Posted on 05/22/2014 1:03:58 PM PDT by jimbo123
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell had vowed to crush the tea party in this springs primaries. His decisive win on Tuesday over a tea party challenger in Kentuckys GOP primary has fueled plenty of establishment-over-tea party stories.
Lets just say the war aint over.
After the primary is over, its really the responsibility of everyone who wants to see a change in Washington, D.C., come November to support our candidates, said Texas Sen. John Cornyn, McConnells deputy GOP Senate leader, who survived a much more tepid tea party onslaught in his own primary in early March.
Cornyn singled out Kentuckys junior senator, tea party darling and 2016 presidential hopeful Rand Paul, for pitching in with McConnells reelection effort.
Rand Paul has done an admirable job of trying to bring the party together, Cornyn said.
No mention of Sen. Ted Cruz. Texas other senator, like Paul, is a tea party freshman with White House ambitions. But unlike Paul, Cruz has been quietly at war with the partys establishment. He steered clear of the Kentucky primary. So he cant be accused of directly trying to undermine McConnell. But his post-primary comments left plenty of room for interpretation.
In carefully crafted terms, Cruz issued a statement congratulating McConnell, implicitly expressing support for him in his even tougher fight, against Kentuckys Democratic Secretary of State Allison Lundergan Grimes.
But read it carefully. Cruz isnt vowing to support him for another term as Senate GOP leader:
(Excerpt) Read more at trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com ...
Rand Paul has done an admirable job of trying to bring the party together, Cornyn said.
No mention of Sen. Ted Cruz. Texas other senator, like Paul, is a tea party freshman with White House ambitions. But unlike Paul, Cruz has been quietly at war with the partys establishment.
They sure got that right, the GOPe knows who is theirs, and who isn't.
25% of Bevin supporters said that they would not vote for Mitch in November. Bob
Maybe a lot of conservatives will vote against McConnell either by staying home or voting dimorat
The other 75% chose not to tell the truth.
Rand Paul has done an admirable job of trying to bring the party together, Cornyn said.
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Rand Paul is a political whore. He will never get a vote from me.
Somehow I dont think crowing about crushing the tea party is going to win over very many conservatives in November. Who came up with that strategy?
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I’m thinking that many of the 36% who voted for Bevin and against McConnell will set out the General Election in November or vote for Grimes.
That 25% of Bevin voters who said they will not vote for Mitch in November could be just enough to cause him to lose the General Election. I won’t shed any tears if that happens.
He's RiNO GOPe.
If that happens, McConnell’s turkey is cooked and he will be applying
for a job at Trent Lott’s Lobbying Firm in the very near future.
I estimated that it would only take about 10-12% of conservatives
staying home to cook his goose.
If the polls show The Gobbler behind in the polls 2-4 weeks before
elections, the GOPe’s in DC will force The Gobbler to announce he
will not seek re-election to his leaderless post, in an effort to save the seat.
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