Posted on 10/28/2013 5:13:04 AM PDT by cotton1706
It is safe to call the Kentucky primary race between Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and challenger Matt Bevin a nasty contest.
The latest offensive from McConnell says his Tea Party-backed opponent isn't just misleading the public about his past, but argues Bevin may have committed a criminal act in the process that could be grounds for imprisonment.
From the outset McConnell's ruthless campaign told voters Bevin, a Louisville businessman and investor, was an "East Coast con man" whom they couldn't trust.
Even as TV attack ads against Bevin's business record were dubbed mostly false by fact-checkers, the pummeling has escalated and expanded.
As first reported by Buzzfeed last week, Bevin's Connecticut-based bell-making company (Bevin Brothers Manufacturing Co.) sought a $100,000 state grant after it burned down from a fire four years ago.
The online news site found Bevin's company applied for the grant saying it didn't owe any local, state or federal back taxes while failing to disclose a $74,000 IRS lien.
Another Connecticut document obtained by WFPL is dated June 16, 2012. It shows Bevin signed some of the paperwork personally, which stated there were "no federal tax claims or liens" against his company.
McConnell's campaign didn't leave this to just their political operatives, who eagerly attacked Bevin's trustworthiness. Team Mitch also found a Connecticut lawyer who said Bevin could face a $2,000 fine or a year in jail.
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If Mitch succeeds in destroying Bevin and is again the nominee, he will lose in November. But he probably already knows this. True to form, these types would rather have a democrat win a senate seat than a conservative.
And frankly, we would rather have a democrat win the seat than McConnell. So keep it up, Mitch! You're going to be removed from power one way or the other.
Old guard refuses to budge.................if hischallenger is removed I would imagine most if not all will be voting for a alate comer to the campaign.
No-one should forget that the GOP-e cheated, lied and stole in every which way they could to get the 1976 nomination to the utterly unelectable Gerry Ford, instead of Ronald Reagan. Then, when Ronald Reagan won in the 1980 primaries, they ran a second Republican against him in general, Rep. Anderson, to siphon enough votes off Reagan to re-elect Carter. Fortunately, Carter self-destructed so badly, and Reagan was so triumphant in the debates that Reagan easily beat Carter... despite Anderson taking 7% of the vote.
But yes, the GOP-e tried to get Jimmy Carter elected over Ronald Reagan!
I sure wish the GOP would fight democrats as ruthlessly as they attack other republicans
How much did McConnell rake in in the latest budget battle?
Dewhurst campaign against Cruz was similarly nasty and less than honest (TX). I don’t think it sat well with Republican voters (imo).
mcconnell is a liar... he is lying about Bevin and all Bevin has to do is point out that mitch has never attacked a democrat like he has attacked Bevin and then point out that mitch is a criminal because he has helped institute a lifetime of illegal and Unconstitutional usurpation.
There is not a chance in hell I am voting for McConnell this time around.
Amazing what he is doing to Bevin, while at the same time he wets his pants every time Reid makes a face at him.
Truly, we are in an alternate universe.
Ann Coulter is on Bill Bennett, screeching about what a wonderful job McConnell is doing and how people wh are saying things against him are factually wrong. She says he is the leader and has to represent Collins
Oh, she said he was the Ted Cruz of Campaign finance reform.
I guess so he could work out Pork in his dealings?
Yes, Ann, if you haven’t heard anything against him it’s because you are not listening, as usual, and you r credibility BTW is out.
Having a Democrat in that seat would be unrecognizably different, so he can just go after the dem instead of Blevins.
I believe we would be better off with McConnell gone ,even if he is replaced by a Democrat.
Better a person working against us in the open than one working against us in secret.
Spoken like a true Kamikaze Conservative.
Please explain how one more liberal Senate voter for the next Supreme Court nominee is good for our country.
So called 'Conservatives' will remain as disgruntled spectators on the national scene until they learn how to win elections
that’s what the GOPe does. It’s why they are seen as wimpy.
No kid is respected who goes after his own family but schmoozes the bully.
It’s what the GOPe did to all the primary candidates last year, and what gave us Obama. WE knew Romney would attack his own and schmooze Obama.
McConnell’s no different
Gee if only Mitch the B&&ch would attack Democrats half as hard as he is attacking Bevin, we’d have a different outcome in the Senate.
“Spoken like a true Kamikaze Conservative.
Please explain how one more liberal Senate voter for the next Supreme Court nominee is good for our country.
So called ‘Conservatives’ will remain as disgruntled spectators on the national scene until they learn how to win elections.”
If McConnell were a republican back-bencher, with his voting record, I would support him. But he is the republican leader, and he has willfully and intentionally undermined conservatives in both the Senate and the House time and again. He is constantly assisting Harry Reid and the democrats behind the scenes. He is an odious man.
In a race between a democrat and McConnell, McConnell would not be the “lesser of two evils.” The repulican caucus in the senate would be more consevative without him. He must be removed from power one way or the other, because he won’t retire and will not step down as leader because he’s power hungry. He’s a wolf within our fold.
“Of note: WFPL is the NPR station in Louisville, KY.”
Ok. Thanks. Didn’t know that.
Obama and ANY opponent he faced prior to the presidential run.
That is an entirely fair question, and I'll be happy to answer it:
Because an "electable" GOP "moderate" will vote to confirm the same left-wing judicial nominees as would any Democrat. They always have.
The duty of the opposition is to oppose, and in Washington D.C., that means refusing to advance the interests of the power structures of both parties, which are quite often in our time, one and the same.
Republicans would certainly benefit from having greater representation in Congress. It does not automatically follow that conservatives would so benefit.
The 'pragmatic' and liberal GOP wing has won it's last election because they have alienated the base. That's the new reality.
/johnny
The logic is this:
Either way, you're going to get a liberal in the seat.
One says he's on your side--until he isn't. The other is a known enemy.
Next time, you run someone more conservative against the Liberal.
It is a long term strategy.
Frankly, we've settled for the liberal Republican over the Liberal Democrat to the point where the 'pubbies can't even be counted on to vote party lines any more, and every time the cry has been to vote for the lesser evil.
Well, those lesser evils stack up, and although it may have taken a little longer, now there are people in those seats with political positions conservatives would not have considered a generation ago.
Weeding them out isn't going to be easy or painless, but it has to be done.
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