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Great News: Treacherous Bastard Cornyn Unanimously Re-Elected as NRSC Chair

Posted on | November 16, 2010 | 14 Comments

Warned you about this yesterday, and now look at how it’s being played:

While Cornyn’s performance as NRSC chair has been praised in Republican circles since the election, it wasn’t without speed bumps.

Where are these “Republican circles”? What kind of fools are in these “circles,” and what the hell did Cornyn do to merit praise for his performance?

Never mind that. You know why the GOP Establishment routinely screws over the conservative grassroots? Because they know that you’ll roll over and say “thank you,” that’s why. Ed Morrissey:

Cornyn’s performance is open for legitimate criticism, but to be fair, one has to keep the context of the election in mind. 

“To be fair”? Please tell me exactly what justifies any need “to be fair” to John Cornyn? Thanks to his blundering interference in Florida, Charlie Crist walked off with more than $10 million in GOP donations.

Why should Cornyn and the NRSC get a free pass while on their failures, while over at the RNC, political director Gentry Collins resigned and presented a specific indictment of the organization?

UPDATE: Professor William Jacobson imagines a Senate GOP majority that included Lisa Murkowski and Mike Castle: “Two years of such a Senate controlled by Republicans would have destroyed all of the gains of the mid-terms, and would have demoralized the Republican Party heading into 2012.”

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  • Anonymous

    And unfortunately we can’t primary the bastard until 2014 here in TX.

  • The Wondering Jew

    I hear you. Same thing with Murkowski– who should be kicked out of the caucus, not welcomed back with open arms. The only good things about not taking power, is that the Republican Party has a long way to go to show they can responsibly exercise it.

  • http://twitter.com/MNRobot Mind Numbed Robot

    “Republican circles” – “Circle jerks” might be more fitting for these mental masochists. – arrrgghhh!
    As a Texas robot, I’m ashamed and feel I must apologize for the entire state that this man is still in office. Then again, the GOPr**ks put him in that position.

  • Peregrine John

    You know: circles. Like the Caucus Race in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000199471939 Brian Paasch

    “unanimously”
    I find this to be DEEPLY disturbing!! Who was allowed to vote? Murkowski, Snowe, Coats, and McConnell? Surely the likes of DeMint, Paul, and Rubio were not allowed to vote. If they were, something is VERY wrong. And We the People have been fooled yet again.

  • http://www.ldjackson.net LD Jackson

    I would say that I don’t understand how this was allowed to happen, but I am afraid I already know the answer to that. Once these people are in a position of power, it is extremely unlikely they will be willing to give up that position. In spite of his record, he was rewarded by letting him retain said position. Me thinks I smell a rat.

  • Anonymous

    Meet the new boss
    Same as the old boss

  • http://twitter.com/theoriginalCL Michael Todd

    Same story with the Republican Party for the last 100 years. SSDD. Nothing new under the sun.

  • http://ilovegrover.com/ Thane_Eichenauer

    If GOP donors trusted the NRSC who in turn trusted Charlie Crist then why don’t the donors get any blame?

  • http://twitter.com/RightKlik RightKlik

    Establishment GOPers like Cornyn have no legitimate complaint against grassroots conservatives and tea partiers with regard to “electability” concerns until they grovel for forgiveness for the shenanigans of Arlen Specter, Charlie Crist and Lisa Murkowski et al.

    Of course they don’t think they have any reason to apologize, and in my humble opionion, that proves that Cornyn and his sympathizers can’t be trusted.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/EU5DQWQTTHTPO4A4ZYSL3AAV2U Adjoran

    I submit the Senate Caucus members are somewhat more informed than you guys.

    Now, endorsing Crist was a huge mistake, and the NRSC should never take a position in an open primary (of course they have to help their incumbents, it’s an organization of SENATE Republicans, not the party at large). But giving Cornyn credit for Crist’s $10 million haul from Republicans is insane.

    Crist was a well-known Republican with national fundraising prowess and an established fundraising organization. Once he declared, he was the instant frontrunner – sitting Governor running for his own party’s nomination – and was going to get the money.

    Don’t blame Cornyn for fatally flawed candidates like O’Donnell, Buck, and Angle. Maes and Miller were awful, too. Paul’s handlers managed to keep him from speaking too freely after the Civil Rights Act gaffe, and he coasted until Conway showed his dark side.

    Of the true “Tea Party” candidates, only Johnson truly excelled (Rubio, former Speaker of the Florida House, was in the race long before Tea Party support helped him win, and Toomey had been a congressman and former Senate candidate already.

    It seems to me that most of the high dudgeon over Cornyn’s reelection is coming from people who don’t donate to NRSC anyway. So, why do you care?

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  • http://ak4mc.us/cms/ McGehee

    Oh, they do — especially since there were so many in this cycle who refused to be donors to party committees precisely because of carp like this that’s been going on for years.

    And Adjoran, what the Senate GOP caucus members “know” is that they’ve been getting away with it for years (due in no small part to deference from people like you) — but as Reagan once pointed out about liberal Democrats, a lot of what they “know” just ain’t so.

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