How Mitch McConnell crushed the tea party

CNN ^ | 05-21-2014 | Peter Hamby

[PaulCruz2016]

Matt Bevin reaches into the breast pocket of his jacket and extracts a wrinkled, yellow piece of paper. "Fraud Alert," it reads, in alarming, official-seeming font. "Sensitive Materials Enclosed. Please Open Immediately."

A Republican he met received the notice in the mail a few weeks ago and showed it to Bevin, who now carries it with him wherever he goes.

Bevin, Mitch McConnell's tea party-backed Republican primary challenger in Kentucky, flattens it out on the table in the back of a community ballroom in Georgetown where he just addressed the Scott County Republican Party's Lincoln Day Dinner. The unfolded paper displays a litany of accusations against Bevin: He praised the Wall Street bailout in 2008. He doesn't pay his taxes. He padded his resume.

"This information is provided as a public service," the notice explains. It's an attack mailer from McConnell's re-election campaign, dressed up to look like an official government notice and sent to thousands of GOP primary voters across Kentucky.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

A vote for a Democrat is a vote for evil. Stay home by all means, but don’t pull the lever for a rat.

[Fiji Hill]

NOW, if real Americans do what Mark Levin is suggesting, stay home, then the 2 Billion dollar bitch loses in Nov.

As did the millions of conservatives who stayed home in 2012 and didn't vote for Romney and saved us from having a RINO as president

[Para-Ord.45]

With the same mantra when RINO Romney was running?

” Look, let`s just win the election and THEN things will change “

[CatherineofAragon]

"That is far worse than TEMPORARY acceptance of the GOPe!"

Temporary, hm? That's what I hear every time someone urges me to vote for a moderate/liberal GOPer. Tell me, when exactly is all this "temporary" capitulating going to force the GOPe out and conservatives in?

[Para-Ord.45]

Ur right.

RINO Romney would have changed EVERYTHING. Like for instance instituting RonmeyCare nation wide. The program Obama based his model on.

[SoConPubbie]

I am not asking you to like Mitch, I don't particularly like the guy. I am asking you to keep your emotions out of this and think.

I don't believe you. Your posting history proves otherwise.

[SoConPubbie]

I guess it’s the sentiment of some. Not me. I want the senate majority back and keep working to get more and more conservative members. Dems know this and have done the same on the left.

Problem is, that your approach, "The lesser of two evils", has never been shown to work, in fact, the GOP-E is galloping to the left as we speak, and all the while, for the last decade, people like you have been encouraging everyone to in the same exact approach.

The results on the ground, an ever-leftward leaning GOP, proves your approach does not work.

[cripplecreek]

LOL exactly.

In the last primary season they repeatedly posted their “concerns” about conservative candidates. Then when Romney won the primary they announced that “We all gotta come together” and quit posting till the next election.

[catfish1957]

Lets see..... a standing minority Senate leader with absolutely overwhelming financial advantage does not get 40% of the vote. Hardly crushing. I'd say in was more like a warning shot from the Tea Party.

The MSM spin to make the tea party look bad is almost laughable.

[Kit cat]

OUR TEA PATRIOTS NEED to RUN on TERM LIMITS !!!!! They will win
with this as a main issue!!!!!! THEY ALSO NEED to stand by term limits
GO HOME after 2 TERMS PERIOD!!!!!!!! Lobbyists would NO LONGER
HAVE THEIR SPECIAL GUY IN THEIR BACK POCKET!!!!!!

[Kansas58]

Ronald Reagan would endorse Mitch McConnell over any Democrat.

Sara Palin will do just that.
EVERY conservative leader will back McConnell.

Because that is far better strategy than the guaranteed loss to the Democrats if you don't!

[cuban leaf]

A vote for a Democrat is a vote for evil. Stay home by all means, but don’t pull the lever for a rat.

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Two things.
1. Evil? Compared to what? The Republican? Get serious.
2. I want to actively (not passively) oust this turkey.

[austinaero]

“You advocate surrender to Obama.

That is far worse than TEMPORARY acceptance of the GOPe! “

There is very little difference in those two actions, IMHO.

[ItsOurTimeNow]

Same here. McConnell showed his true contempt for conservatives. He’ll bear the brunt of it this November. You don’t sh!t on your base, then ask for a dollar & a vote.

[Stegall Tx]

Bevin praised cock fighting and dog fighting did he not?

That's the problem. He did not do that, it's just that the GOP-e used that attack against him so effectively that they got true conservatives to spread their lies for them.

As has been pointed out over and over, if only McConnell would direct as much energy towards protecting our freedom as he does protecting his cushy job in Washington, he'd be a great Senator. As it is, he spends all his time trying to destroy any conservative that crosses his path, including those who should eventually displace him when his time in the Senate comes to a close.

[Theophilus]

McConnell straight-jacketed the convulsions?

[SoConPubbie]

Ronald Reagan would endorse Mitch McConnell over any Democrat.

"We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan

Not real sure your version of Reagan is the real version.

Probably more like what you want him to be versus what he really was.

I sincerely doubt he would have back the duplicitous and deceitful, and traitorous to conservatives Mitch McConnell. He'd probably just be quiet.

[SoConPubbie]

Bevin praised cock fighting and dog fighting did he not?

Prove it or shut up about this!

[Jagdgewehr]

EVERY conservative leader will back McConnell.

Possibly. However, many of those counted among today's crop of so-called conservative leaders have proven to be milksops or establishment shills.

Furthermore, I don't follow "conservative leaders." I follow pro-Constitution, pro-liberty patriots.

[Para-Ord.45]

Mitch, obama`s bitch, took 2 Billion.

You liked being lied to. Makes you feel good.

The Democrat tells you to your face what he intends, Mitch the 2 Billion dollar bitch lies to you then does what Democrats do only more slowly.