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    Mitch McConnell slams Matt Bevin in Senate race

    http://www.politico.com/story/2013/0...ion-94661.html

    Quote Originally Posted by Politico
    Matt Bevin is getting a Mitch McConnell welcome in Kentucky: A slashing TV ad seizing on the political newcomer’s problems with his Connecticut-based bell manufacturing business. Bevin, a wealthy Louisville businessman, is slated to announce a primary challenge against McConnell on Wednesday, hoping to tap into tea party anger to pull off a major upset against the wily 28-year Senate veteran in 2014.

    But McConnell’s team is trying to prevent Bevin from even getting off the ground.

    McConnell’s campaign will unveil a six-figure ad buy Wednesday dubbing its opponent “Bailout Bevin,” attacking his primary foe for obtaining $200,000 in Connecticut state grants to help his companies rebuild after a 2012 fire. Twisting the knife even further, McConnell’s ad attacks Bevin for eight local tax liens his company was assessed with for failing to pay $116,000 in taxes in recent years. A local article in 2011 painted the company, Bevin Bros., as the No. 1 tax delinquent firm in East Hampton, Conn.

    “Bevin’s company failed to pay taxes, then got a taxpayer bailout,” McConnell’s campaign ad says. “Bailout Bevin: Not a Kentucky conservative.”
    You simply do not see incumbents attack no-names in party primaries like this, unless they know they're vulnerable.



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    Quote Originally Posted by RonPaulFanInGA View Post
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    You simply do not see incumbents attack no-names in party primaries like this, unless they know they're vulnerable.
    So, conservatives are mad that the IRS was targeting them.

    McConnell runs ads that show the IRS targeted Bevin.

    What could go wrong?
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    The epitome of libertarian populism

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    “Bevin’s company failed to pay taxes, then got a taxpayer bailout,” McConnell’s campaign ad says. “Bailout Bevin: Not a Kentucky conservative.”
    Waddle signed off on the bankster bailouts, which are on-going and destroying us all, and which will go down as the biggest scandal and greatest theft of the people's money in the history of the republic.
    Based on the idea of natural rights, government secures those rights to the individual by strictly negative intervention, making justice costless and easy of access; and beyond that it does not go. The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.
    --Albert J. Nock

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    This primary is going to be vitriolic. Hopefully people will vote for Bevin after seeing McConnels ugly tortoise face on TV every day.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RonPaulFanInGA View Post
    http://www.politico.com/story/2013/0...ion-94661.html



    You simply do not see incumbents attack no-names in party primaries like this, unless they know they're vulnerable.
    Or they have money to burn.

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    Things will get ugly if McConnell has to bring out Massie and Rand to campaign for him. Not sure how that's gonna play out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by supermario21 View Post
    Things will get ugly if McConnell has to bring out Massie and Rand to campaign for him. Not sure how that's gonna play out.
    Paul and Massie should flip/flop on Mitch. Wouldn't that be something!

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    every time Mitch attacks him it smells of desperation .... wouldn't it be better for Mitch to not give his challenger any attention?
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    I will donate to Bevin, once I conduct some research and he passes the test.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt Collins View Post
    every time Mitch attacks him it smells of desperation .... wouldn't it be better for Mitch to not give his challenger any attention?
    It's weird. It's like Rand Paul and Trey Grayson attacking Gurley Martin in 2009.

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    It would be so awesome for Blevin to pull this off. Would teach Rand a nice lesson.

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    Benton's strategy is all wrong. If Bevin survives this miscalculated onslaught, Mitch is going home.
    Last edited by AuH20; 07-24-2013 at 10:48 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AuH20 View Post
    Benton's strategy is all wrong. If Bevin survives this miscalculated onslaught, Mitch is going home.
    If Benton somehow mismanages the McConnell campaign into losing a GOP primary, Rand Paul better take that into consideration when choosing his 2016 staff.
    Last edited by RonPaulFanInGA; 07-24-2013 at 10:54 AM.

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    I want to know what the polls show about Mitch in a Republican primary
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    Nice to see that the issues are being debated.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt Collins View Post
    I want to know what the polls show about Mitch in a Republican primary
    Bet those will be changing quite a bit over the next couple of months.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt Collins View Post
    every time Mitch attacks him it smells of desperation .... wouldn't it be better for Mitch to not give his challenger any attention?
    Why does that make you sad, and why do you care what would be better for that despicable clown?
    Based on the idea of natural rights, government secures those rights to the individual by strictly negative intervention, making justice costless and easy of access; and beyond that it does not go. The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.
    --Albert J. Nock



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