Are Republicans working behind the scenes to tear down McCain??

[kentuck]

His support of the Obama nominations and his successful attempt to get about 17 other Repubs to join him must have left a bad taste in the mouth of Mitch McConnell and his sycophants?

So long as McCain has a dozen or so Repubs with him, McConnell is impotent in his threats to block everything Obama proposes.

Also, there are political implications with it all. If McConnell loses his seat in the next election, McCain would be a likely successor to be Minority or maybe, Majority Leader. So the stakes are very high.

The Democrats may not keep the majority in the next election but McCain would be a more preferable Republican to try and work with than would Mitch McConnell.

So it is to the Democrats advantage to push McCain for Minority Leader. Reid did a masterful job working with him last week. It was downright pleasurable to watch McConnell squirm.

[Blue Owl]

1. They shoved grandma down the stairs -- now they're coming for McGramps

n/t

[dora glasberg]

2. John McCain

He's old.
Give him time.
He'll fall down all by himself.

[Thinkingabout]

3. I have heard rumblings McCain is not going to run again and he could promote his

Record in Congress. If McConnell would stand up to the TP members he would get more respect also.

[Marie Marie]

4. McConnell is impotent?

Well, that explains a whole lot!!

[mick063]

5. You can't go Maverick

while marching the goose step.

It just looks terrible.

[Jack Rabbit]

6. I can't see where that makes any sense at all

McCain is not up for re-election until 2016. He could meet his maker before that. For those reasons, the GOP would be foolish to try to tear him down.

McConnell has been riding for a fall for a long time. It caught up with him last week. The Republicans are suffering first from their inability to reject Tea Party extremists in state primaries and second by McConnell's politics of obstruction, wearing thin with the public and for which he has no one to blame but himself. He is unpopular in his own state could face electoral defeat (oh, please, please, please!) in 2014.

If McConnell is defeated, McCain would probably not be his successor. McCain is aging and too much his own man to be a good leader. However, if McCain were to become Senate Republican Leader, he'd be sure to be better at it than McConnell has been, but that can be said of almost any Senate Republican. McConnell has been a disaster for America in general and the Republican Party in particular.