Posted on 04/24/2015 7:32:36 AM PDT by cotton1706
Yesterday’s Senate vote on the confirmation of Loretta Lynch, President Obama’s nominee to succeed Attorney General Eric Holder, was a classic example of why talk among conservatives of forming a third party alternative to the establishment Republican Party will not die.
Not only did the usual jelly-backed Senate Republicans vote to confirm Lynch, they were led by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, whose job is, ostensibly, to be the leader of the conservative opposition to Obama and his lawless progressive agenda.
In moving the Lynch nomination McConnell broke a pre-election promise that no attorney general nominee would be considered in his Senate if that nominee supported Obama’s executive amnesty, something that Lynch testified she supports.
So McConnell’s vote for Lynch was a sort of “go to hell” moment that conservatives should recognize for what it is: Mitch McConnell saying directly to the conservative Republican grassroots and the conservative movement that opposed Lynch that, despite the fact that conservative voters handed back the Senate majority to the Republican Party in 2014 to make him Senate Majority Leader, he not only doesn’t care what they think, he will go out of his way to disrespect them and confound their policy goals.
Lynch, who testified under oath that she would readily carry out policies contrary to the Constitution could have – indeed should have – been stopped by Republicans in the Senate, but she wasn’t.
In fact ten Republicans voted for Lynch, despite a substantial outpouring of conservative opposition from the grassroots of the Republican Party, the conservative blogospere and conservative commentators and opinion writers all of whom argued that Loretta Lynch would be as bad or worse than Eric Holder –
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Always vote Republican, even when they’re Democrats, right?
OF COURSE! It’s perfectly conservative to vote for a liberal with an R. But hes gotta have the R. It’s magical. It makes normally intelligent people into blithering morons when they see it. They go into a trance and vote for whoever has one. Romney had a more liberal record than Barry. The proof was posted on FR’s front page for a couple years. They had no issue voting for the greater liberal.
See last 2 elections.
I wish the Republican Party would fight at least half as hard against the Democrats as it does against it’s own base.
Next person to call for electing RINO’s and the “lesser evil” should be FLOGGED
Yoo-hoo!
Back at you, bitc....., er, Mitch!
ping
Right, they had to move that out of the way so they can grant him more trade negotiation power and to give Iran that nuke deal, and maybe a $50 billion signing bonus.
Far from it, it merely emphasizes their preference for moral relativism and tendency to psychological projection.
exactly
When you go to the voting booth, you will again be forced to ‘chose between the lessor of two evils’, there will be no other choices.
There never are.
I think the “lesser evil” RINO crowd has been reduced to falling all over themselves with Ted Cruz’s visit to two gay men in New York. As if this somehow makes him a hypocrite?
I believe some of the Cruz bashing, “lesser evil” promoters are paid activists.
So what is logic_designer’s opinion?
There never are.
Bullshit
When you go to the voting booth, you will again be forced to ‘chose between the lessor of two evils’, there will be no other choices.
There never are.
You keep ordering those “Shit Sandwiches” and devouring them. This is what we get when we settle for “the lesser of two evils” instead of remembering that THEY WORK FOR US!!!
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) voted with the Democratic caucus to confirm Lynch after slow-walking her nomination.
The other Republicans who voted for Lynch were Sens. Orrin Hatch (UT), Lindsey Graham (SC), Jeff Flake (AZ), Thad Cochran (MS), Susan Collins (ME), Mark Kirk (IL), Kelly Ayotte (NH), Ron Johnson (WI) and Rob Portman (OH).
paid in what?
Sadly, there are some people who are satisfied with compromising with evil. Who knows, Satan may have a nice comfy chair in their souls, directing them to always choose “the lesser of two evils” when they go vote, comforting their consciences by telling them “There will be no other choices. There never are.” I on the other hand will fight evil until my last breath, and never compromise with evil. Sorry, no sale.
Name a candidate, past or present, who had no evil.
And stop spitting while you talk.
Name a candidate, past or present, who had no evil.
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