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GOP Can’t Be Successful Until Mitch
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Posted By: fca, 12/21/2022 1:03:06 PM

Republican voters are desperately concerned about the country and are looking for bold and persuasive leadership instead of comfort with a few small, intermittent successes... Comments Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell made on Tuesday show why he has become the single biggest obstacle to GOP success. The Kentucky Republican claimed giving more money to Ukraine is “the No. 1 priority for the United States right now... The comment about Republican priorities is so false as to be completely delusional.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: WhamDBambam 12/21/2022 1:07:17 PM (No. 1361886)
Well, they won't get any $ from me until he is.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: jasonB 12/21/2022 1:15:23 PM (No. 1361894)
The headline says it all.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Lake Dweller 12/21/2022 1:15:51 PM (No. 1361895)
The GOP is dead. Bury the corpse. Time for a new party. Voting Republican is very little better than voting for Communist Democrats. Quite frankly, I’m not sure voting at all matters anymore.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: SALady 12/21/2022 1:30:49 PM (No. 1361906)
The Republican voting base is solidly conservative!!! But the Republican "leadership" are a bunch of RINO Republi-Can't lie-berals who lie to get elected and then stab the conservative base in the back over and over and over again!!! It is time to put the Republican Party out of its pathetic misery and start a new conservative American Patriot's Party -- with real conservative leadership!!!!!
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Reply 5 - Posted by: YorkieMom 12/21/2022 1:30:49 PM (No. 1361907)
Mitch, like Pelosi, has made enough from us all these years. Retire already. Get the hook.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 12/21/2022 1:31:18 PM (No. 1361908)
Kentucky, make it happen. Soonest.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: DW626 12/21/2022 1:36:23 PM (No. 1361912)
It all depends on how one defines “success”.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: zephyrgirl 12/21/2022 1:37:34 PM (No. 1361913)
A recent article posted here said it best - the Republican elites despise their base. Until we get rid of the RINOs in charge, there's no point in voting Republican. The recent "omnibus" bill is a case in point - crafted by the Democrats, and larded up with pork by the Republicans and Democrats, passed with votes from both, and we get screwed, blued, and tattooed.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Sanchin 12/21/2022 1:38:04 PM (No. 1361914)
This is the same political party that did not have the spine or wherewithal to overturn ObamaCare. How many of these multi thousand page bills have we seen pass on the past several years? The GOP is now useless and with McConnell supporting Ukraine they are openly nurturing and supporting a neonazi regime run by oligarchs.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: msjena 12/21/2022 1:48:24 PM (No. 1361923)
The Turtle epitomizes everything that is wrong with Washington. His constituency is himself. He married money and is out of touch with the average voter. He wants the Democrats and DC elite to like him so he goes along to get along. One question--why do the Democrats never compromise or care what Republicans think of them?
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Reply 11 - Posted by: stablemoney 12/21/2022 2:00:57 PM (No. 1361929)
I don't credit McConnell for any judges. We gave the votes to put him in a position to get RINO judges appointed. We have gotten little from so called "conservative" judges. They won't even hear our cases.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Blackfeet 12/21/2022 2:07:51 PM (No. 1361931)
I don't know whether to give up or fight. Freedom is easy - until it isn't.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: FJB 2022 23 24 12/21/2022 2:35:05 PM (No. 1361954)
Molly H's headline says it all. Ditch Mitch!
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Trump'sCousin 12/21/2022 3:06:47 PM (No. 1361978)
GOP can't be successful until McConnell is hung by the neck until dead on live television. There, fixed the headline for ya
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Msquared112 12/21/2022 3:12:07 PM (No. 1361986)
McConnell is so deep in the DC swampy muck, he stinks to high heaven about now.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: smokincol 12/21/2022 3:19:39 PM (No. 1361991)
some way or another there has to be a schism in the senate repubs until Hong Kong Mitch is ousted, I have no faith that will happen and am totally disgusted with these 50 people, they are a disgrace and the people they represent should be ashamed they elected them to office
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Reply 17 - Posted by: Ida Lou Pino 12/21/2022 3:23:13 PM (No. 1361994)
Love you, Mollie - - but you completely miss the point. The GOPe doesn't WANT to be successful. Success is much too scary for them.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: TCloud 12/21/2022 3:49:01 PM (No. 1362015)
Present GOP gits Z from me and mine!
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Reply 19 - Posted by: anniebc 12/21/2022 4:24:13 PM (No. 1362049)
He won't go freely; he'll need to be dragged and hard.
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Reply 20 - Posted by: starsNstripes 12/21/2022 4:39:41 PM (No. 1362064)
Duh Molly
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Reply 21 - Posted by: chance_232 12/21/2022 4:52:56 PM (No. 1362071)
The greatest impediment to GOP success has always been and is the GOP leadership.
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Reply 22 - Posted by: judy 12/21/2022 4:55:38 PM (No. 1362076)
How about the 17 so called republicans who voted with Mitch for the so called trillion $$ spending bill no one read!
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Reply 23 - Posted by: bighambone 12/21/2022 5:01:41 PM (No. 1362078)
Mitch has certainly been acting like a 10% guy!
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Reply 24 - Posted by: judy 12/21/2022 5:05:01 PM (No. 1362082)
Give Mitch a copy!
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Reply 25 - Posted by: GustoGrabber 12/21/2022 5:11:10 PM (No. 1362086)
For the donors oligarchs participants in the political community that is the national political machine, it works quite well. The peasants are getting restless Mitch. Heed thy head.
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Reply 26 - Posted by: nina584 12/21/2022 5:41:39 PM (No. 1362102)
He was losing against a rat till Trump did a rally for him in 2018. He should kiss trump's derrière. He is so corrupt . His lips are almost black from all the butt kissing to the rats
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Reply 27 - Posted by: FJB 12/21/2022 5:55:27 PM (No. 1362108)
RINOS — McConnell and Pence — and progressive Dems like China Jobama are destroying America. Only this Musk, who I'd never heard of before last week) and Donald Trump can save America — if only we'll let them get busy.
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Reply 28 - Posted by: DVC 12/21/2022 6:07:18 PM (No. 1362118)
The headline says it all. Fortunately, he is very old. We shouldn't have to endure much more of his rotten behavior.
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Reply 29 - Posted by: Strike3 12/21/2022 6:20:59 PM (No. 1362130)
McConnell has burned enough bridges that he will not be able to travel anywhere outside of China. FMM
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Reply 30 - Posted by: Mizz Fixxit 12/21/2022 7:50:58 PM (No. 1362180)
I dislike McConnell much more than Schumer. With Schumer, there are no pretenses. He is a communist. McConnell and the stuffed shirts who stand with him pretend to be Republicans and they have contempt for the conservative voting block. McConnell did one thing right in the past 10 years. He kept Garland off the Supreme Court. He somewhat cancelled that by voting to confirm gestapo Garland as AG.
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Reply 31 - Posted by: doctorfixit 12/21/2022 11:11:28 PM (No. 1362275)
The GOP is a sham party that exists only to provide the illusion of choice. Freedom can never be restored as long as the Republican Party exists to run interference for the totalitarian socialists.
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Reply 32 - Posted by: mifla 12/22/2022 5:06:01 AM (No. 1362346)
Self serving politician who does not care at all for the people he is supposed to represent.
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Reply 33 - Posted by: The Remnants 12/22/2022 6:12:36 AM (No. 1362369)
You have to wonder how Mitch ever got elected to public office in the first place. Too many of our politicians are in public service to serve themselves rather than the public. Mitch is one of those people. I remember some politician saying, "Everyone can be bought or black-mailed". That holds true for a high percentage of those we have in public office, and our mid-term elections again showed us that really fine candidates cannot replace the losers because our election system is so rigged. If members of Congress are not compromised, then how can they possibly vote for the Omnibus Bill? In the first place, why don't they change the rules so that they are given sufficient time to read and study and debate such a Monstrosity of Pork. The reason we cannot have election integrity is because too many of those in public office have no integrity,
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Reply 34 - Posted by: GustoGrabber 12/22/2022 6:19:45 AM (No. 1362373)
All I see is Venezuela
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Reply 35 - Posted by: SouthernYankee 12/22/2022 6:45:31 AM (No. 1362382)
Turtle boy is reason 17,953 of why am NOT a Republican.
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Reply 36 - Posted by: Richard from Norwood 12/22/2022 7:41:48 AM (No. 1362416)
With primary reference to No. 3; We will never get this straightened out until we enforce TERM LIMITS on all in Washington, including ALL of the Aides de camps!!!
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Reply 37 - Posted by: Speedypete 12/22/2022 8:47:27 AM (No. 1362497)
I still donate to individual conservatives but I do not use the winred credit card process which blocks candidates the fascist regime does not approve of. I go direct to the websites and find the address for their state campaign and mail a check. I have zero confidence that a credit card payment will not be funneled off to whoever Ronna choses.
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Reply 38 - Posted by: broken01 12/22/2022 8:55:04 AM (No. 1362502)
Addison Mitchell McConnell the 3rd is so detested by me that I refuse to call him by his middle name. Much like I don't call Hunter that name but use his first name Robert or much preferred Bobby. Addison number 3 is nothing but a long serving, DC swamp-rat, blue blood, feckless, sackless, arrogant, RINO putz. He backstabbed PDJT when the former put his support behind his fetid corpse getting re-elected to the Senate in 2020. His past performance during the 2022 midterms is further proof that "China Addi" cares more about his, his butt kissing funky Cornyn and other RINOs like Carlos Delecto aka Little Willard Romney staying in the Senate minority. That way he and his Chinese honeypot wife can get richer, he can continue to help out his buddies Snidely Whiplash Schumer and the Joetard push their reckless agenda and he can screw over We the People. People he truly hates. Like I said before right back at you "Mitch".
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Reply 39 - Posted by: Strike3 12/22/2022 9:02:18 AM (No. 1362506)
I dropped the GOP and my republican affiliation soon after they allowed the 2020 election to be stolen from Donald Trump and refuse to give them another dime. The emails and letters of solicitation keep coming and I can't seem to get them off me. Like dog poo on your shoe, they refuse to go away. Give it up, Ronna, you and your party are dead to me.
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Reply 40 - Posted by: mean Gene 12/22/2022 10:10:21 AM (No. 1362557)
For those eager to ditch Trump, ask yourself who is the real outsider ready to take on the swamp?
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Reply 41 - Posted by: MickTurn 12/22/2022 10:38:35 AM (No. 1362586)
Let's just call him a CCP Useful IDIOT!
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Reply 42 - Posted by: planetgeo 12/22/2022 11:11:43 AM (No. 1362630)
I am way beyond being satisfied with just having McConnell gone. The entire Republican Party has outlived its usefulness. They have no core beliefs, no courage, and are unredeemably, permanently corrupt. The ONLY reason they continue to exist is that they are the only potentially viable option to the criminal Democrat Party on election day. That can't go on. Yes, I'm aware that any "new" party would splinter the vote further for multiple election cycles. But that no longer persuades me to keep doing this. I am seriously committing myself to finding or even developing a workable alternative that will reconnect this country to its great founding principles AND be led by intelligent, patriotic, and ethical leaders. You WILL hear more about this in the coming year.
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Reply 43 - Posted by: Zigrid 12/22/2022 11:32:10 AM (No. 1362659)
Amen to that!!... I'll send my money to My Pillow Guy and President Trump directly....
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Reply 44 - Posted by: NotaBene 12/22/2022 2:42:04 PM (No. 1362792)
#37, I have not been able to find a postal address to donate to the 2024 Trump Campaign by check. I would like to avoid Winred. Trump should start a Legal Offense Fund like Lindell did. We need to preserve and reward the best President of modern times. Trump brought Peace and Prosperity, and spread the wealth throughout the fruited plain. Compare Trump’s achievements to what the Globalist BBB/NWO is doing now shutting down fertilizer, agriculture, oil and gas.
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Reply 45 - Posted by: UtahLurker 12/22/2022 4:46:55 PM (No. 1362864)
It's shocking how Mitch has been allowed to circumvent we the people - all we want is Constitutional priority! Period! How sold out is he, anyway? Is this all about his Chinese wife (Elaine Chow) and her ties to the CCP?
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The Senate on Dec. 22 passed a mammoth $1.8 trillion spending package in a bipartisan vote. See how each senator voted below. Senators that voted for the bill: Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) Sen. John Boozman (R-Ark.) Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash) Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.) Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.)
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