McConnell: We Will 'Crush' Tea Party Challengers 'Everywhere'

[DonViejo]

CAITLIN MACNEAL – MARCH 9, 2014, 2:54 PM EDT

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) believes that incumbent Republicans won't have a problem holding their seats in the 2014 elections.

"I think we are going to crush them everywhere," McConnell said about Tea Party challengers in a New York Times interview published Saturday. "I don’t think they are going to have a single nominee anywhere in the country."

McConnell faces a primary challenge from the right. The Senate Conservatives Fund, which backs Tea Party challenger Matt Bevin, believes the candidate has a chance of defeating McConnell the the primary.

"Mitch McConnell is clearly in trouble in this primary or he wouldn’t be attacking Matt Bevin and declaring war on conservatives," Matt Hoskins, the head of the SCF, told the New York Times.

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/mcconnell-crush-tea-party

[Cha]

1. WOW. koch teabaggers no longer welcome?

[DonViejo]

3. I have a feeling the brothers have agreed to this "purge"....

I cannot envision the turtle not doing their bidding.

[Cha]

5. Actually.. that's kind of

what I was thinking after I wrote it.. but, just decided to let it stand. there's teabaggers and there's kamikaze.

[villager]

13. Sort of a "night of the long knives," Republican-style, eh?

[LarryNM]

22. +1 n/t

[Voice for Peace]

15. yup. the oilygrim brothers koch.

the ubiquitous dark oily money.
the shiny white teeth, specially designed for lying through.

[Vinnie From Indy]

29. I believe this to be true as well

I think the government shutdown scared the .1%'ers to death because they realized that the Frankenstein monster they created was showing signs of becoming uncontrollable. It threatened their ability to steal oceans of money and protect the oceans they have already acquired. That they will never abide.

[DonViejo]

31. I want to see if Rafael "Carnival" Cruz changes his teabagger ways...

or is he going to go down with the ship?

[SummerSnow]

32. the turtle will...

[Scuba]

17. The memo went out this morning ...

Dear Tea Party Patriot,

We have negotiated the surrender of the mainstream Republicans and are taking everything they have, including their name.

This was our secret strategy and will allow us to ensure your freedom, and liberty. And guns.

So remember, this fall vote "Republican".


In the name of our Savior, Jesus Christ,

David and Charles

[tridim]

2. WAR!

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. That should get the loonies stirred up.

Keep at it, Mitch.

There's nothing quite like inbreds fighting entrenched republicans to make my heart flutter.

[DonViejo]

8. I'm surprised the loons weren't going nutzo yesterday,...

the last day of CPAC; the interview with McConnell appeared in yesterday's NYT but it was published Friday night too. Wait. The loons don't read anything heavier than "Dick and Jane"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251356676

[freshwest]

11. If only that would happen retroactively, as well. Let's see, Paul, Cruz, etc. Then we'll talk... n/t

[spanone]

6. ...

[arcane1]

7. I'm going to invest my entire 401k in popcorn for the duration of 2014

[sheshe2]

9. Works for me,

I love watching them eat their own. Should be fun to watch!

Thanks Don

[Turbineguy]

10. Might have been easier

but not for gerrymandering and voter suppression.

[summerschild]

12. Y'all help me out here.

The Kochroaches are funding Heritage (Jim DeMint et al) so that leaves the Chamber of Commerce groupies to support the traditional Repubs?

Some days I just can't keep up ..... (remember to be kind to old people.....)

[DonViejo]

21. In reality, summerschild...

The Kochs and the C of C are backing all of them; Koch's do major funding of Heritage and throw a little less to traditional GOP'ers. Meanwhile, the C of C throws major dollars at the traditionalist and a little less at the Teahadists.

[bemildred]

14. Desperate times call for desperate babble. nt

[Rex]

16. Meh...he called in a heavy hitter.

[Voice for Peace]

18. The problem is... Sarah Palin, and Jesus. Mitch is Doomed.

Make way for new fervor.

The loons have Sarah Palin rootin' for them, undermining the entrenched old men.
They've got the NRA
They've got the young libertarians

They have the fervor to get out the vote. People who would vote for Mitch are probably tired.

[Thinkingabout]

19. I'm sure he want to think he isn't going to be beat but time will tell.

[dionysus]

20. "... he said, his chinlet quivering in rage..."

[IrishAyes]

23. Everybody's a comedian, I guess - even McConnell?! Ha!

[DeSwiss]

24. K&R

[center]
''We will Barry the Tea Party!!!''[/center]

[delrem]

25. And the (spin - MSM - spin) message is: McConnell is a "centist", a "moderate", a "bipartisan"....?

Well, why not?

Didn't the MSM, way back in time, prove that it could spin *anything* into *anything* when it concocted and sold the Ronald Reagan story. Has the MSM at any time since portrayed the truth? Not that I know of.

No, I don't think MSNBC with its all-star lineup of "pro Democratic Party" pundits is an exception. Far from it. MSNBC is totally embedded.

[Jamaal510]

30. He only seems like one

compared to the likes of Rand and Ted.

[RKP5637]

26. McConnell gives up, joins democratic party!

[RKP5637]

27. This is what happens when one sells their party out to the RW lunatic fringe! They invade, Mitch! nt

[Spitfire of ATJ]

28. Here ya go....

[Samantha]

33. How exactly does he plan to crush them?

With one of those wood chippers like the one featured in Fargo?



Sam

[Blue Owl]

34. Now wave that gun around some more

N/t

[Gothmog]

35. This will be fun to watch

I love it when conservatives fight

[dembotoz]

36. concern the teabag looney will make mcconnell and his ilk as the middle candidate

a moderate perhaps.....

[Berlum]

37. Don't RepubliWankers ever say or do anything positive?

Republicons are the most poisonously negative gang of wankers this country has ever endured. What a bunch of FAIL freaks and losers they are.

[Zambero]

38. So, are CPAC, NRA, Family Research Council et al OK with this Mitch?

And flushing out and replacing 80% of the GOP House delegation who either identify with or vote a straight Tea Party line will be quite the challenge, but HEY MITCH, you can do it buddy!