Seriously…

Do we really want him to even possibly sniff the Majority Leadership? At least with Reid, you KNOW you are about to get the shaft and can brace yourself for it.

That is kind of like saying Army Intelligence. There is no such thing. I don’t think we have a problem with these guys taking over leadership positions. The Liberals will keep the Senate and Boehner isn’t going to win his home election this time. We use to call these people RINO’s last year but this year we know better, they are Liberal republicans. Now they are a little different than Liberal Democrats but not much. A Mitt Romney win of the White House and then these two as leaders in the congress and the GOP wil be doomed. I think it is doomed anyway if Romney wins the nomination. At tht point there will be no where for conservatives to turn. Romney is a Liberal Republican and creator of Obamacare and his economic policies aren’t that different from Obama’s. The main difference i see is Romney is White and Obama is Black.

I will be amazed if the GOP can keep the house since they destroyed the Tea Party which put them there to start with. The GOP literally reached out and Bit the hand that fed it. Without a good conservative candidate to choose from the Tea Party isn’t going to come to the GOP’s rescue this time. Not on the White House nor congress. We are not only doomed to at least 4 more years of Obama but a Democratic Senate and House. Our country will never survive this.

YES, it’s absolutely brilliant…..and a completely unexpected strategy for an opposition leader.

Next McConnell should praise the economic benefits of the Stimulus!

Keep the Dems guessing…..and make your fellow Rs think you’re losing whatever little bit of backbone you might have ever had.

Pure Genius.

Seriously, are throwing cold water on the conservative base, and disgusting independents simply because we don’t want to fire up Obama’s base?

Let me understand this. We will not repeal ObamaCare because it will fire up his base. We won’t defend individual liberty because it will fire up his base, and we won’t shut down a government we can’t pay for because it will fire up Obama’s base.

I have two problems with this.
First, why should independents and conservatives, or anyone be “fired up” about this kind of leadership? Throwing cold water on anyone opposed to what Obama has done will not overcome a complacent Obama base.

Second, as soon as Obama is defeated in the fall, his base is going away, right? Obama will retire gracefully and disappear from politics like Dubya, right? If this is what you are counting on it is a dangerous plan.

Mr. Organizer will simply be free to organize, and raise money, without the inconvenience of pretending to be President. And everyone is assuming he doesn’t become a host and commentator on ABC and a regular guest on CNN. And by regular I mean every time the Republicans do “anything” that would upset Obama’s base.

Of course he will. Obama will get more air time then all the Republican leadership combined, including the President. Most likely he will get his own shows. (Plural intended.)

You want us to believe that it is good strategy to avoid challenging Obama when as President he gets the blame for all the bad stuff that happens in the Obama administration, Bad stuff like a worsening economy caused by a government shutdown that would be his fault, or a an unhinged “progressive” base going on a rampage over ObamaCare repeal attempts. No, we are not going to challenge Obama. Instead we plan to skate into office unleashing a public relations monster who will hold the Republicans responsible for every evil and ill, imagined or real until the GOP goes the way of the Whigs. Who in their right minds will believe that these “brilliant strategists” will do ANYTHING, let alone shrink government, reduce spending and cut programs, once Republicans have to accept the blame for the impact on the economy? And you can be sure Obama will spend four years reminding everyone that it is the Republicans that are destroying the country. I worry more about a landslide victory for Obama in 2016.

Everyone realizes he can run again, right?

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Then the best course would be to do nothing on this issue. That way the issue would remain to irritate the people and he would not be helping the swing state Democrats by giving them a throw away vote to show they “opposed” Obamacare and Dear Leader.

You apparently think helping the Democrats, while angering your base, is brilliant strategy for McConnell. Well, it might allow him, or some other Republican Senator, to keep the job as Senate Minority Leader.

72% of ALL Americans see the individual mandate as being unconstitutional, including 56% of Democrats! Independents are against it 70%. Obama does not have broad support on this. This is an opportunity for Republicans to position themselves very clearly and plainly on the side of the majority of Americans and on the side of protecting and preserving the very foundation on which this nation was established.

Even if it would end up being only a token vote that didn’t pass Congress, to push the issue when public opinion is in our favor, and especially right now before the SCOTUS hearings begin, would be a much wiser strategic move by Repubs than to do nothing out of a spirit of fear,which is exactly what you’re suggesting.

DeMint is the one presenting the best strategy this time around, not McConnell.

The Mitch McConnell I know and hate is a Liberal Republican. If he didn’t have a limo to bring him to work everyday he wouldn’t know how to get there. he doesn’t have a conservative bone in his scroungy little body. When you pair him up with the likes of McCain and Olympia Snowe and Boehner in the House there is no chance for a conservative thought to be advanced in our congress.

I think you are giving the GOP House and Senate leadership a little (no, a lot) too much credit for their critical thinking abilities. It wouldn’t surprise me if, after (hopefully) we House and Senate see GOP gains and Obama removed from office, that these two will stand right up and say “See, our plan worked!”

I believe that this a time-sensitive trap being planned by the GOP. Rather than allow the Dem’s to get off with a free pass by pushing a vote on the amendment, he waits until the proper time (probably somewhere nearer the middle of election campaigns, so that when the issue surfaces again, those idiot liberal senators won’t have time to recoup.
They’ll be too busy defending their positions to their constituents (at the same time trying to make good their reelection), that it will be like a double whammy.
Obama will, as usual, play his Mr. Destructor card about the DO-NOTHING-CONGRESS no matter whether McConnell attempts to push thru a bill / amendment or not, so let’s just wait and see.
My guess: I would expect to see amendment bills pushed around June / July time frame.

There is every reason to believe that the Obamatards will not be motivated in the fall.

One third of the Electorate do not have strong feelings on the issues like we Conservative and vote their flighty feelings. Then there is the ugly 25% who are committed to picking your pocket for a welfare state. You need to get our enemies to “sleep” like they did in 1994 and 2010.

Trust McConnell, read how he wrested the 2007 budget away from Reid. Reid could not get his majority and McConnell got some DEMS to vote with him. Reid did not show his face in the media for months after that!

since the gutless wonder does not have twitter. Got the same women answering everyday and she would ask if I was a constituent, I said no but I am forced to live with his horrible decisions as the Minority ‘Leader’.

Sorry if there are typos, no glasses this morning

I’ll kick in a couple bucks.

Mew

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he’d find out how quick money flows from other states once that candidate was vetted. We need a Kentucky version of Jim DeMint!!!

I’m with ‘cat – I’ll add a few bucks to the fund!