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On notice: Mitch McConnell is ready to “crush” the Tea Party
Hotair ^ | 03/09/2014 | Jazz Shaw

Posted on 03/09/2014 6:41:56 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

What with all the sweetness and light going on this weekend at CPAC, there really hasn’t been much room set aside for the Hawt Media Topic of the Conservative Civil War. Well, let’s wrap up the weekend with a bit of mudslinging from upper chamber. Doing an interview with the New York Times, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell addressed the issue of three high profile Republican senators who are facing primary challenges from the Right. His conclusion?

We’re going to crush you like the worms that you are, peasants.

Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell predicted the GOP establishment will destroy conservative insurgents attempting to unseat a trio incumbents in an interview with the New York Times published on Sunday.

“I think we are going to crush them everywhere,” McConnell said. “I don’t think they are going to have a single nominee anywhere in the country.”

McConnell is one of three establishment Republicans who are facing primary challengers backed by Tea Party conservative groups. The Senate Conservatives Fund, The Madison Project, and FreedomWorks are supporting Matt Bevin, McConnell’s rival in Kentucky. All three groups as well as the anti-tax Club For Growth are also throwing their fundraising weight behind Chris McDaniel’s run against Republican Mississippi Senator Thad Cochran. The Madison Project and the Senate Conservatives Fund are also spending to support Milton Wolf, who is challenging Kansas Senator Pat Roberts.

It’s always hard to tell whether statements like this are just hubris for show in an attempt to buy some media traction or true confidence. But in this case, it just may turn out that McConnell is finding some room to relax. Chris McDaniel has made some gains in Mississippi, but it looks like Thad Cochran is still holding enough of a lead to feel comfortable. Of course, that primary isn’t until June and a lot can change between now and then. Milton Wolf has definitely eroded Pat Roberts’ favorability numbers in recent months, but the last polling we’ve seen still shows Roberts with a two to one advantage.

As for the long game of McConnell and Matt Bevin, well… what can you say? That 55 to 29 spread doesn’t seem to be budging. But you have to wonder what McConnell was thinking in doing this interview. Even if you’re feeling your oats in the primaries, is the close of CPAC and the dawn of the primary season really the time to be taking a victory lap and doing a bit of an in your face dance for opponents in your own party? November will be all about turnout – as the off years always are – and leaving a sour taste in the mouths of supporters of any of these “upstart whacko-birds” probably isn’t going to do much for the grassroots enthusiasm in the final weeks.

But hey… the guy looks really good doing a Cold Dead Hands impression, eh?


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 113th; 2014midterms; conservatives; cpac; crush; ky2014; mcconnell; mitchmcconnell; teaparty
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1 posted on 03/09/2014 6:41:56 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Hope that works out for you WHIG
Freegards
LEX


2 posted on 03/09/2014 6:44:17 PM PDT by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: SeekAndFind

I wonder what Paul has to say.


3 posted on 03/09/2014 6:44:45 PM PDT by ansel12 (Libertarianism offers the transitory concepts and dialogue to move from conservatism, to liberalism.)
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To: SeekAndFind

As we used to say in about the 4th grade: “Him and whose army?”


4 posted on 03/09/2014 6:45:07 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: SeekAndFind

Payback can be a bitch, Mitch.


5 posted on 03/09/2014 6:45:24 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: SeekAndFind

             

6 posted on 03/09/2014 6:46:43 PM PDT by tomkat (3%+1)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yertle comes out of his shell for only one reason


7 posted on 03/09/2014 6:47:34 PM PDT by dontreadthis
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To: SeekAndFind

He should lose just for being an obnoxious #$*&@. Defeating him because he’s a RINO is gravy.


8 posted on 03/09/2014 6:48:47 PM PDT by Ray76 (How modern liberals think: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaE98w1KZ-c)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s The Party of Government(’Rats and RINOs) versus America.


9 posted on 03/09/2014 6:49:24 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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Mitch McConnell — Boo... Hiss...


10 posted on 03/09/2014 6:51:07 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: SeekAndFind; onyx

Do I need to raise that $2 million dollars starting NOW for SarahPAC, Mitch?


11 posted on 03/09/2014 6:51:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Sarah Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: SeekAndFind; cotton1706
Reid's *itch McConnell (Wdc-GOP/e), may surprised (in Nov.) if many Conservatives sits this
one out letting Grimes win..either way KY loses badly..giving 0'Muslim more power,
the *itch won't stop it anyways.

12 posted on 03/09/2014 6:51:59 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi)
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To: SeekAndFind
That's just lucking fuvly, RINO! Why couldn't you take a shot at crushing the Marxist maggot in the WH who's ruining our economy, gutting our military and shredding the Constitution on a daily basis?



America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi!

O stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their command.

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

13 posted on 03/09/2014 6:53:01 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Mlichael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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To: SeekAndFind
Ooh so manly.

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14 posted on 03/09/2014 6:55:18 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: SeekAndFind

If it looks like he’s in trouble the dems will help him out with cash and GOTV efforts, plus helping at the ballot box.

The dems want TEA gone more than he does!


15 posted on 03/09/2014 6:55:48 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: SeekAndFind

If anyone deserved to have his butt handed to him, it’s that chump.


16 posted on 03/09/2014 6:56:06 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: cripplecreek

Must be made from styrofoam.


17 posted on 03/09/2014 6:56:49 PM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: SeekAndFind
What's really galling is that he made this statement in the enemy camp just one day after showing up at CPAC.

That's how tone deaf the Republican leadership is, folks.

18 posted on 03/09/2014 7:01:56 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: ansel12
I wonder what Paul has to say.

Not much, he has GOPe stuck in the back of his throat.

19 posted on 03/09/2014 7:06:20 PM PDT by Ghost of SVR4 (So many are so hopelessly dependent on the government that they will fight to protect it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Do I need to raise that $2 million dollars starting NOW for SarahPAC, Mitch?


How bout his republican primary opponent?? or is it to late for that?


20 posted on 03/09/2014 7:07:51 PM PDT by cableguymn (It's time for a second political party.)
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