Tea Party Group Withdraws Endorsement Of Mitch McConnell

[TomCADem]

Source: Huffington Post

Tea Party Nation, led by conservative activist Judson Phillips, has withdrawn its endorsement of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in the GOP primary against Matt Bevin.

McConnell's campaign website posted an endorsement from Phillips in May 2013. Phillips wrote on the Tea Party Nation blog Wednesday that the group would withdraw the endorsement, citing a "hugely revealing" report by Glenn Beck that McConnell had allegedly referred to tea party senators as traitors.

Phillips cited the group's support of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) as part of their decision to withdraw their endorsement.

"While Ted Cruz was fighting, Mitch McConnell was stabbing him in the back," Phillips wrote.


Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/09/tea-party-mitch-mcconnell_n_4071868.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

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We have a fight between the far right and the lemmings with suicide wings of the GOP. Again, it would be funny if everyone else was not adversely affected.

[Vashta Nerada]

1. I love watching the Republican party implode.

[livingwagenow]

2. Recced. As the GOP falls on it's greedy sword of divide and conquer.

I hope Mcturtle loses this primary.

[DeSwiss]

16. Sad turtle is sad.....

''I'm not related.''

[Beacool]

26. Wuuaahhhaaahaaa!!!!!!!

[blkmusclmachine]

3. Tea Party = GOP = Tea Party

[longship]

4. Turtle's gonna have a Republican (tea) opponent. nt

[Left Coast2020]

5. Put them all in a big room ankel deep in gasoline

Then give them all a bic lighter.

[rpannier]

6. They're citing reports by Glen Beck

Wow! That's right up there with, "Guess what I read on the bathroom wall?"

[L0oniX]

11. ...but ...but ...it was posted with an engraver n/t

[ecstatic]

24. +1000 nt

[SammyWinstonJack]

25. "For a good time, call the tea baggers."

[kelliekat44]

7. I wouldn't be too sure that this hurts Mitch. nt

[Gore1FL]

8. It does if he is primaried from the right n/t

[lastlib]

9. it will. Gonna be a bloody primary, neither side taking prisoners.

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[SDjack]

14. If his Tea Party challenger loses, I'll send him/her money for a run as Independent. Anything to

"help out" Mitch.

[lastlib]

19. yeah, I'll be happy to "help Mitch out" too!!

. . .

[L0oniX]

10. Well Mitch is a serial dater on fuckmatch.com anyway.

[ashling]

12. awww

I am so broken up over this . . . that is, the GOP is so broken up over this

[DeSwiss]

13. K&R

[libdem4life]

15. He's got a strong Democratic candidate in Allison Lundergan Grimes

Kentucky Secretary of State.

"Just when you thought that Senator Gridlock Mitch McConnell’s Washington dysfunction couldn’t get any worse, he hit a new low by following through with his dangerous plan to shut down the government.

This government shutdown is Washington at its worst. McConnell has abandoned middle-class families across our Commonwealth, and our nation, in order to pursue an extreme partisan agenda.

Americans are being turned away from their jobs and sent home without the pay they rely on to support their families, simply because McConnell would rather risk the economic future of our country than work towards reasonable compromise."

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We can’t afford to let this continue. Tell Senator Gridlock: Stop the political games and end the government shutdown:

http://action.alisonforkentucky.com/...

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/08/1245344/-KY-Sen-Alison-Lundergan-Grimes-D-Goes-After-Senator-Gridlock-R-For-Shutting-Down-The-Government#

[bigworld]

17. I think the Tea Party and mainstream GOP are publically turning against each other

This story, coupled with this and others are starting to show a real split between 'em.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014616462

They tried to ride the tiger, but that tiger's biting them now.

[LiberalLovinLug]

18. LOL

[Jamaal510]

20. Uh-oh, the turtle is without his shell, now. eom

[question everything]

21. And if he had any balls, he would have carry this as a badge of courage

telling them: screw you. I stand for the principles (whatever they are) that got me elected, etc.

And, he knows, may be Bonner would follow him, too.

(Yes, I know that not the right spelling, don't want to bother to find...)

[Kablooie]

22. The teaparty really needs to break off and become it's own party.

It will never reconcile itself with traditional Republicans.

(And it would decrease the influence of both parties to just about nothing.)

[Mz Pip]

23. Using Glenn Beck as a credible source...