Posted on 05/20/2014 12:16:53 PM PDT by Baynative
Matt Bevin seemed like the ideal candidate to challenge Mitch McConnell. The handsome and personable businessman, a father of nine, impressed national conservative groups looking for a chance to knock off the Senate Republican leader.
These groups, from the Senate Conservatives Fund to FreedomWorks, the Tea Party Patriots and the Madison Project, invested more than $1 million in the Kentucky GOP primary. Bevin himself spent more than $3 million, including $1 million of his own fortune.
And, yet, polls indicate he’s going to get creamed Tuesday.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Poll yesterday showed 18%! still undecided.
Yeah, they could change their minds. Maybe already have.
We need a results thread.
I’m sorry, but I can’t read the obviously biased tripe at politico.com. They aren’t hiding who they are for, are they?
Sheesh. Have the polls closed? If not, then the fight is NOT over. These MSM/Polls and progressive media will do their best to report that they will win, and the other side shouldn’t have even bothered to show up, yadda yadda, all to get us to think, why bother and give up.
Boehner won’t lose. It has been solidly republican since the Civil War. Seriously.
We’ll have Boehner back to deal with. The biggest worry is the lame duck session and amnesty. House members could vote him out, but it would take a coup, and the odds are that Boehner would turn to his friends the democrats for Speaker votes.
So, throwing him out after the mid-terms isn’t very likely.
How do you make it impossible for a speaker to maneuver when he’ll side with the opposition?
I’m going to eat chicken tonight and pull a wishbone apart. :-) If McConnell wins, it appears he could very will lose the general. Seems to be enough outrage to put him in the old folks home for the Winter. I won’t miss him. See you Mitch.
Yep, I just wish Bevin was a stronger candidate. It sure would be nice to see McConnell gone. We already had our primary here in NC. The RINO candidate won.
I would not matter WHO ran against McConnell, even a clone of Reagan would have suffered the same attacks and machine vitriol that Bevin did. The Ruling Class would have put out all the stops to ensure he never got to the General Election and the know-it-alls amongst us would say the same thing about a Reagan Clone: "He wasn't a strong candidate".
It's all an illusion now anyway. We went Soviet notwithstanding the fact this people are become an emoting and superficial people where principles are seen as an evil to be discarded for expedience. People will vote for whom they think will "win", even if they cannot stand the candidate. They think it's all a gameshow and a horserace because that is how the media portrays it.
Please don't post anything tonight in which you express surprise or is stunned when McConnell wins. Thank you.
Romney wasn’t unelectable. Was he hated here? Yes, but he wasn’t unelectable. Don’t let your hate shade the truth.
Very well written and very true.
Actually, they’re reporting low turnout. That’s a sliver of hope for Bevin against a guy like McConnell who has only 30% approval in his own state.
You are confusing what a definition of what is a good man. Absolute extremists are like that.
Thank you. It is very nice to read someone not delusional on this site.
RINO attacks don’t win elections.
The people of Kentucky have to vote for one or the other. And if they really hate this guy as much as we keep hearing them this wouldn’t even be a discussion.
There are zero excuses for a loss here.
/johnny
Hurl - that’s just not going to happen. It amazes me how delusional people are on this site. Evidence can slap you in the face all day and all night and there is not one shred of recognizing reality. At the very least, it shows a naive understanding of politics.
Money talks, as does the media to tell the low info voters what to think and feel.
McConnell has been attacking Bevin continuously for over a year now.
Non-stop.
Relentless.
And the local media acts just like the national media does: it reports press releases from McConnell’s office as “news” while using the same talking points to bash Bevin for McConnell.
But of course all of this is moot if one understands that this nation went Soviet and elections are just a shell game to placate us into believing we have a choice anyway.
Fascism rules the day.
Extremely simple minded thinking.
I disagree. People do care about it. The fact that Bevin took that opportunity to talk about state’s rights shows he is not ready for prime time. A better candidate would have chosen a different time and place to discuss state’s rights.
The liberal GOP-E can't even do something as simple as find a pro-life, pro-gun, anti socialized medicine, anti amnesty, smaller government candidate.
And with the GOP absolutist purist liberal leadership in the legislature publicly declaring war on conservatives, it's obvious they are set to continue to be a minority in the Senate, and lose in 2016.
/johnny
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