Over at Ed’s “And Yet They Claim They’re NOT The Reason There Was No Red Wave …“, Commenter James “Vito” Lanese had a longish comment that caught my eye that I thought was worthwhile to promote to the ‘Grok Front page to cast a bit more light on it:
Before the election on the tube, I saw Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell say he didn’t think the Republicans would take the Senate because of the quality of the Republican candidates. This was a blatant rebuke of all the Trump endorsed senate candidates.
A few days after that statement on Newsmax Dick Morris said that what McConnell is trying to do is destroy all of the Trump endorsed America First candidates, the reasoning being he would rather be Senate Minority Leader than Senate Majority Leader because that majority might have the vote to remove him as leader and give it to Rick Scott-R-FL. When the red wave didn’t happen, McConnell trashed the MAGA candidates again.
How could this be? A republican that didn’t want to take the Senate and put a halt to the Biden agenda, with the biggest reason that being Biden would not be able to get judicial nominees, federal and supreme court thru the Senate. Was there a conspiracy between the Democrats and McConnell? The Democrats funded several MAGA candidates in the primaries with the hope that they could beat them in the general by labeling them extremists. Now all the swamp creatures are coming out to say it was Trump’s fault and that his candidates lost the Senate. Really?
McConnell’s Senate Leadership Fund had over 100 million dollars to help Republican senate candidates get elected. So, what did he do with the money? Let’s start with Arizona. McConnell gave zero dollars to Blake Masters. Masters was outspent by 64 million dollars. Kelly 73 million Masters 9 million. In Pennsylvania OZ was outspent by 15 million dollars. Fetterman 52 million OZ 37 million. In Nevada Laxalt was outspent by 34 million dollars. Cortez Masto 46 million Laxalt 12 million. In Georgia Walker was out spent by 43 million dollars. Warnock 75 million Walker 32 million. In New Hampshire Bolduc was out spent by 34 million dollars Hassen 36 million Bolduc 2 million. McConnell stopped sending money to Bolduc after he was endorsed by Trump. Republican governor and rino Chris Sununu won election by a wide margin but didn’t lift a finger to help Bolduc. McConnell gave ZERO dollars to Vermont’s Gerald Malloy who also was endorsed by Trump. Now we get to Alaska where the Alaskan Republicans censured Lisa Murkowski. Then Murkowski’s friends put in ranked choice voting to make sure that Sara Palin and Kelly Tshibaca both Trump endorsed candidates would be stopped because Murkowski couldn’t win in a straight up election. McConnell funded Murkowski because she would vote for him as minority leader. This is even after Murkowski said she would be voting for Democrats. Murkowski had six times the funding of Tshibaca.
Now the Trump trashing starts. It was the election deniers. It was abortion. We have to go in a new direction. Trump’s time is passed. His candidates can’t get elected. Why? It’s because they fear Trump. He is a threat to people like Mitch McConnell’s and the Uni-Party’s power. If you recall when he was elected in 2016, he had to rely on the Republican establishment’s recommendations to fill White House and cabinet positions, FBI, CIA, etc. And they made sure they put people around him to weaken his authority. Not so this time. If he should get elected again, he will be able to drain the swamp by coming in with his own staff, cabinet and appointees that will greatly diminish their power. Tucker Carlson’s interview with former congressman Steve King from Iowa King said Paul Ryan did everything he could to thwart funding for the border wall.
When I was a correction officer, an old timer told me when an inmate asks you for something or tells you something always ask yourself why. What’s their angle? So what is the Republicans angle?
And the “money quote, IMHO:
The angle is the Republicans are using conservatives like the Democrats use Blacks. They only come around when it’s time to vote.
They never give us what we want. Is it time for a new Constitutional Party?
So, what do you think of this conclusion? It certainly is backed up by what happened a decade ago when, after dragging the GOP over the finish lines in 2008/2010, the TEA Party movement which was majority Republican leaning, started to demand seats at the GOP Tables That Counted. Then the GOP Establishment turned on them and adopted the language of the Democrats of the time. Win? Sure. Share Power? You TEA PARTIER you! Extremists!
And now we hear the same thing against as the GOP Establishment Republicans have adopted the Democrat label like “EXTREMISTS! FREE STATERS!“. How not to share power. Just ask Doug Lambert and Jade Wood how they helped the Democrat PAC Citizens for Belknap for sounding like Democrats.
And let’s not forget about that other Big Guy (who will never be 1/2 the politician of his father) Chris Sununu who is using the same tactics. From Landrigan’s State House Dome: (reformatted, emphasis mine):
Sununu, House GOP feud
Sununu didn’t hide his displeasure with Packard’s decision to reappoint Rep. Ken Weyler, R-Kingston, to chair the House Finance Committee. Packard asked for and got Weyler to step aside in October 2021 after Weyler shared misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines.
And of course, Tyrant Baby Huey is crazy ticked that someone DARED to disobey his wishes (like when he lashed out at other Republicans during the Primary in his infamous Letter calling them extremists simply because they called him out:
“It’s a terrible move,” Sununu told Chris Ryan of New Hampshire Today. “We drove him off the committee a year ago.”
But I did enjoy reading the retort aimed back at Sununu, especially as it looks like he’s got delusions of 2024 grandeur:
Weyler isn’t backing down. He’s vowed to continue to question vaccines and said he left in 2021 because of the “Democratic smear machine.”
“He is an unreasonable egoist,” Weyler told the New Hampshire Bulletin about Sununu. “Everything has to be his own way.”
Dare I type the word “narcissist”? Well, sure I can! Shoe fits, and all. He used to be an affable person – no longer. Hubristic is an applicable term nowadays. L’Enfant Terrible?
Heh! Sununu forgets that the Internet is forever and the oppo research guys for the other “I can be President, too!” guys are going to have a field day rummaging through the NH stories.
