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Mitch McConnell: Time for GOP Establishment to 'Stand Up to' Tea Party
Breitbart.com/Big-Government ^ | 12-1-2013 | Matthew Boyle

Posted on 12/01/2013 5:38:12 PM PST by servo1969

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican up for re-election in 2014, told the Washington Examiner in an interview published Friday that he believes it is time for the GOP establishment to stop conservatives and Tea Partiers.

McConnell argued it is “utter nonsense” for groups like the Senate Conservatives Fund (SCF), which has endorsed his primary challenger businessman Matt Bevin, to argue that Republicans like him in Congress are not fighting hard enough to defeat Democrats. In the interview, McConnell focused on deriding Tea Partiers for leading the effort to defund Obamacare—something that, coupled with the Democrats’ refusal to compromise on the soon-to-fail Obamacare, resulted in a government shutdown.

“The Senate Conservatives Fund is giving conservatism a bad name,” McConnell told the Examiner for the piece titled “The Establishment Fights Back: Mitch McConnell leads GOP battle against Tea Party insurgents.”

“They’re [SCF] participating in ruining the [Republican] brand,” McConnell said. “What they do is mislead their donors into believing the reason that we can’t get as good an outcome as we’d like to get is not because of a Democratic Senate and a Democratic president, but because Republicans are insufficiently committed to the cause—which is utter nonsense.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: conservatives; cruz; gop; mcconnell; primarymcconnell; shutdown; teaparty; uniparty
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To: servo1969

Attacking your voting base in a primary is epic stupidity. Worse than Todd Akin’s sillyness.

Mcconnell has been in the DC bubble too long.


101 posted on 12/01/2013 11:12:06 PM PST by RginTN
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To: molson209

I can not believe how blind and stupid this anus is...he is so rich and entrenched that he can not relate to the patriotism of the Tea Party. Get rid of this garbage who calls himself a Republican..............


102 posted on 12/01/2013 11:16:31 PM PST by Stayfree (If it is left, then it can't be right!)
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To: RginTN

McConnell and his wife have made millions in DC. I am sure that lots of people depend on his keeping his power and influence.


103 posted on 12/01/2013 11:22:56 PM PST by RobbyS (quotes)
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To: servo1969

Time to vote GOP establishment out of office starting with McConnell!!!

They are all a bunch of damn socialists!


104 posted on 12/01/2013 11:40:23 PM PST by dalereed
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To: usconservative

love it!!!!


105 posted on 12/02/2013 12:51:18 AM PST by GOP Poet
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To: JJHLH1
The GOP establishment is going to learn a painful lesson when they pick a fight with the Tea Party.

True dat!!!!!!!!

106 posted on 12/02/2013 12:54:12 AM PST by GOP Poet
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To: RobbyS

Mcconnell needs to be reminded what happened to Tom Daschle.


107 posted on 12/02/2013 1:15:28 AM PST by RginTN
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To: servo1969
Bring it Mitch.
The fact is, you can't stand up to the Tea Party. That's the genius of the thing. There is no leadership to defile and comprise. No headquarters to picket. No membership to exclude.
Our weapon is the primaries, and it works so good you can't sleep at night.
Just like the day at Lexington and Concord. You march down the road in orderly formation while we occupy every wood and hedgerow.
Bring it Mitch. Bring it.
Lugar stood up to us.
108 posted on 12/02/2013 2:16:31 AM PST by M.K. Borders (All I require of my government is the liberty my Grandfathers were born to.)
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To: servo1969

MM: “It didn’t work in 2010...”

Actually, it did you weasel. The GOP got the house back and the 41st vote against Obamacare (until Dirty Harry changed the Senate Rules).

And it was all due to the Tea Party. Certainly you had nothing to do with it, you friggin’ loser!


109 posted on 12/02/2013 2:57:07 AM PST by Stingray (Stand for the truth or you'll fall for anything.)
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110 posted on 12/02/2013 3:11:40 AM PST by Stingray (Stand for the truth or you'll fall for anything.)
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111 posted on 12/02/2013 3:21:02 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi 8-)
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To: Caipirabob
Kick out the RINOs in the GOP and take it over, listen to them cry. How are you going to take over the GOP especially when it is in control of the globalists? Time to start over.
112 posted on 12/02/2013 5:49:07 AM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: servo1969

Mitch McConnell must go!!


113 posted on 12/03/2013 2:11:14 PM PST by Ron H. (Impeach Obama.)
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To: JJHLH1

Bump for Ted!


114 posted on 12/03/2013 2:14:43 PM PST by Ron H. (Impeach Obama.)
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