Jeff Danziger for January 31, 2013

Is that hagel getting thrown out of the Republican Party?

The Republican tent is getting so small now that an arch-conservative old white man from the south can’t even keep a foothold in his party.

We’ll see. Last year, the Tea Party tried to target Orrin Hatch ..and how did THAT work out?

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I think it’s a mistake for the Democrats to work on behalf of an “unelectable” radical right Republican — what if the “unelectable” becomes “electable”?

He has, I think, a 90% conservative rating and that isn’t good enough so he will be primaried by the tea party. (with their 8% approval rating)

The fact Mr. McConnall is being challenged for being too moderate is frustrating. I would love to see a true moderate challenge McConnall, from either party. However, I would hate to see him fall to someone even more…. conservative… yeah…that’s a ‘nice’ way to put it. I often refer to him, in conjunction with Reid, Boehnor, and Pelosi, as a monument to everything wrong in the legislature.Has Ms. Judd announced whether she’s running yet?Respectfully,C.

In a recent poll, only 17% of Kentuckians said they were committed to vote for McConnell in 2014. The tea party is gunning for him, because he’s really conservative but not stupid enough conservative. He’s in trouble, and recently has been sending out paranoid, fact-free fund-raising letters about nonexistent Democratic gun confiscation. Looks like he may be toast, poor guy.

This whole thing goes to show just how far the Tea-Party is detached from reality.

Politics aside, Mitch McConnell may well be the craftiest parliamentarian in the Senate since LBJ. If not for him, the GOP wouldn’t have had half as much succes in blocking the Dem agenda as they’ve known.

And the tea-baggers want to get rid of him because he doesn’t pass their ideologicall litmus test?! Okayyyy, but when Filibuster Reform gets through next time, they’ll have only themselves to blame.

The “Whore of the Senate” gets his comeuppance. NICE!

In Texas, the Democrats don’t even bother to run. Only Republicans and occasionally Libertarians are covered in the corporate media, while Greens are totally censored and Socialists haven’t been active since the 1930s (unlike Vermont where they have a senator).

More TEA, Mitch?

Turtle Blues.

The more ‘angry white men’ the quicker the GOP fades away onto the scrapheap of history where they belong.

I hope so. He lead the rebellion of " don’t do anything that would make progress happen under Obama." He’s the main guy who’s at fault for the GOP house doing absolutely Nothing! Not even passing the Jobs Actl refusing to even pass the jobs for veterans act. Get that wobbly eyed piece of tea bag and good riddance!

Draft-dodging , chickenhawk , parasite. Good riddance!