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.
A Maine Republican with NO Record. Is he another Scott Brown? Where is a REAL Kentucky Conservative?
Judson Phillips is a faux "Tea Party leader".
Pot Meet Kettle.
If not Bevin, then who?
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.
Since 2011, when Republicans took back the Senate, the Tea Party has been asking, pleading and begging Republicans to stand up and fight.
I'd still go with Bevin, for the message it sends about McConnell's backstabbing.
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.
The comments at the bottom of the article reveal people in KY are fed up with McConnell and want Bevin.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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/
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)
I wonder if he feels any embarrassment that the comments to his article are better supported and make more sense?
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.