DeceptiCon ruler Mitch McConnell is the ultimate abuser in the relationship of the Republican Party to its base of voters.
During a series of remarks at a Kentucky Chamber of Commerce convention Tuesday, the Senate Minority Leader went right back to his familiar pattern of telling voters they should listen to who he says is acceptable or not acceptable as a 2022 Republican candidate.
Those of you who have walked the deep political weeds with us, will remember the battles against McConnell’s uniparty wing in the 2010, 2012 and 2014 races. This is where McConnell and McCain famously called the base of the GOP “whack-o-birds” and “jihobbits” for supporting unsanctioned Senate candidates like Scott Brown, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Ron Johnson, Tom Cotton, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio and more.
(KENTUCKY) – […] McConnell, speaking at a chamber event in Kentucky, said that 1994 had been the best year for Republicans and that the atmosphere heading into November “is better than it was in 1994.”
“From an atmospheric point of view, it’s a perfect storm of problems for the Democrats,” McConnell said. “How could you screw this up? It’s actually possible. And we’ve had some experience with that in the past.”
“In the Senate, if you look at where we have to compete in order to get into a majority, there are places that are competitive in the general election. So you can’t nominate somebody who’s just sort of unacceptable to a broader group of people and win. We had that experience in 2010 and 2012,” McConnell added. (read more)
.@LeaderMcConnell on the 2022 midterms: "How could you screw this up? It's actually possible. […] In the Senate, if you look at where we have to compete in order to get into a majority, there are places that are competitive in the general election." https://t.co/pevgKhkPwm pic.twitter.com/eHRBVGRjQF
— The Hill (@thehill) April 13, 2022
This guy is such a profound manipulator it is almost sickening. After the 2008 election, the Democrats had a 60-seat majority. A veto-proof majority. Mitch was the minority with 40 Republican senators in January 2009. It was the Tea Party that changed it all around, starting with Scott Brown in December of 2009.
In the specific races McConnell points out in 2010 and 2012 were races where the Tea Party base of the GOP actually produced more seats for the Republicans, culminating in a successful majority reestablished in the Senate in 2014. The Republicans did nothing with that majority and couldn’t even get rid of the Obamacare mandate which they campaigned on with eight years of promises.
Quaking in my boots.
Sharon Angle i hope whom he is referring
Republicans need to can this creep.
The GOP Purge is coming. And, the Turtle is going to be one of the first ones to go.
4-1/2 more years of this RINO McConnell unless Trump is reelected in which case he will resign by January, 2025
That’s the problem with someone like rino mitch. His idea of an acceptable republican is one that’ll be subservient to the rino leadership and who is loyal to the party only. That is unacceptable. We need Patriots in office, loyal to the constitution and this great country. Politicians like the party they represent, have no value.
No, like most Republicans, Mitch puts self first and to hell with party and country. Democrats put party first, self second and to hell with the country
Really close. You left out McChinless’s constantly supporting the CCP (his inlaws). PDT made a few pretty bad calls with his endorsements especially bailing out McChinless when he was on the ropes in his last re-election campaign
Agreed. 45’s biggest flaw was that he couldn’t seem to figure out how all those knives got into his back. He’s still at it with his current endorsements. Mitch is not his friend.
Warning the base about unacceptable candidates??? 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Old Mitch has that assbackwards. These folks have gotten way too comfortable talking down to their voters.
Absolutely. Those asshats have forgotten they work for us.
Clearly, he doesn’t have a clue who the base IS!
He knows who his base is and it is not us. What is truly unbelievable to me is that Trump handed the working class/blue collar vote to the Republicans and they don’t want it! It’s insane. One thing about the Dems is they take anyone who will vote for them, why wouldn’t they? Then, they can always co-opt them by paying them off with some things they want and then pressuring them to keep voting Dem.
I heard someone say that blacks don’t trust Republicans and that’s why they won’t vote for them; I am feeling the same way. I do not trust the Republicans at all.
Solution: stop giving us unacceptable candidates.
Oh, you mean unacceptable to the Deep State; I was thinking unacceptable like running ideological democrats as Republicans like Oz in PA.
“Is Oz going to be the next Ted Cruz or Josh Hawley or Jim DeMint? Of course not. Is he going to vote 90 percent with Republicans? Almost certainly. Is he going to be an ally of Trump’s in the Senate if and when Trump runs and wins in 2024? You bet. When you get a handful of lemons like we have with the Republican primary in Pennsylvania, you make lemonade. And Trump is making sweet lemonade out of them. Oz will win the primary, probably win the general given the dynamics of the coming 2022 midterms, and if you keep your expectations low, I bet he’ll even pleasantly surprise you.”
Oz is new to politics and is a outsider just likeTrump was. Oz is not part of the deep state .
“ The PA GOP primary for US Senator is between Bush/McConnell ally McCormick and Oz.
If Oz is able to beat out McCormick the loss to Bush/McConnell and their influence on the GOP as a whole makes Trump’s endorsement worth it;
it doesn’t matter how “bad” Oz is.”
This explanation makes sense.
Ah, got it! Oz’s repub opponent is backed by Bush and McConnell.
That’s the answer to those who still question President Trump’s support for Dr. Oz.
i’ve asked this in other comment sections across the web:
how is Mitch still in his seat?
forgive my ignorance. the best reply i’ve received has been “it’s a very purple state”. do dems in KY really go for him?
“unacceptable”…echoes of Trudeau.
Cause Mitch brings home the bacon for Kentucky. He cares not for America as a whole or the Constitution, nor the Republic. I would vote against anyone Mitch endorses.
<Cause Mitch brings home the bacon for Kentucky.>
It’s easy to bring home the bacon when you’re a pig 🙂
Appropriately: Pigs get slaughtered
Pigs get fed. Hogs get slaughtered.
If Mitch truly brought home the bacon, WHY WHY WHY is the old, crumbling, rusting, insufficient-capacity Brent Spence bridge across the Ohio River, which is part of the MAJOR north-south corridor of I-75, without sufficient funding for replacement? It’s a f-ing mess.
So no, he DOES NOT bring home the bacon. Yet he does deals for others, I guess to cement his hold on power, which in turn likely enriches him and his cronies. I really don’t know that he’s done much of anything for Republican voters or his own state. I can’t think of much, except for blocking Merrick Garland. But look what we ended up with instead: Gorsuch ruled (along with Roberts) in favor of having to hire transgenders; Kavanaugh and Barrett are sometimes squishy too. Thomas and Alito are the only true conservatives. So Mitch can’t even deliver reliably conservative justices.
“how is Mitch still in his seat?”
Fraud. Dominion isn’t just for Democrats.
How is Mitchy still sElected by his fellow Repubs in the Senate to be their leader???
Remember, Mitch McConnell met with Bill Barr & Gina Haspal the day after the 2020 election steal….I said at the time it was weird, totally out of place…We never got any explanation as to why such a strange meeting….Fast forward to today and evidence of vast, provable election Fraud…I think we now know why the meeting took place…..Bastards…
Exactly
They talked about golf and the grandkids.
Trump posed more of a threat to the uniparty establishment than Biden ergo Barr, Haspell and McConnell.
Also, the first thing PDJT did after being sworn in (day 2) was visit Langley. He knew from the get-go his main problem child.
McConnell is afraid of losing the speakership to an honest Senator.
It means millions/trillions to Mitch
Speaker is in the House.
The Turtle became Majority Leader in the Senate, but then gave it up to get rid of Trump.
There was once a time when losers like McConnell retired and let the next group try to win things back. But he and Pelosi are the undead who refuse to quit no matter how bad they lose, and keep coming back so that they can lose it all once again.
It’s important to remember that McConnell wants to be the Minority leader in the Senate. Sundance reminded us of this some time ago. McConnell is basically very lazy, and so it fits his profile where he can make substantially greater amounts of kickback money as minority leader selling the votes of his constituents than as majority leader where he would have to hustle to collect from the lobbyists and then go and buy the influence needed to pass legislation. As minority leader he can simply sit in his chair and let people come to him begging for votes. All he has to do is collect the money and then tell his constituent how to vote.
I was about to post the same exact thing. You saved me keystrokes. Thanks!
The rino republicans like to yackety yack about what they are not going to do; then after elected
they go along with the dems. Notice they never say what they are going to do.
I know this is bad, sorry God, but I was hoping Pelosi would be so sick with COVID they would shove a ventilator down her throat and shoot her up with remdesivir.
me too
In their eyes they’re not losing. They’re lining their pockets and exercising power over us all. Some sociopaths like Mitch gets off on that more than the money.
Which ones are you referring to. Name names.
He needs to leave America and close the door!
The Senate Majority Leader and the Speaker of the House have too much power for the people being installed in these positions to be filled their buddies. These 2 positions need to be voted on by the citizens of the United States of America.
This is a good overview of how the voting system of US Constitution has been progressively sabotaged.
Electoral College Dropouts – The New American
Only occasionally do We the People get someone into the general election that wasn’t chosen in advance by the Kleptocrats and yet wins.
The election of PDJT in 2016 was the greatest example of that in over a generation.
Also, the way David Brat primaried Eric Cantor, who was considered too big to fail. That was pretty glorious, too.
Mitch has forgotten that we are “his” boss. So unfortunate that Trump campaigned for Mitch and dragged his butt over the finish line.
The one up side to not being in office is that Trump is now free to speak against Mitch “Old Crow” McConnell, and to endorse MAGA candidates that are running against McC’s entrenched and bankrolled incumbents. I feel like his hands were tied when he was still in office, because he needed a lot of those incumbents to get anything passed. (Not that it always worked, but sometimes it did.) And at least the Senate did not vote to remove President Trump from office during either impeachment, though knowing what snakes they are, I’m not sure why they didn’t. (Could you imagine a President Pence? Ugh.)
There are only three ways to get rid of Mitch.
Make DemonRats hate him. He dies of old age, he is 80. The people arrest him for high crimes, treason.
As you can tell, I’m tired of talking about what these people have done in the past. All we have to do is look at the present to see their treason.
I too am concerned about unacceptable candidates…. like McConnell
‘Unacceptable to a broader group’ – 🤔 I would like to see honest elections (w/o internet connections) to see IF there is truth in that statement. Until then, I am not sure it isn’t all manipulated to look like broader moderates win. Either way ,money does not play a factor when I vote. Especially when it counts most- the primary ,’mutual ideals’ is my go to. We need to get back to…when avg honest men ran for office.
The turtle will persuade zero MAGA. But considering that it is the uniparty who selects the “winners” it really won’t matter– if things remain the way they are with the rigged system . As President Trump said just last weekend: “they’re going to do it again.” FIX2020
A big flying fickle middle finger of fate to chinless mitch, a big POS. Hoping to see karma kick his ass big time during my lifetime.
Both parties run the election all the proof is 2020 everyone got who they wanted in , and Trump out. Can elections fix this not when they are fixed? J-6 plans confusion in the chamber everyone gets an excuse. DC is thick in thieves.
Mitch McConnel is an unacceptable candidate.
FU. Mitch McConnell.
in the heart with a rusty steak knife as Ace says.
His voters are as imaginary as Biden’s. Dominion isn’t just for Democrats.
McConnell and his ilk love to act like GOPe economic policies are the same as America First economic policies. They never were, and they’ve only feigned co-opting them to get votes. The economy of the Trump Presidency was strictly a product of the Executive Branch. The ‘whack-o-bird’ candidates need to remind voters of this every chance they get leading up to the primary. Offshoring and open borders for surplus labor don’t produce the same results the Trump policies did.
Ha! —when our VSG President Donald J Trump speaks of Ending Pelosi’s political career
-Mitch’s goes too
The best IS yet to come 🎼
Mitch chose the AL crooked appointee instead of Mo Brooks who would have won. Instead the primary ended with the undetectable candidate and the Dims got another Senator.
Let’s Go Mitch
Speaking of Obumbler care… I can do better. The republican’t party has been running on pro-life promises for 49 years. The result is that we’re paying planned murderhood $1/2B per year to slaughter babies in the womb as fast as humanly possible.
To the minority leader & his corrupt posse, it’s about the voters choosing “unacceptable” candidates not about the republicunts that steal with both hands & vote for every whacked out spending bill & nominee that the communist demoncraps put in front of them. Nope… what they do is never at fault. The problem is never them, it’s us.
Not checking how many have already said it….
McConnell is the unacceptable candidate!
F Mitch McConnell and the Rhinoceros he rode in on.
This fool actually funded the democrat candidate when certain candidates won the primary he didn’t like.
Needs banana peel. Same applies to all the rest of the upper echelon manipulators of every stripe, and many of the lowers just to wake them up.
He can’t be the minority or majority leader without republican’t Senators from other states voting for him.
Apply pressure to yours.
Mitch McConnell is an unacceptable Republican candidate.
what ol’ gobble-neck is trying to say is, if you idiot republican voters don’t nominate candidates we in the Establishment GOP approve of, we will do to them what we did to Trump in 2020.
Make no mistake about it, these GOP Rats will actively work to ensure unapproved candidates lose, even if vote fraud is required.
We are already in a civil war here. They aren’t playing games with voters any longer. You will comply.
Are the “acceptable” candidates the ones that Mitch provided to the Chi-Coms as easy hits? The ONLY difference between Mitch and uncle Joe is that he does it through his Chi-com wife and Joey does it through his son. Why do you think that the Turtle doesn’t say a thing about all the illegals coming in..or the supply chain problems..or the Fentanyl coming over the boreder..OR the Chinese IP theft in our universities and Labs.
May they both rot in hell for selling out America. The sooner the better.
I consider him unacceptable. I consider him completely replaceable with a rubber sex doll that bends over for dimawits. It would still be an improvement.
Mitch’s idea of an acceptable candidate would be the likes of Lisa Murkowski in Alaska. FMM uniparty member, RINO, establishment deep state corporate owned Chinese operative.
I love my name on this site.
MAGAA – Make America’s Government Acceptable Again.
We will, but on our own terms this time Yurtle.
Rules for voting in 2022:
Do not vote for a Demonrat.
Do not vote for a RINO.
Do not vote for whomever Mitch is supporting.
He’s right, he’s just hoping we will agree with him on what is ‘acceptable’.
I, for one, will probably not. He and I have very different agendas.
Chamber of Commerce. That’s all you need to know.
Primaried these SOBs. RePub tard is in a hole because of his rotten leadership.
McConnell’s “right kind of Republican” smacks of elitist condescension toward Republican voters.
Yet, Republican state party chapters continue to promote, support, defend and keep electing those same “Republicans”.
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time to but Mitch where he belongs.
put
not but
Don’t need the swamp telling us who to vote for. I decide which box to fill in.
Thank you Sundance. McConnell would rather lose than win with a non Establishment candidate he can’t control as he proved when he helped defeat Roy Moore and Donald Trump. He learned nothing losing the Senate in GA in 2021cwhen po’d MAGAs stayed home. Now he thinks he has us over a barrel. I say pick out battles. Don’t spread ourselves thin. Do what we did to Eric Cantor. Defeat a high up in a primary! Sundance, lead the way.
Forget McConnell for now. Need to get rid of California RINO Kevin McCarthy.
Fix 2020. Then make soup out of Turtle.
What is the Ol’ Adage: “The lunatics are running the insane asylum”…I do hope that these malcontents face VERY HEAVY opposition when the time comes.
It is about time to put these bloviated individuals out to pasture and let them get the carbon credits they will be producing…just saying!!!!
McConnell needs to go. McCarthy needs to go. McDaniels needs to go. It won’t matter who you vote for if these crony capitalist, globalist, establishment politicians remain anywhere near a position of power, nothing will change.
Unacceptable ? Bye, bye Mitch