Posted on 05/08/2015 3:32:22 PM PDT by cotton1706
Businessman Matt Bevin is the guy some see moving up in the Kentucky GOP governor's primary. Bevin also challenged now-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in a primary last year.
These two things are not distinct from one another. Now that Bevin's chances appear to be on the rise in the May 19 primary (thanks to Agriculture Commissioner James Comer's problems), here comes Team McConnell to knock him down a peg or two.
And boy do they. Here is top McConnell aide Josh Holmes on Bevin in a new Lousiville Courier-Journal story:
Josh Holmes, McConnell's former chief of staff and an adviser to his campaign, was even more critical, saying that Bevin can't be trusted and is essentially running to satisfy his ego.
"If Matt Bevin had moved to a state where he had a better shot at being elected to office as a Democrat, he would articulate the values of liberalism with the same conviction he now talks about conservatism," Holmes said in a statement.
"It's abundantly clear that his guiding light is to embrace whatever gets himself a little further down the road," he said. "If somehow Matt Bevin got into the governor's mansion his only agenda would be the commissioning of his portrait."
Ouch.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I think it’s probably rainbow
Oh man am I sorry I tapped into the raw seweragage meme
I am a metaphor junkie and it fit
Not voting for a GOP nominee. Not gonna do it at this juncture wouldn’t be prudent
I’ll vote for a GOP nominee based on the Candidate’s merits. I won’t vote for Jeb or Christy.
As conservatives, we have stopped seeing these politicians through the the republican/democrat prism. You and other republicans like to keep conservative voters looking through these glasses. However, when we take off the glasses we see the candidates are liberals or conservatives. The "R" after their name has become increasingly meaningless.
McConnell as republican majority leader has done everything that a democrat majority leader would do. Hence, he is a liberal. He as done more damage than Grimes would have done, not just damaging the republican brand.
The "bogey man" is real, and he is passing all of Barry's agenda.
Mitch McConnell has expended much more funds, energy, enthusiasm against this former primary opponent than he has against any Democrat.
Kentucky, allowing Mitch McConnell to again and again represent You in the Senate...for shame.
As conservatives, we have stopped seeing these politicians through the the republican/democrat prism. You and other republicans like to keep conservative voters looking through these glasses. However, when we take off the glasses we see the candidates are liberals or conservatives. The “R” after their name has become increasingly meaningless.
A liberal is a liberal whether they have the “R” or “D” next to their name. The liberal-Republicans were elected after making several promises. Many of us said they were lying. Recent events proved us right!
The GOPe has overtly attacked Conservatives. Meanwhile, FR members such as ifinnegan condemn Conservatives for withholding support for those who announce their intention to destroy us!
Mitch McConnell has expended much more funds, energy, enthusiasm against this former primary opponent than he has against any Democrat.
McConnell, among others, funded attack adds to defeat McDaniel in the Mississippi primary. McCain urged IRS targeting of Conservative groups.
You really must be smoking some pretty powerful crap to believe it’s in a Conservatives best interest to support these bastards.
This liberal has a mad on with me because I don’t let him spew his GOP talking points script freely. One of several that fit that pattern actually.
Their whole agenda is to keep conservatives spending hours upon hours fighting with them on the very same talking points they have dragged out for 3 elections now so that the time isn’t spent getting behind one conservative candidate and making any progress. And since they seem to wear rubber suits, they can keep doing it and doing it and doing it every election without a lot of fear of obstruction.
It’s really funny when the liberal media tries to pull a “gotcha” on a conservative candidate and they turn “concern troll” and “sadly” comment how the candidate couldn’t possibly recover.
Liberals believe that if they say it, it comes true. While I’m pretty down on the whole ‘conservative talker’ thing lately, I am 100% in Rush’s corner when he says that they made their own TV president to follow during the Bush years. And then did it.
These people don’t deal in whats real. They deal in what they want to be real to the exclusion of the actual reality around them. Global warming, Klanners behind every tree waiting to string up an unsuspecting minority...the list of things is well known. So when they say X can’t recover, they believe it to be so because saying it makes it so.
They are all prophets of the self fulfilling variety. At least they tell themselves that...
Of course, I think my nephew who was just born could do a better job as governor of Connecticut, then Danell Malloy.
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