Mitch McConnell Urged By Tea Party To Step Aside In 2014

[Galraedia]

Source: Huffington Post

A tea party-affiliated group is urging Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to bow out of his reelection bid next year against Democratic rival Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, citing concerns with the longtime senator's electability.

Matt Hoskins, the Senate Conservatives Fund's executive director, told the Washington Post Tuesday that McConnell isn't a strong enough candidate to face off against Grimes and that it may be time for him to "pass the torch."

“Mitch McConnell is now the least electable Republican senator running for reelection in 2014,” Hoskins said. "He could lose this race and cost Republicans the majority. He needs to consider whether it might be time to hang it up.”

The Senate Conservatives Fund is a political action committee launched by former Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) prior to the 2010 elections.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/02/mitch-mcconnell-tea-party_n_3536897.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

[mindwalker_i]

1. Who says quantum mechanical aspects are not visible with macroscopic objects?

I, for one, and in a superposition state of laughing and crying, and I can observe myself in that state.

[Volaris]

7. That's the best thing I've read on the interTubes all week, thanks for that...

Also, who the hell do the TeaLoons think will replace Yertle on the ticket? One of thier own (who will lose even WORSE to Grimes in the General)???

Mitch ain't going NOWHERE. DeMint doesn't have brains or the pull (or the position anymore) to force him off the ticket. Mitch knows full-well that the TeaParty was created to help ESTABLSIHMENT REPUBLICANS maintain Power so they can better aid and abet the Corporations that keep fucking over the very people who make up the TeaParty Movement, and if the TeaParty hasn't figured that out yet, theyre dumber than we all thought.

It means NOTHING that DeMint is likely correct, and Mitch stands a good chance to lose that seat. If Grimes is a competent candidate in the least, that Senate Seat will have a Democrat sitting in it in 18 months.

[mindwalker_i]

10. Who will they replace Turtle with?

A wind-up Bachmann? Complete with springs sproinging out of her head? That's what most of the tea party goofs are, and it seems like the country is getting a bit sick of them. Hopefully they will finish drowning the Republicans in a bathtub so we can get a real political party.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. Turtle soup. Not just for breakfast anymore.

[msongs]

3. poor mitch must be feeling nobody loves him about now lol nt

[Gidney N Cloyd]

5. Not a strong enough candidate? Poor Mitch...

[maddiemom]

21. As a mom and a teacher raised by good, liberal parents, I have never condoned

making fun of anyone's physical appearance. But Mitch McConnell? He's such a jerk that all bets are off.

[jmowreader]

6. "We can't gerrymander a whole state for you, Mitch..."

[graham4anything]

8. The democratic party is going to win both houses in 2014.

People are sick of the republican/libertarian/tea obstruction.

80-20 is fast approaching.

[Left Coast2020]

17. I'm not sure that is possible, though I do try to be positive

Call me a skeptic if you will, but we need 16 seats to win the House back--not including BatS*** Bachamnns seat. I'm led to believe we can win that since she won her district by 1000-2000 votes. So 16 is our magic number.

[Iliyah]

9. This is good news

so far, and the track record for tea brats are every low. Grimes must be a strong candidate.

[Honeycombe8]

11. Ha. Men don't give up power. It has to be taken from them. nt

[Chipper Chat]

12. Do we need any more proof that the Tea Party is in control of the GOP?

McConman is about to get Bennetted.

[proReality]

13. Please remember that KY elected Rand Paul.

Another loon could be elected.

[Iliyah]

14. And Perry in Texas

[sakabatou]

15. I sense he's going to be voted out an replaced

[Contrary1]

16. "I want to see McConnell's birth certificate. I think he was born in the Galapagos Islands."

Compliments to one of Huffpo readers for that one.

[Cha]

18. May the teabag party for once know what

they're talkin' about!

thanks Galraedia

[Ash_F]

19. Never thought I'd agree with the tea party on anything. /nt

[bucolic_frolic]

20. " ... might be time to hang it up.”

Thanks for the heavy lifting!

[madrchsod]

22. the night of the long knives

don't mess with the koch brothers tea-party