Posted on 04/18/2014 5:47:10 AM PDT by cotton1706
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) hates Sen. Mitch McConnnell so much that when a constituent asked him why he supports McConnell’s reelection campaign, Paul refused to answer and told the questioner to talk to him privately.
According to the Glasgow Daily Times:
After addressing about 30 people who turned out to hear him, the senator opened the floor for questions.
One constituent asked him why he came out in support of Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Louisville.
Paul declined to answer the question publicly, saying he would speak with her in private and explain his reason for supporting the senior senator.
The answer that Rand Paul won’t publicly say is that he and his staff don’t like Mitch McConnell at all, by they cut a secret deal with McConnell where they promised to help him get reelected to the Senate, and McConnell would in turn open Republican establishment doors, and help Rand Paul win the 2016 Republican nomination.
Since McConnell cut his deal with Paul, everything has gone wrong. McConnell’s approval rating is lower than President Obama’s in Kentucky. His campaign has had numerous gaffes and blunders, and Sen. McConnell has lost three tea party endorsements, which is interesting because shoring up Mitch with tea party voters is why he made the deal with Paul.
The McConnell campaign has been such a disaster that it is almost like the Paul people are trying to sabotage the Republican incumbent’s campaign. When McConnell really needs Rand Paul’s support the most, what he gets is Paul throwing him under the bus by acting as if his name isn’t fit to be mentioned in public.
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Politicususa, the National Catholic Register and the spore of the Irish Times spew should be banned from Free Republic because they are Soros-based, have no readers or subscribers, espouse heresy, waste our time, divide us, etc.
Basically, they’re red ants.
He was the director of an investment group that was required to file documents with the SEC. Investors and partners of the firm had their own opinions and would write them in letters to other members of the investment group. These letters required disclosure to the SEC. Matt Bevin had to be signing the SEC filing, and not necessarily endorsing the letters included in the filing.
If you look at Edgar online or the SEC website and look at the filings you will see Matt's name and a description that signature is on file. In other words it was standard. Matt was not legally authorized to redact or exclude partner's opinions as laws regarding disclosure required divulging what key members were thinking in their letters and written opinions.
The entire 'Bailout Bevin' campaign was a smear attack on him and it was misleading. The attack was not successful as key supporters including Tea Party supporters continued rallying around Matt after realizing the attack was without substance. But McConnell managed to nationalize the hit job and those outside KY are still misinformed.
I did research on the above and called Bevin's campaign office to get the real story.
All polls showing Bevin far behind McConnell were taken in February when Bevin was just ramping up, and February is a long time ago in politics. Polls also showed the lead narrowing and importantly the polls showed Bevin almost even with the democrat opponent who was leading McConnell by a few points, even though Bevin was far behind McConnell at the same time. What this indicates is many KY voters are for any republican before a democrat and that Bevin's name recognition was low. A new poll should show substantial changes as recent polls on McConnell show his popularity in KY about on par with Obama's, in other words very poor favorability ratings for McConnell and increased name recognition for Bevin should show a surge for Bevin in the polls for any new survey.
Your youtube links to Scarborough and MSNBC. This is unacceptable sourcing on any level. MSNBC is a tool of the ruling class and that includes McConnell. I wouldn't trust them with anything.
The second link to Daily Mail in UK is also a progressive leaning outfit but they sometimes reveal reality because their editors are not so much controlled and monitored by the state: Here's a good piece of reality they reveal:
McConnell will have an easier time in the Republican primary against an opponent who is now linked to the illegal practice. But in November he will need every vote he can muster against Kentucky Attorney General Alison Lundergan Grimes, a Democrat with whom he's running neck-and-neck.
The scenario of a razor-thin margin in the general election could make even cockfighters' votes critical.
Craig Davis, president of the United Gamefowl Breeders Association, told the Lexington Herald-Leader in February that his group could swing as many as 60,000 voters toward McConnell – or tell them to stay home on Election Day.
Bevin was smart because those 60,000 votes from the game fowl bloc will be in his column and most Kentuckians don't give a damn about cock fight issues pushed out by progressive media.
If Bevin loses the primary, then McConnell loses in November and the democrats pick up a Senate seat. But the GOP will still likely take the Senate.
Bevin still carries massive grass roots support in KY and voters there can't stand McConnell. I think Bevin has a better than even chance of pushing McConnell aside and if he does succeed in doing that then all of McConnell's zombie supporters will get behind Bevin because he is a republican but Bevin's grass roots supporters will not rally to McConnell should Bevin lose. No matter what, McConnell loses and that is a 'good thing' /Martha Stewart.
Bevin was smart because those 60,000 votes from the game fowl bloc will be in his column and most Kentuckians don’t give a damn about cock fight issues pushed out by progressive media.
No. He wasn’t smart.
I put cock-fighting right up there with dog-fighting. Not a lot of difference to me.
60,000 critical votes don’t care what we think.
Bevin now has those votes and talked on a states rights theme, not a cock fighting theme. That was smart politics.
Not many in KY will give a damn about it but those cock-fighters will fall in behind Bevin and their votes are critical.
Of course progressives will squawk but they will squawk about anything that dirties their opponents. Placating them yields nothing. The best that can be done with them is to let them stay home on election day and not rile them up before. They won’t rush to the polls over cock fighting.
Why don't you tell the story of how Rand Paul's endorsing McConnell came long before Bevin decided to run and was an early and firm decision by Paul.
60,000 critical votes don’t care what we think.
(1) It cost him over 60,000 votes.
(2) Most of those 60,000 were going to vote for him anyway so he gained nothing.
(3) He was foolish to even go there and then deny that he didn’t even know what the organization was about.
(4) Personally, I consider cock-fighting to be obscene and inhumane.
(5) His lack of judgment will cost him.
I don't know about that part, but Chinless is certainly blessed with his competition.
I made that observation the other day, and you should have seen the flames I got from the pro-cockfighting crowd. I was surprised to find out there even *was* a pro-cockfighting crowd.
We will see.
One thing for sure, McConnell loses either way.
Citation?
I was going on this story
But then this happened apparently today while I was doing other things
If Paul endorsed McConnell to get this law changed, he didn’t get anything out of it.
Everyone keeps bringing up the “cock-fighting” thing. That was poor judgment; yes. But, his statement, in a speech a few weeks ago, when he said that Illegal Mexicans were harder workers than American workers, was 10 times more damning to his campaign than the cock-fighting gaffe. What the heck was he thinking? I’m thinking that the one who will get McConnell out of Washington, D.C. will be Grimes in November.
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