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The Establishment fights back: Mitch McConnell leads GOP's battle against Tea Party insurgents
The Washington Examiner ^ | November 29, 2013 | DAVID M. DRUCKER

Posted on 12/02/2013 4:50:57 AM PST by don-o

McConnell worries that the Senate Conservatives Fund and other insurgent groups are pursuing a confrontational, uncompromising strategy that makes it impossible for conservatives to govern.

“The Senate Conservatives Fund is giving conservatism a bad name. They’re 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.”

The outside groups, in McConnell's view, are unaccountable and financially motivated and pose a threat to the Republican Party's viability. The groups in 2010 and 2012 backed a handful of untested, ideological candidates in Republican primaries that couldn't win general elections, costing the party opportunities to build a majority. It's a threat that must be addressed ahead of the 2014 and 2016 elections, McConnell said, because it's repelling the very voters the GOP needs if it's ever to take control of the federal government.

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Be afraid, Mitch. Be very afraid.
1 posted on 12/02/2013 4:50:57 AM PST by don-o
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2 posted on 12/02/2013 4:53:20 AM PST by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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To: don-o

Yeah, like democrats went after Occupy?


3 posted on 12/02/2013 4:54:13 AM PST by GOPJ ("Remember who the real enemy is... ")
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To: don-o
that's just 'ol *itch McConnell (RINO-D. C.), breaking wind again.

4 posted on 12/02/2013 4:55:20 AM 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: don-o

Corker is the one we never wanted who must be replaced by a conservative.


5 posted on 12/02/2013 4:56:55 AM PST by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: don-o

Looks like Ole Mitch has learned the projection technique. Sorry there Ole dikweed Mitch, we’re far more onto your game than you could ever imagine, and you know it.

Desperation begets foolishness which begets disaster for you.


6 posted on 12/02/2013 4:57:09 AM PST by mazda77
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To: don-o

notice Mitch is attacking his own party because he is worried about the voters who are being “repelled” by conservatism (not those who are attracted to it)

Mitch and the Rovians continue to chase the squishy knee jerk votes by “moderates” and “independents” (like that worked so well for Romney) and assume the conservatives will come along for the ride

the squish voters who are going to vote for Hillary Rodham to “make history”, the same reason they voted for obama


7 posted on 12/02/2013 4:58:02 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: don-o

Can we primary this POS already?!


8 posted on 12/02/2013 5:00:34 AM PST by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: don-o

The GOP-e fights backs and...................I PREDICT...........WILL LOSE BIG.


9 posted on 12/02/2013 5:03:07 AM PST by Biggirl (“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
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To: don-o

MItch McConnell wanted to FULLY FUND Obama Care. Need I say anything else?


10 posted on 12/02/2013 5:03:26 AM PST by kitkat (STORM THE HEAVENS WITH PRAYERS FOR OUR COUNTRY.)
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To: fwdude
I think he is being primaried - that is why he is issuing this flatulence
11 posted on 12/02/2013 5:03:47 AM PST by Mr. K (If you like you constitution, you can keep it. Period.)
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To: fwdude
When is the Kentucky primary? I'd like to send the most viable conservative likely to beat him some $$.

If only he fought the Marxist party as energetically as he fights conservatives . . .

12 posted on 12/02/2013 5:03:55 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: secret garden

Lamar! is up in 2014. Corker is not up until 2018


13 posted on 12/02/2013 5:05:11 AM PST by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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To: don-o
Be afraid, Mitch. Be very afraid.
the 'ol "*itch" can hear Bevins / Grimes behind him..surging


Retire these Jack@$ Gutle$$ Old Party B@$@$D$; don't
show them any respect for their previous actions / deeds.
BOOT ' EM ALL OUT!

Support Matt Bevins, Defeat Sen. *itch "Mumbles" McConnell. *(D.C.-GOP / E)
Support JD Winteregg, Defeat (SotH) Rep. John *HIC! / HIC!* Boehmer. *(D.C.-GOP / E)

Support Linda Vega or Dwayne Stovall, Defeat John Cornyn *(D.C.-GOP / E)
Support Joe Carr, Defeat Lamar Alexander *(D.C.-GOP / E)
Support Lee Bright, Defeat Lindsey Graham *(D.C.-GOP / E)
Support Chris McDaniel, Defeat Thad Cochran *(D.C.-GOP / E)
Support Dr. Milton Wolf, Defeat Pat Roberts *(D.C.-GOP / E)

*District of Criminals-Gutle$$ Old Party / E$tabli$hment


14 posted on 12/02/2013 5:05:47 AM 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: don-o
So now we are insurgents. Well so were the founding fathers.
15 posted on 12/02/2013 5:06:46 AM PST by McGruff (Obama lied. Period!)
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To: don-o
Mitch is gonna knock us out!


16 posted on 12/02/2013 5:07:13 AM PST by McBuff
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To: Vigilanteman

http://www.mattbevin.com/landing/3/?gclid=CKqqzeLNkbsCFSUOOgodZXkAYw


17 posted on 12/02/2013 5:07:16 AM PST by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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To: don-o

NO ONE needs to be in the Senate for over 30 years. Surely someone else in KY can do the job better than McConnell has done.


19 posted on 12/02/2013 5:18:31 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: don-o

This is really, really stupid, mitch. What can you possibly say or do to us that won’t pi$$ us off even more?

Bring it.


20 posted on 12/02/2013 5:20:11 AM PST by MestaMachine (My caps work. You gotta earn them.)
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