Mitch McConnell at War

National Review Online ^ | November 8, 2013 | Jonathan Strong

[Timber Rattler]

Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell likes to say, “If someone flicks a pebble at you, you hurl a boulder back at him.” His political team is just as emphatic. Some Republicans in Kentucky who flirted with working for his primary opponent, Matt Bevin, were told by the McConnell allies that they would get the “death penalty.” Another frequent warning: “Mitch McConnell doesn’t take prisoners.”

McConnell’s team “shoots the wounded on the battlefield as a matter of course,” says University of Virginia professor Larry Sabato. A former GOP leadership aide who has seen the McConnell operation up close sounds terrified. “They’re all killers,” he says, without a trace of humor in his voice. “These are not guys to be trifled with. They are burn it down, p*** on it, then blow it up kind of guys.”

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But the blacklisting of Jamestown has deeply unsettled people involved in the behind-the-scenes machinery of GOP politics. Senator John Cornyn of Texas also canceled a small contract with the firm, which produces political television ads for a wide array of GOP candidates, including many moderates. Cornyn has sought to distance himself from this action, though. “I’m not involved,” he told me.

The scope of the blacklisting is probably limited to Jamestown, which pitched the NRSC on new business even while its anti-McConnell ads were on the air in Kentucky. But the blacklisting has sent a message that seems to be getting out loud and clear. Several other Republican ad firms privately told NRSC officials that they now “understand the rules,” sources say. For now, Jamestown is sticking with the SCF.

[Timber Rattler]

Be sure to read the second page of the article...it's enlightening.

If only McConnell fought his "good friend" Harry Reid and the Rats as hard as he fights Conservatives...

[ken5050]

McConnell is gonna lose the primary, and we are going to win the Senate, and I will take the greatest possibly pleasure in knowing that it is absolutely killing that SOB McConnell that he won't get to be Majority Leader...

Schadenfreude, baby!!! Payback's a bitch..

[AU72]

We can’t take on the liberals if we keep getting backstabbed by RINOs.

[PATRIOT1876]

I hope Bevin wins.

McConnell shot us in the back and threw us in the tiger pit at the end of the Obamacare shutdown.

[PATRIOT1876]

Schadenfreudefest in Frankfort's Crazee Schadenfreude Daze held the day after the primaries.

BYOB*

Bring Yer Own Bourbon

[GeronL]

McConnell is tough only on conservatives

[ken5050]

If McConnell does manage to win the primary, he'll likely lose the general election.. I have a campaign slogan re4ady to roll out:

"Dump Mitch. Elect the bitch!"

[Paine in the Neck]

Support Matt Bevin to oust Mitch McConnell in KY

[Irenic]

"For McConnell, this is the direst threat of his career,"

That's part of the problem. They are supposed to serve not make it a lifelong career. Terms limits would resolve much of this ugly bull.

[Free Vulcan]

Senate Conservatives website to contribute: http://www.senateconservatives.com/

Let’s bring McConman down.

[Graewoulf]

Time for a REALITY check, Mitch:

1.) What have you ever done to reverse the steamrolling success against the US Constitution and the US Congress of B. Hussein Obama and Harry Reid?

2.) Has Harry Reid ever thanked you for coming up with your “Continuing Resolutions” to bypass the need to have a Federal Spending Budget for 5 years?

[11th Commandment]

Be sure to read the second page of the article...it's enlightening.

A definitive argument for terms limits and the other reforms proposed by Mark Levin.

[jim999]

Ditch Obama’s Bitch Mitch!

[skinkinthegrass]

Retire these Gutle$$ Old Party B@$@$D$; don't show
them any respect for their previous actions / deeds.
BOOT ' EM ALL OUT!

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