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The faux conservative war in Kentucky (Bevin-McConnell)
communities.washingtontimes.com ^ | 12/2/13 | Judson Phillips

Posted on 12/03/2013 5:15:34 AM PST by cotton1706

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1 posted on 12/03/2013 5:15:34 AM PST by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

The intention of the article is clear even though it slams McConnell pretty hard. It makes Bevin look like Romney matched up against Obama and we know the end result of that.


2 posted on 12/03/2013 5:21:37 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: cotton1706

A Maine Republican with NO Record. Is he another Scott Brown? Where is a REAL Kentucky Conservative?


3 posted on 12/03/2013 5:22:56 AM PST by LeonardFMason (LanceyHoward would AGREE)
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To: jsanders2001

The bottom line is simple. McConnell needs to be sent packing. He is a proven RINO and as such, has earned retirement.

The very same can be said for John McCornyn.


4 posted on 12/03/2013 5:25:00 AM PST by Howie66 (Molon Labe, Traitors!)
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To: LeonardFMason

Read up a little on the author. The article lies. Read comments. They are revealing.


5 posted on 12/03/2013 5:26:07 AM PST by apoxonu
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To: cotton1706
In the Bluegrass state, there is a war being waged by two faux conservatives.

Judson Phillips is a faux "Tea Party leader".

Pot Meet Kettle.

6 posted on 12/03/2013 5:26:18 AM PST by montag813 (NO AMNESTY * ENFORCE THE LAW * http://StandWithArizona.com)
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To: cotton1706

If not Bevin, then who?


7 posted on 12/03/2013 5:28:03 AM PST by The_Victor (If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
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To: cotton1706

I’m suspicious that there’s some back story to this article that we aren’t getting. Phillips is a bit of a grandstanding self-promoter who imagines that he runs “The” tea party. I’m wondering if he doesn’t like Bevin dancing to his own tune rather than being Phillips’ puppet.


8 posted on 12/03/2013 5:28:10 AM PST by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes everything)
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To: LeonardFMason

Bevin’s record starts here. He runs on what he says he is going to do. If he doesn’t do it, he does not get re-elected. At least, that’s the way it’s supposed to work.


9 posted on 12/03/2013 5:29:20 AM PST by Scarlet Pimpernel (And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?)
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To: cotton1706

Since 2011, when Republicans took back the Senate, the Tea Party has been asking, pleading and begging Republicans to stand up and fight.


We took back the Senate!?


10 posted on 12/03/2013 5:31:05 AM PST by txhurl
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To: cotton1706
Bevin doesn't have a voting record. It's difficult to trust that he isn't just another RINO with better coaches.

I'd still go with Bevin, for the message it sends about McConnell's backstabbing.

11 posted on 12/03/2013 5:33:28 AM PST by grania
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To: cotton1706

The article has very little to say about Bevin, only that he is faux conservative because he has no political record, and is a blank slate.

Bevin if that was all we knew about him, he has all the qualifications for congress, a blank political slate, and no political record, is enough to vote for him, however we know much more about him, which the writer fails and/or fears to reveal.


12 posted on 12/03/2013 5:34:54 AM PST by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: cotton1706

The comments at the bottom of the article reveal people in KY are fed up with McConnell and want Bevin.


13 posted on 12/03/2013 5:37:56 AM PST by Hostage (Be Breitbart!)
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To: cotton1706

http://www.teammitch.com/mitch-mcconnell-for-senate/


14 posted on 12/03/2013 5:43:19 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: jsanders2001

I don’t know much about Bevin, but I do know this. He is running against McConnell very differently than Lee Bright is running against Graham. Bevin is obsessed with McConnell per se, while Bright is running against the Obama Reid Schumer agenda, and Graham as an enabler of that agenda.

Those are quite different strategies, with very different messages, and I think for primaries, the Bright strategy is the right one. I’d like to see Bevin show the same disdain for Obama Reid Schumer that he shows for McConnell.


15 posted on 12/03/2013 5:46:36 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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Admittedly I didn't yet read the whole story, but my guess is that this is a McConnell plant story that basically says McConnell isn't great, but Bevin might be worse.

In other words, keep the devil you know rather than the one you don't. I ain't buying what the author is selling. McConnell is a wimpy RINO who has a proven track record of handing his Democrat masters anything they want.

McConnell is the classic, go along to get along, guy.

Again, I ask, show me the proof. He's been in office since 1985. Show me the proof. Show me is Conservative credentials and what he has done, other than to sell Conservatives out time and time again.

16 posted on 12/03/2013 5:46:42 AM PST by Obadiah (I Like Ted.)
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To: cotton1706

Yet another operative carrying the water for the GOPe ruling elite as they struggle to maintain their hold on power. Mitch McConnell threatens to “punch the Tea Party in the nose” while one of his operatives, posing as a Tea Party activist spreads FUD (Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt) about McConnell’s conservative challenger.

Don’t believe the FUD and don’t drink the kool aid the GOPe puts out for you. Don’t be fooled again.


17 posted on 12/03/2013 5:52:31 AM PST by House Atreides
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*Bevin’s record starts here. He runs on what he says he is going to do.*

The possible Conservative unknown is better than the RINO known.

18 posted on 12/03/2013 5:54:18 AM PST by PATRIOT1876
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To: LeonardFMason

“A Maine Republican with NO Record. Is he another Scott Brown? Where is a REAL Kentucky Conservative?”
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You’ve swallowed the kool aid, my friend. You’ve absorbed the FUD and you’re spreading the FUD. Wake up!


19 posted on 12/03/2013 5:55:29 AM PST by House Atreides
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To: cotton1706

Hmmmm...Judson here makes the claim that Bevin is a faux Conservative but says nothing to prove it, except that Bevin had the good sense to move from Maine to Kentucky.


20 posted on 12/03/2013 5:57:09 AM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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