Who was ultimately responsible for the evil Mississippi primary campaign that smeared supporters of Chris McDaniel as racists?
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, that’s who.
The GOP Establishment Incumbent Protection Machine and the big-money donors who fund it have been determined to eradicate the Tea Party movement in the 2014 campaign cycle.
This is McConnell’s formula for Republican success: Destroy all primary challengers, whatever the cost, and ensure that only Establishment-approved candidates win primaries in open-seat races or against vulnerable Democrat incumbents. It’s a cautious, risk-averse strategy, and if Republicans capture the Senate majority in November, McConnell will be congratulated on his success.
On the other hand . . .
What if it all goes sideways? What if this political equivalent of the NFL “prevent defense” turns out to be a formula for GOP failure?
What if all the big money and all the shrewd consultants turn out to be less valuable to Republicans than the grassroots conservative supporters who have been alienated by McConnell’s strategy?
What if Mitch McConnell loses his own Senate seat?
Manu Raju and John Bresnahan of Politico examine that scenario at some length today, and it’s not as far-fetched as it may seem.
Look at the polls: McConnell leads Democrat challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes by 5 points in the Real Clear Politics average, but the race has only been polled four times in the past two months, so we don’t know how solid that lead really is. Most importantly, McConnell is consistently polling below 50% — as low as 42% in a May poll — and that’s always a troubling sign for an incumbent.
As the Politico article says, if McConnell can’t defeat Grimes, the prospects for a GOP Senate majority are pretty remote. And if Republicans can’t take over the Senate this year — when they have every possible advantage, by ordinary calculations — it’s possible to argue that Republicans can never win a Senate majority, that the GOP is doomed to permanent minority status.
This scenario, the de facto triumph of Democrats as uncontested rulers of America as a one-party centralized state, would be a complete reversal of the “permanent Republican majority” Karl Rove promised in the wake of George W. Bush’s re-election.
After all the evil deeds perpetrated by the Republican establishment in the Mississippi primary, some of my conservative friends respond to this possibility with calm: “Let it burn,” they say.
It’s becoming harder to argue that these friends of mine are wrong.
There is one problem with the defeat of the Establishment GOP that’s only interest is power. It means the victory of Democrats who while also interested in power push an ideology that’s simply evil
Our representatives’ jobs are to represent us. If the base has become FiCon or SoCon, it is the establishment’s JOB to push for those values.
Otherwise, they don’t represent us, they represent themselves.
http://djournal.com/opinion/bill-minor-mcdaniel-linked-neo-confederate-secessionist-rally
It means he’s a sessionist who still defends the south and it’s former right to be slavers.
Got it, dummy?
Second, way to address this guys total economic irrationality. Was his plan to watch the state wither, and die?
that wasn’t even close to clever.
Cleaning house while Obama is still in office holds fewer risks…it’s not like a Republican Senate was going to pass anything over Obama’s veto.
The only advantage is judicial confirmation.
IMO, that’s not a good enough reason to tolerate corruption in our party.
Now is the time to clean house. Mitch must go.
Yeah, like the Republican leadership in the state isn’t relying on that money as well? Sorry, but if you think subsidies only go toward welfare you’re an idiot. That money is used for the states daily affairs, and that means roads, schools, police, etc. that’s why he got chased by both sides.
What’s a “sessionist,” little tardlett? Is that something they teach you “special” kids, in Poli Sci?
I’m in the “let it burn” club for the simple reason that the GOP has declared war on the likes of me. They repeatedly declare themselves my political adversary, and finally I reluctantly agreed with them.
It’s not like a Republican Senate is going to do anything to secure the borders or dismantle Obamacare, regardless of who the President is.
Be kinda cool to see a write-in candidate win. I’d write in RSM if I knew tons of other people were doing it (otherwise, it’d be a wasted vote), because we know that he has synapses. And that they fire. These days, that’s the main qualification.
Not under McConnell. He’s already getting funds from people who benefit from Obamacare. He won’t vote to repeal it…just watch.
McDaniel must be following a strict form of Juche ideology. he must also want the same results like the economy imploding and mass starvation. this idea that if you just cut off poor people or the state they’ll suddenly become entrepreneurs could only happen in the mind of a person who has never been strapped for cash.
Dems aren’t retaking the House, no matter what happens, so Dems won’t be passing anything without the agreement of Republicans.
Pay no heed to the children throwing spitballs from the cheap seats, Evi!
He’s clearly getting compensation by-the-word from the RNC…or maybe Townhall/HotAir…. 😉
Social conservatism will be dead in a generation. when polled only 20% of millennialis identify as socons.
Howdy is a dirty Moby. He is just trying to stir up trouble.
@ W Spangler
Agreed. (I trust your comment was addressed to “howdy-but-more-like DOODY”?)
“WACKO BIRD” ALERT!
We’ve got ourselves here a McCain fanatic!
Wholeheartedly agree. At least the Dems are upfront about their idiot-ology; these so-called Republicans are deceitful on top of stupid and greedy, and they gotta go. I don’t want to see it come to a nuclear option, but on the other hand, I don’t want to see these losers in Washington again, ever.
I really would love to see the conservatives , NOT the “establishment “Republicans, win the Senate, and increase their gains in the House. I believe if that happens then, despite what the American people have been told about the Tea Party, and conservatives in general, this country would grow and prosper once again.
I believe you meant to say
SECESSIONIST,
*D*U*M*M*Y*.
Millennials will age, and learn.
In summary, better to leave things as they are and ride this train down the tracks to Perdition, than to try and correct Progressive New Left Activist course(s) now underway, quickly taking hold in every sector of America’s economy culminating with dismantling of Capitalism as We The People have come to enjoy the fruits of We The People’s labor. Seems, to any observer, the vote is to allow ever more We The Elite People of culture of corruption in all of Washington DC to “command-and-control” everything in We The Peoples lives while the “takers and givers” chasm widens ever more. Then why bother to defend the US Constitution? HUH? Let’s write down on a napkin, in some diner, a few paragraphs of some new “Magna Carta!” That’ll take care of everything. Yes, and it will wipe clean every and any reference to “Our Creator!” Gee! A Secular society at last. A communist “collective” dream come true!!! In the Good ‘ol USA. Pray. Amen. God Bless America. Americans, fight for what’s right, just and Our US Constitution. Join a local Tea Party, register to vote and vote.
So, the lazy *shouldn’t* starve?
Why not?
Are YOU going to feed them?
GIVE US YOUR ADDRESS, NOW.
{chuckle} No sense of humor either.
The south had the right to secede. That it took a war to force them back into the yankee federal state proves nothing.
It’s going to burn regardless of who you vote for.
Shouldn’t your screen name be “CaliforniaGirl3” then? ; )
I enjoy a good principled cat fight but come on. This is not the year to loose a shot at the Senate with that obomination in the white house.
I’ve thought of that before, but if you look up the stats on Boehner’s district you’ll see that it is safely Republican.
I think the odds of persuading enough Rs to vote for the D are slim.
Also, there’s the “pride” factor of having the Speaker in your district.
I see. Because the money is being stolen for a good purpose, that makes it OK.
I want to steal ALL YOUR MONEY, LiberNull. I will then give it to the “needy.” You’ll agree to that, right?
That is why it boggles the mind why the GOPe are committing hara kiri by alienating their (potential) base. At least, the Dems pander to their base…
Wiring out the GOPe will lead to the phoenix- like rising of the Tea Party.
That is why the GOPe has become Dem lite, doing its bidding but in a lighter form (for now…)
or
4) write in your Tea Party candidates.
The 2014 midterms are the least important elections in decades. The GOP needs to just hold the House.
This is the time to clear out the old guard GOP Senators.
So you would rather reward the dastardly deeds that the GOPe in MS. did and w/c might become a model for defeating the GOPe’s (potential) base by using racist tactics?
That is because the GOPe has become the Dem lite, doing its bidding but in a lighter form (for now…)
Is that you, EdofNYC?
And the GOPe could be construed as socialists lite, you know because they (GOPe) has become the Dem lite, doing its bidding but in a lighter form (for now…)
REMEMBER MISSISSIPPI!!! (This ought to become that battle cry of the TP…)
Your link? Because McDaniel did not say such thing. That was one of the dastardly tactic that Thad used in order to win.
Or to the illegal immigrants. You libs directed to LiberNull) have a bleeding heart for them so why not invite them to your state?
You have any link on that? Because McDaniel did not say such things. That was one of the dastardly tactic that Thad used in winning.
My perspective on elections has been slowly changing from the “hold your nose and vote for the least evil” to “write in your Tea Party candidates in the ballot.”
It wasn’t all that important for Cochrane and MConnnell to not burn the country; therefore it’s not all that important for ME not to burn the country. What goes around, comes around
The lesser of two evils is still evil. I’ve had 40 years of it and am done. No more. If a candidate doesn’t espouse what I believe they should (or believe they’re not telling the truth) then I’m not voting for them because they have a magic letter after their name.
Being a Republican or Democrat is really only a guideline or recommendation and not necessarily an endorsement or certification that they hold the constitution sacred and that the nation needs to rein in spending AT ALL LEVELS.
I say if the GOPe continues as it has then I say; “LET THEM BURN”.
Yeah, suddenly they’ll realize birth control pills are from the devil, and sex should only be had in the confines of marriage. Majority of adults don’t believe that either. Conservative ideas never have any future, and are always destroyed by liberalization. That’s how it has been throughout history too.
I can already tell you when it’s going to be set on fire. When the US Dollar collapses due to excessive debt, more unfunded liabilities than there are WORLD assets, and $1 trillion of FED printing a year.
Begin then, the EBT Wars will.
If he loses so be it. Maybe, just maybe the next GOP leader will take notice and reverse this corruption and if that happens come 2016 the GOP will win a landslidein all three races. Senate, House and Executive