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.
It’s going to burn no matter who you vote for. The GOP establishment are a bunch of progRats themselves. They’re complicit with the progRats among the DimoKKKraps. Both are going to make sure it burns, no matter which side you vote for. Mittens was a progRat as well. He was the godfather of Zer0care and he had no fire in the belly, so he lost.
LOL, you live in NYC and you are whining about GOP politics? I thought the post was clear enough, however the “You” was directed at the let it burn mindset, not the only alleged republican in NYC.
MOBY? By trying to get people to stop tossing their votes away and vote for the GOP? Are you that stupid?
Shoe fists, you are nuts.
Heh, not even close. I want to get back to the Constitutional Republic and to do so we need to start living up to our ideals, mainly love of country. Burning the place down isn’t something that Patriotic Americans do. It’s something the left does and they don’t need any help.
More importantly, you have leaned nothing from them, or Obama. All you are doing is ensuring that we lose to the socialists.
And yes, there is a substantial difference between McConnell and Reid. Idiot.
Name 1 sitting Republican who voted for Obamacare.
That’s the stupidest thing written in human history. Yes, Reid will stab you in the back, after he is done stabbing you everywhere else.
Nut.
The state has the right because it is acting as the agent of the electorate. The two are intimately connected and can not be separated.
Look at the mess Reid has made. How could anyone who cares about this country want that to continue?
If you really believe that you owe it to yourself to get out. Pack up and leave, I’ll fight for the USA until the day I die. We don’t need you helping those who are out to destroy it.
Thank you.
Stop dumping gas on it then. Let me say this, as an establishment squish, It will be my honor and pleasure to help ruby ridge you idiots straight to hell if there is one.
More power to you.
Howdy sounds like one of the raving idiots that have been harassing Jeff Goldstein on Twitter.
http://proteinwisdom.com/wp-trackback.php?p=54480
Isn’t it just like an establishment troll to stroll in here with his/her sequined knee pads, stuff all over their face, trying to trash the place?
It’s already burned down, you fool.
The United States Of America is no more. It’s dead.
The Rule Of Law has been replaced by The Rule Of Whim.
We are living in a post-Constitutional Despotic State.
The Jarrett Junto does whatever it wants.
The Legislative Branch of this Despotic State will not resist Caesar, being as it is filled with Courtiers and sniveling Quislings.
This is just another scene in a very tragic farce.
OPERATION: WHIG.
Yeah, alleged pederast Reid is in possession of more low-cunning. He’s not a f–kin’ stupid as Granny Mitch.
Hope you’ve made out your will.
Ah!…I knew you’d out yourself eventually.
You up-voted yourself.
I don’t make a rat’s ass who’s in control of the house or senate…King Obama has a pen and a phone. He will do what he wants by executive fiat. So having the majority in either house doesn’t do any good at all.
You mean he’s a guitar player? or a drummer, or God forbid, a bass player?
I’m going to show my libertarian colors here.
Power in this context relies on force or the threat of force.
Rights do not.
Agents have power. People have rights. Governments have power. Governments do not have rights.
Okay, that was too funny!
Was his plan to watch the state wither, and die?
And that would be bad, why?
Okay, this is a libertarian here, but honestly, why would it be bad?
The leadership of both major parties is corrupt. The only reason anyone on this thread has given for voting GOP is to keep the Democrats at bay.
The chances of anyone getting elected at a national level without getting corrupted themselves is very small.
Why do we need a huge government that spends more than it has and regularly destroys our freedom?
This is an easy one. Cantor getting popped apparently didn’t do the trick. The establishment is not sufficiently scared of the base. therefore it is time to continue the lesson.
Just a few more of the old line that think they are untouchables need to be popped and the fear will spread spread rapidly.
I seriously doubt it: if it were easy, it would’ve been done already.
Remember, Boehner was already challenged for the Speakership last election cycle. Why didn’t the Tea Party knock him off in that election?
With all the recent revelations about the establishment Republicans, I guess we’ll only have to wait 2 years to put your theory to the test.
You took the exact wrong lesson from that. Freedman was saying that it was better to have persuadable people in office than perfect ones. McConnell is persuadable, Reid is not.
I don’t know who he is, I got the link to this page from Ace, if you have a problem with what I wrote spell it out.
You are being rolled, used to act against your own best interests. If the tea party hands the majority to Reid again they will have no good will with any real conservatives or moderate republicans, which you need to win. I will personally pledge whatever it takes to bury them for the good of the country if they help Harry Reid into power again.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/05/can-democrats-keep-messing-with-republican-primary-voters/361825/
The GOP getting the Senate would mean the end of the Obama administration 2 years early. It would also stop Obama from nominating a super liberal to the supreme court or federal court.
Freedman’s point was that you want to get people like McConnell to do the right thing, Harry Reid will never listen to you, neither will Obama. They write you off as a bitter gun clinger.
People died to give you the best country in the world, what if they didn’t bother.
The answer to your “what if” is that you are just helping subhuman garbage like Obama, Pelosi and Reid make a mess that better men and woman will need generations of hard work to clean up.
That analogy only works if you are getting rid of all of them, what you propose leaves the democrats in power and after the pure disaster they have caused over the past 6 years it’s amazing that anyone on earth could think that’s a good idea.
It’s the country you are letting burn. The United States. You need to find someplace else to live.
It in the “Let it burn” is the country. the USA. Are you so narcissistic that you can’t get over your butthurt over an election won dirty that you are willing to see what the founding fathers fought to give you burn?
“I’d rather have fifteen “nutjob O’Donnel’s” in the Senate that fifteen re-elected, idiotic party tools like Cochran.”
Probably because you are a Moby.
If you actually believed any of that why do you still live here? If there is no law tell me where you live so I can come over shoot you and take your stuff… If the USA is dead, leave.
You wont, you are just an attention whore pussy looking for some attention in the echo chamber. I called you a pussy because you don’t have the guts to actually stand up and fight for what you want, just roll over, take it in the ass and declare things dead.
People like you make me sick, you really are pathetic. Again, If you think this country is dead GET THE F- OUT. You owe it to yourself and everyone else, I’ll keep fighting to the end.
Grow a spine, or at least a chin.
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/seeking-edge-dems-meddle-in-gop-races-107346.html
I can take on a legion of pajama boys and a bunch of phony conservatives who are too lazy to get off the couch to vote for what they claim to believe in.
Why are you still here? Shouldn’t you be moving to some country that isn’t dead?
Yes, a 10 year USN vet, I know how to drop a bomb.
Why don;t you vote for the best you can get and then WORJK to make it better? Ever occur to you that there is more to be done after you vote?
Then so be it. The country needs to burn to clear out the dead wood and underbrush underneath.
And what springs up will be the equivalent of what was given to us by Washington, Jefferson, Madison, etc. Because you guys have a better plan for our future then what the greatest convergence of minds in human history was able to bestow on the American people.
Don’t you have any pride? Can’t you see you are just handing power to the people who want you to suffer the most? They will NEVER willingly give it back, they
will NEVER admit that they were wrong and they will NEVER see it your way. EVER. You are helping them take over the country and destroy it. Why don’t you just get out and find someplace else to wreck.
Can anyone from the let it burn crowd answer that? If the USA is dead why don’t you just get out?
You sound like a guy standing in the middle of a forest fire arguing over how people should stop smoking.
It’s amazing that you are so mired in delusion over the state of things.
You should go back to Daily Kos.