Oh Mitch, Mitch, Mitch! Where to begin with that interview you just had with NBC News? Seems the Satanic Snapping Turtle of Kentucky stuck his head out from his shell to put all the blame on Trump for his being Senate MINORITY Leader. This was no act of courage by McConnell but one of cowardice. There are other bits of comedy gold from McConnell. The best part was McConnell’s delusional remark that the SCOTUS overturning Roe HAD NO EFFECT ON THE 2022 ELECTION RESULTS!
No, I am not making that shit up.
According to McConnell, he has NO REGRETS about stacking the SCOTUS with reactionary Republicans who took away a woman’s right to bodily autonomy:
Still, McConnell had his own role in the GOP's underperformance this year. Using aggressive parliamentary tactics, he arguably played a larger role than anybody else in building the 6-3 conservative majority on the Supreme Court, which sparked a revolt among supporters of abortion rights when it overturned Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in June.
Asked repeatedly about the role of the Dobbs decision in the GOP's failures, McConnell expressed no regrets.
He conceded that the ruling “generated enthusiasm among Democrats, not surprisingly,” in the midterm election. But he said GOP turnout was “fine” and argued that abortion wasn’t the reason key independents and swing voters backed Democrats.
“They may have been ginned up some with their base,” McConnell said. But he insisted: “Our biggest problem was candidate quality.”
Emphasis is mine.
So Mitch takes no responsibility for the red ripple this year. Those independent voters didn’t care about abortion! No. Absolutely not!
Never mind this from Politico:
‘THE central issue’: How the fall of Roe v. Wade shook the 2022 election
More than 50 Democratic and Republican elected officials, campaign aides and consultants took POLITICO inside the first campaign after the Supreme Court's landmark ruling.
The old Sith Lord Mind Trick. “Elections are about what we define. And if the results don't come out the way we want, you are obviously too stupid to comprehend what really happened!”
McConnell helped fuck up the 2022 Elections for Republicans. And because we don’t have the House and not enough Democrats in the Senate, abortion will be an issue in the 2024 elections. We could have codified Roe if say SinemaManchin had let us, but now, this issue will still be there for Republicans to “not deal with” in 2024.
Which brings us to the “candidate quality” issue for Republicans.
You see the red ripple was because of all those bad Republican senate candidates. And poor old Mitch didn’t have control over the primaries. But who had control? Why it was “the former president.”
Now, NBC News runs with this and another comment that “the former president’s” political influence is “diminishing” as Mitch breaking with Trump. But like Voldemort in Harry Potter, McConnell simply cannot speak Trump’s name. How do you break with someone if you won’t even say their fucking name outloud?
And this is Mitch being a coward, once again.
Like his other statements about Trump’s role of inciting an insurrection on Jan 6th, McConnell will not utter Trump’s name. Remember how Mitch says we all know who is responsible for Jan 6th? And he leaves it as that. He’s terrified of pissing off Trump’s voters, so he never says the words “Trump was responsible for the Jan 6th insurrection.” lt’s always “the former president.”
I swear that Dr. Smith from “Lost in Space” showed more courage while using Will Robinson as a human shield.
But like all Republicans, accountability and responsibility is for some other fool. McConnell will never admit his role in the horror show that is today’s GOP.
In a rare and pointed criticism of the former president, who's seeking a comeback in two years, McConnell said Trump’s power is on the wane and called on him to back off Senate primaries.
“Here’s what I think has changed: I think the former president’s political clout has diminished,” McConnell told NBC News on Wednesday in a wide-ranging interview in his Capitol Hill office.
The diminished standing has made McConnell — and by extension his allies, like the deep-pocketed Senate Leadership Fund super PAC — “less inclined to accept cards that may be dealt to us,” he said.
“We can do a better job with less potential interference,” he said. “The former president may have other things to do.”
McConnell also blamed Trump for tarnishing the party’s image among crucial independent and swing voters, who rejected GOP Senate contenders in the states that decided the majority. He said that the party underperformed in “every state” — including the red state of Ohio, which Republicans narrowly won — and that its performance was “fatal” in Arizona, New Hampshire and Georgia.
“We lost support that we needed among independents and moderate Republicans, primarily related to the view they had of us as a party — largely made by the former president — that we were sort of nasty and tended toward chaos,” McConnell said. “And oddly enough, even though that subset of voters did not approve of President Biden, they didn’t have enough confidence in us in several instances to give us the majority we needed.”
It’s He Who Must Not Be Named fault! You need to back off buddy! Or else...Nothing.
You helped create this monster Mitch, and it is going to continue to destroy your party.