Posted on 12/02/2013 4:50:57 AM PST by don-o
McConnell worries that the Senate Conservatives Fund and other insurgent groups are pursuing a confrontational, uncompromising strategy that makes it impossible for conservatives to govern.
“The Senate Conservatives Fund is giving conservatism a bad name. They’re participating in ruining the [Republican] brand,” McConnell said. “What they do is mislead their donors into believing the reason that we can’t get as good an outcome as we’d like to get is not because of a Democratic Senate and a Democratic president, but because Republicans are insufficiently committed to the cause — which is utter nonsense.”
The outside groups, in McConnell's view, are unaccountable and financially motivated and pose a threat to the Republican Party's viability. The groups in 2010 and 2012 backed a handful of untested, ideological candidates in Republican primaries that couldn't win general elections, costing the party opportunities to build a majority. It's a threat that must be addressed ahead of the 2014 and 2016 elections, McConnell said, because it's repelling the very voters the GOP needs if it's ever to take control of the federal government.
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There are no moderate Democrats. Only left and far left.
To counter them with only moderate Republicans, as McConnell would hope, only means that our government continues to veer left, away from what made this country great.
We must fight the other side with bona fide conservatives.
Why can’t this dolt understand that?
RINO Season is open with no bag limit.
It will speak volumes about Paul if he continues to support this oaf who is trashing the very people who busted their asses to get Paul elected. Is this clod worth your soul Rand?
The DEMs canidate Tony Adams??? is running a phone survey right now. It starts out asking Tea Party questions then Alexander vs Carr then Adams I think is the name vs Alexander. IOW the DEMs are running scared too. LOL
The corruption in the federal government is staggering. Of course this jerk should get the heave. He should go to jail.
Yes it will I am a Rand Paul fan but I am watching and waiting.
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