Posted on 05/25/2014 10:07:19 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
Rand Paul is defending his relationship with Mitch McConnell after helping his fellow Kentuckian defeat a tea party-backed challenger in a GOP Senate primary.
"I came out of the tea party movement. I'm very concerned about the debt. I'm very concerned about big government," Paul said on Friday. "But I think the misnomer is to think somehow Senator McConnell isn't. That's what his whole entire career has been predicated upon - fighting against big government."
The comments by Paul, the state's junior senator, came at a news conference with McConnell in Louisville that was focused on building party unity following a bruising campaign in which the minority leader's opponent, Matt Bevin, got 35 percent of the primary vote.
Some in the conservative grassroots movement immediately called for Republican voters to unite and support McConnell.
But Bevin has been noticeably quiet and hasn't said whether he'll back his rival--though he flatly stated on election night that he won't back the Democratic nominee.
That's not stopping Alison Lundergan Grimes, however. She's actively going after Bevin supporters. In an open letter Friday to the 40 percent of Republican voters who didn't vote for McConnell, she argued that a vote for Grimes is a vote for change.
"Yes, we are in different parties, and we have divergent views on some issues. But if you believe that we need a fresh face to shake up Washington, I invite you to join our campaign," the letter stated.
Bevin hit back later Friday with his own letter, saying she doesn't understand "the principles that united my campaign's supporters" and disparaged her stance on a number of items on her agenda.
He agreed with her that Kentucky needs change, but not her kind of change. He made no direct mention of McConnell in the letter.
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I’m not name calling - I’m describing your comment as something other than the ‘realist’ you claim it to be.
Your comment suggests you are either easily duped by willfully playing the shell game the Oligarchy runs, or you are a Party Loyalist regardless what ideology they support and push and will support them no matter what they do.
Even if they declare war on you.
Vote how ever you like and live with the consequences!!!! There are NOT
enough Tea Party PACS with the money to change this NOW!!!! It will
take at least a decade for the Tea Party to be equal to GOP-E, IRS has
also delayed this process for the Tea Party, MONEY is EVERYTHING
in politics THAT IS REALITY!!!!
Right. When the GOP trots out a Socialist you tell yourself that is better than the Marxist and vote for the Socialist.
You are defining why the GOP has gone insane along with the rest of the country.
To give a Senate seat to ANY DEM is simply wrong to prove a point to GOP-E!!!!
The Ruling Class DOES NOT CARE. There is nothing to 'prove' to them. They are Statists and have declared WAR on Conservatives. They only want our vote to stay in power, and then they will blame us for everything else if we dare challenge them or call them to account.
Another Senate of DEMS is not an option!!!!
You have no clue what time it is, yet history tells us plainly.
But you will lick the palms of those who have declared war on you and will subjugate you to the MarxoFascists they enable via stealth.
What part of "we will crush (Conservatives) wherever we find them" do you fail to comprehend? I think you must enjoy the abuse. Continue to delude yourself into thinking you are saving the country by voting for Ruling Class Statists.
We know the tactic of the Ruling Class establishment is to join Obama and the MarxoFascist Democrats and BLAME everything on principled Conservatives.
Blame them for either standing in the way or not giving them their way.
Apparently you drank the same kool-aid.
What part of ‘we will crush (Conservatives) wherever we find them’ do you refuse to comprehend?
Right? I found that rather surprising for someone who holds an MD degree.
I am not drinking ANY kool-aid, I am dealing with reality and the hand
we are dealt at this time, giving the Senate to a DEM is NOT AN
OPTION PERIOD!!!!! Vote how you will WE need the money to change
minds WE do NOT have it at this point!!!!!
You say you are dealing with reality? Why do you refuse to deal with the reality that McConnell and the GOP leadership has DECLARED WAR ON CONSERVATIVES???? You ignore it like it’s no big deal they vowed to ‘crush them wherever they find them’.
You might want to read some history about Marxist and Socialist coups and note some patterns that are now self-evident with our government.
You might end up saving your life.
But I’m curious of this statement of yours that you “need money to change minds”. Really? You think principles can be bought?
No wonder you have no problem continuing to vote the ‘lesser of two evils’. Your principles are for sale and you think they can be bought and compromised.
Just another cog of evidence to prove John Adams was prophetically correct.
Reality is McConnell IS THE WINNER!!! Like it or not HE WON!!! He IS
the hand we are dealt that IS reality!!!! The DEM is NOT an option PERIOD,!!!!
FU Ru Paul. You worthless DemocRat.
Ru Paul and McCornhole are both DemocRats if ya haven’t figured it out yet.
Good luck with that.
He is the ‘winner’ who declared WAR on Conservatives and vowed to ‘crush them wherever we find them’. What part of that fact do you continue to refuse to understand?
I’d rather a Democrat be in his seat than a traitor who declared war on Conservatives.
I will be doing everything in my power to make sure Conservatives vote for a Conservative in November, and NOT for McConnell. He wanted a war, he got one. I’m fighting back. I’d rather a MarxoFascist get his seat than a traitor to the cause who is going to enable the MarxoFasicst agenda via stealth and subterfuge.
That said, you seem to be the kind of person who easily falls in love with their kidnappers and abusers.
Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
If you would rather see a DEM in the seat that is YOUR choice but it will
NEVER be my choice!!!!! McConnell can be put on a leash NOT a DEM
CONTROLLED Senate!!!! Like I said before any RINO is better than a
MARXIST DEM!!!!! Until WE change minds and hearts WITH MONEY
it is what it is, baby steps back to our republic!!!!!
VOTE HOWEVER YOU LIKE I hope the good folks in Kentucky see
reality and DO NOT turn the seat to a DEM!!!!!
My choice will be to vote for a Conservative as a Write-in or 3rd Party. I will campaign to Conservatives in this Commonwealth to do likewise.
To those who will charge that action as handing the seat to Grimes, I'd rather see Grimes in that seat than McConnell, so I will not vote for the corrupt traitor who declared war on us.
McConnell can be put on a leash
Cite proofs and sources that such can be done with McConnell please. I find no evidence of such an assertion in his recent record as minority leader. Instead I find repeated pledges and efforts to help the Democrats and further their agenda in the Senate.
Like I said before any RINO is better than a MARXIST DEM
I say a RINO is WORSE than a MarxoFascist. At least with the Marxists you know who the enemy is. With the RINOs, they pretend to be Conservatives, and hand your head over to the enemy on a plate because they killed you in your sleep in their camp.
But if you are truly deluded enough to think the RINO is better than the Democrat, that is what the Establishment is counting on, and why your party is irrelevant.
Until WE change minds and hearts WITH MONEY
Spoken like a true Marxist yourself. Listen toots, you cannot BUY principles with money. You only buy SLAVES with money. Looks like you are bought and paid for by your plantation masters.
baby steps back to our republic!
Show me ONE example in all written history where a Republic was ever restored by 'baby steps' or civil means. Hell, show me ONE example of any Republic ever being restored for that matter.
You can't, because there isn't even ONE.
Until you understand what time it is, you are destined to the fate we are only now just beginning to feel.
Please this debate is now OVER with your resorting to calling me
TOOTS!!!! GET LOST!!!!
Since when did ‘toots’ become a derogatory in this country? Oh well.
Sheesh, if a debate can be declared ‘over’ because I called someone ‘Toots’, how can these same people argue voting FOR someone who declared war on you and vowed to CRUSH us wherever they found us?
Did logic and IQs take a vacation lately or is battered wife syndrome selective?
Maybe if McConnell had called Conservatives ‘Toots’, she might be upset enough at him to understand if Conservatives did not vote for him in November and he loses his seat to a Democrat, that is well-deserved and understandable.
But I doubt it.
Or Soviet. Tyranny sticks to what works and is able to placate and subject the masses.
A nation bereft of morals and principles and easily compromises and trades them in for expedience, is exactly why this nation has lost the Republic.
Whatever. You are not helping your cause.
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