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Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell's win continues GOP establishment surge
Los Angeles Times ^ | 05/20/2014 | MICHAEL A. MEMOLI, LISA MASCARO

Posted on 05/20/2014 7:20:00 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Incumbent Republicans appeared poised to cruise to victory in key primary elections Tuesday, offering fresh evidence that the party’s establishment wing has successfully neutralized outside conservative groups that have vexed congressional leaders since the rise of the tea party.

In Kentucky, Sen. Mitch McConnell, the party’s leader in the Senate, easily won renomination for a sixth term against a tea-party-backed challenger who hoped to tap into tea party activists’ distrust of GOP leaders in Washington. Shortly after polls closed, the Associated Press declared McConnell the winner.

McConnell now faces what will probably be a more significant challenge in the general election from Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, who glided to the Democratic nomination Tuesday.

As in Kentucky, an effort by conservative groups to unseat an ally of House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) appeared to fizzle in Idaho. Rep. Mike Simpson was on track to defeat his tea-party-funded challenger, Bryan Smith, with help from a late infusion of outside spending from establishment groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: kentucky; mitchmcconnell; senate; teaparty
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To: JRandomFreeper

Pain will be the ultimate teacher.


41 posted on 05/20/2014 8:06:26 PM PDT by justrepublican (Screaming like a "Vexatious requester" at a Wellstone memorial...........)
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To: Kansas58
Having the majority in the Senate matters.

You liberal republicans keep screaming that, but history shows that the last time the pubs had a majority in the senate, they legislated like liberals and spent like drunken sailors.

Your majority argument would be ok, if the leadership wasn't liberal.

Remember the gang of 14 that blocked conservative governance?

/johnny

42 posted on 05/20/2014 8:06:58 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: SADMILLIE

And the press spins it...not that 40 percent of your own voters don’t want you. It’s a “surge.” When Buchanan got 40 percent against Bush in the 1992 NH Primary, it was reported as proof of the incumbent’s deep unpopularity.

Screw the media pigs. Their favorites are the Dems, followed by the GOP fifth column.


43 posted on 05/20/2014 8:07:23 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: boycott
$$$$s and a weak opponent assured mitch the win.

Let's see; how many "weak" candidates have cost us elections? Matt Bevin, Sharron Angle, Christine O'Donnell, Richard Mourdock, Tod Akin..... And those are just losses in Senate Seats. Why in the hell can we not find a candidate like Chris McDaniel more often. Or at least a candidate with the IQ higher than a freakin' can of Spam?
44 posted on 05/20/2014 8:07:55 PM PDT by Din Maker
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To: ConorMacNessa

If I lived in Kentucky, I’d vote for Alison L. Grimes in November. Screw Mitch.


45 posted on 05/20/2014 8:09:20 PM PDT by Din Maker
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To: Kansas58
if you allow a pro-abort gun grabber to win

I'm glad I didn't help Romney win, then. Because he certainly had a history of being pro-abortion, and outlawing guns.

/johnny

46 posted on 05/20/2014 8:10:06 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: SADMILLIE

That’s the most brilliant plan that I have seen in many, many years. You’ll show ‘em, that’s for sure.


47 posted on 05/20/2014 8:10:30 PM PDT by centurion316
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To: SADMILLIE

1. Rand Paul would not be in the Senate without running as a Tea Party candidate. Rand Paul sold the Tea Party out making a deal for Mitch’s support for Rand’s presidential run.

2. If Rand endorsed Bevin how close would that race have been with the Paul ground game, and Rand raising Bevin’s name recognition?

3. Bevin lost but 36% of GOP/Tea voters dislike Mitch.

4. Mitch ran a scorched earth campaign against the Tea Party
saying they were all crooks (some are, so are GOPe) yet dollar for dollar Tea Party so far has elected more people per dollar raised than Karl Rove lost a Billion dollars last election.

5. Tea Party is a grass roots organization no one person is in charge. 36% of GOP must first forgive Mitch for going after Tea Party people as kooks, Hobbits, extremists before he can get them to show up to vote for him in November.

6. I am betting a lot of those 36% will vote for the Democrat because Mitch violated the Reagan 11th commandment
he went after the conservative base Reagan said “thou shalt not speak ill(on a personal level) of a fellow Republican”


48 posted on 05/20/2014 8:19:02 PM PDT by Zenjitsuman (New Boss Nancy Pelosi)
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To: dowcaet; All
McConnell....knows now there are enough Republicans who could stay home and doom his reelection chances. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Why stay home? The Anti-Mitch folks should vote in all the down-ballot races and skip the Senate Race.... or.... they could grow a pair and vote for Grimes in the General Electiion, to teach that RINO bastard a lesson like a man, with balls, would treat his wife who is whoring around on him. If a man's wife is cheating on him with a half-dozen other men, when hubby is out of town, and he knows it, but as long as she makes out like she loves him when he's home, and he's content to stay in that situation well, let the stupid s.o.b. suffer the pain of betrayal. Anyone who votes for Mitch McConnell deserves what they get.... SCREWED!!!
49 posted on 05/20/2014 8:19:09 PM PDT by Din Maker
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To: headstamp 2

Who will win in the fall? The Dip#### or the Pub-E?


50 posted on 05/20/2014 8:19:16 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Did the Dems vote early and often for Mitch or is it a closed primary?
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Why would he need the Dems to vote for him when there are as many stupid a** Republicans as there are to vote for him?


51 posted on 05/20/2014 8:22:20 PM PDT by Din Maker
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To: exit82

Dude.... Your Post #33 wins the Prize for the Post of the Month for May!


52 posted on 05/20/2014 8:24:18 PM PDT by Din Maker
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To: Din Maker

ROFLMAO! Good point!


53 posted on 05/20/2014 8:25:21 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: SeekAndFind

54 posted on 05/20/2014 8:25:21 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Jack Hydrazine

One this is sure. Who ever wins.. we loose.


55 posted on 05/20/2014 8:27:02 PM PDT by cableguymn (It's time for a second political party.)
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To: Kansas58

Any man who doesn’t have the balls to bitch slap his wife who is whoring around on him with a dozen guys across the tracks isn’t a man at all. Mitch McConnell has been whoring around on the people he is supposed to be faithful to. Any Conservative man who does not bitch slap him is no man at all, but would be a political cuckold.


56 posted on 05/20/2014 8:29:50 PM PDT by Din Maker
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To: cableguymn

Lefty loosey, Righty loosey!


57 posted on 05/20/2014 8:33:13 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Well we got Alito and Roberts due to our majority. You won’t get those if we don’t have the majority that is guaranteed. We are one vote away from losing he Supreme Court. Ok we hate a decision here or there but try 100 percent of the time. Conservaitves need to pick good candidates. We have lost so many seats due to stupid candidates especially in the Senate.....They had Witch O’Donnell on all day today....it was obscene to continue to punish us for her stupidity.


58 posted on 05/20/2014 8:48:44 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Governor Scott Walker 2016 for the future of the country!)
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To: napscoordinator
Well we got Alito and Roberts due to our majority. You won’t get those if we don’t have the majority that is guaranteed.

Yeah, Roberts has turned out so well. /s

59 posted on 05/20/2014 8:49:25 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

lol. I like him better than having the “Sodermyer Court” which could happen at some point.


60 posted on 05/20/2014 8:51:40 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Governor Scott Walker 2016 for the future of the country!)
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