One imagines a few Republican Senators who could lose their seats this year are unpleased at the prospect. They have only themselves to blame, really, as it turns out following Addison McConnell like lemmings swimming to their doom didn’t much help their re-election campaigns since they have nothing to show which isn’t a series of enormities supporting either billionaires, polluting businesses, or social extremists.
Perhaps one might remind them of that fact, as follows:
Dear Senator Gardner,
As the 2020 election season draws to a close with your candidacy likely succumbing to your opponent, perhaps it is time to reread Mark 8:36:
“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”
I’d bet Senate Majority Leader McConnell promised supporting him unquestioningly would lead to greater approval from the electorate, but instead that support has painted your reputation with the brushes of lower taxes for billionaires, devastation of the environment, and social extremism, none of which was a feature of your 2014 campaign.
And now McConnell wants your vote for Amy Coney Barrett, a judge whose views are far outside the mainstream of American thinking, even of a moderate Republican as you were presented six years ago. Do you want your final act in the Senate to be yet another proof of fealty to a Majority Leader who showed no loyalty to the Members who chose him and led the Party over a cliff, or will you consider Mark 8:36 and vote according to the moderation you declared in 2014?