Posted on 05/25/2014 10:07:19 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
Rand Paul is defending his relationship with Mitch McConnell after helping his fellow Kentuckian defeat a tea party-backed challenger in a GOP Senate primary.
"I came out of the tea party movement. I'm very concerned about the debt. I'm very concerned about big government," Paul said on Friday. "But I think the misnomer is to think somehow Senator McConnell isn't. That's what his whole entire career has been predicated upon - fighting against big government."
The comments by Paul, the state's junior senator, came at a news conference with McConnell in Louisville that was focused on building party unity following a bruising campaign in which the minority leader's opponent, Matt Bevin, got 35 percent of the primary vote.
Some in the conservative grassroots movement immediately called for Republican voters to unite and support McConnell.
But Bevin has been noticeably quiet and hasn't said whether he'll back his rival--though he flatly stated on election night that he won't back the Democratic nominee.
That's not stopping Alison Lundergan Grimes, however. She's actively going after Bevin supporters. In an open letter Friday to the 40 percent of Republican voters who didn't vote for McConnell, she argued that a vote for Grimes is a vote for change.
"Yes, we are in different parties, and we have divergent views on some issues. But if you believe that we need a fresh face to shake up Washington, I invite you to join our campaign," the letter stated.
Bevin hit back later Friday with his own letter, saying she doesn't understand "the principles that united my campaign's supporters" and disparaged her stance on a number of items on her agenda.
He agreed with her that Kentucky needs change, but not her kind of change. He made no direct mention of McConnell in the letter.
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No, the other option was to do what a conservative would do, and not endorse him, and surely not campaign for him.
Politicians do not have to endorse and campaign for candidates, they can just remain quiet.
The Ruling Class of the GOP is FAR more harmful to the Conservative agenda and cause than Harry Reid could ever dream of being.
PRETENDING to be Conservative and then sabotaging the agenda itself as Minority leader and then PUBLICLY DECLARING WAR on Conservatives was far more destructive to our cause than by anything the Democrats themselves have ever done.
If you cannot understand that, then you are lost to hackdom and party loyalty over principles, which consigns Conservatism to irrelevance in the GOP.
Which is why many of us now vote 3rd Party or write in Conservatives instead of voting for a Republican.
McConnell wanted a war with Conservatives, well, he got one. It’s pure STUPIDITY to reward that abuse with a vote, REGARDLESS of the stooge in the wings for the seat.
Agree.
How quickly the stench of DC infects anyone who works there.
Hitting the “like” button on this.
So you whore our your vote for what you view is good for your pocket change?
You post truth... thank you.
good night.
Good night troll.
Getting on FR just to post anti-conservatism and refusing to engage with the conservatives here, is just trolling.
It also reveals you are lying when you try to use fake pro-life passion as a cover for your aggressive anti conservative posting, and then grow silent when it is pointed out that your candidate is promoting a pro-abortion position.
CNN:
BLITZER: So, just to be precise, if you believe life begins at conception, which I suspect you do believe that, you would have no exceptions for rape, incest, the life of the mother, is that right?
PAUL: Well, I think that once again puts things in too small of a box. What I would say is that there are thousands of exceptions. You know, I’m a physician and every individual case is going to be different, and everything is going to be particular to that individual case and what’s going on with that mother and the medical circumstances of that mother.
I would say that after birth, you know, we’ve decided that when life begins, we have decided that we don’t have exceptions for one- day-old or six-month-olds. We don’t ask where they came from or how they came into being, but it is more complicated because the rest of it depends on the definition of when life comes in. So, I don’t think it’s a simple as checking box and saying exceptions or no exceptions.
And there are a lot of decisions that are made privately by families and their doctors that really won’t — the law won’t apply to, but I think it’s important that we not be flippant one way or the other and pigeon hole and say, oh, this person doesn’t believe in any sort of discussion between family. And so, I don’t know if there’s a simple way to put me in a category on any of that.
BLITZER: Well, it sounds like you believe in some exceptions.
PAUL: Well, there’s going to be, like I say, thousands of extraneous situations where the life of the mother is involved and other things that are involved.
So, I would say that each individual case would have to be addressed and even if there were eventually a change in the law, let’s say, the people came more to my way of thinking, it’s still be a lot of complicated things that the law may not ultimately be able to address in the early stages of pregnancy that would have to be part of what occurs between the physician and the woman and the family.
This goes for the same with the end of life.
I really hate when Libertarians lie and treat Republican voters like children to be manipulated.
You work very hard to promote the liberals.
McConnell and Boner FINANCED Obama all these years.. ON PURPOSE...
They could easily have cut him off at the knees..
BUT DIDN’T...
ALL funding originates in the House the Senate merely signs off on it..
The federal givernment IS NOT “THE givernment”
It’s one of three givernments.. if the fed languishes no big deal..
The States do most of the work..
Federal, State and Local..
The republican Congress is for democracy NOT FOR the Republic..
The democrats are too...... that’s WHY? they are called democrats..
Seems most republicans are indeed DEMOCRATS.. and not republicans at all..
Next time the USA is referred to as a democracy.. THEY ARE LIEING.. right to your face..
-or- total civic morons..
Rand is making me very nervous
Total votes | U.S. Senate Republicans 355,132 Democrats 402,421~~~~~
McConnell 213,741 Grimes 307,748
Goodbye Mr. Turtle!!!
McConnell is a machine politician incumbent with total control of the GOP at the state level.
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McConnell mirrors Reid and his Democrat Nevada machine in this regard. Both are as corrupt as it gets.
Somebody else who doesn’t know what the word “misnomer” means ...
Well do you really want a hard left Dem to get McConnell’s senate seat? Honestly I have little faith left that the ballot box will fix America but I’m not rooting for the Dems. Neither is Rand Paul.
Rush Limbaugh was correct when he said “if you have a “D” after your name you are the enemy”
In the words of Hitlery Clinton: "What difference does it make?"
What difference does it make between someone who is openly hard-left, and someone who PRETENDS to be a Conservative Opposition leader but yet enables the hard-Left to implement their entire agenda AND THEN DECLARES WAR on Conservatives??
I will tell you what is different, TREASON to the cause and the base. I'd rather have the enemy in front of me than the traitor who assists the enemy from within our own ranks… hell, LEADING our ranks.
McConnell DECLARED WAR on Conservatives, vowed to CRUSH US - and yet we have the Establishment lackeys trying to lecture us about how it is better to have someone waging war on you to be in his seat than the Leftist???
What difference does it make? I'm flabbergasted at the acute cases of Battered Wife Syndrome on display here.
Honestly I have little faith left that the ballot box will fix America but I’m not rooting for the Dems.
The ballot box CANNOT fix America. We went Soviet. The entire process is corrupted. History and heritage teach the lesson with utter clarity about the only way such tyranny is uprooted. But too many have a fatal case of Normalcy Bias, so tyranny is our future lot.
Rush Limbaugh was correct when he said “if you have a “D” after your name you are the enemy”
Anyone in the Washington leadership with an "R" after their name is as much an enemy and traitor to our cause as the MarxoFascists are to the Constitution.
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