Jim Bratten
After the Trump impeachment acquittal on January 13, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell proceeded to reward the DNC (Democrat National Committee) with a 20-minute attack ad, stabbing the leader of his own party (President Donald Trump) in the back. McConnell’s floor speech could have been packaged verbatim and used as effective propaganda against his own party.
McConnell has now become the litmus test for Republican candidates running for political office in 2022: Does a prospective senate candidate stand with Mitch McConnell, Chuck Schumer, and alleged president Joe Biden, or does the candidate stand for American liberty? Do they back Mitch McConnell or their country? Voters need to know, since McConnell wants Trump out of the way permanently, as do Nancy, Chuck, and the rest of the Deep State.
He has declared war on Trump supporters in the Republican Party. He doesn’t want them there, although they comprise 90% of the Republicans voting in the last election, a vast majority of the 74+ million votes cast for Trump. Mitch doesn’t want Trump, the undisputed party leader, anywhere around the GOP. He wants his elitist club as it was in 2014, intact; no outsiders and, particularly, no conservatives.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (SC) and Sen. John Thune (SD) see Mitch McConnell as the titular head of the Republican Party, which he isn’t by any stretch. McConnell’s popularity is way below that of Trump and it’s also far below Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. He can count on about 10% of the Republican base; the rest belong to Trump.
For decades, Mitch has had his own war raging against conservatives: Ronald Reagan, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, and the entire Tea Party movement. In the Senate, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Mike Lee, Josh Hawley, and Tom Cotton have been regulars on his enemies list. Mitch has killed the campaigns of conservative candidates in various races for the Senate and, through his PAC, even buried the hopes of conservatives in certain House races. He’s determined to keep conservatives out of Washington. Several years ago, he defeated Mississippi conservative Chris McDaniel’s attempt at the U.S. Senate by backing the doddering octogenarian incumbent, Thad Cochran. Working with Haley Barbour’s nephew in the RNC, Mitch participated in paying Democrats to cross over and vote for Cochran in the state primary. Mitch also delivered a Senate seat to Alabama Democrats, their candidate Doug Jones victorious over Republican Roy Moore, who received no support from the RNC and active opposition from McConnell.
In 2020, he backed moderate incumbent Kelly Loeffler, who was appointed by Georgia Governor Brian Kemp to fill the seat of retiring Georgia Senator Johnny Isakson. In the Georgia U.S. Senate primary race, her challenger, conservative Congressman Doug Collins, was on his own, as many conservatives found themselves in their attempts to occupy seats in “Mitch’s Senate.” The result of McConnell’s mishandling of the Georgia Senate races in 2020 was that two neo-Marxist senators were elected on January 5, 2021 and now represent Georgia in the U.S. Senate.
After McConnell’s attack on Trump, post-acquittal from the Senate floor, Trump nailed McConnell’s failures in the Senate and his inability to deal with Communist China, due to his wife’s family business ties to the Chinese Communist Party. Trump called Mitch a “third rate leader.”
If the Republican Party allows the third-rater to choose who runs for the Senate in 2022, they’ll remain in the minority.
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