Posted on 12/11/2013 8:17:39 AM PST by jimbo123
GOP senators have aggressively tried to keep their conservative base at bay to ensure there’s virtually no space on their right for a primary foe to emerge.
That didn’t work so well.
Republican primary challengers are lining up to take on sitting senators next year in eight of the 12 races involving sitting GOP senators, gunning for party leaders like Mitch McConnell in Kentucky, veterans like Thad Cochran in Mississippi and Pat Roberts in Kansas and deal-makers like Lindsey Graham in South Carolina. Texas Sen. John Cornyn became the latest target this week, when a fiercely conservative congressman, Steve Stockman, suddenly announced plans to challenge the Senate’s second-ranking Republican in next March’s primary.
“I think it’s pretty thin gruel,” Cornyn said of Stockman’s case for his candidacy: that the senator didn’t fight hard enough to defund Obamacare.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Booby Hatch was saved by Palin. Not one of her better moments.
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