Posted on 08/13/2013 6:15:45 AM PDT by cotton1706
Matt Bevin is running against Sen. Mitch McConnell in Kentucky’s Republican primary. Bevin appeared on the Andrea Tantaros Show today and hammered away at McConnell for being a Senate deal-maker whose deals, says Bevin, tend not to benefit the American people or the Republican Party.
Bevin also laid down a marker for how he would behave if he defeats McConnell: “There is no chance that I will become a career politician.”
The Tea Party-flavored Bevin told Tantaros that his Senate models are not long-serving politicians of either party, but new senators like fellow Kentuckian Rand Paul and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas. Those senators, Bevin says, make their decisions with the American people, not their party or short-term personal advantage, in mind.
Tantaros asked Bevin to describe McConnell’s Senate career in one word. Bevin chose “bailouts,” highlighting McConnell’s support for the 2008 bank bailouts. McConnell has tried to turn the bailout issue to his own advantage by dubbing his opponent “Bailout Bevin,” along with charging that Bevin accepted $200,000 from the state of Connecticut when his bell-making business was in trouble.
Listen to the entire interview here.
I am wondering if the Republicans are going to give a Senate seat to the Democrats again just like they did in 2010 and 2012 because of some ideological issues.
I like this guy! He fights!
And to be perfectly honest, if the choice is a Democrat and a liberal Republican, who cares which wins? You get the same results.
It's good to see that Graham has lots of challengers in the primary. That means a better chance of getting rid of him.
/johnny
this is a local election with NKY right across the river and to be honest, the radio ads against Bevins dont paint him as much of a conservative at all. as an Ohioan there isnt much for me to get involved with there but it sure sounds like there are better candidates than Bevin out there. taxpayer funded bailouts of his businesses, not paying his taxes in the first place, hanging out with liberal politicians.... couldnt KY have done better?
/johnny
Like McConnell? No thanks.
Are you so easily swayed by radio ads?
“There’s no chance I’ll become a career politician.”
Ah, here we go....
While I like this guy and his election would shoot a warning shot over the RNC bow, I’ve heard this before....
Like from Sen. Tom Coburn, right?
Once they walk the Halls of Power, they sing a different tune.
... meow ....
Actually what I see is that the people around here are not political at all. They however can spot a liar and a con-man fairly easily and McConnell for years has been one in saying one thing and doing another. Bevin is still an unknown but after the success of Rand Paul I think he has a shot just because he isn’t McConnell.
No matter what though, I see this as contest that is going to get very nasty as McConnell pulls out the stops. I just hope that Bevin uses that against him by saying:
“See how McConnell tries to destroy his Conservative opponents and refuses to do the same to the Liberals who are destroying our country with their policies. Doesn’t it make you wonder that maybe he agrees with the Liberals more than he agrees with the Conservatives?”
“Career politician”
Coburn IS leaving the Senate, whatever else we might think of his tenure there, which seems to have gone off the rails.
At post #10, there is video of Matt Bevin's speech at the Fancy Farm Picnic. McConnell's ad is bunk; pure flop sweat. He's scared.
Also right across the river from Kentucky, and McConnell has flooded the airwaves with anti-Bevin ads. Since I listen to talk radio, that mean McConnell is flooding conservative radio with his ads. I already know that McConnell is not a conservative.
I’m waiting for Bevins to reply, but that’s the difference between a well-heeled candidate running on lobbyist money, and a newcomer. Bevins, though, should at least get something in print to reply to the tax and government loan accusations.
I’ll assume his not answering means can’t answer.
And I’m solidly on the side of replacing McConnell. I’d like it to be with a conservative, though. There is some value, I suppose, in simply replacing McConnell given his complicity in side-tracking the conservative agenda for years now. He really needs to go.
I’d be in favor of replacing McConnell with a pro-life moderate Republican without McConnell’s connections and lobbyist indebtedness and leadership ability to backstab conservative initiatives.
But, I recall, when he was first elected, didn’t he vow to term limit himself which went by the wayside when the time came?
Have always thought he was a poster child for going against his promise.
Am I wrong?
Good. I’m going support fighters, not talkers.
Cruz / Paul / Lee / Gowdy / Chavetz / Scott Walker are fighters.
Good help us, Ms. Tantaros is supposed to be on our side, but she is simply stupid.
Is it stupidity or GOPe careerism that makes her boost insider/carpetbagger Liz Cheney over the more conservative Enzi? The way she’s defending McConnell and boosting Cheney suggest it’s GOPe careerism on her part—down to her chuckling when he says he’s voted for McConnell in the past, because he’s voted for the Republican.
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