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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOuch! Tea Party Brings The Knives Out For Mitch McConnell
Tea Party Brings The Knives Out For Mitch McConnell
Sahil Kapur February 8, 2014, 8:00 AM EST296
Conservatives are bringing out the torches and pitchforks for Mitch McConnell.
Long-simmering tension between the tea party and Senate minority leader has again risen to the surface as a swath of conservative activists redouble their efforts to help Kentucky businessman Matt Bevin oust McConnell in the Republican primary on May 20, before he even makes it to the general election.
The lobbying group FreedomWorks, the Jim DeMint-founded Senate Conservatives Fund, the political organization Madison Project and prominent tea party activist Erick Erickson are all trying to tear down McConnell, a 29-year incumbent who is vying to become Senate majority leader next January.
Their newest beef? It's not just that McConnell isn't a true conservative -- it's that his poor standing in the polls back home is a danger to GOP hopes of recapturing the Senate.
Erickson, a Fox News contributor and editor of RedState.com, has made it his personal mission to take down McConnell. He mobilizes his followers with such calls to action: "The single biggest thing you can do to clean up the GOP is to defeat Mitch McConnell in Kentucky by supporting Matt Bevin." He warns that defeating McConnell is essential to send a message to the Republican Party: "{W}hen you beat the sitting Senate Republican Leader in a primary, suddenly Washington knows the grassroots are in charge."
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Ouch! Tea Party Brings The Knives Out For Mitch McConnell (Original Post)
babylonsister
Feb 2014
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WhiteTara
(29,722 posts)1. Go Matt Bevin!
babylonsister
(171,094 posts)2. Can you imagine?
That would so rock!
notemason
(299 posts)3. Given a choice between McConnell and DeMint
I would choose Satan
mountain grammy
(26,655 posts)4. Agree!
lastlib
(23,308 posts)5. they might be interchangeable..........
(oh, wait, I'm thinking Ted Cruz......my bad; oh, well, it still works)
sheshe2
(83,928 posts)6. And this is what Matt Bevin stands for...
pampango
(24,692 posts)7. Just when I think that the GOP establishment has the tea party (their creation) under control,
I see things like this. You don't get more 'establishment' than McConnell.
tblue
(16,350 posts)8. The lunatics are running the asylum.
Pretty much literally true. Man, that party is scary. What did he do to let them down?
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)9. It doesn't take much to let the tea party down
For at least some tea partiers, he met with a black man and perhaps even politely shook his hand.