Should Mitch McConnell Be Next Senate Majority Leader? Cruz Won’t Say

ABCNews.com ^ | Sep 7, 2014 2:43pm | Benjamin Bell

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In an interview with ABC News, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, predicted his party would reclaim the Democratic-controlled Senate in November, but he declined to endorse current Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., as the party leader should there be a transfer of power in the upper chamber of Congress.

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But when asked if he would endorse McConnell — currently embroiled in a tight race for his Kentucky Senate seat — as Senate majority leader, the Texas Republican said that is a decision that would be made “when the time is right.”

“Well, that will be a decision for the conference to make, but I am confident we will have a new majority leader,” he said.

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"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

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[GeronL]

the answer should be NO

[easternsky]

Absolutely NO

[jazusamo]

No way!

[ROCKLOBSTER]

that will be a decision for the conference to make, but I am confident we will have a new majority leader

Hey Ted!

Please wreak havok within the caucus and make sure somebody good gets that seat.

[House Atreides]

But we all know what Ted thinks on this subject and we all agree with him.

[Jane Long]

Dear Sen Cruz and "Conference",

NO!

[grania]

The answer should be NO

A better answer might have been that it will be a decision made by the Republican majority if they succeed in becoming the majority. Cruz's answer sounds like he personally would be okay with McConnell in charge.

JMHO

[iowacornman]

We want a conservative— not a rino.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

How about Ted Cruz, as the next Senate Majority Leader?

Just saying.

[smokingfrog]

Mitch’s record as the minority leader is less than stellar, so the answer would be .....................................................NO!

[tennmountainman]

If all goes well in KY, Mitch won’t be back, much less Majority leader.
Ditch Mitch.

[lormand]

The surrender caucus has to be disbanded

[mrsmith]

I think Susan Collins will be Majority Leader. Possibly even if Mitch wins his race, certainly if he doesn’t.

The RINOs want a female Leader so badly- especially to counter what will be a more conservative House this time.

[Olog-hai]

“Surrender caucus” implies that they are conservatives that lost heart. That they are not; they are liberals, so they are the fifth-column caucus.

[JRandomFreeper]

Cruz is a politician, and McConnell has the whip hand for him right now.

Cruz can't do much more than equivocate.

I however, can speak my mind, and say that Mitch, like all liberal republicans, needs to be driven from office, and never win another vote, primary or general, again.

/johnny

[jazusamo]

Absolutely.

[GunsareOK]

NO. Mitch is way past his sell by date. He, McKook, Linda Graham, Thud Cockroach, and all the other RINOs should be gone from the Senate.