Leaders of several conservative groups on Wednesday called for Mitch McConnell(R-Ky) to step down as Senate majority leader, due to the failure of the Senator and his team to implement the conservative agenda upon which they ran for office.

• The leaders’ petitions

Ken Cuccinelli, former attorney general of Virginia, and current leader of the Senate Conservatives Fund, at a Wednesday press conference on Capitol Hill said: “We call on all five members of the GOP Senate leadership to step down, or for their caucus to remove them as soon as possible”.

All the leaders who come from the ‘Freedom Works’, the ‘Tea Party Patriots’ and ‘For America’, all of which are anti-establishment organisations with ties to the Tea Party movement have long expressed their dissatisfaction with McConnell’s team and recently backed conservative challengers to Republican incumbents in Senate races.

“If this was a football team, and you’d lost this many times, you’d start seriously considering firing the coaches,” said David Bozell, the president of For America.

In a distributed letter outlining their criticism of the GOP leadership and sent to McConnell, the leaders wrote: “You and the rest of your leadership team were given the majority because you pledged to stop the steady flow of illegal immigration. You have done nothing. You pledged to reduce the size of this oppressive federal government. You have done nothing. You pledged to reduce, and ultimately eliminate the out-of-control deficit spending that is bankrupting America. You have done nothing. You promised to repeal Obamacare, ‘root and branch.’ You have done nothing. You promised tax reform. You have done nothing.”

• Possible replacements

Though the leaders didn’t state any potential replacement for McConnell, they however heaped praises on some Republican Senators.

“There’s a lot of different people out there who I think could unite this caucus and actually lead on some issues”. “If I had to pick someone, I’d love to draft like Pat Toomey maybe,” FreedomWorks President Adam Brandon said of the Pennsylvania senator.

When asked about Georgia Sen. David Perdue, Jenny Beth Martin of Tea Party Patriots suggested she could support him as leader. “I’m from Georgia, so I’m not opposed to him,” Martin said.

“Who would I select?. I’m not going to name a name. But I’ll tell you. It’s on one hand those that I feel comfortable with who are real conservative leaders today”, said Brent Bozell of the Media Research Center.

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