Sen McConnell Begins His Reclaiming of the GOP by Nailing the T-RNC with "1/6 Violent Insurrection" Tag.

[ouch]

By reclaiming, I mean two things.
1) McConnell directly scolds the RNC for censuring two of the GOP's own for investigating the 1/6 assault insurrection on our Capitol
2) McConnell wanting, he and others in the GOP to be on the right side of history of DJT's attempt to overturn election results illegally.

With the 2022 midterm elections 8 months away, McConnell will work to patch back together, successfully or not, the traditional GOP - one without DJT and one not loaded up with QAnon whack jobs. He intends to do this by getting on the right side of history and call 1/6/21 what it was - an insurrection to overturn a legit election. So, I see this as McConnell's platform heading into the '22 midterm. The GOP of justice and legitimacy. - along with some integrity. Will the QAnon whack jobs realize their huge mistakes and play along (haha) or will they double down and destroy McConnell and his GOP?

McConnell rebukes RNC, calls Jan. 6 'violent insurrection'

Former President Donald Trump says Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell “does not speak for the Republican Party.”

apnews.com

The RNC resolution accused the committee of leading a “persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse” — words that drew outrage from Democrats and firm pushback from several GOP senators. The rioters who broke into the Capitol through windows and doors brutally beat law enforcement officers and interrupted the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory.

“It was a violent insurrection for the purpose of trying to prevent the peaceful transfer of power after a legitimately certified election from one administration to the next,” said McConnell, R-Ky. He said he still has confidence in RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel, but “the issue is whether or not the RNC should be sort of singling out members of our party who may have different views than the majority. That’s not the job of the RNC.”

 

[bomberfox]

I still wouldnt vote GOP… what they did and allowed is unforgivable.

 

[Mycroft]

By reclaiming, I mean two things.
1) McConnell directly scolds the RNC for censuring two of the GOP's own for investigating the 1/6 assault insurrection on our Capitol
2) McConnell wanting, he and others in the GOP to be on the right side of history of DJT's attempt to overturn election results illegally.

With the 2022 midterm elections 8 months away, McConnell will work to patch back together, successfully or not, the traditional GOP - one without DJT and one not loaded up with QAnon whack jobs. He intends to do this by getting on the right side of history and call 1/6/21 what it was - an insurrection to overturn a legit election. So, I see this as McConnell's platform heading into the '22 midterm. The GOP of justice and legitimacy. - along with some integrity. Will the QAnon whack jobs realize their huge mistakes and play along (haha) or will they double down and destroy McConnell and his GOP?

McConnell rebukes RNC, calls Jan. 6 'violent insurrection'

Former President Donald Trump says Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell “does not speak for the Republican Party.”

apnews.com

The RNC resolution accused the committee of leading a “persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse” — words that drew outrage from Democrats and firm pushback from several GOP senators. The rioters who broke into the Capitol through windows and doors brutally beat law enforcement officers and interrupted the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory.

“It was a violent insurrection for the purpose of trying to prevent the peaceful transfer of power after a legitimately certified election from one administration to the next,” said McConnell, R-Ky. He said he still has confidence in RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel, but “the issue is whether or not the RNC should be sort of singling out members of our party who may have different views than the majority. That’s not the job of the RNC.”

Sorry, McConnell doesn't have the ability to reclaim anything.

Trump said it best:

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Read Trump’s full statement below:​

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Mitch McConnell does not speak for the Republican Party, and does not represent the views of the vast majority of its voters. He did nothing to fight for his constituents and stop the most fraudulent election in American history. And he does nothing to stop the lawless Biden Administration, the invasion of our Borders, rising Inflation, Unconstitutional mandates, the persecution of political opponents, fact finding on the incompentent Afghanistan withdrawal, the giving away our energy independence, etc., which is all because of the fraudulent election. Instead, he bails out the Radical Left and the RINOs.

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If Mitch would have fought for the election, like the Democrats would have if in the same position, we would not be discussing any of the above today, and our Country would be STRONG and PROUD instead of weak and embarrassed.

 

[btthegreat]

I still wouldnt vote GOP… what they did and allowed is unforgivable.

I can't afford to consider a vote for any republican in any office until I know that Trumpism is dead and buried behind six feet of cement. Today's republican city councilman or county commissioner will be tomorrow's state legislator trying to reroute authority away from elections commissions, and secretaries of state and ram that authority into the hand of hyper partisan state legislators to undo elections Donald Trump objects to. I am forced to vote for a Democrat who's been charged with raping a goat, and eating people's pets over a competent, experienced and dedicated public servant with that 'R' after his name because I don't know what 5 years surrounded by hyper-partisan white nationalist Trumpism will do to the guy I have just given his first political job!

 

[ouch]

Sorry, McConnell doesn't have the ability to reclaim anything.

Trump said it best:

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Read Trump’s full statement below:​

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"If Mitch would have fought for the election"

Yeah, if McConnell backed the assault on the Capitol in hopes to overturn the election, no doubt that the Trump Party would be absolutely in love with McConnell. McConnell hasn't entirely lost his mind that much to back that crime. McConnell pretty much ran the GOP for a couple decades, but since Jan, 2020, he's been Q'd into a corner. It was said several months ago, if not an entire year, that the R Party was no longer the same with McConnell losing his grip on the GOP. He's now taking a hard stand against the Trump Party existing inside the GOP, imo, hoping to reverse that trend. He may fail, of course, but what I am seeing in this moment is McConnell's do or die effort to spark a traditional Republican Party back to life because the midterm election isn't far away and I'm pretty sure that he doesn't want more Qs winning offices. If that happened, he'd be pretty much neutered and rendered useless. Exactly what DJT wants.

 

[ouch]

As suspected, McConnell's recent courage to blast DJT's election coup attempt is because he's publicly getting on the right side of history in order to win elections.

MSN

It’s definitely a welcome set of statements, given that the GOP, as a whole, has either ignored or outright defended the insurrectionists. But let’s be clear: This wave of criticism isn’t happening because every senator speaking out is more worried about democracy than RNC members or the House GOP. Nor is it likely to be because they’re protective of Kinzinger and Cheney. Instead, it’s the Senate’s unique place in our political system that has so many GOP senators willing to buck the RNC’s line.


While all 435 members of the House are up for re-election in the midterms, only one-third of the Senate is up for grabs in any one election. Unlike their House counterparts, senators can’t count on gerrymandered districts to win; they have to appeal to voters statewide. Even as the GOP has swung to the far right, including its embrace of former President Donald Trump, some Republicans senators have been more eager to present themselves as sensible bipartisan legislators than as burn-it-down firebrands. (There are, of course, exceptions.)


In all these cases, McConnell hasn’t been guided by any principles other than winning elections. The language in the RNC’s resolution might fly in the House and among some state-level Republicans — but not with senators, at least according to McConnell’s calculus. Better to siphon off swing voters in close races than to run on loyalty to Trump, like House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and his caucus have done and will do.

 

[bomberfox]

I can't afford to consider a vote for any republican in any office until I know that Trumpism is dead and buried behind six feet of cement. Today's republican city councilman or county commissioner will be tomorrow's state legislator trying to reroute authority away from elections commissions, and secretaries of state and ram that authority into the hand of hyper partisan state legislators to undo elections Donald Trump objects to. I am forced to vote for a Democrat who's been charged with raping a goat, and eating people's pets over a competent, experienced and dedicated public servant with that 'R' after his name because I don't know what 5 years surrounded by hyper-partisan white nationalist Trumpism will do to the guy I have just given his first political job!

I think the GOP is just better off going the way of the whigs

 

[Lycanthrope]

It will take many more GOP figures coming out in criticism of Trump and Trumpism before there's any real departure form their TDS.

Until then Trump speaks for the GOP, and he represents the majority of its voters.

 

[ouch]

It will take many more GOP figures coming out in criticism of Trump and Trumpism before there's any real departure form their TDS.

Until then Trump speaks for the GOP, and he represents the majority of its voters.

It, in fact, will require more Republicans to find their stones. The is McConnell's last stand to overcome Trumpdumb. He's come out of his turtle shell to throw down with DJT and all of his supporters/goons who climaxed over the 1/6 assault on our Capitol. So, as the '22 midterm nears, it'll be the McConnell GOP riding into that with a platform that stood for justice or the DJT Party that still stands for same ole same ole dumb / stupid insane lying crap but different Groundhog Day platform.

 

[HangLow]

It will take many more GOP figures coming out in criticism of Trump and Trumpism before there's any real departure form their TDS. Until then Trump speaks for the GOP, and he represents the majority of its voters.

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[craig]

Trump is old and he will die soon or be so mentally incapacitated that his following will collapse. A cult of personality never lasts. There is no successor.

 

[btthegreat]

I think the GOP is just better off going the way of the whigs

I think we need a whole new conservative party. It should take the traditional low tax, low spending, balanced budget pro business ideology, and the traditional pro defense/ hawkish approach to foreign policy but one that distances itself from the social and cultural issues of the old GOP as they possibly can. It should not take a litmus test position on issues like abortion, gun control, school prayer, capital punishment.

I think such a party has a real niche to fill in American politics.

 

[craig]

I think we need a whole new conservative party. It should take the traditional low tax, low spending, balanced budget pro business ideology, and the traditional pro defense/ hawkish approach to foreign policy but one that distances itself from the social and cultural issues of the old GOP as they possibly can. It should not take a litmus test position on issues like abortion, gun control, school prayer, capital punishment.

I think such a party has a real niche to fill in American politics.

I think social problems should be worked out in society and not politically.

 

[btthegreat]

I think social problems should be worked out in society and not politically.

I am not saying that they are not political issues. Of course they are, but there is no inherent connection between ideological conservativism or ideological liberalism and those social issues. the smarter party, does not include them in their national platform, and leaves it to each individual politician to decide.

 

[craig]

I am not saying that they are not political issues. Of course they are, but there is no inherent connection between ideological conservativism or ideological liberalism and those social issues. the smarter party, does not include them in their national platform, and leaves it to each individual politician to decide.

That is OK. We all have our ideas of social behavior. Even politicians, but they do not have the right to mandate those ideas in the political realm.