Posted on 06/11/2014 1:18:28 PM PDT by cotton1706
A dozen or so senior GOP senators gathered with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell at the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) headquarters to raise funds for Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) on Tuesday evening.
Noteably, none of them seemed too proud of it, based on how quickly they scurried away from the building—some outright declining to offer even a simple word of praise for Cochran—when asked why they were there.
The fundraiser—a last dash from the GOP establishment and McConnell, who is “all in” to save Cochran from his conservative primary challenger, state Sen. Chris McDaniel—occurred just hours before conservative Dave Brat crushed House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a primary for his Virginia House seat, delivering the biggest-ever blow the Tea Party has delivered to a sitting GOP incumbent.
Senators who gathered to offer financial support for Cochran included Cochran’s Mississippi colleague Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) and Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AL), Rob Portman (R-OH), Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), John Barrasso (R-WY), John Thune (R-SD), John Cornyn (R-TX), Bob Corker (R-TN), Susan Collins (R-ME), Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), Dean Heller (R-NV), Richard Shelby (R-AL), and McConnell (R-KY).
Cochran himself didn’t even show up for the fundraiser.
A Republican staffer told Breitbart News the mood inside the room—in which both Wicker and McConnell spoke—was somber. There was “a lot of looking at shoes,” the staffer said, and “a lot of people anxious to get out the door.” When Wicker and McConnell spoke, the staffer said, “what they didn't say was stunning.”
“Thad's name was only mentioned once,” the staffer said, and there was “no talk of what he had done, or what he would do... The silence was deafening.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Not many surprises on that list. Thune, maybe. He’s hit or miss on any day.
FUMM.
Eminem could represent consituents better than you.
I sent a little money for the McConnell campaign this morning. I knew this was going to happen.
Of course not. It was past his bedtime.
-PJ
What is Kelly Ayotte’s problem? She got elected from NH promising to be a conservative. She traitored just about every constitutional conservative issue before she even had time to unpack in DC....and never looked back.
“I sent a little money for the McConnell campaign this morning.”
I hope you mean McDaniel??
The fundraiser—a last dash from the GOP establishment and McConnell, who is “all in” to save Cochran from his conservative primary challenger, state Sen. Chris McDaniel—occurred just hours before conservative Dave Brat crushed House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a primary for his Virginia House seat, delivering the biggest-ever blow the Tea Party has delivered to a sitting GOP incumbent.
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I’m betting if this had been scheduled after Tuesday, a lot less would have put in an appearance, arm twisting or not.
Yep, I meant McDaniel. I am going to have to wash my hands now.
Ayotte, like Scott Brown, came under John McCain’s wing.
He’s like the Emperor with apprentices. And insidious and vile man.
WE’RE COMING AFTER YOU NEXT, LAMAR!!!
I'll give it to them in a nutshell. Either stick to, and uphold, the principles that you ran on for election, or you are going to end up fishing with Eric Cantor this time next year.
We the People (I mean We the People who have be funding this country's gaggle-f*&k for the last 6 years) are sick of being lied to.
Proud Senate Conservatives Fund donor checking in.
Is the GOPe on the run?
Good!
I helped him with $1K in his first race. He’s becoming disappointing. Might have to back a challenger next time.
bookmark
SCF needs to endorse Joe Carr for senate in Tennessee now. Lets get momentum going
If only South Carolina's primary could be delayed until the end of this month too!
I hope KY is “all in” to remove McConnell by any political means
necessary.
I watched a floor vote on the debt ceiling extension and the cloture vote before it.
During the process where McConnell voted YES on cloture to increase the nation’s debt, he was surrounded by Corker and Murkowski, Cornyn and many of the others.
They are McConnell’s closet cronies based on what I saw there.
Ted Cruz stood off to the side and Rand Paul was pretty far away, too.
LOL.
Cochran is AWOL from his own campaign.
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