Mitch McConnell quitting as Minority Leader

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(02-29-2024, 11:10 AM)pally Wrote: I said it in the first post...Republicans will miss McConnell when he is gone.  You don't stay in power as long as he has without being a master of the political backrooms.  Republicans don't have anyone with that level of skill on their bench, especially if the Leader fight gets ugly  

But, sadly, it is a sign of how extreme the Republican Party has become for them not to consider Mitch McConnell a conservative.  

Governor Andy Beshear is term-limited but his term doesn't end until 2027.  Would he leave office early to run for McConnell's Senate seat in 2026. Or does he wait until 2028 and run for Rand Paul's seat

That's the wacky thing.  McConnell won like a million re-elections and was an instrumental cog in the 40 year GOP machine and now the party is all like "Thanks for nothing, we're building everything around 1 guy who managed to get 10 million fewer votes in 2 elections against 2 bleh candidates and can only at best serve 1 more term in a non-legislative position!"

Conservatives truly don't know a semi-soft coup when they see it.