I read this earlier today. Good article.
I’ve been voting for the lesser of two evils for decades.
I’m tired of voting for evil men, and I won’t do it anymore.
The party does not own me. They do not own my vote. They have to earn my vote. But they don’t even try. The GOP is too busy stabbing Trump in the back.
If you want changes in the GOP, force them to spend a lot of money defending their candidates.
Over time, we will win a race and have our candidate firmly in place and change the party one candidacy at a time.
You never know who is saying these things. Without doubt some of these negativists are Democrats and deep-state trolls pretending to be conservatives.
We will not get new leadership until we change the membership.
Re-electing Mitch’s bitches will ensure he remains leader.
That is a reason to support Oz, even though he may and is unpopular.We need republican majority so we can tinker within the party and get rid of traitors to this nation within our party. Trump has done more for the party than any of them have, as well as, the nation itself. McConnell has to go.
Not all Republicans are bad. It’s just that a great many of them are rawthah sh!tteh, especially on the federal level.
Completely disagree. The way to take power from Mitch is to take control of the RNC and all of the money that they throw to their friends campaigns. That is how Mitch influences new Senators, by controlling the funds going to their campaign.
A Maga RNC would make him retire
New Senate = D52 R 48.
I don’t think you need to worry about a majority leader.
Mitch McConnells strategy depends on people pretending he’s a republican
Romney, Collins, and Murkowski essentially control our caucus if there are less than 53 GOP Senators.
The way to take power from McConnell is to elect enough Republican senators so that McConnell cannot control the caucus. ….
Hmmmmm…..when the people of this country stop electing Thune, Rubio, Barasso, Cornyn, both Scott’s, Graham, Ernst, Capito, etc… things will change.
When the voters can, for once, get past voting on name recognition, voting for the Devil they know that repeatedly stabs them in the back, stop voting for whoever the RNC and state GOP machine puts in front of them, things might change.
Until then, status quo and there’s nothing the voters can do about it.
“…the leader of the Senate Republicans, making him the highest-ranking Republican in office.”
I would dispute that… there are Republicans who govern some pretty big states. And keep in mind, “Governor” is a true office, conferred by voters according to state Constitutions - whereas “minority leader” is not.
“Speaker”, “Leader”, “Whip” - these made-up party titles are not even mentioned in the Constitution, which imbues each Senator and each Representative with equal voting power.
First, 51 really isn't the magic number because squishy moderates are not 100% reliable. So you really need 53 or 54 Senators to ensure that you will always be able to get things through.
Second, sixty is just as important a number as fifty because that's the number that lets you pass things over a filibuster. It was having that magic 60 number for a few months that enable Obama to ran through Obamacare. And of course, sometimes you can even convince a couple of Democrats to vote with you, which means that having 58 or so Senators is close enough to 60 to be worthwhile.
Finally, senate elections are wildly unpredictable, and the forecast can change comparatively quickly depending upon outside events. In other words, considering that senate elections happen every two year, there is no way McConnell would surrender votes in one election because he has no idea what would happen in the next.
McConnell's flaw isn't that he will deliberately lose elections to stay closer to fifty. That's ridiculous. McConnell's flaw is that he will sometimes do almost anything to maximize the number of Republican senators, and that sometimes means compromising on issues where we wish he would not. Senate elections are far too unpredictable for McConnell to ever deliberately win fewer seats
Remember in November!!