Posted on 02/03/2014 9:43:17 AM PST by mn-bush-man
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell runs dead even with Democratic challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes in Rasmussen Reports’ first look at the 2014 U.S. Senate race in Kentucky. But McConnell’s GOP primary rival Matt Bevin leads Grimes by six points. (snip)
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Thune used to be good, but of late has turned into a wimp and a waste. Another loser. Bob
If Grimey (as she prefers to be called) is elected to the Senate, I declare the forthcoming GOP Senate stillborn. Two more years of Obama packing the courts. And if the GOP wins enough Senate races in other states to get a razor-thin Senate majority despite losing the KY seat, the RATs certainly will win the Senate back in 2016 when we have all those tough seats to defend.
I have no problem with someone with a conservative whose background and record makes him likely to win a general election taking out McConnell in the primary, but running some Paultard off the street who claimed to be an MIT grad because he once listened to a lecture from some guy who rented out an MIT conference room is not a good plan. The GOP got lucky in 2010 with Rand Paul, because Rand (i) is smart enough not to say the kind of things that his father says (except for that hiccup when he said that he’d vote against the Civil Rights Act, which he then took back) and (ii) it was 2010, but Bevin does not appear to be as sharp as Rand, and 2014, while a promising GOP year, may not turn out to be 2010.
I have no problem taking a calculated gamble to nominate grassroots conservatives over less conservative establishment types (I supported Mourdoch over Lugar, Cruz over Dewhurst, Lee over Bennett, Rubio over Frist, Toomey over Specter, DeMint over Beasley, etc.), but nominating a Paultard with no experience or accomplishments is not my idea of progress towards a more conservative America.
Outstanding! Did I miss it or did it say how Bevin was doing in the Primary? I didn’t see it.
Gotta get by the Primary first and last I saw Bevins was in bad shape in that one. BUT ... the poll I saw was several weeks ago I believe. Can’t find a new one.
“...I have no problem with someone with a conservative whose background and record makes him likely to win a general election taking out McConnell in the primary, but running some Paultard off the street who claimed to be an MIT grad because he once listened to a lecture from some guy who rented out an MIT conference room is not a good plan....”
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Well, the views of the GOPe “concerned” raise their heads.
The Tea Party just had to oust McConnell instead of concentrating on working on getting a majority in the senate in states where they had Democrats holding seats. Now we are stretched out farther than we can cover and we will be very, very lucky to get a majority. I hope the Tea Party will settle down and realize their limitations. Grow up please, and grow up in a hurry.
How much is McConnell paying you? Couple hundred bucks maybe?
Ping.
Really? Don't care for the TEA party, eh?
And, you signed up....today!....to tell us this?
Something definitely smells about this....
Judi smells like a potential Mitch lackey or as DUmmie troll. Either way, zotting is necessary.
I see Kittehs in her future ;D
EXCELLENT NEWS!
Judi...The Tea Party has the same limitations our Founding Fathers placed on themselves...Absolutely none.
We are in this battle to win our freedom even if it costs us our lives and fortunes.
Yes, we are serious.
It’ time Yertel the Turtle went back to Kentucky and retired to his favorite fence post.
Time to send another check to Mr. Bevin.
GO BEVIN!
And the Paulistinians come running in with bated breath.
Are you really incapable of distinguishing between a good candidate who claims to be conservative and a bad candidate who claims to be conservative? Here’s a primer:
Ted Cruz: intelligent, accomplished, his deeds match his words, not a Paultard: good candidate.
Debra Medina: Paultard, not very accomplished in anything pertinent, has no record on which to judge whether her deeds match her views, fellow traveler of “9-11 Truthers”: not a good candidate.
Jim Bridenstine: intelligent, accomplished, his deeds (at least in his year in the House) match his words, not a Paultard: good candidate (although may need a bit more seasoning before running for the Senate).
T.W. Shannon: intelligent, accomplished, his deeds match his words, not a Paultard: good candidate.
Matt Bevin: Paultard, not particularly accomplished (although I’m sure he’s at least competent in the business world if they let him run the family business), has no record on which to judge whether his deeds match his views, lied on his LinkedIn page so as to pretend to be an MIT graduate: not a good candidate.
Thom Tillis: intelligent, accomplished, his deeds match his words, not a Paultard: good candidate.
Greg Brannon: Paultard, not very accomplished in anything pertinent (although I don’t doubt that he’s a fine doctor), has no record on which to judge whether his deeds match his views (his only political act prior to last year was donating to Paultard congressional candidate B.J. Lawson): not a good candidate.
Christine O’Donnell: not at all accomplished, serial fibber and deadbeat, has no record on which to judge whether her deeds match her views: not a good candidate (although she *is* cute, got to give her that).
Now, sometimes someone who appears to be a good candidate makes a mistake and loses what should have been am easy election, such as what happened to Mourdock and Akin in 2012 (although in Akin’s case his absurd reaction to his mistake—digging in and staying in the race while holding on to the fig leaf of a PPP poll doctored to show him as competitive when every other poll confirmed that he would lose in a landslide—means that he always was a crappy candidate who merely had gotten lucky in the past). And sometimes cases are closer, such as Sharron Angle, Joe Miller and Ken Buck, who had some experience in politics and public service, but had some red flags, and then proved to be Akin-like in their tone-deafness. But the cases I mentioned above are fairly clear-cut in my estimation.
If someone is to challenge McConnell from the right (a challenge that I welcome), why did it have to be such a flawed candidate as Bevin? I understand that the most obvious choices—the members of the state’s congressional delegation—were not a particularly good group from which to choose, since three of them (Whitfield, Rogers and Guthrie) are as pro-establishment as McConnell and the other two have very little experience in Congress (and one, Massie, is a Paultard). But there must be some state legislators or mayors, or some prominent military veterans or businessmen with impeccable credentials, who could run against McConnell, beat him in the primary, and beat Grimey (as she prefers to be called) decisively in November. None of them ran. (A few nobodies also filed, but a couple of them already dropped out.)
In 2010, Congressman Mike Castle was the only viable Republican running for the Senate in Delaware. Now, Castle was an execrable RINO, and was not much better than a Democrat on many issues. But nobody with a decent shot of winning ran against him. Pete DuPont would have made one kick-ass Senator, even in his advanced age, but he didn’t run; neither did other conservatives who had the sort of background that could allow them to win in tough terrain such as liberal Delaware, at least in a year such as 2010 against a second-tier Democrat such as Chris Coons. But they didn’t run. Christine O’Donnell ran, but she was such a terrible candidate that I was forced to say that I’d rather have the RINO Castle beat her in the primary—that’s how bad she was. And when she beat Castle, it handed the seat to the Democrats, not just for the four years remaining in Biden’s term, but for *decades*, since Delaware isn’t the type of state that votes out incumbent Democrat Senators (heck, Joe Biden was reelected six times), as proven by the fact that Coons is up in 2014 and no Republican has yet stepped up to challenge him.
Now, Bevin isn’t nearly as bad a candidate as O’Donnell, but McConnell is nowhere near as bad as Castle (if you don’t see that, then you haven’t looked at their respective voting records), and Bevin being a Paultard really makes it an easy choice for me. THE ONE THING WE KNOW ABOUT BEVIN IS THAT HE DRINKS THE L. RON PAUL KOOLAID. He has stated publicly that he *agrees with Ron Paul’s foreign policy*, which, as we all know, is giving up all our bases to our enemies, letting Islamofascists get the nuclear bomb, and sacrificing Israel to the Islamist hordes (plus open borders with Mexico). so maybe Bevin would vote for someone like Ted Cruz for majority leader? Well, God bless him for that, but I’d rather have Ted Cruz wait a couple of more years before becoming leader if it means that we have a conservative (albeit establishment) Republican in the Senate from KY instead of a 75% chance of a liberal Democrat and a 25% chance of a Paultard.
That’s my two cents.
Sniff, sniff.....snuffle...sniff....
AROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
WE GOT EM TREED!
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