Posted on 11/23/2013 4:52:58 AM PST by markomalley
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) reportedly told GOP donors on a conference call this week the Tea Party is “nothing but a bunch of bullies” that he plans to “punch in the nose.”
Well, the Tea Party responded tonight to the alleged remarks by Senator McConnell.
Matthew Boyle at Breitbart reported:
A major GOP donor who told Breitbart News Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell made disparaging remarks about the Tea Party movement and about Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Mike Lee (R-UT) continues to stand by his original story after claims that the reports were not accurate.
This individual reported that on the Oct. 30 fundraising call American Crossroads’ Karl Rove and Steven J. Law held with McConnell, “McConnell specifically talked about Mike Lee by name, specifically talked about Ted Cruz by name, and he specifically talked about the Tea Party by name,” the donor told Breitbart News in response to a story Rove’s and McConnell’s teams have purported shows otherwise.
That story, published by Charlie Spiering at The Washington Examiner earlier on Friday, confirms that McConnell “criticized conservative groups who supported the plan to defund Obamacare” and that he also criticized those conservatives who “are now actively working to defeat him in Kentucky.” The article adds that McConnell “repeatedly mentioned the Senate Conservatives Fund by name.”
Spiering, who says he was exclusively provided a 27-minute audio file of the call, reports that McConnell did, as Breitbart News’ source said, talk about dealing with conservative “schoolyard bullies” by “punching them in the nose.”
…Tea Party Express chairwoman Amy Kremer said it does not matter whether those “bullies” and “punch them in the nose” remarks McConnell made on the call were specifically aimed at Senate Conservatives Fund or whether they were general to the grassroots movement; the conclusion Tea Partiers should take away is the same.
“An attack on SCF or any Tea Party organization or Ted Cruz or Mike Lee is an attack on all of us,” Kremer said in a phone interview Friday afternoon.
Read the rest here.
Please tell me again how 0bama’s reelection is the fault of Tea Party supporters and not the complete responsibility of the RNC and the moderate/liberal GOP that abhors conservatives.
Ditch Mitch.
McConnell’s a horses ass!!
Seriously? The author considers a punch in the nose from McConnell a “threat”?
If McConnel wants to punch someone in the nose he should walk across the aisle and punch Reid in the nose. However, Reid having boxed some in his youth, would probably put some whoop @$$ on McConnel in short order. Sooo, my advise to McConnel is avoid “another” stomping by Reid and look for some strong and willing allies to help in the fight aka the Tea Party comes to mind. But, sadly, I have yet to hear anyione refer to McConnel as smart. Heck, let’s just get rid of this loser and get ourselves a senate leader with some stones, what to you say? Who’s with me!!!!!!
Who’s primarying McConnell? I’m sending him a donation.
McConnell is a senile old rino sock puppet on Reid’s right hand. Wake up Kentucky!
Matt Bevin.
I am offended!!
I guess in retrospect we would have been just as well off if Walter “Dee” Huddleston had defeated McC in 1984, but at the time, conservatives cheered the McC upset. It was only 5,000 votes or so.
What did Mitch have to say about the Occupy crowd?
Tea Party to Mitch McConnell: Game on, bitch.
Mitch sounds like a Baseball Manager or Football Coach getting ready to be fired.
We are facing impossible. Even if McC is defeated, the stand-by material is the equally cowardly Lamar! KY and TN don’t have it in either case.
The results of the 2014 elections will dwarf those of 2010, including the state and local legislatures...
ObamaCare Fallout in State Government
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/11/obamacare_fallout_in_state_government.html
“The results of the 2014 elections will dwarf those of 2010, including the state and local legislatures...“
The 2014 elections are irrelevant to the march to totalitarianism. If the republicans win the senate and hold the house the lawless president will become even more lawless and unleash the full power of the executive on the country. The republicans will not impeach him or even oppose him all that much. They will just pout and simper they don’t have enough of the government to mean anything.
To have an election mean something you need people That mean something and that is not the republican party.
2015 ... Chaos...
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