McConnell Can’t Follow His Own Guidelines for Fighting and Winning
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-K.Y., (F, 44%) represents the worst attitude of D.C. politics. His recent book encapsulates all that is wrong with Washington and his attitude is one of elitism, putting his ascent to power and his control of detractors ahead of the people.
But putting aside all of his obtuse treatment of the American citizen, there is a point in his book where McConnell reveals a powerful truth that conservatives should not only embrace, but patent, mass produce, package, and market.
As McConnell winds about his book, describing the great things he has done which basically center on getting reelected, he throws in a lightening rod of truth.
While describing his growth of influence as a second term senator backbencher, he recalled how his elementary school principal would keep boxing gloves for when boys would have disputes and tell them to don the gloves and fight it out. McConnell noted that it wasn’t the one who swung the most, but the one who stood the firmest that typically won those fights. He said that he applied that concept to his strategy in the Senate, as well as to learning the rules of the Senate, holding solid principles of the Constitution, and making tough decisions your friends don’t like.
Now, unlike conservatives, McConnell fakes an adherence to constitutional principles if he thinks he can label the other guy with being worse on these principles than he is. Also, unlike conservatives, the decisions his friends don’t like are described as tough because his friends are in the D.C. Cesspool Club and any friction might mean his growth to power might be hindered. However, the strategy of whoever stands the firmest the longest wins, understanding the rules of engagement, standing for the constitution at every turn, and making decisions the powers that be do not like, are the winning applications for conservatives, and upon engagement of the strategy, will show how people like McConnell are complete frauds.
McConnell’s memoir was written because he finally attained his lifetime goal of Senate Majority Leader. He proudly announces that the best way to become a great senator is to remain one. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I have never heard a solitary American who is stifled under an oppressive, obese federal government scream out for great senators. Instead, we prefer to champion and reward men who will take on the federal leviathan in any capacity and turn it on its ear.
With the goal of shutting down the influence of government in our lives, conservatives ought to remember to stand firm, because McConnell is not wrong when it comes to who ultimately wins. Even though his life was wasted standing firm against limited government, you cannot claim his strategy has not worked beautifully.
Understanding the rules of the body conservatives serve in is imperative, and though Senator Ted Cruz has understood them completely, and worked within them to defund Obamacare, McConnell continues to claim that the strategy promised more than could be achieved, after he voted in favor of cloture, no less. It would seem that understanding how to use the public ignorance of the rules is really what McConnell is more inclined to do.
Standing for the Constitution is a no-brainer, however, giving lip-service to it like McConnell does will get increasingly difficult to do once more than just a handful of constitutional conservatives reintroduce its brilliance. The 30-plus years of standing firm for the status quo that McConnell wants to be praised for will be forgotten soon enough, but the decisions conservatives make to threaten centralized power and return the power taken by McConnell and his Cesspool Club back to the industrious, ingenious, creative and talented hands of the American citizen will be worth it. (For more from the author of “McConnell Can’t Follow His Own Guidelines for Fighting and Winning” please click HERE)
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