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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

WASHINGTON. December 2, 2013 — In the Bluegrass state, there is a war being waged by two faux conservatives.

One is Mitch McConnell. He is the Senate Minority Leaders and the incumbent in Kentucky. The other is Matt Bevin, who is his challenger.

Bevin is a businessman, originally from Maine, who moved to Kentucky in 1999. McConnell is now regarded as the Godfather of Kentucky politics.

Neither is a conservative.

McConnell is symptomatic of what is wrong in Washington. He has been there since 1985. He is known around Washington as a deal maker, and that is the huge problem with Mitch McConnell.

Last year, when the fiscal cliff negotiations hit an impasse, McConnell reached out to Joe Biden and the two hammered out an agreement. That agreement resulted in higher taxes and higher tax rates. It did nothing to cut spending.

It was a massive accomplishment — for liberals.

Since 2011, when Republicans took back the Senate, the Tea Party has been asking, pleading and begging Republicans to stand up and fight. McConnell’s answer is always to promise to fight — next time. The next fight will be the right fight with the right timing.

The problem is that for McConnell, the right time never comes.

When Ted Cruz stood and fought, he stood at the last minute. Either Obamacare would be defunded from the budget or it would become another permanent government program.

Despite all of McConnell’s protestations that he wanted Obamacare defunded and repealed, he whipped votes to break the filibuster and stabbed Ted Cruz in the back.

In the process of ending the government shutdown, McConnell scored a $3 billion kickback, or in the language of Washington politicians, an earmark for a dam in Kentucky.

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To: cotton1706

“Neither is a conservative.”

The author does not present any evidence that Bevin is not conservative.

If you review the Issues section of Bevin’s website (mattbevin.com), even if he is lying about 90% of the issues and is only truthful as to 10% of them, Bevin is still more conservative than McConnell.

Bevin for Senate.


21 posted on 12/03/2013 6:03:05 AM PST by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: House Atreides

Is Matt Bevin “Ted Cruz APPROVED”? That’s all I need to know.


22 posted on 12/03/2013 6:21:22 AM PST by LeonardFMason (LanceyHoward would AGREE)
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To: SharpRightTurn

I would be happy to blindly pick a name out of the phone book - if it meant we could replace McConnell as Republican Senate Leader.


23 posted on 12/03/2013 6:26:02 AM PST by privatedrive
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Two different races in two different environments. I don’t think Graham is as reviled in SC like McConnell seems to be in KY. So the differences in campaign strategies are probably justified by the nature of the race.


24 posted on 12/03/2013 6:27:42 AM PST by tanknetter
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To: cotton1706

Interesting article and thread. Current and former members of Congress are parties to TREASON on many levels.

“Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims. Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of those who make the law, all the plundered classes try somehow to enter — by peaceful or revolutionary means — into the making of laws. According to their degree of enlightenment, these plundered classes may propose one of two entirely different purposes when they attempt to attain political power: Either they may wish to stop lawful plunder, or they may wish to share in it.”

“Woe to the nation when this latter purpose prevails among the mass victims of lawful plunder when they, in turn, seize the power to make laws! Until that happens, the few practice lawful plunder upon the many, a common practice where the right to participate in the making of law is limited to a few persons. But then, participation in the making of law becomes universal. And then, men seek to balance their conflicting interests by universal plunder. Instead of rooting out the injustices found in society, they make these injustices general. As soon as the plundered classes gain political power, they establish a system of reprisals against other classes. They do not abolish legal plunder. (This objective would demand more enlightenment than they possess.) Instead, they emulate their evil predecessors by participating in this legal plunder, even though it is against their own interests.”

“You would use the law to oppose socialism? But it is upon the law that socialism itself relies. Socialists desire to practice legal plunder, not illegal plunder. Socialists, like all other monopolists, desire to make the law their own weapon. And when once the law is on the side of socialism, how can it be used against socialism? For when plunder is abetted by the law, it does not fear your courts, your gendarmes, and your prisons. Rather, it may call upon them for help.”

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

http://www.usa.gov/directory/federal/

http://www.usdebtclock.org

Go Matt Bevin!

—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

(quotation marks for Bastiat, the others are “common core” knowledge/sarcasm)


25 posted on 12/03/2013 6:34:25 AM PST by PGalt
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To: Hostage

Well, that’s a nice, little interesting column by ... drum roll ... this same author, Judson Phillips!!


26 posted on 12/03/2013 6:41:48 AM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: smokingfrog

Well, that’s a nice, little interesting column by ... drum roll ... this same author, Judson Phillips!!


27 posted on 12/03/2013 6:42:29 AM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: Hostage; smokingfrog

Sorry, meant to post my comment to smokingfrog.


28 posted on 12/03/2013 6:43:26 AM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: LeonardFMason

Bevin has been endorsed by the Senate Conservatives Fund


29 posted on 12/03/2013 6:43:40 AM PST by kygolfman
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To: onyx

He endorsed Mitch before the govt. shutdown, but now says he doesn’t. But he won’t support Bevin either?

I guess registered republicans should just stay home.


30 posted on 12/03/2013 6:57:39 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: smokingfrog

I think he’s looking for attention and for Bevin to kiss his ring.

Since when does previous government experience count?

Certainly NOT when it comes to the TEA Party!

Incumbency and previous government experience are the hallmarks of the GOP-e.


31 posted on 12/03/2013 7:03:26 AM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: cotton1706

I wonder if he feels any embarrassment that the comments to his article are better supported and make more sense?


32 posted on 12/03/2013 7:14:39 AM PST by Yogafist
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To: tanknetter

I don’t think the races are that different actually, and until the past 2-3 months, I would say that Graham was even more reviled among the conservative base than McConnell.

Now McConnell has certainly stepped in some deep do do the past few months that has no doubt pushed him to the top of that list, but again, I contend that the general tenor of the race is the same.

And even so, I contend further that Bevin should set the tenor of the race by running the way Bright has, which has quickly propelled Bright to the top of the heap in SC over more well known opponents who started before he did. Moreover, its a way you can run the same campaign in the primary and the general, which really does work if done correctly….


33 posted on 12/03/2013 7:24:52 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: LeonardFMason
A Maine Republican with NO Record. Is he another Scott Brown? Where is a REAL Kentucky Conservative?

So you fell for the ruse of this article didn't you?!

The premise of this article is false. It tries to equate the two as both RINOS. McConnell's record PROVES he is a RINO. Bevin has no elective experience and so, he's also a RINO?

This was a hatchet job on Bevin, plain and simple and meant to dispirit conservatives.
34 posted on 12/03/2013 7:50:51 AM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: cotton1706
For conservatives, the top priority for 2014 must be the defeat of Mitch McConnell.

The author sure has a funny way of pursuing that objective.

By throwing out the flimsiest of comparisons of Matt Bevin to Scott Brown, he obstructs his own "top priority".

The ONLY way to defeat Mitch McConnell is going 'all-in' behind Matt Bevin.

Matt Bevin Live: This is a conservative and no Scott Brown. He's endorsed by Jim DeMint's SCF.

35 posted on 12/03/2013 7:52:38 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: C. Edmund Wright
This is like those "Compare and Contrast" essay questions on tests from back in high school. All of your points are correct regarding the two races. Here's one major 'contrast' that you've left out ....

Mitch has gone completely 'scorched earth' on Bevin from the very second he announced .....

36 posted on 12/03/2013 8:21:39 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Servant of the Cross
Here's one major 'contrast' that you've left out .... Mitch has gone completely 'scorched earth' on Bevin from the very second he announced …..

Yes, and that was part of what I was referring to when I said Mitch had propelled himself to the top of the "most reviled list" in the last few months….that and his general anti Tea Party statements and actions….

37 posted on 12/03/2013 8:48:43 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: Servant of the Cross

I would also add that this article misses the Scott Brown issue. I for one never thought Brown was a great conservative. That was not the point. The point is that he WON in Massachussets by running a Reagan Tea Party type campaign, period.

I never deluded myslef into thinking that kind of thing would hold in Mass for long…..it was simply a stunning development for the time in which it happened.
I think this is one thing that Glenn Beck really missed.

And besides, I did have a chance to talk one on one with Scott B in Charlotte a few months ago. He is an incredibly impressive person in person…and I really think he has a SC heart but is stuck in Mass….and doesn’t know how to make that work.


38 posted on 12/03/2013 8:51:17 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Just to clarify ... I didn’t mean within the base, but within their respective states.

People in SC may not like a lot of what Graham does or doesn’t do. But they tend to see him, on a personal level of not a “nice enough” guy then certainly something of a dork who just doesn’t agree with them on a lot.

People in KY really seem to hate McConnell. Think he’s a complete a**hole, and past the point of being seen as “their a**hole”. Probably because, unlike Graham, he isn’t coy or subtle about throwing his political weight around within his state’s GOP apparatus.


39 posted on 12/03/2013 9:09:32 AM PST by tanknetter
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To: tanknetter

But the base is who will vote in an off year primary, almost totally.


40 posted on 12/03/2013 9:12:55 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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