Earlier today, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell discussed the greatest problem for the Republican Party as it exists with voters. Allowing people to vote is not in the best interests of the Republican Party. If the politicians could just devise a government system that didn’t need voters to support it, things would be much better.
As noted by Mitch McConnell, “Our ability to control the primary outcome was quite limited in 2022 because of the support of the former president. Hopefully in the next cycle, we’ll have quality candidates everywhere.” Unless and until the Republican Party can figure out how to get around the voting, installing the correct type of Republicans will always be problematic.
The ability of the American people to vote is THE major hurdle for the Republican Senate leadership to overcome. WATCH:
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On a more serious note – The old crow will be full out in undermining PDJT 2024 efforts without pretense or shame – at least he will be in open about it …
When McConnell speaks of low quality candidates, I think he is describing his stodgy, decaying self.
It’s time for McConnell to retire.
Tucker,
No, it’s not “time for McConnell to retire.” It’s LONG PAST TIME FOR MCCONNELL TO RETIRE!
McConnell is no “king maker.” What a narcissist he is. And his henchmen or minions, whatever you want to call them, seem to be shrinking..Scott no longer in background. Where was barasso today? Thune and Ernst will be there ‘til the end. Such a disgusting display of senators.
His minions/henchmen are shrinking. Scott isn’t with him and a number of others are aligned with Scott instead of McConnell. The GOP Senators who voted for or enabled gun control and the Green New Deal (broken into separate bills such as infrastructure, CHIPs act, the inflation reduction act) are on team McConnell and uniparty true believers.
Just because Scott is not in the “background” is meaningless!!!
My Senator (sadly) John Cornyn will carry McConnell’s briefcase to his funeral.
No kidding. I’ll never vote for Cornyn again. If Beto kicks his ass then he kicks his ass.
Same here, I have contacted him several times and always ask the same question
“How many of the people who put you in office would have wanted you to vote that way”
Long BS replies is all I get, I reply to those with “blah blah blah please answer my question”
Cornyn voted for “red flag” gun control laws. And, Cornyn’s from Texas???? When confronted about it, and booed off the stage at a rally, he said he can’t be intimidated. That means he’s been bought and paid for.
Cornyn
Don’t forget Cornyn from Texas. He voted for “red flag” gun control. He’s a McConnell supporter.
Nasty old, treacherous POS.
So, what does he have to say about this?
Hear nothing but crickets . . . .
I hope he swings for his “connections” to the CCP.
Never, never, never trust a man who has no upper lip.
Or a chin.
The Frank Burns description it seems.
Ferret Face!
That’s just insulting to ferrets.
I’m to the point now, I don’t want to vote.
They’re not going to tell me or force me anymore into voting for the RINO candidate or someone they put forward.
I don’t trust them anymore.
Mitch has accomplished his mission.
So now you finally realize you don’t have a vote. So now you can join those of us who are working to get transparency and simplicity back into elections so you can have a vote and can see that it did NOT get flipped in a machine, outvoted by fake ballots, or deleted by a fraudulent vote from a stolen identity.
Any of the Republicans who won’t help in this effort must be assumed to be part of the fraud machine. Not a very big assumption for McConnell.
MAGA vs RINO
RINOS have a voting base just above zero.
RATS only vote RAT.
MAGA/WeThePeople will NEVER vote RINO again.
While I mostly do agree with you, please oh please vote! More of us need to do vote! New Mexico votes 2:1 dems to Repubs. We worked really hard for this past election but still lost all of the main elections and our one House Rep in DC. Of course they cheat, cheat, cheat here – “vote early and vote often.”
Respectfully, just the opposite of what you should be doing, IMHO.
IF you have familiarised yourself with what a political party IS, how it works, both how its SUPPOSED to, and how it REALLY does, ….
And if, with that knowledge you realise that being a member of a party is MUCH MORE than just voting, its working within the party, to detirmine its direction,…
Its ensuring that the officials in the State party share your policy agenda, and will only endorse candidates that also share it,..
If you TRY the precinct strategy, and find it doesn’t work in your State, …well then MAYBE you can be excused for withdrawing from the battlefield, bloody but wiser.
On the other hand, to walk away in disgust, because the elitist at the Top of the Party are openly displaying their long held contempt for the base, that are the people they work for, you are giving the elites JUST what they want: Surrender without a fight.
Take down the American flag on your porch, and put up a white flag.
Quality candidates is a straw dog. The elephant in the room is being buried.
Dems run a stroked out loser, a demented codger and a candidate who refused to debate and all magically win.
The elephant in the room is the Uniparties goal in 2022, was to create this EXACT narrative, and its transparently obvious they worked HARD to manufacture it.
MTG gave a short, blistering counter to this, as it relates to Georgia and H.W.
McConnell sent advisors to “take over” the HW campaign, they told PDJT to stay away.
They only had MTG, (VERY popular with the R base in Georgia) campaign with HW in her district, instead if State wide, had HW ditch a “Bikers for Trump” toy run event, and in short do everything they could to undermine HW’s campaign.
Just what McConnell TOLD them to do.
Unfortunately I believe that Lieutenant Governor had some effect too with his story of waiting in line an hour and then going home. I could not believe what I was hearing, I could not believe the betrayal. Probably a McConnell plan as well.
@DoggyDaddy
Now, you know why Democrats pushed so hard for early voting and sending everyone a ballot (mail-in voting).
He’s been particularly grumpy since President Trump called him out… and his mailorder bride from CHINA. Anything now to divert attention away from his failure to accomplish much.
Yep, The Turtle got a cool $25 Million for marrying a Chinese Spy that several folks put in their Cabinets. Think they even foisted her on Trump before he was fully aware of the deep corruption present in Sewer, DC.
It’s all sewer. The Foremost Group is the shipping company her Dad and Sister own. They have extensive business with China. Take it from there. I remember years ago when he got married there was flack about abuse with his wife position. Of course the DOJ refused to investigate. And the band played on.
She is NOT Chinese, she’s Taiwanese. She has numerous ties to China through her father’s shipping business, but ask a person from Taiwan if they are “Chinese”…
You’ll get a look that could kill.
From the disastrous direction the US foreign policy is taking us Taiwan will be part of China in reality not just in the “one China” philosophy.
Sometimes that ‘look’ is fake.
And was it TAIWAN that ‘loaned’ her father $1 Billion, to BUY the ships to build that shipping company?
No, it was CCP.
The bidens aren’t from China either.
The turtle represents a larger problem of unelected federal bureaucrats who think like he does.
As far as they are concerned, the American people are only good for sending in $$ for never ending military conflicts around the world (to line the pockets of military contractors), sending in our youngest and healthiest who are expendable in these never ending conflicts, and not much else.
We haven’t had a representative government for a long time. President Trump was the only one who pulled back the curtain to show the American people how we are perceived in the swamp.
DC a cesspool filled with ugly awful greedy despicable humans. How any sane person can tolerate 5 minutes there it is beyond me.
The only thing that will solve the problem of folks like Mitch is divine intervention.
Since 1913 when corrupt politicians foisted the Federal Reserve, that great politician bribery tool called the Income Tax, & popular election of Senators taking the last vestige of States’ sovereignty from the several states on the AmericanRepublic.
What most people don’t realize today is the states created the Federal Government. And since 1913 the Federal Government assumed total control. We’ve been headed toward a Communist Totalitarian Dictatorship for decades. Now the Uni-Party feels perfectly safe in rigging elections right out in the open.
RIP Constitutional Republic, welcome to the United Socialist States of America! 🤬
Well, 36 states had to ratify those amendments, so I don’t think you can say the Federal Government “assumed control”.
And to think Trump had to drag this loser over the finish line, or else Mitch would have been toast. Trump should have kicked Mitch to the curb.
Poor Kentucky had a choice of the Turtle, Cocaine Mitch or an outright Communist. Catch 22.
Is it time to vote for thr commie over Turtle in the general to get rid of him once and for all?
Do you honestly think that how his opponent was selected was organic? I don’t. I’ll bet you dollars to doughnuts that the turtle had a hand (and $$) into who he would be up against. It’s all a big game.
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AMEN.
As much as I really love President Trump, I’m not a blind believer in everything he does. That includes his judgement of character. He knew the turtle was anything but loyal.
I wonder if President Trump still believes he can win over the GOP but the Big Club is never going to let that happen. Anyone connected to the Big Club (DeSantis) should NEVER be trusted.
#ThirdParty
“Quality is a noun, not an adjective.
Everything has quality, but there is good quality, and there is poor quality.
To say “quality candidates” is meaningless – which is why hucksters trying to sell you something that has poor quality say only that the thing has “quality,” knowing that you will wrongly assume that the huckster means “good quality” when it doesn’t.
The turtle is badmouthing Trump again, saying it was all Trump’s fault. Well you scumbag it was when Trump saved your losing but in the 2020 election. He should have let you lose.
““Our ability to control the primary outcome was quite limited in 2022 because of the support of the former president. Hopefully in the next cycle, we’ll have quality candidates everywhere.””
It’s amazing how much he is admitting in that statement.
And he is so oblivious to the truth. Nobody wants Him, everyone with a brain wants “the former President’ back in the WH as President.
Geez, it should be simple! The Democrats have figured it out; buy out the elections systems and rig the votes! Then you don’t need voters, you just need ballots.
Mitch should talk to his buddy Chucky and Nancy.
I am sorry, I just ate and if I watch Mitchy boy, I will throw up a perfectly good diner. What ever he said, I am sure, it is good for the club and will F+++over America and the free citizens it represents.
And we are going to go through this until you are, one way or another gone, Mitch.
Of course all the races were close, and in all of them the D won after days and days of counting newfound ballots.
Here we are selling the idea of voting being valid again…. Stop kidding yourself.
Just to clarify. Mitch is pushing that big lie. Not the tree climbers.
“Thank you sir, may I have another?”
Methinks perhaps Mitch is enamored with that “rank choice voting” system and would like to see it put in place everywhere. Did he perhaps talk to Raffensburger to get the ball rollling?
I think every state should have an amendment to their state Constitution banning rank choice voting. It gives some people the ability to vote for 2 different people. Not fair.
Do you want the billionaires to select who you can vote for? All we need them for is their money.
More than 40 billionaires back Gov. Ron DeSantis’ reelection campaign in Florida. Who are they?
Zac Anderson | USA TODAY NETWORK – FLORIDA
TALLAHASSEE – An astounding level of wealth is lined up behind Gov. Ron DeSantis as he seeks reelection, with at least 42 billionaires and members of billionaire families worth a combined $275 billion contributing to the governor, a vast campaign money supply that he may be able to tap repeatedly in 2022 and beyond.
Political experts say that level of billionaire support in a governor’s race is remarkable, and speaks to his star power within the GOP.
It also raises questions about how his ties to economic elites, a group he appears to be heavily courting despite public spats with companies such as Disney, could impact policy decisions.
The governor’s billionaire contributors have a combined net worth greater than the gross domestic product of Finland or Pakistan. They hail from 15 states. They include well-known names and obscure figures. Some have been dogged by scandal. One even was pardoned by former President Donald Trump.
Ron DeSantis has at least 42 billionaire donors.
Ken Griffin: He is the governor’s top individual donor and also one of the wealthiest, with a net worth of $26 billion according to Forbes. Griffin contributed $5 million to DeSantis’ reelection bid. He is the founder and CEO of Citadel, a Chicago hedge fund, and is highly active in conservative politics. He criticized DeSantis for seeking to punish Disney.
The term “conservative” no longer has useful meaning unless it’s “conserving” the power of the elites. I no longer use the term conservatives to describe my political views since I want nothing to do with the dispicable elites of either political club.
I prefer Patriot.
God, Family, Country & Constitution.
DeSantis = fait accompli
S.T.U.N.N.I.N.G. !!!
“… Allowing people to vote is not in the best interests of the Republican Party. If the politicians could just devise a government system that didn’t need voters to support it, things would be much better …”
And
“… Hopefully in the next cycle, we’ll have quality candidates everywhere …”
RINO Translation:
We will own you … or destroy you.
PAY ATTENTION RON DESANTIS !!!
He really needs to be the first to hang. After a fair trial and a proper tar and feathering.
I hope I like long enough to see that and p*SS on his grave. F’ing traitor.
Great way to determine who to vote for in primary, anyone Cocaine Mitch & the Establishmentarians are for, avoid like the plague on the Republic these Criminals are.
I would recommend contacting the RNC and telling them in no uncertain terms that we are not donating our money or votes to “Mitch’s Bitches” and will instead channel our donations through a MAGA vehicle.
Did that back in ’19. They quit begging.
I had to switch to No Party Affiliation.
For a long time I would get a phone call from the R’s around 0930 on Sunday’s. They figured out I would answer thinking it was ‘family’ calling on a Sunday. Never gave them a dime but they sure called until I quit answering.
Or – stop answering the RNC’s pleadings for money – and just channel your donations through a MAGA vehicle. I tried telling the RNC folks that I’d send them money when candidates they support start acting like conservative Republicans instead of Democrat lite. And sure enough – the phone calls and mails continued, because THEY DON’T CARE.
“Quality candidates” for Mitch is people willing to take lots of money and do what McConnell tells them.
Just get out of the way and let President Trump clean you mess of RINO’S OUT. You dumb ass’s did everything you could to destroy the only Man willing to stand up your master the SWAMP. President Trump is the God loving Freedom loving American Peoples President. Get the hell out of the way McConnell 🖕
They may as well dispose of primaries all together since it’s their club anyway and simply tell people who the party appointed candidate will be. Then they can decide amongst themselves which party will “win” each election.
The RNC quit pretending for their unwanted base voter when the Citizen’s United case was decided. They no longer had to pander to us to fund their machine.
With friends like these, who needs enemies? maoconnell’s eyes look like sh!t even with pancake makeup. Somebody should send him a My Pillow for Christmas.
McConnell is not a quality senator !!! The nerve!
McConnell’s statement pretty much confirms he knows election theft is ongoing, the ability to control who wins. Disgusting. It also confirms he knows why many of President Trump’s endorsed candidates lost recently, election control, err theft.
oh how I loathe this wretched garbage party. Truly the worst people on Earth — snakes, ghouls and murderous frauds, pus filled boils on the ass of America. As long as this party exists there is no hope within the political process.
You have a front seat in hell, mitch, section 2 row 8.
Even now I want you to join the saved. Please you could do so much good, in so little time.
From zero to hero?
What say you Mitch?
….’in the end, you are, exactly, what you are….’
The spirit of control, pride, and greed is more evident as time goes by. Donald Trump exposed not only the Democrat machine and weakness of mind but he also exposed the corruption in the Republican Party.
When I first registered it was as a Democrat as I was told that’s what black women are. Stupidly at 18 I listened to the people at the DMV. Once in college I learned how my Christian worldview contradicted with their ideology when Michigan was sued due to Affirmative Action admissions at their law school. I then switched to Republican and Bush the second changed my mind and registered as an Independent by the time I graduated college. Doing so has freed me from both parties and allowed me to voted based on my Christian views even though quality candidates are few. I’m just glad I found this place. Sundance you make me think and question and provide FACTS to the corruption. Thank you
Nobody but the voters are supposed to control the OUTCOME of the primaries, only the PROCESS.
What a fool, an old fool!!
You know the love child of Romney and McCain turned out to be McConnell.
Zuckerbucks just announced that his nonprofit CTCL is giving away grant monies to counties for their elections. Will it ever end?
The candidates McConnell says aren’t high quality are the candidates selected by “the people”. They are high quality in the eyes of the people.
I just can’t believe he doesn’t get it. It shows arrogance and distain for Republican voters.
Tea Party 2.0 tactics. Term limit the old suckers on both sides to clean out the swamp sewage. It’ll never happen, but it;s a nice thought.
They would have to vote themselves out of office. That won’t happen. A constitutional convention? I don’t see that happening either, to many state politicains have dreams of the life long Congressional gravy train.
Well I’ll bet our forefathers would have a cure for what we have here…
I’ll bet everything can be had at a hardware store…..
Tar, rope, My Pillow stuffing…..
Mitch, the establishment Republican is done, you just haven’t realized that yet.
Exactly what is your idea of the “correct type of republican” Mr. McConnell? One who marches in lock step with your policies. Voters who never question or express a thought, need, or desire of their own. There are too many dems in the republican party. This guy thought no one was listening. Well he was wrong. He has to go.
He’s telling you “TO YOUR FACE THEY’RE “STEALING ELECTIONS” With a little luck the “TURTLE” Mitch McConnell won’t be around to FIX the 2024 ELECTION. #NEVERMcCONNELL #NEVERMcCARTHY #AMERICAFIRST #MAGA #RECALLRINOS
Didn’t mitch’s candidates in georgia both lose in 2020?
Eat shit, and die, Mitch.
If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.
Emma Goldman
No Mitch…the problem is with the RINO SCUM like you…PACK YOUR BAGS TRAITOR!
Dear Mitch, you are neither liked nor respected nor a Republican. Please just retire quietly. Thank you.
This is the problem with Republican Party leadership. They want to control the outcome of primary elections
I guess the Chinese Communist Party got to Mitch’s wife and her father. Remember when Mitch begged Donald Trump for his endorsement when he was down by 2 points and his opponent had $90 MILLION to spend???? Trump came in and supported Mitch. Mitch won by double digits. Then McConnell stabbed Trump in the back during the 2020 Election certification recount. McConnell is a Manchurian Candidate that has to be gone in the next election.