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McConnell: We're Going to 'Crush' Tea Party Candidates
Posted on 3/10/14 at 5:59 pm
Posted on 3/10/14 at 5:59 pm
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The "Tea Part" has really gotten under his skin. I'd love to see the passive aggressive mo-fo just go away.
The "Tea Part" has really gotten under his skin. I'd love to see the passive aggressive mo-fo just go away.
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Posted on 3/10/14 at 6:02 pm to GumboPot
Really wish Matt Bevin would take him out
Posted on 3/10/14 at 6:04 pm to H2O Engineer
We need to support him though, because if he gets re-elected and GOP takes the senate, THEN the GOP will fight for conservative and limited government principles.
Posted on 3/10/14 at 6:04 pm to GumboPot
Seems pretty stupid to be openly antagonistic of people you would need to turn out for you in the general election
This post was edited on 3/10/14 at 6:23 pm
Posted on 3/10/14 at 6:05 pm to GumboPot
If I was a Kentucky resident I would be on the horn with his office.
Piece of shite establishment politician just like John McCain.
I wish he realized that we are fricking tired of his kind.
Piece of shite establishment politician just like John McCain.
I wish he realized that we are fricking tired of his kind.
Posted on 3/10/14 at 6:09 pm to H2O Engineer
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McConnell
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Really wish Matt Bevin would take him out
Posted on 3/10/14 at 6:09 pm to GumboPot
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The "Tea Part" has really gotten under his skin.
He's scared
Posted on 3/10/14 at 6:22 pm to Draconian Sanctions
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Seems pretty stupid to be openly antagonistic of people you would want to turn out for you in the general election
This.
Posted on 3/10/14 at 6:24 pm to Draconian Sanctions
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Seems pretty stupid to be openly antagonistic of people you would to turn out for you in the general election
Right. Saying "we" are going to crush the Tea Party (whoever that is) is unnecessary.
Posted on 3/10/14 at 6:26 pm to H2O Engineer
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Really wish Matt Bevin would take him out
In my area, Northwest Kentucky, I have seen tons of Bevin signs and bumper stickers. Not a single McConnell one.
Anecdotes ftw.
This post was edited on 3/10/14 at 6:26 pm
Posted on 3/10/14 at 6:29 pm to GumboPot
quote:Classic McConnell.
McConnell: We're Going to 'Crush' Tea Party Candidates
Meanwhile, he's thick as thieves behind the scenes with Rand, and becoming more indebted to him by the day fighting for his life in the Ky Senate race.
Posted on 3/10/14 at 6:34 pm to GumboPot
I wish establishment republicans went after liberals half as hard as they went after their fellow repubs.
Posted on 3/10/14 at 6:37 pm to GumboPot
Yertle running scared. Sweet.
Posted on 3/10/14 at 6:49 pm to GumboPot
Establishment R's hate the tea party more than they hate libs.
I don't get it either...the Tea Party guys are just conservatives who were elected specifically to stop the reckless spending. The establishment should be trying to mentor these new guys while respecting their stances, find common ground on which to work with, and show them the proper way to maneuver the political maze. It would bring the party together rather than break it up.
The way the establishment is acting is only hurting the party.
I don't get it either...the Tea Party guys are just conservatives who were elected specifically to stop the reckless spending. The establishment should be trying to mentor these new guys while respecting their stances, find common ground on which to work with, and show them the proper way to maneuver the political maze. It would bring the party together rather than break it up.
The way the establishment is acting is only hurting the party.
Posted on 3/10/14 at 6:50 pm to Layabout
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Yertle
Posted on 3/10/14 at 6:51 pm to deltaland
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I don't get it either...the Tea Party guys are just conservatives who were elected specifically to stop the reckless spending. The establishment should be trying to mentor these new guys while respecting their stances, find common ground on which to work with, and show them the proper way to maneuver the political maze. It would bring the party together rather than break it up.
Because the tea party serves as a threat to the single party farce in Washington.
Between the democrats and GOP establishment there isn't much difference. They are in it together and enrich themselves and their cronies at the expense of the taxpayer and citizen.
The tea party comes along and poses as a threat to this gravy train, of course the GOP establishment wants to crush it. The liberals at least are in with them on the money laundering, which is why they are not as opposed to liberals as much.
Posted on 3/10/14 at 7:02 pm to goldennugget
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Between the democrats and GOP establishment there isn't much difference.
Before there was a Tea Party, the Republicans in the House and Senate voted a combined 431-3 against The Affordable Care Act and the Stimulus.
Yep, no difference.
Posted on 3/10/14 at 7:23 pm to deltaland
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The establishment should be trying to mentor these new guys while respecting their stances, find common ground on which to work with, and show them the proper way to maneuver the political maze.
You don't think the establishment tried that approach?
Posted on 3/10/14 at 7:26 pm to goldennugget
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Because the tea party serves as a threat to the single party farce in Washington.
This is correct. They've had a good thing going up there for a while.
Posted on 3/10/14 at 7:28 pm to MFn GIMP
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In my area, Northwest Kentucky, I have seen tons of Bevin signs and bumper stickers. Not a single McConnell one.
Anecdotes ftw.
in 2012, romney won the sign in the yard metric and he got beat pretty soundly.
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