Remember this Townhall report — McConnell: We’re Going to ‘Crush’ Tea Party Candidates in GOP Primaries This Year
Here’s an excerpt of Guy Benson ‘s report on McConnell’s very tough talk back in March:
Provocative comments over the weekend from Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell will provide grist for the ‘grassroots vs. establishment’ mill for some time. In an interview with the New York Times about the 2014 election cycle,McConnell predicted that Tea Party-backed Senate candidates will get wiped out in GOP primaries this year:
This election season, Republicans led by Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky are taking a much harder line as they sense the majority within reach. Top congressional Republicans and their allies are challenging the advocacy groups head on in an aggressive effort to undermine their credibility. The goal is to deny them any Senate primary victories, cut into their fund-raising and diminish them as a future force in Republican politics. “I think we are going to crush them everywhere,” Mr. McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, said in an interview, referring to the network of activist organizations working against him and two Republican incumbents in Kansas and Mississippi while engaging in a handful of other contests. “I don’t think they are going to have a single nominee anywhere in the country.”
Benson then goes on to comment:
McConnell may be proven correct — more on that in a moment — but this was still an unwise thing to say.””
Well, duh. An “unwise thing to say”? I don’t recall “Mitch” talking like Mickey Rooney toward any Democrat like he went after those dim-witted Tea Party types.
But OK, that was March…and now it’s October, less than a month away from election day. With early, early voting already taking place in states around the country, the mid-term election may already be decided. We just don’t know it.
So, Senator McConnell, how’s ‘at working out for you?
We get this from the Phillip Bump writing at the Washington Post today (The Fix) :
Is Alison Lundergan Grimes suddenly leading in Kentucky?
This is the sort of thing that political junkies love a month before Election Day: A new poll in Kentucky suggesting that a party leader in the Senate rather abruptly trails the challenger he’s been trying to fight off (pretty successfully) for months. But it’s also time for sober heads to weigh in.
SurveyUSA conducted a poll for several Kentucky media outlets that shows Alison Lundergan Grimes (D) at 46 percent and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) at 44 percent. A month ago, the same pollster working for the same outlets suggested that McConnell was up by four. Hence, raised eyebrows.
Well,OK, the Post is “concerned’ that the polls may not be as accurate or reassuring as they’d like that McConnell may be losing. The central point, though, is that the race is close. So, does “tough guy” Mitch want those silly Tea Partiers to come out for him on election day. Does Kansas Senator Pat Roberts?
You better believe it! Atta boy, Mitch, you’re one tough son-of-a-gun.
And now later in the day we see a report of the sort of moxie that probably will pull McConnell’s bacon out of the fire. It is by the likes of James O’Keefe, not exactly an establishment Republican figure. He more of the cloth of Andrew Breitbart and, dare we say, TEA party. Does anyone seriously think the hand wringers in the RNC or the Republican Senatorial Committee would go after Democrats with such gusto?
From a Newsmax article by Drew MacKensie
McConnell Opponent’s Staff Says She’s Lying
In a shocking hidden camera video, Kentucky Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes has been accused by her own campaign team of telling bald-faced lies about supporting the state’s coal industry.
The video captures Grimes’ staffers and employees of local Democratic Party affiliates claiming that she’s pushing the industry purely for political purposes in a desperate bid to defeat Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, reports The Washington Free Beacon.
Produced by conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe, the video opens with footage from a Grimes’ ad, in which she says, “I’m not Barack Obama. I disagree with him on guns, coal and the EPA. I’m going to stand up for what keeps the light on her in the state of Kentucky, and that is our coal industry.”
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