THE MORNING RANT: Mitch McConnell is Actively Trying to Defeat Conservative Republicans in Senate Races this Election

The long political career of Mitch McConnell (R – KY) is winding down in the same manner as previous RINO Senators such as John McCain, Mitt Romney, Jeff Flake, Bob Corker, etc – with betrayal, vendettas, and a repudiation of the conservative base. McConnell, the current Senate Republican Leader is actively trying to defeat incumbent Senate conservatives who are running for re-election, and he is making it clear that his role in his final two years in Congress will be to align with Democrats to thwart President Trump should Trump be elected to a second term.

Although McConnell still has two more years left in the Senate, he will step down as Senate Republican Leader following the 2024 election. A new Senate leader will be chosen once the new Congress is sworn-in following the election.

But as a final insult to conservatives before McConnell steps down, he has effectively allied with Chuck Schumer (D – NY) in trying to help Democrats win Senate races against conservative Republicans by how he (McConnell) allocates the millions of dollars in his Super-PAC, the Senate Leadership Fund.

Ted Cruz (R – TX) is running for re-election in a too-tight race against far-left Democrat Colin Allred. Mitch McConnell is working to defeat Cruz and elect Allred.

“Cruz calls out McConnell-aligned group for not spending ‘a penny’ in Texas” [The Hill – 10/14/2024]

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R) vented his frustration with the Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC aligned with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, for not spending any money in his competitive reelection race, accusing McConnell of using the group to “punish” his critics in the Senate GOP conference.

“Mitch McConnell runs the largest Republican super PAC in the country and has $400 million but that super PAC is used to reward the Republican senators who obey him and to punish those who dare to stand up him,” Cruz told conservative talk show host Mark Levin during a recent interview.

McConnell has allocated exactly $0 to help Cruz get re-elected.

Asked if McConnell or the PAC had put any money into his increasingly close race against Democratic Rep. Colin Allred (Texas), Cruz replied: “Not a penny.”

“This time around he has $400 million. I’m being massively outspent again. [Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer] is spending millions. And yet he spent zero,” he added, referring to McConnell.

Protecting Cruz’s seat is critical for Republicans to gain the Senate majority. Suffice it to say that Senate Minority Leader McConnell is most content when Republicans are in the minority and he can work with Democrats to thwart Trump and advance Democrat agenda items.

It’s not just Cruz who is being denied funding, it’s also conservatives such as Rick Scott in Florida, Kari Lake in Arizona, and Sam Brown in Nevada. If the Republicans were to win all those Senate races, the GOP would have a strong Senate majority to support President Trump. But Mitch McConnell is working to elect Democrats in all those states by denying funding to the Republican candidates.

In this interview with Glenn Beck, you can hear Ted Cruz discuss how Mitch McConnell is actively seeking to thwart the re-election of conservative Republican Senators, and to punish them for actually representing their constituents rather than being loyal to McConnell in pushing a liberal agenda.

But what about Merrick Garland and Neil Gorsuch…

Back in 2016, after Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s untimely death, President Obama nominated anti-constitutionalist Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court. McConnell, the then-Senate Majority Leader, had an obligation to Republican voters who gave the Senate a Republican majority to deny confirmation to the radical nominee. Rather than have hearings and rallying the Republican Senate majority to vote against Garland’s confirmation, McConnell simply ran out the clock by never holding a vote, serving the same purpose. Once Trump was elected, Neil Gorsuch was nominated and confirmed.

Good job, Senator McConnell. You actually did your job…at least one time. But that is actually the least we should expect. How much of a battered-wife syndrome do we conservatives have that for eight years we’ve been offering slobbering praise to McConnell for not betraying us at that moment? We conservatives so thoroughly expect to be betrayed by the GOP establishment that if there is just one time when we are not betrayed, we reward the politician with a lifetime of future betrayals.

But for now, McConnell is focused on working with Democrats to stop Trump’s agenda.

“McConnell says ‘MAGA movement is completely wrong’ and Reagan ‘wouldn’t recognize’ Trump’s GOP” [CNN – 10/23/2024]

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell delivered a scathing assessment of the modern Republican Party in an upcoming biography, saying the “MAGA movement is completely wrong” and that Ronald Reagan “wouldn’t recognize” the party today.

With Mitch McConnell promising that he’ll be ”arguing more with [MAGA Republicans] probably than the Democrats”, Ace offered this succinct observation.

So who is Mitch McConnell allocating his Super-PAC’s money to? It’s going to liberal “Republicans” such as Larry Hogan of Maryland, who as Governor made anti-Trumpism a primary focus of his administration, and who is promising if elected to work with Democrats to stop the Trump agenda.

“With Senate control at stake, top Republicans give millions to Hogan’s bid” [Capital News Service – 10/17/2024]

A McConnell-linked super PAC, Senate Leadership Fund [a super PAC supporting Larry Hogan], gave $2 million to Maryland’s Future in July.

After this election, the Republicans will pick a new Senate Republican Leader. Senator Mike Lee of Utah is already discussing McConnell’s despicable betrayal of us and preparing the battleground now to prevent any more kapos like Mitch McConnell from having the power to undermine our agenda. Senator Lee wrote the following in a thread on Twitter.

1) McConnell’s attacks on Donald Trump & Rick Scott are indefensible. Those running for Senate GOP leadership posts need to weigh in on this & commit never to sabotage Republican candidates & colleagues—particularly those who are less than two weeks away from a close election.

2) We must have clarity from the candidates running to replace McConnell on where they stand on these attacks. They must be clear on how they plan to lead the conference, and on the role of its members.

3) The Senate Republican leader is supposed to help Republicans, not undermine them. Sadly, we’ve had too much of the latter. That must end now.

4) Remember: McConnell’s Super PAC has withheld campaign support from Ted Cruz and Rick Scott this election season, an incomprehensible move for a Senate GOP “strong leader” who wants to keep Texas and Florida and gain a majority in the Senate.

With Mitch McConnell now fully allied with Chuck Schumer and promising to work with Democrats to advance an anti-Trump agenda, a slim Republican majority in the Senate is not enough. Don’t be surprised if McConnell serves out his final two years as an Independent rather than a Republican and caucuses with the Democrats if that will help the Democrats maintain control of the Senate.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

posted by Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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