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Leading Republicans Move to Stamp Out Challenges From Right
NY Times ^ | March 8, 2014 | Carl Hulse

Posted on 03/09/2014 9:27:26 AM PDT by Olog-hai

As conservative activist groups stirred up trouble for establishment Republican Senate candidates in 2010 and 2012, party leaders in Washington first tried to ignore the insurgents, then tried to reason with them, and ultimately left it to primary voters to settle the matter. […]

This election season, Republicans led by Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky are taking a much harder line as they sense the majority within reach. Top congressional Republicans and their allies are challenging the advocacy groups head on in an aggressive effort to undermine their credibility. The goal is to deny them any Senate primary victories, cut into their fund-raising and diminish them as a future force in Republican politics.

“I think we are going to crush them everywhere,” Mr. McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, said in an interview, referring to the network of activist organizations working against him and two Republican incumbents in Kansas and Mississippi while engaging in a handful of other contests. “I don’t think they are going to have a single nominee anywhere in the country.” …

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: gopestablishment; mitchmcconnell; rinos; teaparty; uniparty
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To: Olog-hai

Just see my tag line as to why this is.


61 posted on 03/09/2014 10:56:54 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
The Uniparty Jack.

They are the Uniparty.

62 posted on 03/09/2014 10:59:57 AM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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To: Olog-hai

Dream on Mitchie!


63 posted on 03/09/2014 11:05:13 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Kansas58

Yikes! Sounds like weirdness runs in the family.


64 posted on 03/09/2014 11:05:29 AM PDT by Aria ( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - they were coup d'etats.)
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To: Olog-hai; All

We true conservatives HAVE to work together and NOT allow rinos to win. If we can’t narrow our many conservative pick down to one or maybe two before the primary, we lose. The rinos have or will soon have their pick and will count on us diluting conservatives pick. I’m convinced that they purposely put people in to run who are very left to say their chosen candidate is a centrist, even if he’s a rino. All they need is one or two to do this. Portman, huntsman....

If conservatives don’t come to a consensus, we will lose. I Wish conservatives could have a pre-primary where rinos could not vote, before the actual primary. Cpac was filled with rinos and rand Paul supporters. Ron has passed the crown to his son Rand. I would love to see heritage or another true conservative org have a conservative debate and candidates involve must take certain stands. Anyone invited must have proven themselves by their past actions. No romney sudden conversions allowed.


65 posted on 03/09/2014 11:05:30 AM PDT by Linda Frances (Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness.)
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To: usconservative
I hope Mitch "Harry Reid's Bitch" McConnell enjoys staying in the minority.

He does. He enjoys it very much. He gets to keep his Senatorial perks, and has to do nothing at all to get them. It's called a "sinecure."

66 posted on 03/09/2014 11:07:42 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: vicar7

I agree with you. That’s why Senators and Congressmen make horrible presidents. We need a conservative president who can LEAD this country, not some squish senator.


67 posted on 03/09/2014 11:19:10 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Insurgent Conservative)
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To: Pietro

If the DNC infiltrated DNC agents as Trojan Horses into the Repub Party leadership, we would see Republican leaders like Boner & McSurrender (Repub leaders joining the Dems in attacking the Republicans, as Boner and McSurrender continue to do...their motto: “If you are not a Dem, the Repub Party does not want you.).


68 posted on 03/09/2014 11:26:16 AM PDT by OldArmy52 (The question is not whether Obama ever lies, but whether he ever tells the truth.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Rubio is my Senator and I will never vote for him for any office ever again. He lacks the principles to be a leader due to past surrender on immigration reform. I will not trust the GOP to properly lead in the Senate w/o a healthy insurgency of Tea Party principled folks.


69 posted on 03/09/2014 11:42:04 AM PDT by vicar7 ("Polls are for strippers and cross-country skiers" Sarah Palin)
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To: Olog-hai

Let them, I for one will never again vote for a Crat again. So the Rats win that race, what`s the f-ing difference!


70 posted on 03/09/2014 2:26:59 PM PDT by nomad
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To: SatinDoll

“This is so blatantly unprofessional of Sen.McConnell to have said this to the NYTimes, I suspect their reporters collected the “quote” from someone else or likely made it up.”

You give Ole Run-for-the-Rear McConnell way too much credit. This sounds exactly like McConnell, and fits in with a number of similar remarks he has made this campaign season according to more than one source.

McConnell and the Chamber of Commerce have made no secret that they are out to defeat conservatives/Tea Partiers.


71 posted on 03/09/2014 4:53:20 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: KC_Lion

That had to be one of her best digs ever!


72 posted on 03/10/2014 4:58:38 AM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44
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