WAR! Mitch McConnell DECLARES WAR On Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, & Tea Party Outside Groups

[Segami]

THE TURTLE HAS LANDED!............. ......





In an abrupt change in strategy, Sen. Mitch McConnell has decided to go after Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, the Senate Victory Fund and other conservative groups who are backing his primary challenger.


According to the Lexington Herald-Leader,

Several allies of McConnell and other Senate Republicans say the senator is now planning a two-front war: one against Grimes and the other against the fundraising groups that are supporting Bevin. McConnell’s real targets are the Senate Conservatives Fund, which announced its endorsement of Bevin on Oct. 18, Heritage Action for America, Madison Project, FreedomWorks and other outside groups.


If McConnell can crush Bevin, the thinking goes, he can expose a lack of ideological consistency in the outside groups, allowing him to separate Tea Party voters from Tea Party fundraising groups.

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McConnell has fumed for about four years as he watched outside groups back primary challengers who defeated Republican incumbents then lost to Democrats, making his dream of becoming Senate Majority Leader a nightmare.


The decision by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, a Tea Party icon, to become the face of the government shutdown gave McConnell an opening to start pushing back. In an Oct. 11 interview with the Lexington Herald-Leader, the senator made his move, abruptly departing from the dominant no-compromise message and boasting of his record of making deals with Vice President Joe Biden.

http://www.kentucky.com/2013/10/28/2900114/sam-youngman-mitch-mcconnells.html#storylink=cpy

Sen. Ted Cruz, Jim DeMint, Sarah Palin, and the tea party supporting groups wanted a fight with McConnell, and now they’ve got it. Sen. McConnell has seen his chances to become Majority Leader destroyed by the tea party in 2010 and 2012, and the reality is that 2014 will probably be McConnell’s last chance to become Majority Leader. McConnell is 71 years old, and in 2016 Senate Republicans will be defending 24 seats to the Democrats 10. If Democrats hold on to control of the Senate in 2014, they could be in the majority for a long time.



For McConnell, this is also about payback. The Senate Conservatives Fund ran an ad against Mitch McConnell in Kentucky over the summer. Sarah Palin stuck her nose into the situation, and has been chirping about supporting McConnell’s primary challenger Matt Bevin. The decision to fight a two front war against both his primary challenger and his fall opponent Alison Lundergan Grimes is risky. If McConnell gets damaged in the primary, it could open the door for Grimes to take his seat in the fall.



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http://www.politicususa.com/2013/10/29/mitch-mcconnell-declares-war-ted-cruz-sarah-palin-tea-party-groups.html

[Wounded Bear]

1. So, instead of letting a TeaBagger beat him in a primary and lose to a Dem....

He'd rather lose to a Dem himself?

[Segami]

2. "....These tea party challenges to incumbent Senate Republicans are great news for Democrats,..

..and the great irony in all of this is that Mitch McConnell opposes all forms of campaign finance regulation. McConnell favors all forms of unlimited outside campaign money, just not when it is used against him.

McConnell’s throw down with the tea party is nothing but good news for the Democrats....."

[frylock]

12. reap the whirlwind!

[Blue Owl]

3. Nobody puts turtle in the corner

n/t

[ChairmanAgnostic]

14. Tis a round room, though.

[Blue Owl]

27. What's round in the middle...

and has a "G" and "P" at both ends?

[hootinholler]

4. Oh My!

[Myrina]

5. You know what they say about the wisdom of fighting a war on 2 fronts simultaneously ...

Have fun Mr. Turtle!!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

16. The US in WWII? Germany in WWII?

Us in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Israel during Yom kipper?

[SummerSnow]

6. Listen Rethugs..

When you allow the patients to run the asylum don't get mad when you can't control them.




The chickens have come home to roost

[Fantastic Anarchist]

7. Got to load up on some popcorn for this one.

Who ever loses, we on the Left win.

[Laelth]

10. Yep. Need more popcorn. n/t

-Laelth

[ReRe]

17. Give me some of that popcorn!

[wandy]

8. Can't say it brakes my heart to see the GOP having this little civil war.........

One thing does concern me.
Is their enough beer and popcorn in the entire world to get us through the 2016 republican clown car demolishin derby?
and more

[Segami]

9. We need to expand our 'muchie' smilie library.

[NewJeffCT]

11. Now, if we can just get Bevin to win the primary

and then open his mouth and speak to somebody outside the Fox News/RW Talk Radio bubble...

[ReRe]

18. Hey... I wonder how many Dems in KY...

will cross over in the primary and vote for Bevin, then vote for Alison Lundergen Grimes in the election? Yeah, McConnell has a problem and there's nothing he can do about it. Mitch made his bed, ever since PO became President. Now he has to sleep in it. Nanny-nanny-poo-poo, Mitch. You're toast.

[Zambero]

22. McConnell barely won re-election in 2008

This time around he has the Tea Party schism to contend with, finding himself in a GOP leadership position while his party's brand is less popular than pond scum, and a very formidable likely Democratic candidate in the general election. Is there a recipe for Toast a-la Turtle?

[ReRe]

25. Don't know about Toast ala Turtle...

... but I know how to make Turkey ala King.

[Initech]

13. The implosion is on! Who wants butter?

[grantcart]

15. Lamar Alexander has adopted the same strategy, seems coordinated.

Pass the ammunition

[marble falls]

20. Good. He'll lose his seat for sure.

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

21. Let the games...

...begin!

[Thor_MN]

23. Turtle on Beaver feuding?

[gopiscrap]

24. that ought to be interesting, I think the turtle is gonna get squished.

[Politicalboi]

26. Let's make Turtle a one term

Majority Leader. Oh wait........

[xfundy]

28. Repigs should always be distributed guns during their meetings.

Let 'em fight it out like "Real Murkkkins."

[randome]

29. I guess that answers the question of what war is good for.

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