Thread: Mitch McConnell’s Poor Leadership Needs To End One Way Or Another

Mitch McConnell’s Poor Leadership Needs To End One Way Or Another



By Dan
March 10, 2014

There’s a troubling pattern developing with Republican Senator Mitch McConnell here. While I wasn’t a big fan of Ted Cruz’s previous government shutdown strategy, I watched McConnell’s actions in and around it and found his behavior far more troubling than Cruz’s.
In effect, Cruz stood down and the shut down meme should have died out just as the Affordable Care Act, or ObamaCare began generating bad headlines for the administration. But that didn’t suit Mitch McConnell’s selfish purposes. Fearing a challenge from the Right – one he is in fact now facing from Matt Bevin in Kentucky – it was Mitch McConnell working to keep the shutdown meme in the news purely as a way of demonizing Cruz and any and all of the more conservative members of the Republican Party.
In essence, while claiming to be a good leader, instead of quickly putting the shutdown behind the GOP, as a good leader would, he worked to divide the party even more purely for his own selfish advantage. Those are not the actions of a good leader. They are the actions of a self-serving, small-minded power hungry politician who has already been in Washington far too long. And now, he”s doing it, again.

Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell predicted the GOP establishment will destroy conservative insurgents attempting to unseat a trio incumbents in an interview with the New York Times published on Sunday.

Fresh off his CPAC silliness - McConnell waves musket, falls flat at CPAC - he couldn’t keep himself from running to his real friends and constituents at the New York Times to trash talk the very same conservatives he just the day before tried to court. Frankly, that’s such a foolish move, his judgment, as well as his leadership, is in question at this point.
Furthermore, let’s not forget, it was also Mitch McConnell behind these young punks at the NRSC like Brad Dayspring who spent the last few months telling us how these challengers from the Right were little more than a joke. Clearly that’s not the case and McConnell is now feeling so threatened he’s being forced to engage them more directly.
Taken as a whole, from his actions directly after the shutdown, to his self-serving manipulations of the NRSC, to his new quotes in the New York Times, McConnell has exposed himself as an unworthy leader of the Republican Party – even if he does ultimately win his primary.
Personally, I see no reason for conservatives to support McConnell even in any potential general election. It’s time to put an end to the divide and conquer politics of a too-long-in the-tooth GOP leadership that refuses to relinquish power to a much needed new generation of Republicans. If McConnell and too many of his fellow Republicans won’t step aside as they should, it’s time for conservatives to send a clear message that we will no longer be attacked and demonized relentlessly, only to be told to get in line at election time.
I’m quite serious when I say that I am now so disgusted with McConnell’s weak and divisive leadership, if he does beat Bevin in the primary, I would then prefer to see his Democrat opponent win in the general because I am absolutely convinced he’s the wrong man to continue to have a leadership role in the GOP going forward.
He needs to go, even at the cost of seeing a Democrat elected in Kentucky. As an actual Reagan Democrat, I am done supporting Republicans intent on betraying the limited government, common sense politics for which I initially began to support them some decades ago. I may not like the Democrat Party, but at least they are honest about what they are, as opposed to Republicans like Mitch McConnell.
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