Jim DeMint was on Mark Levin’s show earlier and was gracious about it. He said he did not have the seniority. Levin told it like it is afterwards.
I’m going to call McConnell’s office, again.

it may be time to try a leadership coup, but the cowards will need to know we and are friends are behind them before they act.

as much as the Democrats do? This just doesn’t make any sense to me anymore.
You would think after 2006 and 2008 that SOMEONE would have had their heads removed from their rears and said, “conservatism works. We need to stop running to the left.” Especially after 2010, you would think that SOMEONE would have said, “we need to kiss the rears of those Tea Party people that gave us the House and slimmed the majority down a bit in the Senate.”
Yet, the Washington GOP keeps spitting in our faces. I say this….get the White House out of Obama’s hands for 2012, then start primarying the hell out of some of these RINO’s in 2014. It’s the only way they’re going to learn.

Here was my response: “When Mitch McConnell appoints a conservative to the Finance Committee, then we will talk.”

Funds enclosed: $0.00

but thanks to Mr. McConnell, that patience has now ceased to exist.

Oh, Republican leaders say they learned their lesson in 2008. Obviously, Mr. McConnell, you did not. It’s only taken you 6 months to forget who brung ya to the dance. You are a spineless wimp and it is my hope that you are out of a leadership position in 2012. I’ve seen leaders, and you sir, are no leader.

but thanks to Mr. McConnell, that patience has now ceased to exist.

Oh, Republican leaders say they learned their lesson in 2008. Obviously, Mr. McConnell, you did not. It’s only taken you 6 months to forget who brung ya to the dance. You are a spineless wimp and it is my hope that you are out of a leadership position in 2012. I’ve seen leaders, and you sir, are no leader.

i have been debating moving to a different country and you are making it alot easier to make the decision

not having to think about the morally bankrupt politicians in government will greatly improve my quality of life

mitch when the economy collapses there wont be a hole deep enough for you to crawl into you looser

It’ll probably lead to more money for DeMint’s PAC and less money for the NRSC.

tea partiers simply are not McConnell’s constituency.

Yelling at Mitch McConnell from the bleachers is not going to change him.

McConnell has two constituencies — the Republicans who got out the vote for him in the primary he won back in KY and his Republican cohorts in the Senate, who have the same constituency back in their respective states, who elected him Senate leader. And the key members of those constituencies are the Republican precinct committeemen. And with half of the available precinct committeeman slots vacant, on average, in all of those states, and with no significant increase in the percentage of those vacant slots being filled with warm conservative bodies, McConnell and the rest of the incumbent Republican senators have no reason to fear that they won’t win their next primary.

The “public interest group” and “blogger” strategies are not going to get the job done. What will get the job done is an infusion of conservatives into the Republican Party’s precinct committeemen ranks. A “we the people” strategy where we conservatives are actually engaged in party politics. But that’s so much harder than sending a check to a public interest group who will “persuade” the “policymakers” on the right “policies” and is oh so much harder than blogging.

I wrote about the three strategies here if you are interested:

http://www.unifiedpatriots.com/2011/04/19/the-public-interest-group-and-blogger-strategies-vs-the-we-the-people-strategy/

Things won’t change until we conservatives demonstrate that we have the numbers and organization to make changes at the primary election.

Remember what happened to Bob Bennett?

http://www.redstate.com/coldwarrior/2010/05/08/2101-of-3500-of-75000-denied-bob-bennett/

We have the numbers here at Redstate. Will we act? Time will tell.

Thank you.

ColdWarrior

And the GOP wonders why the liberty movement didn’t just back off and let people like Mike Castle, Sue Lowden, or Jane Norton win the nomination so they could take the senate. Is it clear now?

What else did anyone expect from the Senate GOP losership. The Losership is more about surrounding themselves with like minded horse traders to keep their Losership power intact…

The Kentucky Dinosaur, McConnell, is nothing more than another power and money, GOP establishment elite who, do NOT give a rat’s biblical donkey about American patriots, especially the T.E.A. Movement fiscally conservatives!

YES! McConnell will be toast IF we win the Senate Majority in the 2012 election and Senator Jim DeMint will become our Senate Majority Leader! Are you listening Speaker Boehner?

As Erik reminded ALL of us how McConnell feels about “We the People who, handed the GOP the House Majority. He can ‘go to hell’ and we will move his professional, political, parasitical carcass to the dust bin of greedy RINO’S as we did in 2010!

We seem not to get it, the republican house leadership is a collection of crino’s that are interested in being re-elected to maintain their power and position, thats it. Wasting time and effort trying to influence them, suites them just fine. All our efforts should be to remove them all before it’s too late, “which it may be”. Constitutional conservatives and the ruling class are to apart, and it quite apparent that Americans will no longer fight to protect their liberty, making the 2nd. Amendment superfluous , no amount of negotiation or compromise will stave off the inevitable. Every man for himself will be the last futility.
I don’t blame the liberals, they are only doing what they are allowed to do, conservatives don’t have the power to do anything on their own. It’s the independents, the constitutional agnostics, The fools.
My spleen is now lying on the floor, vented and of no further use

Not only should Christians be involved, they will be judged by what they do and also what they fail to do.

as a conservative i feel i not only get hit with body blows from the left but it appears the republicans in power are going out of their way to also try to defeat me with body blows

its tough fighting two fronts and not knowing who all the enemy is

washington is so broken and corrupt i think its past fixing

ARE the problem.
It’s politically prudent to keep legislators like McConnell around to keep the conservative vs liberal numbers in balance
but, as we can see, doing that does NOT produce the long term trends we are looking for ie: smaller government, lower taxes, less spending.
The TEA PARTY will continue to grow in numbers and strength.
Conservatives will retain the TEA PARTY as the THIRD PARTY.
Conservatives will push for TERM LIMITS.

It’s too bad we have to fight a freakin war on two fronts, against the left and against Republican DC elite establishment types. We need to keep replacing these elites in DC in order to take on the left in a big way.

We get the government we deserve.

Also, is Taxby Chambliss one of the good guys again?

[quote]There’s vacancy on the Senate Finance Committee. [b]Tom Coburn [/b]is the only significant fiscal conservative on the committee.[/quote]

You can’t call one a squish and the other “the only significant fiscal conservative” for holding the same position. Okay, I guess some of you can. As for Demint:

1) According to both Politco and the Hill, Burr changed his mind about wanting the position.Any evidence to the contrary?

2) I’m sure endorsing Rand Paul after McConnell had already endorsed the other candidate (in his own state) didn’t help his case. Neither did DeMint publicly trashing the leadership during the 2011 budget process. You can’t posture and hold yourself up as the only ‘real conservative’ among a bunch of squish traitors in the middle of negotiations and then be surprised when you’re not given preferential treatment. To DeMint’s credit, he took it well.

3) The whole thing about having the same people who trash McDonnell call in to demand he promote their favorite candidate probably was ineffectual at best, counter-productive at worst.

4) Any evidence that Burr is not going to be a fiscal conservative? It wasn’t a matter of telling ‘fiscal conservatives to go to hell’. Just Mark Levin and some RS diarists.

Just asking.

Aren’t Kentuckians tired of a chinless, spineless, Pillsbury doughboy standing in for their senator?

Not to be construed as a slam against Burr; I don’t know anything about him.

He, Rubio and Toomey are not sounding very fiscally conservative and like they really want to reform entitlements when Toomey’s budget doesn’t adress Medicare or Social Security at all? In fact, Toomey’s bill INCREASES Medicare spending.

He, Rubio and Toomey are not sounding very fiscally conservative and like they really want to reform entitlements when Toomey’s budget doesn’t adress Medicare or Social Security at all? In fact, Toomey’s bill INCREASES Medicare spending.