It's Time For McCarthy and McConnell to Retire
Townhall,
by
Sarah Arnold
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
11/24/2022 8:20:25 PM
Americans are ready to move on from the current Republican leadership, choosing to vote out Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
According to a new Rasmussen Reports Poll, just 28 percent of likely voters have a favorable view of McConnell, while 61 percent say the GOP needs a new leader.
Following his win, McConnell, who is the longest-serving GOP leader in Senate history, said that he doesn’t plan to give up his position anytime soon.
However, several Republicans feel that new, younger leadership is needed in Congress.
"Nobody, not Republicans, not independents, not Democrats in my state are happy with the leadership in Washington. I'm not either.
McConnell, yes. McCarthy, maybe not.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Northcross 11/24/2022 8:34:46 PM (No. 1341680)
Unfortunately, it will not happen. Whatever McConnell has on his fellow senators must be pretty intimidating.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Quigley 11/24/2022 8:44:55 PM (No. 1341688)
Their grasp on power will not voluntarily loosen.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 11/24/2022 8:52:32 PM (No. 1341695)
Thanks to Mitch we lost Alaska and AZ and others and Mitch gets to keep his beloved job as a minority weasel. Despicable and unacceptable to have a leader working AGAINST the best interests of the party and working in the best interest of his own political power.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
snakeoil 11/24/2022 8:58:32 PM (No. 1341702)
Perhaps Quid Pro Joe, Nasty Nancy, DiFi, Bunny Sanders, and a few others should set an example for them by retiring.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 11/24/2022 9:02:45 PM (No. 1341705)
Mitch "MultiUseless" McConnell has a number of RINO fetch Senators to pump the "leadership". BTW, when MultiUseless finishes his term in January, 2027 he'll have an 85th Birthday in February.
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I know: Let's put in Marjorie Taylor Greene and Josh Hawley, that will really bring in the independents and we'll probably get lots of Democrats crossing the aisle, too, so races won't even be close. s/o
By the way, McConnell kept Merrick Garland off the Supreme Court, ushered through the nominations of three Trump Supreme Court nominees, and protected Trump from conviction following impeachment in the House. Oh, but he recognized that the Trumpy candidates were abysmal and that we can't win by harping about the 2020 election, so he has to go.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 11/24/2022 9:06:47 PM (No. 1341708)
The last good thing that came from California politically was Ronald Reagan. McCarthy isn't Ronald Reagan; he couldn't even shine his shoes.
I keep looking across the nation and I see all of these viable, dynamic leaders who are ready to lead. But the corporate (the Republican Party is a corporation) will not advance them. Nothing proved this more than when McConnell froze spending that could have resulted in a Republican senate. Why? Because that aren't the right kind of bought-and-paid-for Pubbies.
Let's face it. The likelihood of saving our Republic is growing slimmer and slimmer. And the alternatives are drastic.
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McCarthy has too flexible of a spine. He would be ruinous as Speaker.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
jalo1951 11/24/2022 9:23:05 PM (No. 1341729)
The claws of the Deep State are long, and sharp. Perks and money kickbacks are just to easily obtainable for them to pass up. Once they get into office they all transform into "The Big Guy".
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
scottj 11/24/2022 9:25:27 PM (No. 1341731)
Mitch McConnell is totally corrupt. They will have to drag his decomposing carcass out of the senate.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Trump'sCousin 11/24/2022 10:19:45 PM (No. 1341752)
String them up by their tongues and feed them their own genitalia.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Venturer 11/24/2022 10:28:16 PM (No. 1341755)
McConnell has got to go.
Anyone who sent donations to Murcowski is not a good Republican.,
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
smokincol 11/24/2022 10:29:31 PM (No. 1341756)
agree totally with the sentiment of your headline and body of the article but have a problem with one word: "retire" - as for Kevin McCarthy he hasn't proven sufficiently that he is not going to be a valuable asset to the repubs but, in the case of Hong Kong Mitch, he definitely needs to Leave because retire kind of infers that he leaves his post in a credible way, he has not and doesn't deserve any benefit of any doubt also, those jelly spined senators who are aligned with him need to Leave, too and everyone knows who I mean.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
PChristopher 11/24/2022 10:42:11 PM (No. 1341762)
They won't retire until they have an 'accident' while working out, like Harry Reid.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
MDConservative 11/24/2022 11:52:37 PM (No. 1341776)
Voters don't figure in leadership contests. Very few have any idea. This is raw politics at work. As the ol' saying suggests, to get along you've got to go along. Guys like Mitch and Kevin can be big helps for your pet projects, help you bring home the bacon, make you an important legislator in your home district, and raise money for you...or cut you off at the knees.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Citoyen 11/25/2022 12:25:23 AM (No. 1341780)
To me there is a big difference between McCarthy and McConnell. McCarthy is no ball of fire but under his leadership the Republicans have picked up seats in both elections. Perhaps he has earned the trust to be Speaker.
Obviously McConnell during this election cycle has proven himself unfit to be leader. If he resigns, however, the Democrat governor will appoint a Democrat to take his place.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
GustoGrabber 11/25/2022 4:11:25 AM (No. 1341805)
When political power is your god , you don’t walk away.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 11/25/2022 6:18:25 AM (No. 1341828)
No, it’s not time, it’s WAY past time.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
RWPollock 11/25/2022 6:31:50 AM (No. 1341837)
Mitch sat on his ass did nothing to try to get Republican candidates elected. He needs to go!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Rinktum 11/25/2022 6:54:35 AM (No. 1341848)
Democrats have turned politics into warfare. Since 2015, they have outwardly declared war on any opposition. After President Trump won in 2016, democrats went berserk. They actually lost their minds. Now it was politics at its worst. Truth wasn’t even in their vocabulary. They said whatever they felt they needed to in order to not just defeat their enemy, but to destroy him too. They abandoned all semblance of comity, and became vicious liars throwing hate bombs from every direction at Trump, his family, and his supporters. There was nothing off limits. They gave President Trump no quarter and treated him as no other President had ever been treated.
Democrats created this toxic political atmosphere and it is going to take someone who is able and willing to fight hard to overcome their perfidy. The very thing that the holier than thou crowd hate about Trump is the very thing that a leader now needs in order to beat back the vile cabal the represents every contingent of the democrat party. They need to hear harsh brutal truth. I challenge anyone to point out one reasonable individual in that rank mishmash of anti-Americans. Does anyone believe that an attempt to reach across the aisle will be met with anything but obstinance and ridicule or even more likely, a full frontal attack? Democrats want to destroy the opposition, Republicans for the most part want to believe that these lawless, vicious, and depraved individuals can be trusted.
There is only one way forward and that is the complete and utter defeat of the democrat party. These people cannot be reasoned with because they will not yield. They will not willingly surrender. It is going to take a force so relentless and determined that they have no other option than accept defeat. McConnell nor McCarthy are up to that task. They don’t understand that fight we are in or they are actually complicit in the democrats desire to fundamentally transform this country. What we all know because of past experience by these two men, when they could have made a real difference in the country, they chose to do nothing. These are not the kind of men who frankly, want to pry the democrats death grip from the Republic. They instead will work to protect the status quo. We have left whatever remnants of good and honest government we had in the rear view mirror years ago. We either forge a better and more robust government of, for and by we the people as much as we are able to in the next couple years or we are toast as a Representative Republic. We must hold the line and more importantly hold democrats accountable for what they have done. McConnell and McCarthy just do not have it in them to fight this fight. The next two years are crucial. We need to present a united front with one goal in mind, kick this foul democrat party to the curb and show no mercy.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
broken01 11/25/2022 7:54:09 AM (No. 1341867)
The democrats are out for blood as they're already talking about taking back the House in 2024. We Republicans that fully understand that fact and act accordingly. Period end of quote and no I'm not going to repeat the line.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
broken01 11/25/2022 7:56:43 AM (No. 1341868)
We need Republicans.
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Oh “Team Mitch” will continue reacccching acroxx the aisle for years to come, to spite Patriots. The end.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
KatieJo 11/25/2022 8:32:04 AM (No. 1341887)
What is crystal clear is that it doesn't matter what we want anymore, not to our "representatives".
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
DVC 11/25/2022 9:04:33 AM (No. 1341920)
Certainly McConnell, and I don't particularly trust McCarthy, but he isn't so 100% certainly a bad guy, as McConnell is. But McCarthy seems, at minimum, to be too easily pushed into doing nothing useful, or helping the Dems that I wish we had a strong, brave conservative in that slot. McCarthy is definitely not that.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 11/25/2022 9:10:43 AM (No. 1341926)
I just want fresh faces in leadership. The republican party needs to freshen itself up and prepare its youth for the future - whatever America's future is. Leaders who have a soapbox and are willing to use it and can force the msm and SM to listen to and report it. Leaders who know what effective messaging is. Leaders who remember America, as founded. Leaders who represent the interests of the American people, not the establishment, not only their donors, and not foreign interests. Having McConnell and McCarthy continue in their leadership roles is like having one's infirm elderly parents visiting one's house. After a few days, the visit gets real old and they start to smell.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 11/25/2022 10:41:15 AM (No. 1342006)
Hey, McConnell, McCarthy, you're McFIRED!
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Zigrid 11/25/2022 11:16:55 AM (No. 1342025)
This is just another bait and switch...agree it's time to move on...but vote for mediocrity because it's safe...WE American conservatives didn't sign up for this farce...let Ted Cruz take the leadership roll in the Senate and then he can live like a king in the office mansion mcConnel resides in...Greg Kelly had pictures of the offices McConnel has ...it's like a palace...no wonder he's not giving it up willingly...and schummer thinks he's the king....attention DC tweets..you work for US....not soros...
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Red Ghost 11/25/2022 6:01:28 PM (No. 1342197)
America is in the fight for her life. We are in a fight so brutal, it is akin to some of the hand-to-hand battles our brave soldiers in WWII engaged in to save not only our Republic but the rest of the world. We had Patton, in WWII and we still have Donald J. Trump. Both men know how to wage brutal warfare, and win. And both men were and are victims of a relentless pursuit to destroy them with Patton dying under very suspicious circumstances. I pray for Donald Trump every night.
Kevin McCarthy is a wimp, pretty boy, and appears not even to know how to throw a punch let alone engage in hand-to-hand brutal warfare. And Mitch McConnell is a traitor to republicans and the entire country. Pure and simple. He should be tried for crimes against this country with his business dealings with the CCP. He should never, ever have a leadership position in the Senate after his very public campaign against republican senatorial candidates leading to losing races that could have and should have been won. And both men have never even acknowledged the J6 political prisoners still laguishing in the DC gulag. Just for that neither man should ever hold leadership positions.
However, with the exception of Donald J. Trump, there are NO republicans that are capable of engaging in brutal warfare against democrats and the insidious global deep state.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 11/26/2022 1:49:07 AM (No. 1342352)
The swamp will never let it happen! Both are handmaidens to the people who really run America! We voters no longer do! It’s down to who counts the votes, Comrades!
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Absolutely agree. We need bulldogs, all teeth, bite and bark! Those two are milquetoast "cross the aisle" types who are more worried about cocktail party invites than they are about getting things done. Begone, vermin!!