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 spring’s primaries. His decisive win on Tuesday over a tea party challenger in Kentucky’s GOP primary has fueled plenty of establishment-over-tea party stories.
Let’s just say the war ain’t over.
“After the primary is over, it’s 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, McConnell’s deputy GOP Senate leader, who survived a much more tepid tea party onslaught in his own primary in early March.
Cornyn singled out Kentucky’s junior senator, tea party darling and 2016 presidential hopeful Rand Paul, for pitching in with McConnell’s 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 party’s establishment. He steered clear of the Kentucky primary. So he can’t 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 Kentucky’s Democratic Secretary of State Allison Lundergan Grimes.
But read it carefully. Cruz isn’t vowing to support him for another term as Senate GOP leader:
(Excerpt) Read more at trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com ...
Somehow I don’t think crowing about “crushing” the tea party is going to win over very many conservatives in November. Who came up with that strategy?
Translation: You trouble-making conservatives get back in the basement where you belong and let us govern as we see fit.
Remember: This newspaper is to the left of the Manchester Guardian, much less USA Today, the New York Times and Washington Post.
You are right. These dopes just think the same conservatives they are
trashing and bragging about crushing are just going to turn the other
cheek and crawl over glass to vote for them.
Maybe they know there are a lot of conservative suckers.
However, I am not one of them.
Politics is the art of the possible, and you can’t pick every hill to die upon...that is the essence of it, right?
I agree.
Cornyn can take his party unity and shove it up his....
Mitch McConnell spent 13 million in a primary, was he worried? With that much money, McConnell could of purchased round the clock ads on every TV station in Kentucky.
You can’t fall on your sword everyday. We all knew Mitch would win that primary. We are not having all that much luck in GA.
He better do some quick fence mending if he wants conservatives to vote for him, because liberals sure won't. He could start by stepping down as minority leader "in order to better serve his constituents in Kentucky" or whatever other excuse which he wishes to come up with.
McConnell would rather work with Democrats to crush the Tea Party than work with the Tea Party to crush the Democrats
They didn’t wamt “Unity” in the primaries.
McConnell launched a full scale war on the TEA Party and now wants “Unity”??
No WAY
(“After the primary is over, it’s 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, McConnell’s deputy GOP Senate leader}
ONLY if your candidate actually means a change in Washington.
I will not vote for any RINO’s. You either run decent conservative candidates or you can KMA...........
after the next election McConnell should be removed from any leadership position or maybe McConnell is a closet Democrat
Indeed. Sums it up rather succinctly.
They want to try and attract single women. The GOPe will not fight abortion, homosexual marriage, obamacare, or any nanny state program that exists to "guarantee a good life". They want single women to vote for them.
I think they believe conservatives will always vote for them because we have no place else to go. For me, unless it's a conservative on the ballot I'm not voting.
McConnell won’t win his election, so there will be a new leader.
Why would any conservative in KY vote for someone who trashed
them and then bragged about crushing them?
Payback is going to be a bitch for McConnell.
both I hope
How can we expect change when we keep sending the same buffoons to Washington?
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