Republicans Need to Stand Up to Conservatives?
Al Ritter
Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) seems to think that “Conservatives”
are giving conservatism a bad name!
If you need to read that sentence over, now would be a
good time. Sen. McConnell obviously thinks he IS a conservative, and sees a
challenge by a Tea Party candidate Matt Bevin as an invasion of his personal “good
ol’ boys” network of moderate republican senators.
It seems funny to me that the Tea Party is under
represented in both the House and Senate, and yet the citizens who consider
themselves “republicans” more closely associate themselves as having Tea Party
traits rather than moderate republican traits 51% to 49%.
“There were
people who were basically afraid of conservatives, frankly,” McConnell said.
“It’s time for people to stand up to this sort of thing.”
If Mitch McConnell actually believes what he said this
week it would appear that this could be the election he loses his Senate seat,
and sadly he would rather cling to his antiquated idea of the party and lose
the election rather than mold his views to a new republican party that more closely
mirrors the values of the old republican party of the past.
The real question is; Is Matt Bevin dynamic enough to
come forth as a powerful voice of the Tea Party, or will Sen. McConnell’s
Democratic challenger Alison
Lundergan Grimes overcome her one point polling deficit (40-39)?
In the words
of Hillary Clinton……..if given the choice between a Democrat or a moderate
Republican
“What
difference does it make?”
5 comments:
It's been 8 years beyond time for McConnell to go. You can add McCain, Flake, Graham and Cornyn to the list. Sad about Flake, I liked him until the "establishment" got him.
It has always intrigued me how the Republican party (Those Elected) have so isolated themselves from real society that they cannot see beyond the 23 miles square they live in. Talk about clueless.
IT DOESNT MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE THEY ARE ALL A BUNCH OF SELF
SERVING ASS HOLES
It surprises me how many republicans think so different than the
Republican party I originally became a party to...now I think of myself
as a Conservative not a Republican...
Me too Barb, me too!
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