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Another Tea Party Primary challenger....is imploding. 
February 25, 2014, 06:00 am
McConnell crushing GOP rival
By Alexander Bolton and Alexandra Jaffe
Mitch McConnell’s vote to advance debt-ceiling legislation could have been the moment of weakness conservatives needed to defeat the Senate GOP leader.
Instead, the surprise move might indicate just how little the Kentucky senator is worried about the threat so far from challenger Matt Bevin.
In the seven months since Bevin launched his campaign to topple the Bluegrass titan, statewide observers say his underdog bid hasn’t caught the traction he needs before the May primary.
Bevin was already struggling with fundraising and in the polls. McConnell’s maneuvers to allow a debt-ceiling vote to proceed gave his opponents hope, but that golden opportunity was quickly erased by mishandling of his response to the revelation that Bevin signed a letter praising the 2008 Wall Street bailout.
“It can now be called underperforming,” Al Cross, a veteran state political commentator and professor of journalism at the University of Kentucky, said of Bevin’s bid.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/...#ixzz2uLGzW0QX
Read the entire article....lots of points. First on Bevin's inept and amateurish campaign....the polling....and then how the real threat that McConnell faces is not the Tea Party challenger...but his Democratic opponent in the Fall.
Naturally, once the Primary is over, Tea Party "pure conservatives" will become Mitch McConnell's biggest defenders...even boosters. They just have go through the same self-righteous dog-and-pony show they went through during the 2012 Presidential Primaries...where they lambasted Mitt Romney as a "RINO" from 2011 until late Winter 2012, when Gingrich and Santorum collapsed....and then they all began speaking of Romney as "Reaganesque"......until he LOST...then they all went back to hating him and pretending they voted Constitution Party or something.
Same deal with Mitch...once the Kentucky GOP Primaries are over, the "We hate RINOs" contingent won't as the old song goes say a discouragin' word against him...but focus their wrath of Alison Lundegan Grimes. And if Mitch flubs or gaffes, they'll defend "poor Mitch being smeared by the Lib'rul Media".
Then we go through the whole shebang againt in 2015-2016....with Tea Partyers screaming "No more RINOs!!!!!!".....right up to when the RNC-anointed Candidate, who will be a "RINO" to the Tea Partyers, becomes inevitable....and they "learn to love him" as they did Romney and McConnell.....until he loses.
February 25, 2014, 06:00 am
McConnell crushing GOP rival
By Alexander Bolton and Alexandra Jaffe
Mitch McConnell’s vote to advance debt-ceiling legislation could have been the moment of weakness conservatives needed to defeat the Senate GOP leader.
Instead, the surprise move might indicate just how little the Kentucky senator is worried about the threat so far from challenger Matt Bevin.
In the seven months since Bevin launched his campaign to topple the Bluegrass titan, statewide observers say his underdog bid hasn’t caught the traction he needs before the May primary.
Bevin was already struggling with fundraising and in the polls. McConnell’s maneuvers to allow a debt-ceiling vote to proceed gave his opponents hope, but that golden opportunity was quickly erased by mishandling of his response to the revelation that Bevin signed a letter praising the 2008 Wall Street bailout.
“It can now be called underperforming,” Al Cross, a veteran state political commentator and professor of journalism at the University of Kentucky, said of Bevin’s bid.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/...#ixzz2uLGzW0QX
Read the entire article....lots of points. First on Bevin's inept and amateurish campaign....the polling....and then how the real threat that McConnell faces is not the Tea Party challenger...but his Democratic opponent in the Fall.
Naturally, once the Primary is over, Tea Party "pure conservatives" will become Mitch McConnell's biggest defenders...even boosters. They just have go through the same self-righteous dog-and-pony show they went through during the 2012 Presidential Primaries...where they lambasted Mitt Romney as a "RINO" from 2011 until late Winter 2012, when Gingrich and Santorum collapsed....and then they all began speaking of Romney as "Reaganesque"......until he LOST...then they all went back to hating him and pretending they voted Constitution Party or something.
Same deal with Mitch...once the Kentucky GOP Primaries are over, the "We hate RINOs" contingent won't as the old song goes say a discouragin' word against him...but focus their wrath of Alison Lundegan Grimes. And if Mitch flubs or gaffes, they'll defend "poor Mitch being smeared by the Lib'rul Media".
Then we go through the whole shebang againt in 2015-2016....with Tea Partyers screaming "No more RINOs!!!!!!".....right up to when the RNC-anointed Candidate, who will be a "RINO" to the Tea Partyers, becomes inevitable....and they "learn to love him" as they did Romney and McConnell.....until he loses.
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