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McConnell: Conservative Dissatisfaction is “Not Relevant”

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  March 23rd, 2010 at 07:34 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

This afternoon Senator John Cornyn told the Huffington Post that he was not in favor of repeal, just nibbling at the edges of Obamacare. He later released a clarifying statement saying he did want to repeal the bill and replace it with something “bipartisan.”

Yeah, just like the Democrats wanted.

Then Sen. Mitch McConnell went on John King USA and told John King that conservative dissatisfaction with the Republican leadership was “not relevant” because in November they’d vote for the GOP.

KING: [A]mong those who describe themselves as conservatives, only 40 percent approve of the job you’re doing and 58 percent of conservatives, the base of your party, Senator McConnell, disapprove of how the Republican leaders in Congress are doing their job. Why is that?

MCCONNELL: Well you know it’s an interesting question to ask. But it’s not relevant to what will happen in November.

And you know what? Ignoring the dodge, McConnell is right. They will vote for the GOP. Third parties cannot win and will ensure the Democrats win.

But here’s the thing on both counts: conservative dissatisfaction is very relevant in the primaries.

We can send an army of conservatives to the Senate who will push back against John Cornyn and Mitch McConnell. We can send solid conservatives who will side with people like Jim DeMint.

And taking back our party begins tonight at 7:00 p.m. Utah time as Republicans go to their caucuses to throw Bob Bennett out of the Senate.

Here’s the list. Let’s fight and win. Make Mitch McConnell understand just how relevant we are:

March

Mike Lee (UT)
If you live in Utah, show up tonight at your local caucus, become a delegate to the State Convention, and cast your vote for Mike Lee. Remember, Bob Bennett’s alternative health care plan is just as bad as Obamacare, complete with individual mandates, federal funding of abortion, etc.

May

Rand Paul (KY)
Marlin Stutzman (IN)
Pat Toomey (PA)

June

Chuck DeVore (CA)
Danny Tarkanian (NV)

August

Ken Buck (CO)
Marco Rubio (FL)

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  • EagleWatcher

    If the Amnesty bill passes this summer it will add 8 to 20 million new Social Democrat voters to the rolls.

    We need to fight this with all our heart, soul and money.

  • bigredone

    I pray for someone who will take him on in May of 2014.

    He can see how irrelevant Conservatives are by then.

    He is such an arrogant, pompous so-and-so.

  • fpete13527

    I was trying to give McConnell a pass because he “painfully” agreed that the ObamaCare bill needs to be repealed and replaced…..not repaired.

    But then he goes on to say that conservatism is “irrelevent” ….aaaaaand that
    Bob Bennett is a “pure conservative”…duh.???

    This further confirms that he has no clue what conservatism means and that he is still oblvious to the urgency and focus needed to empower conservative candidates.

  • marshmom

    mud-slinging that the Democrats did to the tea party movement. What he doesn’t get is that we hold him and those like him (Graham, Snowe, Collins, etc.) just as accountable when they don’t behave like true conservative Republicans—especially now that there are many, many more people aware of what’s going on in this country.
    Just this week, I got involved with my county GOP and I only began following politics during the last presidential election (giveaway).
    Imagine how many more people there are like me out there who are mad as HECK and we’re NOT going to lie down and take it anymore–from Obama, McConnell, Cornyn or ANYONE!
    As a matter of fact, it will soon be HIM and his outdated RINOs that are irrelevant.

  • rsjt

    Just donated to Mike Lee and the House Conservative Fund. I have monthly contributions going to Marco. Also signed Senator Demints repeal petition. So, I’m getting the idea here.

    Thanks Erick.

  • hillcountryx3

    We can send an army of conservatives to the Senate who will push back against John Cornyn and Mitch McConnell. We can send solid conservatives who will side with people like Jim DeMint…
    I am committed, to working to take our country back, I am in Alabama, but I will send money any where in the country, make phone calls, organize and protest and support this PUSH any way that I can. Now is the time WE must elect true conservatives with American Constitutional Values. WE CANNOT WAIT AND NO ONE IS GOING TO DO THIS FOR US.

  • Return to Revolution

    A massive grassroots movement forms whose anger at the GOP’s decoupling from conservative principles puts it on the precipice of forming its own 3rd party, and McConnell is basically daring them to not vote GOP?

    The GOP leadership is not clueless. They are dangerous, elitist pigs. All of our lives are going to be immensely affected for the worse by this tyranny and its all a game to them. Why not? They won’t be anymore affected by socialized healthcare than the progressives in charge. All while the country descends into poverty at their hand.

    McConnell better watch out. People who don’t live in his state – like me – are going to be paying more attention to him than their own senators. His primary opponent will be well funded.

  • http://www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com ColdWarrior

    Conservatives JD Hayworth and Jim Deakin are both challenging McCain in the primary here in Arizona. Call John McCain and ask him if he’s going to debate his primary challengers. (602) 952-2410; (202) 224-2235; fax: (202) 228-2862. As JD Hayworth said this morning on the Laura Ingraham show, after she played a clip of McCain on the Senate floor stating that he’ll fight to repeal Obamacare, perhaps the reason McCain is not fighting for repeal is because he’s got a credible challenger. Rasmussen has McCain at 48 per cent and JD at 41 per cent among 541 likely voters:

    http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections2/election_2010/election_2010_senate_elections/arizona/election_2010_arizona_republican_primary_for_senate

    Remember “town hall debate John McCain?” He challenged Opansy to real debates before town halls, and Opansy said — before he won the nomination — that he’d debate McCain any time, anywhere? Then McCain dropped the ball and didn’t call him out on his reneging on that promise.

    Well, now the courageous Maverick ought to debate JD and Jim Deakin any time, anywhere, too, no?

    Won’t you tell him so?

    Thank you.
    ColdWarrior
    No More Scozzafavas!
    Become a Republican precinct committeeman. NOW!

  • Lords86

    Country club, blue blood Republicanism will not cut it anymore. The era of go along, get along with liberal senators must stop.

    Senator Cornyn, if you want to be a Democrat, just switch parties. Stop the charade . . . no, really, I mean it. Stop the charade.

    Anyone who views Charlie Crist as a conservative is operating from a political perspective that is not grounded in reality and, Senator, you really need to rethink your political affiliation.

    We are done with moderation, Senator. Done. Do you understand, Senator? Done.

  • 308winchester

    Mitch is a good Republican- Not a Conservative- I have long said that he needs to step down and let a new generation with more drive take the helm. They will try to just modify it and forget about Repeal if we don’t sent enough conservatives to Washington in November
    308 winchester

  • clintonformccain

    …..but it seems to me that a far more pressing concern is to take away the Democrat control of the Senate and the House, rather than spending resources attacking Republican incumbents.

    Just as a practical matter, assuming that you want to stop The One from destroying the country.

  • davidsongirl

    without conservative activists. Senator Richard Burr (NC), in line for Cornyn’s job, has said he will support “replace” instead of full repeal. His approval rate is not very high for a GOP Senator because he never speaks out. He also voted for the jobs bill. NC is hoping for a better representative. Eddie Burks is opposing him in the primary. Would love a word of support. Thanks!

  • http://UnitedConservativesofVirginia Cargosquid

    the last election. We may not vote for the Democrat, But we don’t have to vote for Democrat-lite either. When will they learn that after Obama, no conservative will worry about who might get elected if a Republican loses?

  • rsexteriors

    Throwing out McCain would send a BIG message to these other Senate RINO’s and besides McCain is only a “conservative” during election years that he has an opponent. He will go right back to his old RINO self in January if he wins.

  • http://www.libertytreehugger.com reverelth

    These guys don’t know how to win.

  • chbroussard

    for John Cornyn. I am disgusted with him. He has always talked out of both sides of his mouth. He’s spineless and not to be trusted. Too bad he just got reelected in 2008 so we’ll have to put up with the mealy mouth for several more years. He’ll be getting a phone call from me tomorrow.

  • rsexteriors

    but now is PRIMARY season. We need to support CONSERVATIVE candidates during the primary so we can get rid of RINO’S and then in Novemember we need to support whichever GOP candidate is on the ticket, because as much as I hate RINO’S they are better then almost any Democrat I can think of

  • http://UnitedConservativesofVirginia Cargosquid

    Dear Sir,

    Excuse me?

    “only 40 percent approve of the job you?re doing and 58 percent of conservatives, the base of your party, Senator McConnell, disapprove of how the Republican leaders in Congress are doing their job. Why is that?

    MCCONNELL: Well you know it?s an interesting question to ask. But it?s not relevant to what will happen in November. ”

    Do you not realize that conservatives are willing to STAY HOME and will encourage others to do so. We may not vote for the Democrats, but we will no longer vote for Democrat-lite either. We refuse to be taken for granted.

    In addition, while I may not be one of your constituents, I can send money to any primary opponent and can organize others to do so.

    And we will.

  • constitutionalconservative

    He was a classic “Bush Conservative”, which is to say, no conservative at all. He’s a reasonably effective parliamentarian, but he has no conservative vision and is an establishment toady.

    We deserve better leadership in the Senate– And after the elections, we are going to get it.

    Mitch– you are going to see how relevant conservatives are

  • Tbone

    I prefer my enemies to stand in front of me.

  • http://www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com ColdWarrior

    Look at McConnell’s bio — he’s been in government his entire life. He’s never had a private sector, “real,” job. Ever.

    Here’s the specifics:

    Professional Experience:
    Judge/Executive, Jefferson County, 1978-1985
    Deputy Assistant, United States Attorney General, 1974-1975
    Chief Legislative Assistant, United States Senator Marlow Cook, 1968-1970
    Attorney
    Intern, United States Senator John Sherman Cooper.

    Source: http://img.votesmart.org/bio.php?can_id=53298

    Now let’s look at Cornyn:

    Lawyer, then a judge, then a senator.

    Being a lawyer in a law firm is not “business” experience, per se.

    Here’s the specifics:

    Professional Experience:
    Texas Supreme Court, 1991-1997
    District Court Judge, 1985-1991
    Partner, Groce, Locke, and Hebdon.

    Source: http://img.votesmart.org/bio.php?can_id=15375

    McConnell and Cornyn are insulated from real people and always have been. They have been in politics/government virtually their entire lives.

    They need to go home. As do McCain. Kyl. Graham. And many others.

    Thank you.
    ColdWarrior
    No More Scozzafavas!
    Become a Republican precinct committeeman. NOW!

  • bk

    He preens in front of the cameras, but doesn’t care a whit about stopping Obama. He just sees it as something that will help return him to power in November, so the more Obama screws the country over the better.

  • Scope

    At the start of each new congress, do the members elect the leader of that party in both the House and Senate? In other words, how soon can we get him out of any leadership position? Even as a member of the Senate, he can still earmark away, like he has always done.

  • http://itsonlywords55.wordpress.com itsonlywords

    n/t

  • Scope

    Never ever put a lawyer/judge in any leadership position in the Congress. Their past experience leads them to “see both sides.” I would love to see how they decided cases as judges. I would especially like to see if they ruled according to the Constitution. Why did they lose those judgeships? Were they voted out?

  • mschmitt
  • http://www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com ColdWarrior

    when asked about the constitutionality of the individual mandate at the Arizona Republican Lawyer’s Assn. luncheon in January, said that was “an interesting question” and rubbed his chin while looking off in the distance, muttering away that he “wasn’t sure” whether it was constitutional or not. Jeesh!

    I heard him yesterday on the radio muttering, again, that he “wasn’t sure” whether Congress had the constitutional authority to enact Obamacare in its present form. Jeesh!

    I search Article I, section 8, as easily as any other American can, and I KNOW there’s no authority there for Congress to legislate in the area of “healthcare” for Americans. Period.

    Just pathetic.

    Thank you.
    ColdWarrior
    No More Scozzafavas!
    Become a Republican precinct committeeman. NOW!

  • Right Reason

    . . .we now have a conservative litmus test – and repeal is it.

  • RedLeader

    However, in Pennsylvania, the most conservative candidate for Senate is not Pat Toomey. It’s Peg Luksik. Yes, ladies and gentleman, Toomey does have a primary, and she’s far to his right. She’s also a proven vote-getter, having garnered 46% of the vote while only spending $45,000 in the 90s. She’s the real deal.

  • wgsampson

    Once the summer roles around, the unemployment rate is going to go up. The useless stimulus, HCR, and higher taxes are going to bring about an unexpected wave of layoffs. Workers (even union workers, not union bosses) are going to start feeling like they are getting ready to be replaced. I think that they will shift our way. Plus, I doubt that a former illegal immigrant will be that fired up about voting. Since they didn’t earn it, it won’t be that special to them. I think that this would be a really stupid battle to take on right now. But, I also thought HCR was dead in January.

  • whiskey_sierra

    Again, this is why I am no longer a republican, but a conservative libertarian.

    I PREDICT!…In 10 years, the Republicans and Democrats will all be on TV arguing who has the better plan to ENLARGE and “fix the national healthcare system”.

    Mark my words.

    Just like last week I heard REPUBLICANS crying about medicare cuts…..imagine a republican crying about cuts to a welfare program.

    *facepalm* Good Grief. 20 years ago, they were talking about eliminating medicare and social security…now they are its biggest supporters and defenders.

    I guess power means more than the truth of small government and liberty.

    You might think I am just being cynical…but stick this in the back of your head and one day you will say….that guy was right.

  • Bill

    generation who are use to being in the minority. They are more confortable being the opposition than someone who could actually govern as a majority. Therefore, really young energetic conservatives who have the vim and vinegar to go to war and win are who we need. People who understand this was a battle in a greater war to save our freedoms from the tryannical socialists who are running things now. God save us all. That is why we need Ryan, Cantor, Spence, etc running things in the House. Boehner is part of the old guard from Newt’s era. Newt became soft and lost his fight when he became speaker. DeLay still lhas fight. Armey I think still has fight, but DeLay and Armey are too tainted by the Clinton impeahment era. We need young guns who will fight to win.

  • wgsampson

    Hopefully Michael Williams will be their soon. Then we will have someone we can be proud of.

  • tjexcite

    for Majority leader for the 112th congress.

    If not him who.

  • mrbigw

    i was a registered repub for 25 years, but now i’m done…. With the lies and crooks from both parties. Lack of morals that a 12 year child can understand..
    People in washington who have never had to meet a payroll or had to look a good employee in the face while firing them because our elected officials can not fathom basic concepts or pass a simple econ class…

    Alot of dems are going down next cycle and alot of repub’s are going with them.

    W

  • Bill

    members of Congress to be professionals (lawyers, judges, politicians, etc). They were meant to be farmers, doctors, lawyers, storekeepers, etc. who came from all walks of life who met to decide on what laws we needed to fulfill the mandate given to the Legislature and Executive by the Constitution. So, why in the name of God do we have people who have been in jobs like Coryn and McConnell, Lindsey Graham, John McCain, Bob Bennett, etc. and all the democrats who have been there 20, 30, 40, 50 years? No one until now seemingly have opened their eyes and cared and asked WHY?

  • neum432

    D’s and R’s are playing a football game. Fans are situated at either goal line. Liberals on the Democrat side. Conservatives on the Republican side. Some independants and moderates at the 50 yard line. A few of us are outside the stadium, listening to the crowd roar. We thought we were in the right place, yet they moved the entire stadium 500 yards to the left. I’ll make a good grandpa someday I suppose!

  • conservativemusician

    C’mon Tbone. Is McConnell really worse than Al “I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, people like me” Franken? I don’t like McConnell much either and would much rather see DeMint as the minority (soon to be majority) leader, but I’d take him over Franken any day, warts and all. The next time McConnell runs, I hope someone will run against him in the primary and send him packing. This is the only way these RINOs will ever get the message.

  • eburke

    that are in power right now.

    So I’m assuming, mrbig, that while you were still with the party you were a precinct committeeman and did all you could to change the Party by becoming the Party.

  • Mary Beth

    …we perceive McConnell as a friend.

    We expect betrayal from one, not the other.

  • http://xmmlbchat.blogspot.com katesmith

    Scott Brown stats: “In the end, Brown pulled off the upset in large part because he won unaffiliated voters by a 73% to 25% margin. The senator-elect also picked up 23% of the vote from Democrats. [Our polling shows that 53% of voters in Massachusetts are Democrats, 21% Republican and 26% not affiliated with either party.]

    Coakley also barely carried a usually reliable Democratic constituency. Union workers went for her by just six points, 52% to 46%. ” Rasmussen, 1/19/10

    I don’t know if CNN polled independent voters, or just republicans who identify as conservatives or what. A large percentage of people consider themselves independent, don’t waste time thinking about 3rd parties. Some or many end up voting on the republican line. Or not. In some states if you’re a registered independent you may not be able to vote in the republican primary (which was the case when I registered in NY, it may have changed since). Does McConnell think independent voters are worthless too? McConnell is not a nice guy, a good republican, or a good anything. You go on national tv and do something like this?

  • EagleWatcher

    They need Amnesty to cushion the outrage over ObamaCare. 8 to 20 million new voters is not something they will take a pass on no matter what. Especial if it means congressional majorities for years to come.

    Besides, the Mexican government is on the verge of collapse. Have you seen all the murders lately? Illegals will be glad to stay in the US and very grateful as they vote Social Democrat.

  • saintgeorgegentile

    Just returned from my precinct caucus. Both delegates, while not sure which challenger they were going to support, are of from the “Anybody But Bennett” school of thought. Prior commitments kept me from going to state but will be going to county convention as delegate.

  • http://www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com ColdWarrior

    Become a precinct committeeman. It’s not hard to do and it’s fun. And we who are already IN the Party as PCs need every conservative we can convince to join us. Channel that anger with the “powers that be” and join with the rest of us, INSIDE the Party, not as mere registered Republicans in the bleachers, but in the game as precinct committeeman ball players.

    That’s what countless conservatives are doing tonight INSIDE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY to attempt to oust RINO Bob Bennett. Under the Utah rules, “mere” registered Republicans don’t get to vote in the primary for the U.S. Senate seats. Only delegates elected by the precinct committeemen get to. And those elections are taking place tonight. Go here to read more:

    http://www.redstate.com/erick/2010/03/23/dick-cheney-vs-the-tea-party-activists/

    You CAN make a real difference if you’ll come into the Party while dragging every conservative you know along with you to your next local GOP meeting.

    Thank you.
    ColdWarrior
    No More Scozzafavas!
    Become a Republican precinct committeeman. NOW!

  • izoneguy

    that voting socialist democrat will ensure that the drug dealers will move into the US. The only way to keep the drug dealers from messing with the illegals is to vote Conservative.

    Conservative = Border security.

    Healthcare won’t help you if you are dead.

  • RoscoeP

    While I understand that the GOP needs to be dragged kicking and screaming to conservatism, I’ll stay home before I vote for another McCain. After 4 years of BO, what’s another 4 or 8 or 16? The damage has already been done thanks to the likes of McConnell. While I won’t vote for a third party over the next two cycles, I”ll stay home if the old guard GOP doesn’t shape up and keep their mouth shut. I’ll vote locally but national elections be damned. Time for a game plan GOPers, you up to the task of winning over independant conservatives? How about another Contract? . . . just so long as you don’t touch Newt with a ten foot pole.

  • rsjt

    we’ve got an app for that.

    And we won’t lose. There is nothing the schemers and deceivers can throw at us that we can’t overcome. Because He that is in us is greater….

  • redpens

    some of the illegals will figure that out too. But educating the rest will be key.

  • clintonformccain

    I would vote for whichever Republican primary candidate has the best chance of beating the Democrat in November.

    IMO, the single most important thing we can all do to protect our country is to do everything in our power to end one-party control of both houses of Congress and the White House. One party control — by either party — is scary as heck because there are no checks and balances.

    If you believe, as I do, that the less the idiots in Washington do to us, the better, then you want to make it harder for them to do things to us. Nominating a litmus-test passing nobody with zero chance of beating a Democrat in November is not a strategy I’ll pursue. I’m very pleased to have Scott Brown as my Senator, thank-you very much, and I doubt he passes anybody’s litmus test.

  • eburke

    that Bennett’s staff was encouraging people lying about who they were supporting in order to sneak in undercover and vote for Bennett in the convention. Are you comfortable that these two are the real deal?

    Do you know how many delegates are chosen statewide to select the general election candidate? If Bennett happens to make it into the primary, do you think the general populace will vote for Eager/Lee/Bridgewater over him?

    Oh, and btw, congrats on the county convention gig!!

  • eburke

    while you live in chains.

    But I’ll fight on your behalf anyway.

    If you want to stand on the sideline and pontificate…I have no use for you.

    Loser.

  • shadowtax

    I am sorry that Erick and so many other conservatives are so sensitive. It is a stretch, or a deliberate deception, to say McConnell was calling conservative opinion irrelevant. The antecedent to the pronoun is “question.” He was dodging a question about internal GOP politics and staying on message and focusing on Democrats. It was pretty obvious to me, even in yellow, but then again, I lack an anti-establishment bias.

    Cornyn’s comment is far more problematic. I hope he changes his tune.

  • blivolsi

    got to get re-elected, professional politician class, which in my humble opinion, is a HUGE part of the problem we face with the ‘go along-get along’ crowd. There is something in the political air in DC, that after a year or so, otherwise normal men and women start to believe that they are just so special, just a bit better than the people they represent, and they forget why we sent them there. Their sense of their own power, and the desire to be liked, corrupts.

  • justfedup

    I was listening to Levin on the way home, when I heard about Cornyn’s comments to the huff & puff. Well I emailed my senator just to remind him who he is supposed to representing. They just don’t get it.There are no excuses. No apologies & No Deals with baby killers! What does it take to get through to these clowns. The time for RINO’s gone. Texas will “repeal” Cornyn & Hutchinson ( if she doesn’t resign first).

  • justfedup

    I was listening to Levin on the way home, when I heard about Cornyn’s comments to the huff & puff. Well I emailed my senator just to remind him who he is supposed to representing. They just don’t get it.There are no excuses. No apologies & No Deals with baby killers! What does it take to get through to these clowns. The time for RINO’s gone. Texas will “repeal” Cornyn & Hutchinson ( if she doesn’t resign first).

  • saintgeorgegentile

    One state delegate is my neighbor, the other a guy in his mid 30′s. Before voting on the state delegates I requested that each state who they supported. Very sincere in their beliefs. One of our delegates mentioned Bennett’s convenient conservatism. Unanimous voice vote. The age range of the group went from 20′s to 80′s.

    Washington County has 98 precincts and I’m assuming each one in the county is sending 2 delegates to SLC on May 8th. I don’t know how many precincts there are statewide.

    I can’t hazard a guess as to what the results of a primary fight might be.

  • rsexteriors

    I pray that enough Conservatives get elected to the Senate in Novemember that they can elect someone like DeMint as Majority Leader or if we don’t get the majority then Minority Leader. McConnell has to go

  • http://www.conservative-compendium.com brian_garst

    I disagree. Conservative dissatisfaction is entirely relevant. It affects turnout, and explains why Republicans lost in 2008. Clearly McConnell has not learned his lesson, yet.

  • blivolsi

    become the professional political class, which in my humble opinion, is a HUGE part of the problem we face. There is something in the political air in DC, that after a year or so, otherwise normal men and women start to believe that they are just so special, just a bit better than the people they represent, and they forget why we sent them there. Their sense of their own power, and the desire to be liked, corrupts.

    It is our own fault for not holding our representatives accountable. WE have to change this.

  • blivolsi

    I’ll ask my family if they have heard of Toomey or Luksik.

  • AceInTX

    they can just give us the back of their hands and cut deal after deal with the Democrats and nothing ever changes…60% of this country is up in arms and wnat’s this repealed and we get the standard, “what are you going to do…vote for the Democrats” line for the same lame bunch that brought us the 2006 and 2008 elections.

    so we’ll go out and slavishly vote for them in November…and drag their sorry buts to a majority in the House and maybe the Senate…and they’ll just fritter it away like they did after we swept the house and Senate in 2004

    and they’ll blame conservatives then to just like some here are blaming us now

  • utahtim

    OK, the title is a little strong, but I just got back from my Utah caucus meeting and our precinct chairman plus all 5 candidates (for 2 slots) running for State delegate were opposed to Bennett. I know this is anecdotal, but there were people there who personally know and like Sen. Bennett who were against him. No one spoke up on his behalf.

  • becky19

    I live in Utah and just got back from my caucus meeting. For the first time each legislative district met in one building and then divided into precincts. The turnout was AMAZING. The line was out the door and down the sidewalk just to get in. The party officials had obviously not anticipated this kind of turnout and were scrambling to keep everything moving.

    In the meeting, every person in the precinct that was nominated to be a state delegate got up and started their speech with ” I would like to serve as a state delegate and I will NOT be voting for Bob Bennett” . .

  • conservativemusician

    If we can get enough real conservatives to win the Senate primaries, we can get McConnell out of leadership and replace him with DeMint. It’s up to us alone to get this done.

    McConnell’s comment was smug and he probably wouldn’t have said that if he were up for reelection this year. However, Franken is a far bigger threat to our nation than McConnell because he is a radical socialist. In fact, as Rush noted today, anyone with a “D” by their name should be a target in November. They cannot be trusted, especially when they are in charge of either house.

  • AceInTX

    “Man the barricades boys…We’ll be around after we’re done with our naps”

  • http://www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com ColdWarrior

    Let me guess, you’ve heard of it, but you’re not sure what it entails.

    Years ago, it meant that, if possible, citizens were to actually engage in party politics. They’d at least try to become a precinct committeeman in the political party of their choice and, if that wasn’t possible, they’d at least give some of their time, money and effort to the party of their choice, perhaps as a helper to one or more of their precinct committeemen in their precinct.

    Let me guess. In the past, you were a precinct committeeman in your locale in the Republican Party and you attended all the monthly meetings and you got to know all the Republican Party candidates in the primary elections and then you vetted them and then helpe get out the vote for the BEST conservative candidates before the all-important primary elections and then you urged your fellow precinct committeemen to vote for the best conservative candidates for the local GOP leadership positions, like, for example, your County GOP chairman.

    You?ve done all that in the past, right?

    And having done all, and none of it having had any impact whatsoever on the Republican Party, you’ve decided the best course of action is to “stay home” and wait for “the GOP” (which you aren’t actually IN, just affiliated with as a registered voter) to “shape up” on its own without your help in the trenches. Is that about it?

    Sorry. I don’t mean to offend. I just wish you’d take some of your anger and disdain for “the GOP” and become part of it. Rather than just coming here and complaining. I took a look at a few of your posts.

    Roscoe, we CAN take back the Republican Party and turn it into a conservative powerhouse, and elect better, more courageous and conservative party leaders (both in the Party itself and to the elected public servant positions) IF enough of us will just take the time and make the effort to get INSIDE the Republican Party. (Go to the link below for more info.) It?s our civic DUTY, no?

    Thank you.
    ColdWarrior
    No More Scozzafavas!
    Become a Republican precinct committeeman. NOW!

  • Susannah

    ….As always, I love your passion. :-)

    X0X0, Suzi

  • AceInTX

    making the Democrats defend their votes for unpopular provisions in the bill and running on Repeal in the 2010 elections to make the Dem’s pay for their arrogance and Hubris…

    and here we are a day after the Dems pass the damnable thing…and the very day Obama signs it into law telling Republicans to forget repealing it…Mitch and Cornyn jaust don’t feel like taking up the challenge?

    This has to be a sick frigging joke….the majority of this country are screaming that they want this gone!!! And still we wait to see any sign of life from the slime we have in the US Senate representing us!!!!

    I’M SO MAD I COULD EAT NAILS AND CRAP RAILROAD RAILS!!!

  • AceInTX

    Jonny Mac wouldn’t sound half as good as he does now if he weren’t in the fight of his political career right now

  • gekster

    Why didn’t they do what they said they would do when they had the chance to do what they said they would do?

    As simple as I can put it.

    And what will we do with them now??

  • AceInTX

    The single most offensive assault that’s ever happened to the Constitution and this county has just happened…our so called leadership comes out the very day the Marxist in chief signs it into law and says forget doing anything about it because they have bigger fish to fry with their Democrat buddies in the Senate Gentleman’s club…and you want to tell us we shouldn’t tell them what unmitigated disgraces they are?

    give me a break

  • gekster

    What say you?

  • avgjo

    Every person you know who’s pssed with this nonsense needs his contact info so they too can tell him what they think about their anger being ‘not relevant’!

    Here:

    Phone: (202) 224-2541

    Fax: (202) 224-2499

    Send a message of love here:

    http://mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=ContactForm

    Let’s make this jerk our special project.

  • AceInTX

    They passed this knowing full well thet McConnell and his ilk would never even try to roll it back…they get what they want…we get it in the short pants…and they move on to Cap & Trade and Amnesty which will bring about the same result.

    Way to inspire the faithfull to full action guys!

  • http://www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com ColdWarrior

    if we could just get the word out to enough conservatives to invade the Party ranks at the precinct committeeman level. I am encouraged by some of the reports by Redstaters here who are doing this — their reports that conservatives are showing up at their local GOP meetings in large numbers. That’s what we all need to be doing (and I know you know this already). It’s a pure numbers game. I tell you and everyone here at Redstate. You and everyone here at Redstate tells every conservative they know. And on and on.

    Again, some numbers for perspective. In the 2008 election cycle, Maricopa County, AZ had 694,000 registered Republicans. And 6,231 PC slots that any of them could have run for. After the primary election, only 1,989 of those 6,231 slots got filled. That’s about 31 per cent. That’s pathetic.

    Now, after a year of aggressive recruiting by me and others, we’ve increased that percentage to about 53 per cent (through interim appointments — all of the existing PCs now have to gather a whopping ten (or fewer) signatures from voters in their respective precincts to get on the primary ballot, and I’ll be doing that starting next month).

    So, now, we’ve got about 691,000 registered Republicans in Maricopa County who still aren’t “in” the Party as “card carrying members” of it. Most aren’t lazy or too busy. They just don’t know basic civics. They don’t know the Party is hurting for conservatives to participate. They don’t know that precinct committeemen elect the party leaders. Most have never been to a monthly GOP meeting. If I had a nickel for every good, decent conservative Republican at a Tea Party, or 9.12 meeting, or protest who said to me, “What’s a precinct committeeman?”, I’d be rich.

    So, we just have to keep trying to get this “open secret” information to as many good, decent conservatives who want to “do something” as we can. And hope and pray they’ll step up and “do something” real. That they’ll become PCs. As soon as possible.

    Thank you.
    ColdWarrior
    No More Scozzafavas!
    Become a Republican precinct committeeman. NOW!

  • avgjo

    I put this jerk’s info up a moment go.

    Let him know what you think.

    And while ya’ll are at it, repeat the line we saw monday. No replace. Just repeal.

  • Flagstaff

    would do it.

  • AceInTX

    Hopefully Michael Williams will be their soon.

    She hasn’t resigned just as I predicted months ago…and she won’t resign either….the last time she addressed the issue of her promise she said she had to stay and fight against Obama Care…

    Well Kay…what are you waiting for now? Don’t claim your staying to work on repeal because the boss says that’s not to be on the menu….guess you’ll have to come up with some other empty excuse to prove yourself to be the opportunistic liar you’ve always been

  • eburke

    I guess I’ve just had it up to ‘here’ with people who want to take their ball and go stand on the sideline and bitch and moan about how the Republican Party sucks and they’re not going to play anymore.

    Got some patience you can send me?

  • Flagstaff

    “perhaps the reason McCain is no[w] fighting for repeal is because he?s got a credible challenger.”

    These guys remind me of a ball player in the last year of his contract. They’re running out the ground balls and sliding hard into second base.

  • AceInTX

    I hate his guts but I can at least respect him because he’s willing to stand for what he believes….I can’t say the same for McConnell and much of the Republican leadership

  • Jonas Parker

    I’m also in AZ, and working on JD’s campaign. As I’ve said before here, JD is not without his warts, to say the least, but compared to McCain’s record of conciliation with statists and lunatics (the latter a reference to his foolish pandering to the global warming hoax), JD wins on conservative consistency.

    Hey.. look at those numbers… I think you are right, and Mac is having to change his shorts regularly. JD is no contest in terms of warchest, etc, but clearly a LOT of folks want McCain to be the former Senator. This is a season of upsets. Many Reps that I know, old line folks, many influencial and involved, started out backing McCain, with a distain for JD. Over time they are beginning to peal off, as they see the seriousness of the current challenge to the country.

    An attorney friend who has been very involved in Az politics for decades told me yesterday, after the debacle on Sunday, that he is now so alarmed he has changed his opinion and thinks we need conservatives even if they have some drawbacks, so he will now back JD, because in his heart, he doesn’t trust McCain to reliably pursue what needs to be done. McCain has ‘reached across the aisle’ too many times.

  • eburke

    didn’t game the system and have their supporters say stuff like that because they knew it was the only way they would get elected.

    Sorry to be so skeptical but let’s just say the events of the last few weeks have left me a tad cynical about the lengths to which the statists (and yes, I include Bob Bennett in that group) will go to preserve their power. I pray with every fiber of my being that all those folks are actually who they say they are.

    Btw-having lived in UT for 8 years (Sandy)…where ’bouts are you from?

  • http://www.rightklik.net rightklik

    This is why we cannot allow people like Parker Griffith to slide through. We need to fight for more conservative voices in Congress at every opportunity.

  • eburke

    *the* most important thing we can do this election cycle, even more than giving the Dems the butt-kicking they deserve, is to oust some of these ‘moderate’ Republicans and strike the fear of God (and the conservative wing of the Party) into the hearts of our feckless leaders like Cornyn and McConnell.

    It won’t do us any good to kick the Dems out if the same old ‘comity’ group who wants power for the sake of power take us down the same path as they did last time.

  • tommyjax

    The even bigger issue with illegals and amnesty is the “family reunification” provision.

    Post-amnesty and family reunification we could have 3 or more new “legals” coming in for each currently illegal / newly amnestied individual.

    You think that we’re broke now? Just wait until we have tens of millions more “documented” welfare / Obamacare recipients!

    That Marxist really is out to destroy our country in all but name.

  • AceInTX

    I’ll just ask a simple question because I’m having a hard time answering it…

    Who is fighting to stop the Marxist/Socialists? Right now…No One…and we’ve just been told not to expect them to fight the Marxist/Socialists

    Third parties are a loser…and it shouldn’t be considered…but I’m desperate for an answer!

    We need to support the guys Erick mentions here…but fore every one of them we support…there are the Kirks and Browns and others we’re told we have to support….

    What’s the answer?

    Did the Senate Majority leader…and the head of the NRSC REALLY say they’re not interested in repeal? REALLY?

    or did I just fall through the looking glass?

  • Flagstaff

    Rahm wanted him to go easy on ObamaCare; play it safer and emphasize jobs. Settle for compromise with the Republicans. But the Great Obama insisted. “No!” he practically shouted in the Oval Office. “We will go all out for ObamaCare. With my trusty SanFranNan working the House, they’ll vote ‘Yes’ or they’ll be treating their broken arms on their own nickel.” And lo, it came to pass that on March 21, 2010, in a House littered with back-room deals and broken promises to constituents, The Won, won.

    Throw in a fable about black Congressmen being cursed and spat upon, and we know the Democrat spin machine is still working.

  • AceInTX

    nt

  • Flagstaff

    Or the Pillsbury Doughboy. That’s what McConnell looks and acts like.

    Whic is closer? Cast your votes.

  • avgjo

    just asking.

    personally. i and a very large, increasingly bigger portion of the country could care less what the media/dem complex says.

    by 2012, they’ll have no one left but the hopeless 20%.

  • AceInTX

    Man up or get out of the way for someone who will…stop talking bipartisanship to the cameras when the country is ready to burn your opponents at the stake….instead of soft shoing everything…can we just once have a Republican in leadership strike a match and light the torches being held out to them?!

  • http://www.suvstrategery.blogspot.com SoFiMil

    nt

  • RealQuiet

    What is wrong with the Senate GOP?? I want DeMint or Coburn to take out McConnell after the November elections. That is just PATHETIC.

  • AceInTX

    and simply can’t believe McConnell and Cornyn would go there. They’ve just said if we want to save America from Obama Care…Don’t look to the Republicans in the Senate!

    I mean…WTF…are you serious?

    Your committeeman Project is the answer….I know that…but OMG!

    I’m speechless for once

  • http://www.suvstrategery.blogspot.com SoFiMil

    I hope the first bill on Obama’s desk in January is to repeal this monstrosity. Sure, it will be vetoed, but it needs to go to this desk nonetheless.

  • AceInTX

    from my precinct and district a week before the elections. I missed my Precinct and District Conventions as a result and won’t make the state…

    which adds to my frustration

  • AceInTX

    as frustrating as it is…that’s what we must do.

    it’s kind of like trying to slit your wrists with a spoon….who hope you’ll draw blood eventually…but the best you’ll do is raise a welt in the end

  • avgjo

    Primary as many conservatives as possible. Tell the RINOs if they don’t make us happy (repeal, not replace), they have nothing left.

    We may have to elect them and hold their feet to the fire.

  • avgjo

    Primary as many conservatives as possible. Tell the RINOs if they don’t make us happy (repeal, not replace), they have nothing left.

    We may have to elect them and hold their feet to the fire.

  • http://travismonitor.blogspot.com Freedoms Truth

    HR1 of the next Congress and put it on his desk.

    Then run against him in 2012 on THAT.

    Smoke them out like a termite infestation.

  • Mary Beth

    how many Republican Congressmen and Senators would be required to simply defund Obamacare? It’s a budget issue so the Senate could theoretically do reconciliation…

  • avgjo

    was talking about how the congress could cut the funding off thru appropriations.

    They need to play hardball.

    Screw the ‘obstructionist’ stuff.

    We do need to do our part, though. We need to get the word out on all the nastty stuff in this bill which hasn’t even yet come to the fore.

    Commercials, perhaps a web documentary. I’m working on some stuff…

    you guys?

  • avgjo

    was talking about how the congress could cut the funding off thru appropriations.

    They need to play hardball.

    Screw the ‘obstructionist’ stuff.

    We do need to do our part, though. We need to get the word out on all the nastty stuff in this bill which hasn’t even yet come to the fore.

    Commercials, perhaps a web documentary. I’m working on some stuff…

    you guys?

  • gekster
  • Flagstaff

    You need to read the comment I referred to, then read my comment.

    We made great progress this year against a stacked deck. The LSM can be overcome, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t still powerful. It will continue to push for statism. To us it’s a nuisance, but to the uncommitted, the ones we want to attract, it’s an unbiased source of news.

    O’Reilly, as dense as he is, spent the first 20 minutes of his show tonight fretting about how “the Right” needs to be careful and not call names, etc. IOW, he bought into the Emanuel Cleaver fable far enough to say “there’s no proof either way.” On the LSM News they wouldn’t have admitted even that much. It’s reported as fact by the AP. Nobody on board the HMS O’Reilly, no conservative, called him on the fact that there is NO proof that it happened, but there is SOME proof that it didn’t.

    But he had a legit point: Even false stories like that hurt the credibility of the Right. It’s not a problem for the Left because their bad deeds go unreported.

    My point is, the left can plant stories and they get reported as if true, and they are already in gear, propping up Obama via the story that, “He was resolute, he didn’t give up.” Which was true, as AceinTx said. If you weren’t paying attention, you might think he did something good.

  • http://www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com ColdWarrior

    if you aren’t one already.

    Thanks for working on J.D.’s campaign.

    Every dollar McLame has to spend on fending off J.D. and Jim Deakin he can’t give to other RINOs around the country.

    If Scott Brown could take “the Kennedy seat,” J.D. Hayworth can take “John McCain’s seat.” Indeed, J.D. needs to use the same rhetoric.

    McCain and Kyl are PATHETIC, as is, in my humble opinion, EVERY Republican senator. Any one of them could have gone “Mr. Smith Goes To Washington” and mucked up the Opansycare bill using the Senate Standing Rules. Sen. Jim DeMint didn’t do it. Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso didn’t do it. Sen. Tom Coburn didn’t do it. NONE of them did it. Sorry, but in my opinion, ALL of them are cowards. COWARDS.

    So, what to do? CHANGE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY FROM THE PRECINCT LEVEL.

    I’d like to see a poll done here at Redstate to find out how many of the contributors are, actually, “in” the Republican Party. I’d like to see it privately, not publicly. Because I’m afraid of what I’d see.

    I’m a precinct committeeman in Legislative District 17 in Tempe, AZ. Yesterday a fantastic woman in my LD, Wendy Rogers, a retired Air Force C-141 pilot (first plane I jumped out of at Benning) knocked on my door because she’s been going door to door in our District to get ballot access signatures(she’s already got enough) from registered independents (my significant other is a registered independent — I’m working on that). Wendy’s running for an open seat in the state senate. Her son’s a brand new Marine LT. Why is she doing this? Because she loves her country.

    Check her out: www.wendyrogers.org

    I always liked those Air Force folks. They gave us grunts rides.

    Regardless, one of the reason’s I’m a PC is because will not allow my children to live under socialism. I will not allow the soldiers, sailors and airmen who are in harm’s way to return to a mobacracy rather than a republic.

    Redstaters: what will YOU do? (Hint: merely typing away at a keyboard ain’t gonna cut it.)

    Remember Marine COL Jessup (Jack Nicholson’s character) in “A Few Good Men”? Remember his speech while on the stand? I agree with his sentiments (but not with his ordering of the Code Red).

    Here it is:

    Redstaters, get your butts to a local GOP meeting and “stand a post.”

    You owe it to those who are putting their lives on the line right now around the world, no?

    Thank you.
    ColdWarrior
    No More Scozzafavas!
    Become a Republican precinct committeeman. NOW!

  • becky19

    with the delegates that were elected from our precinct. One is my neighbor whom I have known for many years. I know for certain he is not a Bennett supporter and will not vote for him at the convention.
    I am pretty confidant in the other delegate also.

    I don’t live too far from you. South end of the valley also. :-)

  • olddog

    is, too many lawyers in Congress,and too many dynasties on both sides. The corruption of power, of those we elect to represent us , changes, to, they feel they rule us, because they are better than us.
    Elect real people who have actually worked for a living, and actually served their country ,and love the Constitution, then I feel we would get a better representation, in our government.
    All are flawed, some much more than others.
    Support Our Troops!
    One Old Dog

  • chbroussard

    I called and asked if she was going to resign or if she was going to lie to us for the fourth time. Naturally I got the typical tap dance from her office.

    We need Michael Williams, and we need him now. I don’t trust Kay to fight against all the onerous legislation that I know will be coming down the pike from this arrogant administration.

  • txgho1911

    Had the majority for years with a republican POTUS.
    In the majority they where inept at conservatism and wanted to race each other instead in spending.
    Should the 17th amd be repealed? Add provisions for recall?

  • voxoreason

    Pat Toomey, the superior candidate, was tossed under the bus for the “best chance of beating the Democrat in November,” so that Arlen Specter could win… then switch.

    No worries about Specter beating the Dem in Nov this time around: he has to beat ‘em in the primary.

    Note that the Tea Partiers (will THESE guys vote in Nov? ya think?) tend to identify as conservative, not repub or dem.

    Okay, you’re happy with Scott Brown, who is somewhat better than a dem (and way better than Croakley), but how’s that state passed Health Care thing working for you in MA before the nat’l Obama Care used it as a role model, ie, a failure? From all reports, it isn’t.

    Oregon and Massachusetts both had “pre-existing conditions” (their own Health Care disasters) and neither was successful. Getting serious operations has become a roulette wheel in Ore, rationing care. Hope you enjoy playing Lotto with your health.

    Enjoy the double dose. Maybe you can go to Canada for treatment.

  • rwlungren

    be Repealed and Term Limits included in the Repealing Amendment (say, a maximum of 2 terms for Senators and 3 for Representatives). I also believe that returning to the method the ‘Founders’ described originally for selection of Senators, ‘Recall’ would be a ‘States Rights’ issue and would have no place in the U.S. Constitution. just sayin’

  • bs61
  • rivahmitch

    “And you know what? Ignoring the dodge, McConnell is right. They will vote for the GOP. ”

    Sorry. I’ve voted that way(to keep the Dems from winning) in (almost) every election since 1968. (Exceptions were 1968, 1980 and 1984 when I voted FOR the Republican candidates.) At this point, however, I’ll vote 3rd party or sit on my hands rather than vote for a Republicrat.

    Perhaps an obvious and overt fascist takeover (unlike that of the current Kenyan Marxist) will force the issue. The greater of two evils may be better for freedom in the long run.

    Locked and loaded.

  • bs61

    I’ll vote JD in the primary if it will defeat McCain in the primary – we must take him out in the primary to make a statement, and because he has a bad habit of winning if he makes it on the Nov election.

  • bs61

    But I agree – we need him and many more like him!

  • bs61

    Apparently George Soros is planning to get all Dem’s to those position to ensure a Dem victory in 2012?

    http://spectator.org/archives/2009/12/04/soros-eyes-secretaries

    How much time is needed to be a Precinct committeeman? I work full time to fund Obama’s dream. :(

  • southernilpat

    He is not relevant to what will happen in November. Why waste passion obsessing about him? The focus right now has to be on Senators up for reelection THIS year. A clear message needs to be sent to RINOs like McConnell that conservative opinion does, indeed, matter. Replacing McCain would be an excellent start.

  • davesinsanantonio

    is to get rid of everyone, and I do mean everyone!, who is willing to go along with his idiocy. Cornyn is more go along than he is a fighter. His entitlement attitude (that he is ‘entitled’ to be a senator and to tell the rest of us who to vote for) is a huge part of the problem; it is how we got in this fix in the first place.

  • davesinsanantonio

    a long time! You truly believe that having conservative Republicans in control of Congress and the White House is as bad as what Obama and his radical pals have already done? And will keep trying to do until they destroy this country??? (Their words, not mine!!!) You are also part of the go along problem. If the Republicans win both houses of Congress this year would you really vote for Obama’s re-election, because it would be safer than having a Repubican in the White House???!!!! How stupid can one person be???!!!!

  • davesinsanantonio

    That is exactly what they are doing, Grahamnesty is even worse at it than Mitch. Boehner does it too, to a lesser extent. McLame lives for it!

  • davesinsanantonio

    This has to become THE litmus test, not just their words, but their deeds. Have they established a track record that we can trust? Of course, we would be better off to trust the “words” of a newby when the “deeds” of the squishes who have proved they will not develop a spine even after November. This is too important to the survival of America as we know it to allow the squishes to just drift along as they have in the past. Support true conservatives when we can, support the squishes when there is no one else. Fight the radicals every step of the way.

  • jpniner

    http://thepage.time.com/details-mcconnell-on-john-king-usa-march-23-2010/

    KING: Now we’ll watch how this plays out tonight and we’ll report more on it tomorrow. But I want to show these poll numbers. We asked the American people what do you think of the leadership here in Washington. Among the questions, how are the Republican leaders like Senator Mitch McConnell, right here, how do they rate your job performance?

    Among Republicans, among Republicans, 57 percent approve of the job you’re doing but 41 percent of Republicans disapprove of their own party’s congressional leadership. And among those who describe themselves as consecutives, only 40 percent approve of the job you’re doing and 58 percent of conservatives, the base of your party, Senator McConnell, disapprove of how the Republican leaders in Congress are doing their job. Why is that?

    MCCONNELL: Well you know it’s an interesting question to ask. But it’s not relevant to what will happen in November. The most important question is what’s called the party generic ballot question. If the election were tomorrow, would you be more likely to vote for the Republican or the Democrat? According to NPR, for example, just a few weeks ago my party had a five-point lead in that question and all the surveys were no worse than dead even.

    I don’t think anybody in the country is in love with the Congress today, but the question is will they vote for a change? Will they restore some balance after giving one side a very, very heavy majority in the last two elections?

    KING: I agree the overriding — (INAUDIBLE) new poll today has it dead even, 49-49, in that generic ballot question, vote Democrat or Republican, but is that a sign, that dissatisfaction on the right, the Tea Party movement, that you have a volatile climate out there and there is a parole-like anti-establishment mood that could swing against you in such a volatile environment?

  • davesinsanantonio

    I was about to shred the guy, but your post was so much better than mine would have been. Thank You!

  • davesinsanantonio

    You think this guy isn’t obvious and overt??? Last year I told everyone with that same third party or sit it out attitude that Obama could do more damage in four years than we could un-do in twenty. I have already been proven right, and we have almost three years to go!!! You may be locked and loaded, but it is your children and grandchildren who will suffer for decades. Also, it may be your loved ones who suffer if it comes to violence. The greater of two evils in never a better option. It is merely a greater evil, and will do even more evil. Why would you even think that could be a positive???? Get with the program. Elect conservatives when we can, hold the feet of the squishes to the fire when we can’t find conservatives. Fight evil every step of the way. Remember, if you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. Don’t be a devil’s advocate, he has enough of them on the other side of the aisle. Be an example of a righteous hard fighter, don’t let your kids see you ever compromise with evil, let alone supporting it!!!!!

  • avgjo

    but we have to look forward, using the past only as a guide.

    ‘Don’t let us down this time, Republicans, or you’ll have nothing. Got it?’

  • avgjo

    but we have to look forward, using the past only as a guide.

    ‘Don’t let us down this time, Republicans, or you’ll have nothing. Got it?’

  • soljerblue

    I believe, if we are to reclaim our Nation, we’ll have to get back to first things…just voting GOP is good, but it just isn’t the whole solution. Check out Psalm 144

    Blessed art the Lord, my rock, who maketh my hands to war and my fingers to fight…”

    JMO

  • indyjohn

    but G. W. Bush was a Conservative in every regard except (and a BIG except) on domestic spending. He was seduced by the image of government activism as an adjunct to Christian charity. Huge mistake. All he accomplished was to blur the idological line between the two parties. Mitch McConnell appears to be from the same mold. The aggressive radicalism of the Democrat Party makes pols like McConnell sadly anachronistic.

  • Common_Cents

    they think It will be a better climate for them getting re-elected.

    That’s why we have to get new real conservatives to replace these brainwashingtonians.

  • weatherford

    There is only one way that the Democrats can save themselves in November and that is by enfranching illegals.

    The only way to stop that result is to marginalize Mitch McConnell and the Americans whose greed makes them willing to destroy freedom.

    The only way to get the latter done is to stop or drag out all legislation, all nominations, all treaties, all interstate compacts, or any other measure, motion, or matter that may come before the Senate and, most critically, for a small group of GOP Senators to ignore totally the Senate GOP leadership.

    It is going to take nerve and daring.

    The Obama Regime and its running dogs have an abundance of nerve and daring.

    DO WE? DOES ANY GOP SENATOR?

    Maybe. Is there one of them who for our country will go into harms way?

    It cannot be done in the House — unless we can make it through November and turn the tables.

    Nothing would please me more than to be mistaken. But every time I hear Senator Graham, I am petrified.

    Who will do battle for us and our faith?

  • rsexteriors

    in November if we are stuck with “Democrat Lite”. Like “voxoreason” said above in 2004 Toomey ran against Specter and was a much superior candidate and a CONSERVATIVE, but Bush. the Republican establishment and even Santorum got behind Specter and kicked Toomey to the curb. And what did Bush and the Republicans get for their help? Specter took over as chairman of the judiciary committee and immediately started fighting Bush on everything including judge nominations.

    Yes in Novemember I will vote for the GOP ticket, but in the Primaries I will vote for the most conservative candidate. And this year is even different then most because whoever is on the GOP ticket in Novemember has a GREAT chance of winning. So lets make sure that we have real CONSERVATIVES on the ticket and not these fake RINO’S.

    We have Obama today because we did not give the public a “CHOICE”. The Republican’s listened to the Media and the pundantry and nominated a “Moderate”. There was no contrasting difference. Obama ran (Lied) as a moderate democrat and McCain ran as a Moderate Republican. Why pick the old crotchety gun when you can pick the young guy who will make history as the first black President when they are both running and supporting the same things?

  • rsexteriors

    every six years and only IF he is being opposed in the primary.

    If McCain wins he will be right back undercutting Conservatives as much as possible. He delights in sticking his finger in conservatives “eyes” and in kissing up to democrats

  • nessa

    Its funny how conservative McLame has become since JD began his challenge. Every time a new poll shows the race closer McLame comes out more conservative. Gone now is the darling maverick of the senate who made me gag in the voting booth a short time ago. He’s not hiding from me, I still recognize his glowing red eyes as Reagan introduced him on stage before the “City on a Hill” Speech in 76, but its fun to watch and every conservative we can lay hold of is needed in the Senate right now, even if he is a demonsheep in wolves clothing.