Posted on 11/06/2013 5:50:34 AM PST by cotton1706
The NRSC announced today that it will be spending money to defeat Mitch McConnell in the Kentucky primary.
Well, at least that is the implication of their statement, according to Politico:
Burned by intraparty warfare the last two election cycles, the Senate Republican campaign committee may take a heavier hand in contested primaries next year to push their preferred candidates across the finish line, a top official said Tuesday.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee’s move would mark a dramatic shift from 2012, when the committee sat out contested GOP primaries to avoid meddling in the party’s internal affairs. But after witnessing several candidates emerge in 2010 and 2012 in states that could have handed the GOP a Senate majority, top officials now are prepared to change course.
“Would we spend money in a primary? Yes, we would if that’s the right move at the time,” Rob Collins, executive director of the NRSC, told reporters Tuesday. “There are no rules. I treat every state differently. The path to getting a general election candidate who can win is the only thing we care about. So where we agree with everybody: Awesome, let’s work together. Where we don’t: We do what we think gets us to a majority.”
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
The Senate old guard is circling the wagons to protect the useless, defeatist Senators that have longed outlived any usefulness.
Here’s how dems do it - a few dirty tricks the press won’t notice or talk about:
LOL yeah that’s what they’re gonna do, go after their pet RINOs.
There fixed it for ya GOP-E pansies.
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