Posted on 07/24/2013 7:56:39 AM PDT by cotton1706
Tea party groups in Kentucky have finally united behind one candidate. Kentucky businessman Matt Bevin today is declaring a primary challenge to Mitch McConnell. He’s going after McConnell’s record in the Senate. Having talked to a number of tea party groups in Kentucky, they are pretty united around this challenge for now.
McConnell is wasting no time responding to Bevin with an attack ad calling him Bailout Bevin.
I’m just not sure that’s the wisest first attack from McConnell given that McConnell authored it and pushed it through the Senate by loading it with sweetheart deals. From Congressional Quarterly:
The Senate’s top Democrat and Republican saved the 2008 financial industry bailout with a maneuver that only two confident insiders would dare propose. Although the House had rejected the $700 billion package amid complaints that it was too large, the Senate leaders made it even bigger.
Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell added $150 billion in tax breaks for individuals and businesses and a boost in mental health coverage, sweeteners that enticed the House to clear the package the second time around. The gambit headed off what then-Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. said would have been an economic catastrophe.
And from Bluegrass Politics:
On the verge of the Senate’s vote on the $700 billion bailout bill, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell made one last pitch to his colleagues to support the legislation, which he praised for being born of bipartisan cooperation.
McConnell, noting that both presidential candidatesBarack Obama and John McCain returned for the vote, said the negotiations between Republican and Democratic leaders to forge a compromise have been “unprecedented.”
“I think it is one of the finest moments in the history of the Senate,” he said just before the vote, which began shortly after 9 p.m.
The measure passed overwhelmingly, 74-25, with bipartisan support, including McCain and Obama.
McConnell, followed by Democratic Senate LeaderHarry Reid, said the compromise reached the passage "illustrates how well we’ve worked together on a bipartisan basis to try to address the difficult crisis.“
Which Alien did Mitch McConnell play in the Buckaroo Banzai movie ?
Is he a local boy, born and raised? Did he go to school there and realized he found his home and stayed? Something else?
Are there reasons why Kentuckians should see him as being one of them and worthy of representing them and their interests, rather than those of outside interests?
Just from what I read real quick on the net, Bevin was born in New Hampshire and has a family bell business in Connecticut. He’s lived and run businesses in Kentucky since 1999. So while he wasn’t born there, it’s not like he moved there last year.
McConnell's deep pocketed backers have already begun the slick ad attacks against this guy.
Like Bevin alluded...what does it say about an entrenched candidate who has to run ads attacking this newcomer, rather than on his own (McConnell's) record?
My prayer is for McConnell to lose and for Ted Cruz to then take over as Senate majority leader after the 2014 election clears away as many rinos as possible.
It says Mitch (Harry Reid's bitch) is exactly what we know him to be.
His official campaign website, FYI
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bits & pieces from a variety of media sources via Google search, but no actual bio seems to be available yet.
Apparently he is a transplant from CT due to family business that has connections in CT and KY.
He was CEO and prinicpal partner at Integrity Asset Management, Birmingham, MI until it sold it 2010.
He donated $9,000 to the KY Republican Party in 2012.
Married, wife, Glenna, and 5 children. Major contributor to Southwest Baptist Theological Seminary. Helped fund the Bevin Center for missionaries at the Louisville Seminary.
And our Pretend conservative, Rand Paul, is backing the NON-Tea Party Incumbant GOP-E candidate Mitch McConnell.
Hey Kentucky, get behind this effort and restore some lost confidence that you folks actually have some brains!
good. mcconnell has to go.
Vote McConnell because nothing captures the independent spirit of Kentucky Bluegrass like a 78 year old chinless weasel.
If Bevin succeeds in defeating McConnell in the primary, we conservatives need to learn a lesson for 2016 early - settle on one conservative candidate early and end the circular firing squads. It's how McCain and Romney won the nomination in 2008 and 2012.
You got that right! Bevins has my vote I am tired of voting for a “conservative” McConnell only to have him morph into a boot licking liberal the day after the election.
Can the moderator put this in the breaking news sidebar?
Mcconnell has been a diaster as senate minority leader.
Ousting him would be great.
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