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http://www.politicususa.com/2014/07/21/bad-worse-mitch-kentucky-gop-leader-resigns-protest-mcconnell.html
Things Go From Bad To Worse for Mitch As Kentucky GOP Leader Resigns To Protest McConnell
By: Jason Easley
Monday, July, 21st, 2014, 2:12 pm
A local Republican Party leader in Kentucky has resigned her position in act of protest against Sen. Mitch McConnell.
According to WFPL:
She resigned on July 10 and the reason was simple; Knott cannot support Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell this fall.
I have resigned from the executive committee of the Republican Party because I will not support Mitch McConnell, Knott, chair of the Owensboro Tea Party, said in a telephone interview. I have a big 4×8 sign in my front yard that says Retire Mitch. Its going to stay there through the election. I will not vote for that man.
Knott does plan to come out to support other Republican candidates. But in terms of McConnell she is just fed up despite voting for him in the past.
When local party leaders are resigning because they can no longer support him, things are getting dire for Mitch McConnell. The only thing that McConnell has going for him is a big pile of money that will be spent by outside groups on his behalf this fall. Sen. McConnells campaign has been worst run spectacles of the year. The candidate himself has alternated between gaffes and offensive statements.
Sen. McConnell is using the same playbook that he has been following for decades, but this time it isnt working. McConnell is not having success trying to tie his Democratic opponent Alison Grimes to President Obama. His Obamacare attacks have gone nowhere, and mostly the senator has looked out of touch with the needs of his constituents on the campaign trail.
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Uncle Joe
(58,417 posts)Thanks for the thread, babylonsister.
The Magistrate
(95,255 posts)I want this fella toppled to the dust, I want him to fall hard....
daleanime
(17,796 posts)Hekate
(90,793 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,699 posts)K&R
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
sheshe2
(83,898 posts)Good news!
TiredOfNo
(52 posts)Which means she has ideas and positions that are far worse than those of Mitch.....if that's possible.
nikto
(3,284 posts)We may be trading a moldy ham sandwich (Mitchell)
for cyanide (tea-party), here.
Not something to cheer about, IMO.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)I don't know the political climate there but I;m wondering if there is a tea party candidate in the wings. Mitch is bad news but there could be worse.
Then again, maybe a tea party candidate would split the Reps and throw the votes to a Dem in the end. Who knows.
cui bono
(19,926 posts)they could split the vote.
Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)He is an old veteran at all this underhanded political maneruvering. This slimly old fox knows how to rally the RW on the hill and manipulate and massage House Rules to do his bidding. Not sure a hot head on the hill can actually accomplish much.
can only hope the democrat wins.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Good for you for ending your support for Mr. McConnell over his odious policies. The story doesn't specify which policies you find so objectionable, but may I suggest that you take a good close look at the policies of those other Republican candidates you continue to support?
samsingh
(17,601 posts)babylonsister
(171,090 posts)Bandit
(21,475 posts)lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)BWAHAHAHA
rocktivity
(44,577 posts)Which is ridiculous -- women LOVE Mitch!
rocktivity
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)Sick_of_TP
(21 posts)is the reason she doesn't like him anymore. That's what it sounds like to me.
Blue Owl
(50,494 posts)<>
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)Republicans nationwide are campaigning on the Horror of Obamacare, which isn't easy to do when your state has a well-operating implementation of it with a half-million people signed up under it.
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)Send the turtle into permanent hibernation. That's what he can do to serve his country.
rurallib
(62,448 posts)tabasco
(22,974 posts)I'm scared to death that the rotten, lying varmint Capito is going to win in WV.
That would be a great pity because Natalie Tennant would make a wonderful senator.
Rozlee
(2,529 posts)It's such a hotbed of conservatism and evangelical right-wingers. I've noticed a lot of rumbles from my in-laws up there recently against the coal companies and their fury over the Elk River incident though. They refuse to eat at this one restaurant because they say it's owned by the daughter of one of the coal magnates. Before, they always bought the conservative talk show line that Big Coal was king and its CEO's and owners benevolent overseers of the state economy. I'm not holding my breath, though. Conservatives seem to be getting a lot of mileage over immigration hysteria up there and my in-laws are really infected with it, which is bizarre. My little grandson rules the roost up there and he's 1/4 Hispanic from my side of the family.
tabasco
(22,974 posts)but there's a lot of ignorance, which the pukes thrive on.
Rozlee
(2,529 posts)I'm from Texas.
Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)Here's to hoping we can dump his ass from Congress this November. Put the Tea Party bastards out on their asses!
SunSeeker
(51,694 posts)I mean, I don't see any daylight between McConnell's positions and that of the Tea Party. But if Knott thinks there is, and won't vote for him because he supported Cochran over McDaniel, then that is good news.
But Dems shouldn't rely on the bluster of a tea bagger like Knott. We still must do everything we can to get the Dem vote out in November.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)I'm thinkin they won't because of immigration, Obamacare or lack of it and their War on Women. We may not get the House back but we may get a filibuster proof Senate which would br nice if a couple of old white men die off SCOTUS
NBachers
(17,136 posts)liberal N proud
(60,344 posts)iemitsu
(3,888 posts)And he's on the side of women and factory workers. Who knew? And his right hand man is black!
Roy Serohz
(236 posts)As the OP said,
zentrum
(9,865 posts)...she's a Bagger and he's not rightwing enough? The article doesn't make clear if she's not supporting him for the right reasons or the wrong reasons. I gather this is the GOP internal civil war of loons vs. corporates?
Still, I get how, either way, this helps Grimes.
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts). . . hiding the engine sitting in the bath tub . . you just might be a redneck!
Where's Jeff Foxworthy when you need him?
kentuck
(111,110 posts)...in the Mississippi race. He supported Thad Cochran.
supercats
(429 posts)Let's send him to a rubber room, which is where he belongs!
Takket
(21,625 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,323 posts)from
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libodem
(19,288 posts)The whole Republican party has devolved into aiding foreign and domestic terrorism.
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Cha
(297,650 posts)No, this wrong. mahalo babylonsistah~
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)enough to satisfy his voters should send chills down all our spines.
blackspade
(10,056 posts)This has been years coming.
Mitch is a terrible senator.