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Posted on 08/04/2014 5:06:45 AM PDT by cotton1706
The Senate minority leader, long reviled among many on the right for what they see as kowtowing to Democrats, is in a tough race for his seat—and in trouble with the Tea Party.
If Alison Lundergan Grimes pulls off an upset victory over Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in November, she may have Tea Partiers to thank. But don’t expect conservative voters to rally to Grimes—they simply aren't getting behind McConnell.
Although the five-term Republican ended up winning a a tough primary challenge from businessman Matt Bevin handily, the race was one of the most vicious and ugly this cycle, with Bevin’s campaign badly damaged in a cockfighting scandal. And while some disaffected conservatives have backed McConnell in November, Bevin has still not endorsed him, and many of the Tea Party groups that supported the businessman are following suit. As a result, in a recent poll, nearly 20% of self-identified Republicans didn't support McConnell.
Scott Hofstra, spokesman for the United Kentucky Tea Party, said he isn’t backing McConnell and “taking the lesser of the two evils approach.” Many conservatives, Hofstra predicted, either will leave the box on the ballot for U.S. Senate empty or will vote for David Patterson, the libertarian candidate. The senator has alienated many Tea Partiers and has yet to reach out to bridge the gap, Hofstra said. The divide was opened further, he added, by McConnell’s open support for Thad Cochran in the Mississippi Senate runoff and McConnell’s association with pro-Cochran ads that many conservatives assailed as race-baiting. “If there were some people on the fence after what happened in Kentucky, the Mississippi incident really put them over the edge,” Hofstra said. Still, he noted that Tea Party dissatisfaction with McConnell wasn’t winning Grimes their votes. “I haven’t talked to anybody who would vote her.”
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Well, if Mitt Ran ads saying Gingrich and Perry were racists who wanted to take the vote away from black people, then your analogy might be appropriate, but since that didn't happen, it isn't.
Mitch McConnell paid for racist attack ads in Mississippi to support Cochran. Now you may be okay with this sort of back stabbing, but I believe it requires a response which is unpleasant for the people who did it.
If that is what is required to burn traitors, then I will endure it and count myself lucky.
And sometimes you have to convince other people not to turn traitor because of what happened to the previous traitor.
The “vote for McConnell” rant is the same BS we were fed in 2008 about McCain. The simple truth is that rewarding mediocrity time and time again isn’t the road to excellence. McConnell and McCain are part of a never-ending national con job. Screw ‘em and keep supporting the Tea Party no matter what.
Also, are you familiar with this?
Seems Kentucky folks want to cling to the cockfighting loser candidate. Time to move on from him.
When will it be time to “move on” from a treasonous and backstabbing candidate?
Do you really expect a Senator to watch out for your best interests when he’s colluded with others, including the “opposing party” to lie, cheat and steal so he might ensure his inner circle stays in power?
Not me.
I can confirm that the attack ads in Mississippi run by “All Citizens for Mississippi” were funded by Senate Republicans, including Senators Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn, Rob Portman, Bob Corker, and Roy Blunt. It appears our Senate Republican leaders are willing to risk losing a Senate majority so long as they can get their own re-elected. Yes folks, it is true. I can confirm what we all suspected.
Is that the ability to fart in 3-part harmony? ; )
The change must come from outside DC and by necessity be dictatorial in nature.
Obama has proven that there is no limit on Executive Branch power.
The best we can hope for is a right wing dictatorship
How many republicans, including any of the RINO persuasion, supported it?
That’s because the didn’t NEED RINO votes.
Remember the crap “Maverick” McCain and his “Gang of Eight” pulled when Bush was in office? I sure as hell do and I have no doubt that if they didn’t have enough votes for Obamacare, quisling “Maverick” McCain and his “Gang of Eight” would have ridden to the rescue and saved Obama’s day.
We know what you’re peddlin and we ain’t buying.
Screw the tea party
Yeah, I had you figured out from the start Troll!
Hey, the troll said “Screw the tea party.”
He really outed himself.
I caught that, too. Irk a troll long enough with the truth and he’ll wind up outing himself.
My representatives? I don’t live in Mississippi.
Neither do Corynyn nor McConnell. The GOPe paid for adds falsley labeling “TEA Party” as being racist.
Do you support the GOPe?
I feel your pain...Cornyn’s heading in that direction.
If Corynyn wins I might just buy a sombrero and ride to Mexico.
That’s funny, the same can be said of FreeRepublic’s GOPe sycophants...
True-dat!
Attitudes like this run people away from the tea party. The “It’s all or none!!!” attitude is a map to failure.
Hey COBOL2Java,
I’m sure you understand the concept of “willful ignorance.”
This isn’t “All or None.” It’s all about backstabbing and treason. Until boycott acknowledges this there’s no actual discussion.
Once we can have a discussion we should examine how our founders dealt with traitors.
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