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So you admit that BOTH the establishment choice in KY (McConnell) turned out to be a disappointment, as well as the "Tea Party" choice in KY (little Rand).
Haven't you heard the old saying about not throwing stones in your glass house?
Ever consider McConnell crushed Bevin BECAUSE Bevin was a LOUSY candidate, and that wouldn't have happened if the Tea Party had run a CREDIBLE articulate conservative candidate like they did in Nebraska with Ben Sasse? Maybe the "Tea Party" needs to learn from their mistakes and get their act together instead of crying about how much it sucks that they lost?
You don’t know what the hell you are talking about.
You people would be castigating a Ronald Reagan clone for being a ‘lousy candidate’ too if he didn’t win.
McConnell would have ‘CRUSHED’ whomever ran against him. That is what Machine politicians and cronyism do to challengers.
McConnell spent millions in an unlimited war chest of nasty attack ads bashing Bevin for well over a YEAR and it has been NON-STOP. McConnell had the help of local KY media who essentially reported McConnell press releases as news reports.
I find it interesting that the race was called for McConnell before the polls closed yesterday with the same percentage in the final that they declared in the late afternoon.
I’ve only experienced something similar like that before in Cook County, IL.
Bevin was a lousy candidate who kept doing stupid things like speaking before the John Birch Society and supporting the legalization of cock fighting in KY, and there is nothing in his background that supports his claim that he’s a conservative—we just have his word for it, and we know that he’s far from honest, as his risible claim to being an MIT graduate shows. A good candidate running to the right of Mitch McConnell could have defeated him, and then gone on to trounce Grimey (as she prefers to be called) in the general, but, alas, McConnell didn’t face a good candidate in the primary. I think that we really got lucky that Bevin lost the primary, because I’m afraid that he would have lost to Grimey, but, had Bevin defeated McConnell, he would have had my enthusiastic support, since even if Bevin turned out to be disappointing or incompetent he’d still be a heck of a lot better than giving Grimey a six-year Senate term and allowing Reid to control the Senate agenda.