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I could’ve swore Erick said to send balls to Mitch McConnell.

I speak as one that tried cases to juries in the early and late 90s in the Twin Cities, Worcester, MA and Los Angeles and won them all.

But after a few years here at RS and at R408, I developed a superiority complex due to the conservatives I encountered here and in the conservative MSM of talk radio and the blogosphere of whites that were and are bigoted against southerners that THEY AGREE WITH ON THE ISSUES.

I and ALL conservatives I know down here would NEVER suggest that any decision be made about ANYONE based on region.

Are we into truth or not?

disgusting

they will. This is because most people are honest enough with themselves to identfy what they are. Only craven, dishonest, hipocritical politicians can be a Democrat and call themselves a Republican. See “John McCain”.

Washington, as did

WTF!!!!!

If something is true, what does it matter where the truth is acknowledged!

I was hoping he would be more Manly….

He fails to get me fired up…..Please….Not one Repub vote on the Porkulus!!!

Boy that must sure be some powerful stuff he is on. I can think of some 50 plus million reasons why he is delusional. President Reagan must be turning in his grave.

Truth is what matters and where it happens to resonate is irrelevant except insofar as one seeks to understand WHY it resonated in aparticular place…

hence

my SUPERIORITY COMPLEX in Dixie

I mean it

The political space is more than one dimensional. It’s not a matter of moving to the left, which I am sure is not what McConnell has in mind. But the party must reassert itself as the part of fiscal conservatism. I think the constructive criticism of the recent stimulus bill was step in the right direction — it needed far more effort on infrastructure, for example.

McCain made a huge misstep when he selected Sarah Palin as his running mate. Many of the conservatives I know in business were very disturbed by this choice and what it implied about McCain’s personal judgement.

I still believe what Goldwater said may years ago, about the danger of allowing the religious right to gain too much power in the GOP, and I believe the recent election defeats are because the party has narrowed its appeal too much to a regional minority of religious social conservatives.

The Republicans must clean house of these types of limp wristed go nowhere meet in the middle representatives!

Obama and his henchmen are beating us to pulp by sticking with the Demo rule book. It’s about time we took the kid gloves off and got back into the fight. The country is in deep doo doos and moving left at warp speed!

Mr. Steele’s first job is to buy a stiff broom and sweep these RINO’s out of the party and replace with real conservatives with back bone and principles.

No wonder we are all at sea and rudder less with these navigators plotting our course!.

If McConnell is a RINO, then we aren’t a regional party – we’re a party that can fit in a closet.

to not be competitive in the Northeast, the West Coast, or the Mid-Atlantic states? I mean would you rather recruit and run centrist and center-left GOPers in these areas and have a chance to win, or stand firm on principles and run a Jim DeMint-type candidate in New York and always go down to an honorable defeat? Democrats got wise to the game and ran guys like Mark Warner, Bill Nelson, Ben Nelson, and others who don’t give the left the warm and fuzzies, but do give liberal committee chairmen sizable majorities and put their party a whisker away from 60 Senate seats.

of RedState.com.

Great!
Now I feel really screwed.

Is McConnell just using tone and words to
rope-a-dope everyone since he went through
a bruising re-election campaign?
I would have thought that he’d be out
for blood against Reid now that he won.

I would be! Maybe he’s just tired and too old
to have the fire in his belly to fight the fights,
hold the line, take the hits.

Yet, he’s just got 6 more years!
For pity’s sake: Have some testicular fortitude!

A regional approach?
I’m speechless.
Once again we’re being eaten from the inside.

No solidarity. No idealism. No philosophy to
rally around. Just warm bodies with an -R after their names.

I’m depressed.

People in this country need a real choice. The choice for at least 4 years (maybe has been between brand name liberal and store brand liberal light. There was very little in the way of name brand conservative. Those that tried to be name brand conservative let social issues (abortion, guns, etc.) get in the way of true, fiscal conservancy, and so people voted for the devil they knew instead of the devil they didn’t. If you give people two very well defined (and we already know how well defined the liberal brand is, God help us) they will choose one or the other. If you try to present a candidate in the middle, the majority of the people who are in the middle will go left, and those on the right will stay home. Happened in 2008. Someone has been giving McConnell the Obama Kool-aid, and he needs to go on the wagon or get out of the party. NOW! What a worthless body the senate is!

If the GOP just agrees with the Democrats on every major issue that would put an end to partisanship in Washington.

It’s hard to be both delusional and wrong, but as a person who has done it, I can attest that it is possible. And it’s perfectly possible to be delusional and wrong about something that you might have a personal reason to believe is true, except when you understand reality.

On virtually every issue, liberals and conservatives will continue to differ so long as each of them is allowed to walk the Earth:

On taxes
On federalism
On the economy and the role of markets
On civil rights
On religion
On foreign relations
On natural resources
On industry
On war
On abortion
On representative government
On philosophy
On history
On medical policy
On tax policy
On the family
On the role of the public sector
On the role of the private sector
On aesthetics
On religion
On creatures malevolent and benign

Get the idea, Senator?

The simple and blatantly obvious fact that McConnell is either trying to whitewash or cower from is that all of these areas of discussion and opinion and ultimately, policy — and many more, my dear friends — are absolutely going to remain points of contention between not just Conservatives and Liberals, but Liberals and other Liberals and Conservatives and Republicans, and Leftists and Rastafarians, and Republicans and Maoists, and virtually every other group of people you can think of.

We might imagine it could all be homogenized away into some gigantic, pragmatic McConnell Melting Pot where all of these differences would just sink into the bubbly murk, but it’s not going to happen. For as long as we all live, I’m afraid, and for a long time thereafter, we’ll be having these discussions and arguments and real fights about what our priorities are.

That is Democracy in a free society. There is no other way. Even Joe Biden would agree with that.

So frankly, Mitch McConnell should either put up or just shut up, because as a leader he’s useless with statements of the kind he’s making right now, and as someone who is supposed to be a leader of men and women in our society, he’s a joke.

What is going to define history, now and in the future, are the arguments that are made, the positions that are advanced, the reasons and rationale for advancing them, the efforts that were made and the sweat and toil that was expended to move them forward, and what the results and the countereffects, the pushback, and the unintended consequences were. And a whole lot more.

That’s history. That’s what makes the world work. It is larger than us, but it exists because we have these differences of opinion and always will. It’s pitiful for someone like Mitch McConnell to imagine that he can stand here in the first decade of the 21st Century and believe there’s a shortcut. There never has been, and there never will be: in fact, the arguments will only get more complex from here on out.

Goodbye Mitch McConnell. You’re not someone I listen to, or even someone I understand in terms of the way I know the way the world works. It’s time you left office.

The fact is, both the Republicans and Democrats were “sectional parties” from about, oh, 1856 until, say, 1932 – the Republicans couldn’t break any ground in the South, and the Dems were often hammered in New England, the Midwest, and the far West.

So?! So, what’s wrong with being a “sectional” party?! Nothing!

(For other examples, the Tories in the U.K. and the Conservatives in Canada are virtually sectional/regional parties as well.)

The truth is, to win in New England and California/Washington, this party would have to make far too many compromises to make it worth our while. A true ’50 state’ strategy would destroy this party, and drive true conservatives out of it forever.

Do any of you want our Party to become another ‘patronage’ party like the Democrats?! (I know that’s what Mitch McConnell wants.) Well I DON’T!

If the price for being a ‘principle’ party is that we’re *never* competitive in about 5-10 state (though letting those states go bankrupt may actually change a few tunes in places like CA & NY), and have to instead be a 40-45 state ‘sectional/regional’ party, so be it! I’m more than ready to sign on for that.

McConnell can go **** himself as far as I am concerned.

Sometimes I seriously believe Potomac fever, especially the Senate variety, does permanent damage to brain cells.

Thing Number One: Let’s look at FACTS. The Rs ran a “reach across the aisle” kinda guy for Prez. He lost. The only time he even resembled a winner was when he picked Palin, but even she couldn’t make him into what he wasn’t.

So — you try something, you lose; and instead of doing something DIFFERENT, you try to do it again??? What the heck kind of sense does that make?

Thing Number Two: Why is it that every time there is the least bit of trouble, we have refight the friggin’ civil war?

I grew up with a bunch of Southern democrats, and trust me, those good ole’ boys were the tightest, whitest old boy network you ever saw. I lived with ‘em and worked with ‘em. Tim Kaine is their spiritual heir; never doubt that. There’s what they say and do to win, and then there is what they talk about at the dinner parties on Monument Avenue or the bar at the Commonwealth Club. So this crap about right-wing republican regionalism is just that — crap.

Thing Number Three is what makes me despair of claiming to be a republican. It’s this “let’s toss the principles so we can win” mentality that rears its ugly head from time to time. NO. I want to win as much as anyone, but I won’t sell out to do so.

If I were willing to do that, I know a party that would welcome me — the democrats.

is code for PROTECTING INCUMBENT SENATORS as they loot the US Treasury! Doesn’t matter from which party!

They have become a fraternity of gas bags who see themselves allied against the Constitution and the (smelly) taxpayers of this country.

They spend their time protecting themselves FROM the Constitution instead of DEFENDING the Constitution as each and every one of them swore, with their hand on the Bible, So help them God, when they took the oath of office.

They are oath breakers and traitors to the cause and country they pretend to represent and should be treated accordingly. Even common criminals don’t take an oath to not rob banks before they actually rob them!

“There ought to be one day – just one – when there is open season on senators.”

Will Rogers

This is the most irresponsible statement in the history of America.

NO! MY FAMILY AND I WILL DIE AS CONSERVATIVE HARDLINERS!!!!!

but does he have 6 more years as a leader? Is this something they have to vote on each year, every 2 years, every 6 years?

just as the House passage of a ridiculous, unworkable “stimulus package” causes the markets to drop 200 + points and 11 Democrats, seeing the handwriting on the wall for 2010, join a solid Republican delegation in voting against economic ruin.

Odd that someone should say this as the Obama Administration tries to push another questionable nominee through Congress, further expending rapidly diminishing good will.

Odd that someone would say that as the GOP picked an able and dynamic man as its Committee Chairmen.

He appears mentally unable to differentiate himself from the powerful pull of the Left. I have thought about this at length, and whatever the actual cause, the man needs to seek therapy of some kind. He is not doing the job he was hired to do and is a national embarrassment.