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Exclusive -- McConnell: Tea Party 'Bullies' Who Need Punch in Nose
breitbart.com ^ | 11/22/13 | Matthew Boyle

Posted on 11/22/2013 9:30:20 AM PST by cotton1706

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said on a conference call organized by Karl Rove’s Crossroads organization for large donors and their advisers on Oct. 30 that the Tea Party movement, in his view, is a “nothing but a bunch of bullies” that he plans to “punch … in the nose.”

On the call, according to a donor who was on it, McConnell personally named Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) as Tea Party conservatives he views as problematic for him. “The bulk of it was an attack on the Tea Party in general, Cruz in particular,” the source, a prominent donor, said in a phone interview with Breitbart News.

But the most memorable line came at the end of the call.

“McConnell said the Tea Party was ‘nothing but a bunch of bullies,’” the source said. “And he said ‘you know how you deal with schoolyard bullies? You punch them in the nose and that’s what we’re going to do.’”

Rove, as well as American Crossroads President and CEO Steven J. Law who also serves as the president of sister group Crossroads GPS, were also on the call. Rove “talked in a slightly gentler way, or let’s say, a more diplomatic way,” the source said. “But the message was pretty well the same: That if we’re going to save this thing, we have to back real Republicans.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cruz; defundkarlrove; defundmitchmcconnell; elections; karlrove; mcconnell; mikelee; primarymcconnell; teaparty; teapartybullies
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More evidence every day that this man is not interested in advancing the cause of conservatism in any way. He just wants republicans elected...the ones he picks, through his crony at the NRSC, and through his hand-picked chairman, Roy Blunt and its former chairman, his current lieutenant, John Cornyn.

Mitch McConnell is a power-hungry, vindictive, insidious man.

1 posted on 11/22/2013 9:30:20 AM PST by cotton1706
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“Pointing to how Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid just invoked the “nuclear option,” breaking 225-year old Senate rules to slip through President Obama’s liberal nominees, an aide to a Tea Party lawmaker said that McConnell’s focus on trying to go after the Tea Party has jeopardized Senate Republicans’ chances at actually beating Democrats. “Under Sen. McConnell’s watch, Republicans today just got rolled over by Democrats who pushed the button on the nuclear option, destroying years of well-established Senate order,” the aide said in an email to Breitbart News. “Perhaps if he focused less on destroying the Tea Party and more on defeating Democrats, he’d have more to show for his leadership.”


2 posted on 11/22/2013 9:30:54 AM PST by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

How’s his conservative primary opponent doing? Bevin, I think?


3 posted on 11/22/2013 9:31:33 AM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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Can’t wait to see him cry in 2014 despite using every sleazeball tactic the DNC andtheir actiists could throw his way.


4 posted on 11/22/2013 9:32:15 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: cotton1706

FUMM, I support Matt Bevin!!!

See my tagline to see how you can help oust Mitch from the Senate!


5 posted on 11/22/2013 9:32:45 AM PST by MeganC (Support Matt Bevin to oust Mitch McConnell! https://mattbevin.com/)
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To: cotton1706

That means amnesty and God only knows what else.


6 posted on 11/22/2013 9:32:51 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
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To: cotton1706

I hope Sarah Steelman primaries Blunt.


7 posted on 11/22/2013 9:32:52 AM PST by chae (I was anti-Obama before it was cool)
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To: cotton1706
We run the RNC, how dare the conservatives try to have a voice.
8 posted on 11/22/2013 9:33:06 AM PST by hadaclueonce (This tag left blank on purpose)
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9 posted on 11/22/2013 9:33:25 AM PST by LyinLibs (If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
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10 posted on 11/22/2013 9:33:40 AM PST by LyinLibs (If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
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11 posted on 11/22/2013 9:33:50 AM PST by LyinLibs (If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
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To: cotton1706

Yet another old angry man with no concept of what is going on.


12 posted on 11/22/2013 9:34:15 AM PST by Zathras
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13 posted on 11/22/2013 9:34:23 AM PST by LyinLibs (If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
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I should have realized a decade ago about that beady-eyed little fat boy. He should still be wearing a beanie cap and short pants in my estimation. He is nothing but evil in my book, evil on the scale of Democrats, frankly. Goiter neck? Just another old lying appeaser who treasures power more than the treasure of our nation. He doesn’t even know what it is. Utterly disgusting.


14 posted on 11/22/2013 9:34:29 AM PST by Gaffer
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Rush is covering this now. He also mentioned that McConnell said he wants to fix the nuclear disaster orchestrated by reid yesterday by winning back the Senate and then changing the rules back!


15 posted on 11/22/2013 9:35:24 AM PST by pgkdan (Stay Calm and Cruz on! Ted Cruz for President in 2016!)
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Hey you old goat, why don't you go punch Harry Reid and stop attacking T.E.A. Party Conservatives!!

Friend of Rove, that's all ya need to know.

16 posted on 11/22/2013 9:36:17 AM PST by TexasCajun
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“Rush is covering this now. He also mentioned that McConnell said he wants to fix the nuclear disaster orchestrated by reid yesterday by winning back the Senate and then changing the rules back!”

Right, and the meaning is obvious. McConnell wants to help democrat get their nominees through but make sure that no future republican president can get their nominees through “because that would be fair.”


17 posted on 11/22/2013 9:37:03 AM PST by cotton1706
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McConnell is such a gentlemanly loser.


18 posted on 11/22/2013 9:37:17 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie (Actually, they lie when it suits them! The crooked MS media must be defeated any way it can be done!)
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To: cotton1706

Feel the love...


19 posted on 11/22/2013 9:39:31 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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SO ... what will happen in the future, is that when Democrats are in power, they change it to the nuclear option — and then — every time the Republicans are in power, they change it back again! ... LOL ...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3094384/posts


20 posted on 11/22/2013 9:39:50 AM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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