Mitch McConnell: Time for GOP Establishment to 'Stand Up to' Tea Party

Breitbart.com/Big-Government ^ | 12-1-2013 | Matthew Boyle

[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.”

[RginTN]

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.

[Stayfree]

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..............

[RobbyS]

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

[dalereed]

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

They are all a bunch of damn socialists!

[GOP Poet]

love it!!!!

[GOP Poet]

The GOP establishment is going to learn a painful lesson when they pick a fight with the Tea Party.

True dat!!!!!!!!

[RginTN]

Mcconnell needs to be reminded what happened to Tom Daschle.

[M.K. Borders]

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.

[Stingray]

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!

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[skinkinthegrass]

I'm just glad, that I'm not birdbrain, cattywyman or wonderwyman...*snickering*

[mountainlion]

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.

[Ron H.]

Mitch McConnell must go!!

[Ron H.]

Bump for Ted!