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Mitch McConnell: Time for GOP Establishment to 'Stand Up to' Tea Party
Breitbart.com/Big-Government ^ | 12-1-2013 | Matthew Boyle

Posted on 12/01/2013 5:38:12 PM PST by servo1969

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican up for re-election in 2014, told the Washington Examiner in an interview published Friday that he believes it is time for the GOP establishment to stop conservatives and Tea Partiers.

McConnell argued it is “utter nonsense” for groups like the Senate Conservatives Fund (SCF), which has endorsed his primary challenger businessman Matt Bevin, to argue that Republicans like him in Congress are not fighting hard enough to defeat Democrats. In the interview, McConnell focused on deriding Tea Partiers for leading the effort to defund Obamacare—something that, coupled with the Democrats’ refusal to compromise on the soon-to-fail Obamacare, resulted in a government shutdown.

“The Senate Conservatives Fund is giving conservatism a bad name,” McConnell told the Examiner for the piece titled “The Establishment Fights Back: Mitch McConnell leads GOP battle against Tea Party insurgents.”

“They’re [SCF] participating in ruining the [Republican] brand,” McConnell said. “What they do is mislead their donors into believing the reason that we can’t get as good an outcome as we’d like to get is not because of a Democratic Senate and a Democratic president, but because Republicans are insufficiently committed to the cause—which is utter nonsense.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: conservatives; cruz; gop; mcconnell; primarymcconnell; shutdown; teaparty; uniparty
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To: rovenstinez

People in KY just won’t remove him. They think he is some kind of “hero”.


81 posted on 12/01/2013 8:27:43 PM PST by Theodore R. (The grand pooh-bahs are flirting with Christie, but it's Jebbie's turn!" to LOSE!)
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To: Stingray

“FUMM.”

That is exactly correct. Mitch is about to have his ass handed to him courtesy of the Tea Party, so why not take the whole party down with him via public party in-fighting. Great strategy Mitch!

That’s OK though, shine the light of truth on these RINO-rats so we can see them for what they are!


82 posted on 12/01/2013 8:29:44 PM PST by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
You are either for the United States, or you are against it.
the dems have been there since '62...
Sen. *itch "Mumbles" McConnell et. al. since '07

83 posted on 12/01/2013 8:30:57 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi 8-)
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To: Washi

Matt Bevin
https://mattbevin.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Bevin
He’s been endorsed by the Senate Conservative Fund


84 posted on 12/01/2013 8:31:48 PM PST by kygolfman
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To: Bshaw

People in KY just do the same thing over and over; they don’t go in for grand things at all. Rand Paul is a big disappointment, for instance.


85 posted on 12/01/2013 8:33:51 PM PST by Theodore R. (The grand pooh-bahs are flirting with Christie, but it's Jebbie's turn!" to LOSE!)
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To: ChildOfThe60s
He is a turd that cannot be polished. He has no idea how
much of the base here he has permanently alienated.
Or maybe he does.
Oh! he definitely knows, He just doesn't care...
His real constituents, are the "K Street" lobbyists, just look @ what
he's pushing 0'Buttplugs' DeathCARE & Reid's Immigration..et. al...
everything Grimes' supports.

86 posted on 12/01/2013 8:46:02 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi 8-)
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To: servo1969

They did EXACTLY that in VA last month. We now have 2 radical left Senators, Governor, Lt Gov and Attorney General.


87 posted on 12/01/2013 8:51:00 PM PST by Phosgood (Send in the Clowns...but Wait, they're here!! >..<)
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To: rockrr
Is that true? ..Is Bevin the best of the batch?
well...He's no Gov. Walker, Cruz or Lee...
but he's much better than Mitch "*itch" / Grimes

88 posted on 12/01/2013 8:53:05 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi 8-)
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To: outofstyle

I met Mitch in 2010, and I was stunned. He’s a creeper. He drips dirty oily politics.
***************************
There are so many! He reminds me of slimey Sen. Jim Wright (D-TX) from Fort Worth, Tarrant Co., who got the Wright Rule (or law) passed when DFW airport was to open on the Dallas-Tarrant Counties line. It restricted the previously successful regional airlines based at Love Field (Dallas) from flying out-of-state without landing in an adjoining State after leaving TX.

I’m sure I’ve forgotten some details, but this really hurt those airlines at Love Field, due to increased fuel costs, landing fees, etc.; all done to ensure his County got a larger share of the proceeds from the new DFW airport by cutting down the competition for routes. ....That law was finally repealed or expired a few years ago. ....Jim Wright was a toilet fish!


89 posted on 12/01/2013 8:55:16 PM PST by octex
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To: servo1969

The enemy is those guys called liberals! Those guys who have a difference of opinion are your friends, not your enemies - TALK WITH THEM, NOT AT THEM!


90 posted on 12/01/2013 8:56:10 PM PST by Rembrandt (Part of the 51% who pay Federal taxes)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade
Split the Republicans to ensure a
Victory for Obama and his 3rd Term.
so is, abandonment the answer? ...NO! it isn't....
I shall not allow them to place their boot on my neck.

91 posted on 12/01/2013 9:00:58 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi 8-)
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To: DoughtyOne
It’s certainly NOT changing my opinion of the Tea Party members,
but it is placing the last nail in his political coffin.
Same here.."Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. ...
Act! Action will delineate and define you."
..Thomas Jefferson

Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/thomas_jefferson.html#B7xerezjDHih6Lpa.99

92 posted on 12/01/2013 9:09:19 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi 8-)
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93 posted on 12/01/2013 9:18:25 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi 8-)
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To: servo1969

Mitch is correct. We are finished turning the other cheek.


94 posted on 12/01/2013 9:34:09 PM PST by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: KC_Lion

I hate to admit it, but I’m actually becoming kind of fond of ol’ mitchy. He has become the poster child for the gop wing of the uniparty. If you want to see what the gop really stands for...just look at ol’ mitchy. If you want to see the real spitting contempt that the gop has for conservatives...just look at ol’ mitchy.

For the 8 years that I’ve been a FReeper, I’ve been arguing that the gop is as much a threat to conservatism as the ‘rats are. Years ago, it was a notso popular of a position to take. Heck, In ol’ mitchy I see some measure of vindication. With ol’ mitchy I no longer have to even argue the point that we have a one party system. I can just point at “exhibit A”, the senator from KY, and rest my case.


95 posted on 12/01/2013 9:34:27 PM PST by RKBA Democrat ( There is no worst president but owebama, and valerie jarrett is his prophet.)
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To: servo1969

“..winners make policy and losers go home,” McConnell said. “
***********************
Exactly. Buh bye, McConnell.


96 posted on 12/01/2013 9:37:15 PM PST by octex
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To: peeps36; KC_Lion

Ol’ mitchy isn’t in a panic. He’s milking his position for what it’s worth. He’s gathering money for his PAC. Which *just coincidentally* he can do pretty much anything he wants with once he leaves office.

Panicked? No. Ol’ mitchy is too busy measuring his K street office for drapes to be bothered with panicking.


97 posted on 12/01/2013 9:41:21 PM PST by RKBA Democrat ( There is no worst president but owebama, and valerie jarrett is his prophet.)
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To: chris37

98 posted on 12/01/2013 10:32:28 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: servo1969

"It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom — for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself."


99 posted on 12/01/2013 10:55:20 PM PST by Neil E. Wright (An OATH is FOREVER OathKeeper III We are EVERYWHERE)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How much did you help Romney??? What has the Tea Party done that gets people so upset???


100 posted on 12/01/2013 11:03:55 PM PST by RightLady
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