon

“Sasse needs to choose between SCF support and making Mitch McConnell happy if he wants my support through SCF.”

Excellent point. I guess Sasse was hoping to get the support of both the SCF and the establishment. It does make you wonder. I think the SCF does a great job, but it must be admitted that they made a real mistake with Jeff Flake. I can’t say how solid Sasse is, other than the article stating that he criticized Republican leadership.


25 posted on 11/25/2013 9:52:04 AM PST by SharpRightTurn
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To: Gaffer

“I want a bomb thrower, I want a zealous, committed CONSERVATIVE warrior up to the task. I want a warrior that cares more about his family, children and neighbors back home than the assholes in Washington DC.”

I sign on to that, too.

Do you have a pick among the announced candidates for the seat being vacated by Chambliss?


26 posted on 11/25/2013 9:53:56 AM PST by SharpRightTurn
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To: SharpRightTurn
I'm tickled to death that guys like McConnell are coming out of the closet, so to speak.

The GOPe has been pretending not to hate conservatives since Goldwater. They're now open with their contempt.

As a consequence, I do not think "who else are they gonna vote for?" will work very well anymore.

27 posted on 11/25/2013 9:55:32 AM PST by skeeter
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To: wideawake
"So that's who McConnell is able to stand up to - other Republicans."

"Mitch" McConnell needs to change his nickname to "Reid's Bitch" McConnell.

But the simple fact is that the "GOP-e" is more in sympathy with the liberal Democrats than with conservatives. While Reid and the Democrats play "hardball", the "go-along-to-get-along" Republicans play "tiddlywinks".

28 posted on 11/25/2013 9:57:22 AM PST by Wonder Warthog
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To: SharpRightTurn

No, not yet. I’ve heard Gingrey and a couple of others. But, frankly and very, very bluntly, I DO NOT and WILL NOT vote for some old white good old boy fart with Georgia Republican Gravitas ANY EFFING MORE! I don’t care what their damned record is.

Like I said, I want a young man or woman with children, mainly because they have to have something to anchor them to common Georgia problems this government causes each and every day. Some old fart from north Georgia old as dirt or a doctor in Metro Atlanta who gave up the practice years ago isn’t gonna help my three grand daughters. They’re just looking for more power and a millionaire’s retirement in my book.

Flame me if you want. I’m old and don’t care, and I damned sure don’t want some good old boy like Chambliss or Isakson to sit there and play RINO games and come back here and lie once or twice a year.


29 posted on 11/25/2013 9:59:33 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: SharpRightTurn
FYI-

Sasse, president of Midland University and former assistant U.S. secretary of health and human services in the George W. Bush administration, is locked in a four-candidate GOP Senate contest with former State Treasurer Shane Osborn, Omaha banker Sid Dinsdale and Omaha attorney Bart McLeay.

30 posted on 11/25/2013 10:07:26 AM PST by 11th Commandment (http://www.thirty-thousand.org/)
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To: SharpRightTurn

I swear that if I were in DC and in the Senate, I would walk up to mcconnell in front of cameras and state that if he wants to punch a Conservative in the nose that I would give him a shot... one shot... and then his a$$ would be mine.


31 posted on 11/25/2013 10:20:47 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! BETTER DEAD THAN RED!)
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To: skeeter

“The GOPe has been pretending not to hate conservatives since Goldwater. They’re now open with their contempt.
As a consequence, I do not think “who else are they gonna vote for?” will work very well anymore.”

Great point. Even the low information Republican voters should be able to figure McConnell et al. now.


32 posted on 11/25/2013 10:21:30 AM PST by SharpRightTurn
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To: 11th Commandment

“Sasse, president of Midland University and former assistant U.S. secretary of health and human services in the George W. Bush administration, is locked in a four-candidate GOP Senate contest with former State Treasurer Shane Osborn, Omaha banker Sid Dinsdale and Omaha attorney Bart McLeay.”

Do you know enough about the field of candidates to know who is the most solidly conservative?


33 posted on 11/25/2013 10:23:59 AM PST by SharpRightTurn
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To: LibLieSlayer

“I swear that if I were in DC and in the Senate, I would walk up to mcconnell in front of cameras and state that if he wants to punch a Conservative in the nose that I would give him a shot... one shot... and then his a$$ would be mine.”

At which point I suspect McConnell would ditch the bravado and call for the Capitol police (from underneath his desk).


34 posted on 11/25/2013 10:25:34 AM PST by SharpRightTurn
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To: 11th Commandment

Bankers and lawyers are part of the problem with our Republic!


35 posted on 11/25/2013 10:25:40 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! BETTER DEAD THAN RED!)
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To: SharpRightTurn
Excellent point. I guess Sasse was hoping to get the support of both the SCF and the establishment. It does make you wonder.

Yes I don't know why he would be voluntarily walking into McConnell's office in the first place, but after getting his ears pinned back by McConnell it would have been nice to see him quoted as saying he told Mitch to go screw himself, instead of being quoted as saying “That didn’t go well!” . After all of us including SCF being taken in by Rubio/Toomey/Flake I watch for stuff like that real close. I hope SCF has a talk with this guy before they give him any more money. Support for Sasse topped their Senate support status update email today. And here he is trying to do some smooching on McConnell's butt, and apparently getting slapped down but good by Mitch.

36 posted on 11/25/2013 10:25:52 AM PST by Reddon
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To: SharpRightTurn

Exactly and that is what I would suspect from that crap weasel! You are 100% correct. I would also bet that the Capitol police would say, “about time someone told him that”.


37 posted on 11/25/2013 10:44:40 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! BETTER DEAD THAN RED!)
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To: Reddon

Stories like this and even consider the source the GOPe friendly National Review create more confusion than clarity leaving one wondering who’s on the grassroots conservatives side and who’s on the RINO side.

I recall hearing Glenn Beck say recently we may have to vote for crazy outsiders even third parties rather than RINO’s.

I THINK OVER 90 PERCENT OF THE REPUBLICANS IN OFFICE NOW FAKE AND POSTURE AS CONSERVATIVES. MAYBE THAT APPLIES TO THOSE RUNNING IN OPEN SEATS.


38 posted on 11/25/2013 10:45:51 AM PST by Nextrush (recently)
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To: SharpRightTurn
McConnell spokeswoman Allison Moore’s on-the-record response was unusually caustic. “That argument is so profoundly stupid that it is hard to fully ascertain whether their deficiency is in math or logic,” she told the Daily Caller.

So, Allison, exactly what HAS Mitch McConnell done about Reid going nuclear? We'll wait.

39 posted on 11/25/2013 10:47:22 AM PST by Colonel_Flagg (Some people meet their heroes. I raised mine. Go Army.)
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To: wideawake

If I had been the one, whom was talking down to like that, I would have told McConnell to shut up before I punched his lights out and there isn’t a damn thing he could do about it.


40 posted on 11/25/2013 11:01:18 AM PST by TennTuxedo
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