Posted on 07/22/2013 5:55:48 AM PDT by cotton1706
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) will have a challenger from the right in Matt Bevin, a local businessman and Tea Party candidate who plans to announce his run for Senate this week.
Bevin, who has been exploring the race since February, is reportedly already buying airtime and has met with multiple conservative groups about his run. He'll launch a 3-day, 8-stop tour of the state after he formally announces his intentions on Wednesday.
Bevin is a partner at a Kentucky investment firm and the owner of Bevin Brothers Manufacturing, a Connecticut bell-making company founded 160 years ago. He previously worked as CEO of Integrity Asset Management, an investment management firm with offices in Kentucky.
His personal wealth would be an advantage running against McConnell, who has nearly $10 million cash on hand for the race.
McConnell has long been considered vulnerable to a primary challenge, but no candidate had previously emerged.
He's worked, in recent years, to shore up support on his right flank, and hired Jesse Benton, the former campaign manager for Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) with ties to the Tea Party in Kentucky, to his team.
Democrats believe McConnell to be vulnerable heading into 2014, citing polling that shows him unpopular in his state. They also got their preferred remaining candidate in Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, after a handful of other Democrats passed on the race.
“I agree. If it takes using the ‘Rats to clean out some of the GOP dead hands then I’m ready to let them do it. A solid GOP primary candidate is always to be preferred but some of these GOPe RINOs simply have to go by any means available.”
And if Lindsey Graham get’s nominated again, I will openly advocate that every conservative leave their ballot blank for that office or vote for the democrat. He is a dangerous man that needs to be removed from power one way or the other. Of course I’ll be excoriated for saying this.
Yes it some of the Republicans are incapable of talking about female sexuality. The MSM tosses them a loaded question and thy lunge at it with the discipline of a Labrador puppy. Campaign over with collateral damage to the rest if the party. I’m very skeptical of some of these guys just because there tea party does not mean they’re ready for prime time.
Is he a Connecticut transplant to Kentucky?
That won’t go down well with the locals unfortunately.
I’m sure Obama will sic the IRS and NSA on Matt Bevin, so he can keep McConnell in the Senate. After all, he needs his lackeys.
I wonder if the bell-making company is still making bells in CT (or the USA). I think it is in East Hampton (the Bell City), CT. IIRC
Democrats believe McConnell to be vulnerable heading into 2014, citing polling that shows him unpopular in his state. They also got their preferred remaining candidate in Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, after a handful of other Democrats passed on the race.
JUDD decided against running?? Darn../s
Seriously, McConnell weakness is that he makes Harry Reid look alive.
Really?? I would rather have someone who is 80 to 90% CONSERVATIVE, than someone 90-100% Liberal/Socialist!!
No Thanks!1 I'd rather vote for a Republican who is 80% my beliefs than a LIBERAL/MARXIST/SOCIALIST who is AGAINST my beliefs 100% of the time.
Here in Tennessee, no credible Tea Party candidate has stepped up
to challenge Alexander. I will vote for an orange juice can before I vote
for Alexander or Corker.
Mcconnel is despised.
We are better off without Mike Castle. We are better off without Richard Lugar. We are better off without Olympia Snowe. We are better off without Scott Brown.
“Really?? I would rather have someone who is 80 to 90% CONSERVATIVE, than someone 90-100% Liberal/Socialist!!”
We’re going to have to agree to disagree. Mike Castle was a liberal, essentially a replacement of Arlen Specter in the senate. Richard Lugar was 80 years old, voted terribly and was ranking member of Foreign Relations, who assisted the democrats in blocking John Bolton from becoming UN Ambassador. Quite a difference from Jesse Helms. Olympia Snowe with her Aye vote, got Obamacare out of committee and to the floor. Scott Brown was the most conservative of these four, which isn’t saying much since his voted record rated him around 50%. And he would have, down the line, become an independent, a la Jim Jeffords, and would have said “the republican party has moved away from me.” Castle would have too had he been elected.
We’ve already seen what happened with Jeffords, Specter, and Chafee. They have become democrats. And Lisa Murkowski hasn’t gone that far yet but she might as well. She couldn’t bear being defeated in a primary so she got her buddies the democrats to help her win the general as an independent. She should have been stripped of all republican seniority for doing that but she wasn’t.
If we keep these people in our midst, we will never have a real republian majority, even if we have one in name.
Marco Rubio is trying to create 20 million new DEM voters - legalize their crimes and give hundreds of millions in tax dollars to DEM orgs.
He is a DEM at this point
If Rand is supporting McConnell it is because McConnell is thoroughly connected with access to money and power, Rand will need for his presidential run.
Sorry folks but the more I see of Rand Paul the less I like him.
You do know none of those individuals had an 80-90% Conservative rating ? Castle was 62% leftist in his final year in office. Lugar was 36% leftist. Brown was 64% leftist. Snowe was 68% leftist.
but we got people who are 100% against us... is that a victory??
The point you were making was about the wrongness of opposing elected officials who vote the right way 80-90% of the time. You were absolutely right. But the examples you cited were people who didn’t. They were approaching voting against us more than 2/3rds of the time, and often on key issues. What you’re asking is whether it’s better to have someone ostensibly claiming to represent OUR side screwing us most of the time or the opposition all of the time ?Neither is acceptable. I expect Democrats to be the traitors and moonbats they’ve been for so long now, but I’m absolutely fed up with the so-called “good guys” that serve the cause of the opposition with an absolutely ferocity. Electing the latter is no victory, except for a Pyrrhic one.
I don’t look at Conservative Ratings any more. I don’t care who puts them out. I can make up my own mind.
How do I know how they gauge their ratings? By some vote that gets so transmuted in conference it is no longer recognizable? By an up or down vote on Cloture “so we can let the floor vote on it”?
At this point, I just plain don’t trust anybody to do my thinking for me. All I need to do is see them on TV or read how each person voted on a final bill to know what I want to know.
The two VICHY RINOs we have as Senators here in Georgia have pretty darn good ratings I’d expect, but they’re both still a couple of backstabbing GOB politicians who’d sell Georgia down the river for 6 more years at the DC Country Club.
I have to agree with you, but we need to figure out if someone who is 85% with us (maybe the candidate is for something socially we aren’t for, but he said that he wants a FAIR TAX) and he is running against a candidate who thinks Lenin was too far to the RIGHT. Who would you vote for??
I sympathize. My 2 RINOs in Tennessee are an embarrassment.
I have to say I’m done with choosing between two evils. If they’re going to oppose me socially, I have no use for them. As for trying to figure out who is with us 85% of the time, I’d be surprised if less than 1/3rd of the Senate Republicans earn that. The other 2/3rds are VERY comfortable with the current state of disaster we’re in (and if they say they’re not, they’re lying). If they were interested in truly turning us in the right direction, they could obstruct, obstruct, obstruct until Reid is reduced to a blubbering pile of goo (or making good on carrying out his extremist threats to change the rules on cloture, which would light a fire under the statist leadership).
I want government out of my house and out of my business. I don't do anything ILLEGAL (in the constitution and the bill of rights), so I shouldn't have a drone flying ovr my house.
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