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Conservatives Are Gaining, But Need Help Making Mitch McConnell’s Life Truly Miserable

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  April 30th, 2012 at 04:46 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

We’re about a week out from the Indiana Primary. Richard Mourdock now leads Barack Obama’s favorite Republican, Dick Lugar. But it is close. Surprisingly for so many conservative activists who backed Eric Cantor for his leadership position, the House Republican Leader has decided to engage in this and other races for the more moderate and liberal candidates.

Whodathunk Eric Cantor would become like Mitch McConnell, but he is. And not only that, Eric Cantor has decided to engage in the Indiana Senate race — a Senate race, not a House race. So the cool thing is if you open your checkbook and help Richard Mourdock, you aren’t just dealing a blow to Mitch McConnell, but to Eric Cantor and Barack Obama too. All three of them want Dick Lugar to stick around Washington.

Seriously, Eric Cantor’s PAC is asking Democrats to go vote to save Dick Lugar. The House Republican Leader wants Democrats to save Dick Lugar. That’s messed up.

Do what you can to make sure Indiana sends Dick Lugar home. Oh wait . . . Dick doesn’t live in Indiana anymore. That’s why his Board of Elections says he can’t vote in Indiana. Still, get him out of the Senate.

But that’s not all.

In Texas, Ted Cruz is going up in the polls, but David DewCrist is a millionaire. Ted Cruz needs volunteers, prayers, and money. If he can get into a runoff with DewCrist, he should be able to close the gap and be Texas’s next Senator.

In Nebraska, Don Stenberg is closing in on Jon Bruning. Bruning, by the way, still won’t walk away from his love of Eric Holder. We need to help Don. He’s going up in the polls and is now coming under whitening assault from Bruning and Bruning’s friends in Washington.

And then there is Utah. After 36 years in the Senate, Orrin Hatch just might be retired by the voters. He did not make it out of the Utah Republican Convention with enough votes. He’ll face my friend Dan Liljenquist. Dan’s a good guy. Thirty-six years in the Senate should be long enough. Senator Hatch has been a commendable Senator on judges and other issues. But he’s also been on the wrong side of many votes and Dan Liljenquist would be one more headache for Mitch McConnell that Senator Hatch is not.

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  • sowa1

    are the ones that Tea Party etc. should be replacing. No one wants Nancy Pelosi back in charge of the House. Atleast no one with a brain.

  • macwell

    You list only a few of the career politicians that we the people need to retire. Career politicians care about one thing, and one thing only, reelection.
    Since when does trading one’s vote on bills, that affect all of us, something that is acceptable?
    Shouldn’t all bills be decided on their merit alone?
    We have dems voting yes to bills they hate, so they can get votes on something they love, and repubs doing the same thing, it’s crazy, but it happens over and over.
    If anyone is going to “drain the swamp”, it’s going to be we the people.
    Congress was NEVER intended to be anyone’s career.
    Also we have too many lawyers in Congress. These lawyers/Congressmen treat America as some kind of giant tort case that they can sit around and argue about when they should be doing the job that they’re paid to do.
    We the people have 2 very important things to accomplish in November;
    1) We must remove all the people who believe that America NEEDS to be “fundamentally transformed”.
    2) We MUST begin to remove all career politicians from Congress and resort to the model the framers left us, citizen government.

  • anjinconsulting

    than the election antics we are witnessing this cycle.

  • sigmasix

    the new and improved GOP. Lets through Boehner, McConnell, and Cantor under the bus.

    We must get Romney elected this fall. Wednesday November 7, 2012, we start to remove Romney from the White House.

  • benson1

    We have the most horrible Senator imaginable in Democrat Sherrod Brown. If he isn’t a commie through and through he sure puts on a good show as one. He’s never seen a Pelosi/Obama idea he didn’t love.

    The problem is his opponent is Josh Mandel. I thought at first this was great. Here’s a young Republican ex-soldier who was serving as Treas. Now Brown has an ad up citing at least five instances of Mandel paying huge sums of money to his friends for work in his campaign and other things (can’t remember specifics) and for hiring a friend with no experience for a financial job while he was Treas. I know this is an ad from Brown but how can it be checked out and if true who are we going to get to unseat Brown.

    I didn’t check Demints Senate Conservatives Fund website to see if he’s supporting him so will do that.

  • gravelyvoicejim

    Erick,

    You forgot to mention that grass-roots Republicans in Missouri have wised up and are rejecting the career DC establishment politician Todd Akin (who voted for the CRs in 2011 that funded Obama Care) in favor of either Sarah Steelman or John Brunner in the MO senate primary. Neither Steelman nor Brunner are career DC insiders and Brunner has quickly been gaining traction around the state, even sine the latest polls, with support from members of several grass-roots groups and individuals.

    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/senate/2012_missouri_senate_race.html

  • http://itsaboutliberty.com/index.php kralizec

    …but Mitt is not a boat-rocker, he’ll side with Boehner & Cantor, deep in your soul you know this to be true.

  • http://itsaboutliberty.com/index.php kralizec

    …but Mitt is not a boat-rocker, he’ll side with Boehner & Cantor, deep in your soul you know this to be true.

  • funwithknives

    those who run point out with clarity ,honesty and {this is really important…] Simply, for the layman, why they advocate for a position and then stick to it no matter the consequences, we will continue on our current path.
    A path of Balkanization , NewSpeak wrought large and a mind-numbing continual shrieking from our Resident Nomenklatura {aka;Progressivism} that produces nothing but incremental misery.
    They’ll change America all right….

    …and it gives me nightmares at depressingly regular intervals.

    You hit it on the head ,’macwell’. But IMHO we just haven’t had ‘a magic moment’, yet. Something that will give an American who wants the right to be left alone and to do anything that’s peaceful, to have his/her *NetWork* moment.
    A ” jumpstart to freedom “, that begins a cascade.
    I hoped Barry’s Stated Intentions would be it, but I shot low. The thought of 4 more of him,seemingly isn’t frightening enough, despite what has been wrought already.

    Where is ‘The Lightning Strike’ we need?

  • lerm

    Fully agree with above.

    While playing it close to the vest the way Mandel has may be prudent, his poeple should consider finding a way to signal fiscal conservatives and Tea Party elements how fiscally conservative he’ll be. The trick is to do it without alarming liberals in the media. I have to point out that Ohio media is not as sensitive to conservatism as Washington media is. Mandel has more wiggle room that Romney.

  • lerm

    The Tea Party needs to exploit their members and their willingness to work the grass roots into political power within the republican party. They can start by signing poeple up at Tea Party events and matching their zip codes to congressional districts. Then organize door to door and phone bank operations and make republican candidates dependent on Tea Party volunteers. Then use leverage to flush all the Rhinos like Lugar, Bennett, etc. down the drain.

  • spelunker

    Want to be rid of Obama, repeal ObamaCare, lower taxes, stop the mindless spending, pass a budget, flush all the Czars, Holder, Sibelius, Jones, Bernanke, Panetta, Geithner, and restore our free Republic? VOTE for Romney.

  • celador2

    Step by step conservatives with an attitude to rock the boat are moving up. That constitutional conservatives would stand as credible alternatives to icons of the status quo, Hatch and Lugar, is the headline.

    Cel

  • celador2

    Mitch McConnell faces a challenge with tea party identifed Senators that did not end with back bench decorum after 2010 elections. Ron Johnson has become an effective spokesperson for a ‘budget resolution’ and won’t take no for an answer. Ron even ran for leadership against seniorty Blunt and got 22 votes!

    So rookie Johnson keeps asking the question of Senator Majority Leader Reid and Budget Chair Conrad–why for three years has there been no Senate budget resolution?

    Any thing else with another name of a stand in like the Bowles-Simpson debt deal is not a budget resolution. In the candidate field if not on the Senate floor Johnson has support for a budget resolution and action beyond what Mitch has provided. MItch surrendered.

    Everyone of the RS endorsed candidates Liljenquist, Stenberg, Cruz above is a boat rocker like Johnson and would perform as a Senator who won’t take no for an answer when the budget resolution is pressing but not made.

    And they would not accept Mitch McConnell ‘s leadership without question.

    Mitch McConnell faces a challenger to his leadership come January 2013. Whether he is replaced then or whether it may take another round the conservatives’ troops are moving on their own momemtun The debt is one issue but there are others that reflect the scope of a Sen Majority’s leadership.

    For starters Mitch needs be challenged for being part of status quo that is not outraged over three years with no budget.

    Cel

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  • earlgrey

    but I am determined to expose as much cowardice and deceit as we can so if the boat goes down we know who to blame.

    After hearing about Cantor’s little game in IN, I am only giving to SCF (and Heritage some). SCF was kind enough to stop sending me mail when I asked them to stop. They still get donations from me, because I read Red State and am reminded regularly that they are worthy.

  • fishgod3

    a budget and my house & car/which are paid for/would be gone.Ripped off by the taxes and insurance we pay,so the government can spend it criminally,bankrupting the city county,state and federal governments of this great country that I fought for in 1952-54.I am ashamed of our leadership,or rather the lack of it.Make sure you and your friends VOTE your feelings with intelligence.

  • fishgod3

    Work with dems.? Like when Obama upped the ante when there was an agreement about cuts in the budget plan he had already agreed to?

  • arthurjake

    You will not get real change without a conservative House and Senate pushing him.

  • spook

    At the same time we vote out the career politicians we need to make sure their staff is also removed. I know cases of the staff of a defeated politician taking a job with the other party. Seems this happens all the time.

    Remember it is the staff that reads bills and reccomends action to their boss.

  • GregInFla

    And folks made a fuss that Allen West lived in DWS’ district? Lugar recuses himself from his own elections!! What a sacrifice he makes, poor guy. This is disgusting. Heck, Cheney went back to Wyoming to vote in the 2000 GOP primary (good book, by the way, Dick!) after living in Dallas while at Halliburton.