Posted on 10/06/2018 11:10:35 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is hailing Saturday’s expected confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court as a major boost to Senate Republican candidates in next month’s midterm elections.
McConnell told The Hill he spoke with his top political advisers on Friday who said the bitter fight over Kavanaugh, and what he has called a “shameless smear campaign” by Democrats, has revved up the GOP base in red states.
“I talked to a couple of my political advisers yesterday and this has been a shot in the arm for us going into the fall election because it underscores the importance of the Senate and our role in personnel and of course the most important personnel decisions we make are the courts, and particular the Supreme Court,” McConnell said in an interview Saturday.
“Our base is on fire,” he said, while predicting that expected votes against Kavanaugh by Democratic Sens. Joe Donnelly (Ind.), Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.), Claire McCaskill (Mo.), and Jon Tester (Mont.) will come back to bite them next month when they are up for reelection in states won by President Trump in 2016.
“I’m doubly upbeat after this Supreme Court fight, which has been like a shot of adrenaline in our campaigns,” he said.
“Only one of the red-state Democrats voted in a way that helped them politically and that was Manchin,” he said. “This is going to be a big issue over the next four weeks.”
McConnell signaled he's feeling good about how the Supreme Court fight has left his party entering the final stretch of the fall campaign, but he declined to say whether it would clinch a Senate GOP majority in 2019 and 2020.
“I never say that,” he said, when asked if he was confident that his majority is safe.
“You’re familiar with the places that are a dog fight: Arizona, Nevada, Montana, North Dakota, Missouri, Indiana, Tennessee, West Virginia and Florida,” he said, ticking off what he views as the most competitive Senate races. “They’re all like a knife in an alley.”
A recent poll by Public Opinion Strategies, a GOP survey firm, showed that voters in West Virginia favored the Senate confirming Kavanaugh by a margin of 58 percent to 28 percent. The same firm found that voters in North Dakota favored Kavanaugh 56 percent to 26 percent.
“I’m doubly upbeat after this fight, which has been like a shot of adrenaline in our campaigns,” he said.
“Only one of the red-state Democrats voted in a way that helped them politically and that was Manchin,” he said.
“This is going to be a big issue over the next four weeks.”
A year or so before the time of America's Revolution, Edmund Burke, in 1775, in his Speech on Conciliation to the Parliament, observed that "spirit" among the then-colonists:
"In other countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." - Edmund Burke, Speech on Conciliation
Is it just possible--even, if almost improbable, that American citizens, once again, have recovered their ability to "judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle" and have "snuff(ed) the approach of tyranny" in the Progressive/Liberal overplay of their hand regarding a potential Supreme Court Justice who, they believe, will adhere to the Constitution's limitation on power lodged in Progressives in government?
The Kavanaugh confirmation was the earthquake beneath the ocean that yields the tsunami.
It's all well and good to see some of your folks encouraged by the whiff of grape fired from you supporters who have your back and move forward on K.
But there is so much more to have been done by now. You are sitting on a whole pile of nominations for folks necessary to run the government day to day. If you can't get these folks through then take a break. Recess and let Trump fill them for the next two years while you GOPee Senators figure out how to do some - what you guys call - real work on behalf of the American people [check you have your wallet in a safe place folks]
Yes, it still hasn’t dawned on this moron (McConnell), that the biggest shot in the arm come election day, is a job well done by the Republican Leadership and it’s fellow elected officials.
Where’s the legislation McConnell? You’ve had two years, and have gotten only one major piece of legislation through.
Does this mean we can only expect four major pieces of legislation out of you guys for the full two terms of Trump?
What the hell?
McConnell and Ryan will go down in history as two of the biggest chumps of all time, failing to utilize the majority we spent decades trying to develop for them.
It’s mind boggling, in it’s enormity, this missed opportunity.
By rights, McConnell should be drop-kicked to the back pew in the Senate.
Gee Mitch, imagine how upbeat you would be if you and the rest of the spineless RINO's got behind our President to help MAGA.
Better late than never.
help is coming with the new senators we are going to put in the Senate.
Nevada is a dog fight because of the massive illegal alien population in Clark County—Las Vegas—that votes.
They even get bussed to the polls by the casinos they work for.
“Nevada is a dog fight because of the massive illegal alien population in Clark County—Las Vegas—that votes.”
We’re supposed to adhere to the GOP establishment line that illegals don’t vote.
... which China Mac gleefully exploited, while a man and his family were publicly persecuted.
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