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Hey, Rush!!!!: Time for a new “Operation Chaos.” Conservatives should support Ashley Judd. Or, I want a GOP Senate, I do NOT want Mitch McConnell as majority leader

By: gawken (Diary)  |  March 11th, 2013 at 03:19 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

So this morning, at 5 am, as is my usual practice, I go to Red State with my first cup of coffee, and get to start the week with TWO depressing articles from Erick.

“House conservatives must be willing to change their minds”details how the House leadership has betrayed almost everything they promised before the 2012 election, even joining with House Democrats to ram through bills overwhelmingly unpopular with the GOP caucus. And according to Whip Kevin McCarthy, we can expect ongoing serial violations of the “Hastert rule.”

Erick then reminds us that“The so-called adults with the GOP are Stupid,” as if we need reminding. Actually, as Erick writes, it is those in the Republican establishment who need to be reminded to listen to Rush 3 hours every day.

On one side in the Senate, we see Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Marco Rubio, and a few others. And then we have John McCain, Lindsay Graham, and their ilk.

The conservative GOP base, the Tea Party; WE elected a House majority in 2012, and look what we have to show for it: a Speaker Boehner. A run of the mill hack, who is about as deserving as being second in the line of succession to the White House as Joe Biden is being first in line.

So now comes the 2014 election. The GOP will hold the House, and likely gain seats, despite the psychotic dreams of Nancy Pelosi and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. It appears that the House GOP caucus lacks the cojones to toss out Boehner, so we will suffer him as Speaker for yet another term

The GOP has a superb opportunity to win control of the Senate next year. Everything is aligning as if the gods had intended it to be so. Indeed, if the GOP fails to take the Senate, it will then be time to question if the Republican party should exist any longer; if it is now time for the conservative base to exit, stage right.

So now we are to be asked to give our time and treasure to elect at least 6 GOP senators next time out, in order to…what? Make Mitch McConnell the Majority Leader? Why? Right now, we have a divided Congress, which basically means that nothing gets done. What’s the alternative? Give Republicans control of Congress next time, and we cement the establishment control of the GOP, and face an endless stream of Obama vetoes? Do we really believe that a Boehner/McConnell team will move heaven and earth to push the conservative agenda? So, in the end, what would be the difference?

And then, it hit me…there IS a solution!!!!

I start with the premise that in January, 2015, there will be at least 51 Republican senators, if not more. If not, then we can forget the GOP as a viable political party. In looking at the membership of the current Senate GOP conference, I am convinced that easily 50%, plus new, more conservative members elected from GOP seats ( this means you, Saxby) and new conservative members elected from formerly Democrat seats ( hello, Tom Cotton!!!) would vote for a principled, articulate conservative as leader, instead of McConnell, if one is willing to run.

McConnell is not deserving of the leadership. But will the GOP senators be willing to violate the long-standing rules of the club? I doubt it. I have hope, but can’t be sure. My choice: Mike Lee, hands down. A principled conservative, intelligent, articulate, smooth; a great media presence..

But since we can’t be sure that Lee ( or anyone else) will oppose McConnell, or that a majority of the GOP conference will actually bypass him, there is another strategy:

It’s time for Operation Chaos 2.0! The first OC, developed by Rush Limbaugh, encouraged Republican voters to change their registration to Democrat, in order to vote for Hillary. This would keep the 2008 Democrat primary process going for as long as possible, to allow Hillary to keep on attacking Obama, and thus bloody him and make it easier for McCain to win. Didn’t quite work.

So, as I am convinced that the GOP will win at least 7 seats ( and Levin’s just announced retirement puts another Democrat seat very much in play). the ONLY way to absolutely, 100% guarantee that Mitch McConnell will NOT be the next majority leader is to make sure that Mitch McConnell does NOT return to the Senate in 2014.

McConnell won re-election in 2008 by 53%, a 106,000 vote margin. 953,000 in the state voted Republican. So, if El Rushbo can persuade 15% of the GOP voters in Kentucky to hold their noses and vote for Judd, well then…lookee here! Mitch is gone. ( Here’s an idea for him, gratis: Open a lobbying firm with Tom Daschle. It’s a natural) The leadership race is thus wide open; and a conservative should win.

Rush, call me…

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  • davidadamsinky

    All the more reason to defeat Mitch in May 2014.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    You mean like the Operation Chaos that held back Barack Obama? Oh wait.

    Conservatives need to back a Primary opponent for McConnell, not mess around with Democrat elections.

    • Jim_Riggs

      Agreed. These kinds of efforts always end up hurting more than they help because they are defeatist in nature IMO.

  • keepcoolwithcoolidge

    I’m no Mitch fan, but I don’t know if I could support someone like Judd who throws the term “social justice” around so openly and compares coal mining to rape. If she were to run though, it could wipe the Dems out down ballot, where they still hold some sway in Kentucky. She’s another Baldwin/Brown/Warren type.

  • Dave_A

    If only she were running against Rand Paul, I’d agree with you… Too bad she’s running against KY’s *sane* Senator….

  • http://www.bohnetlaw.com rightappeal

    First of all, getting to 51 senators will be very tough. Getting there while losing the Kentucky seat makes it much harder – and that lost seat would keep counting against us for at least six years. Second, who do you think would become the GOP leader if McConnell were defeated? The rest of the current leadership is John Cornyn, Roy Blunt, John Barasso, and John Thune. Probably one of them would be the new leader, and I don’t see any of them as being significantly more conservative than McConnell. And really, there aren’t more than a dozen senators who are significantly to the right of McConnell. Even if you get a bunch of new Cruz/Paul/Lee types, no one like that is going to be chosen as majority leader. And they’d have to bend to the will of their more moderate caucus most of the time if they did.

    And keep in mind that any GOP senator is going to look more moderate as caucus leader because they’ll have to keep their caucus together to be effective. McConnell was one of the more conservative members before he became leader.

    • midwestconservative

      John Thune would be a stronger conservative but Cornyn is in the way; other than that if the GOP runs smart races they could conceivably win as many as 10 seats, Louisiana, West Virginia, Arkansas, Alaska, Montana, South Dakota, Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, New Hamshire, Massachusetts (with Scott Brown and a weak Dem) North Carolina, and Virginia ( if Bob McDonnell runs) are all winnable, most of the GOP incumbents are in Deep South or Plain States, and only two GOP Senators are retiring with strong candidates to replace them ( Nebraska, Georgia) this is the best year for the GOP to take the Senate and put it out of reach for a while, if they fail to do this they might as well cease to exist as a party, there are so many Dems jumping ship its hilarious, before the filiblizzard I was losing hope, not anymore man, Joe Walsh in Illinois and Charlie Djou in Hawaii could force Dems to spend money in what were considered Safe races, people are finally smelling what Obama’s been shoveling

  • PowerToThePeople

    Yeah….no. It is pure stupidity to trade a part time republican, which McConnell is better than part time, for a person who will be 100% of the time against us even if it means getting a better leader. Anyone who supports nonsense like what you have proposed needs to have their head examined.

    You want him out of leadership, the two right ways to go about it would be to push a viable primary challenger into the race and work hard to make sure he or she wins. If that is not an option or if it fails, you organize a push to make sure everyone votes McConnell out of leadership. But what you do not do is get a radical leftist elected just to spite McConnell. Sort of like shooting yourself in the gut to pop a pimple on your stomach.

    • Bill S

      This is exactly right. We primary Mitch. We don’t support a leftist like Ms. Judd.

    • http://www.neoavatara.com/blog neoavatara

      Exactly. Primary Mitch. If that candidate is better, he should win. If not, then Mitch is still better than the loathsome Judd.

  • plumely

    I like Rush, but Operation Chaos was something he did not think through. He should have used his golden EIB mocrophone to get a true Conservative to win the Rebublican primary. As Conservatives we excel when we are straightforward and stay on message as opposed to engaging in guerilla tactics.

  • midwestconservative

    Primary McConnell and you get Cornyn as Majority Leader, which isn’t significantly better, Primary both and we get John Thune who is a much better conservative then those two, so make sure there is a strong primary for both McConnell and Cornyn
    by the way posting rules state that we as a website support conservatives in the primary and Republicans in the General Election, we do not support Liberal Democrats no matter how much we dislike the Republican in the race

  • nepatsfan

    To save our country, the first order of business should be to “Get rid of the Republican leadership”…let us start with Mitch followed by Boehners of the world…even if Republicans wins the senate or house, the problems will NOT be solved….Got to get rid of RINOS first & then we can think about Liberals!