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Posted: 10/29/2013 4:04:45 AM EDT
Everything you ever thought about Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is wrong.  He really is a fighter after all.

At a recent fundraiser with 300 K street donors, as reported by Politico, Mitch McConnell was in a combative mood.  According to one attendee, he was “in fighting mode.”

No, he was not in a fighting mode against Obama and the Democrats.  As he spoke at a K street retreat, the relaxation of his comfort zone kicked in and he rallied the establishment faithful against conservatives:

   Mitch McConnell isn’t going to have another government shutdown on his watch.

   The Kentucky Republican stood up over the weekend and said he wanted to address the “elephant in the room” at a fundraising retreat in Sea Island, Ga. Speaking before roughly 300 K Streeters and big donors, McConnell said Republicans will not come close to defaulting on the nation’s debts or shutting down the government early next year when stop-gap government funding and the debt ceiling are slated to be voted on again.

   His remarks echoed similar comments he made following the shutdown that it was “not conservative policy” and that he always believed “this strategy could not and would not work.”

   “He’s in fighting mode,” said one attendee of McConnell. “He didn’t get into specifics about what they are doing and how they are going to do it, but McConnell and (Texas Sen. John) Cornyn were particularly forceful.”

   The attendee said McConnell “said everything that needed to be said” to help tamp down growing concern among bundlers and donors over how the GOP continues to be paralyzed by anti-establishment members like Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Mike Lee (R-Utah). Neither lawmaker attended the event.

http://www.redstate.com/2013/10/28/mitch-mcconnell-ready-to-fight-gop-base/
Link Posted: 10/29/2013 4:06:49 AM EDT
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Say one thing and do another, same old Mitch.
Link Posted: 10/29/2013 4:06:58 AM EDT
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FMM.
Link Posted: 10/29/2013 4:07:16 AM EDT
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Bitch McConnell can fuck right off.
Link Posted: 10/29/2013 4:07:21 AM EDT
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I don't have anything nice to say.
Link Posted: 10/29/2013 4:09:14 AM EDT
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He needs to be replaced. period.
Link Posted: 10/29/2013 4:10:35 AM EDT
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POS
Link Posted: 10/29/2013 4:11:02 AM EDT
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Good luck.
Link Posted: 10/29/2013 4:12:23 AM EDT
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Ahhh Establishment Republicans and those that support them--

The are convinced that you WILL be a republican as long as you arnt a democrat.

Its very "we know whats best for you"

Alot like a democrat really.
Link Posted: 10/29/2013 4:13:38 AM EDT
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fighting mood to save his job. Which is all he willing to fight for. Rand paul needs to campaign against him. McConnell is a big part of the problem. He is pretty old, so I suppose he may die in office and we can be rid of him that way.
Link Posted: 10/29/2013 4:15:48 AM EDT
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These guys forget what a Republic really means.  May we remind these gentlemen exactly what it means at the ballot box.
Link Posted: 10/29/2013 4:17:49 AM EDT
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Its probably what's in his FBI file that keeps him in line. Rumors swirl around him...
Link Posted: 10/29/2013 4:20:30 AM EDT
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Fuck 'em all Nice enough?
Link Posted: 10/29/2013 4:24:21 AM EDT
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lol

Don't worry, there are still plenty of arfcommers to suck yo dick Mitch
Link Posted: 10/29/2013 4:34:28 AM EDT
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   The Kentucky Republican stood up over the weekend and said he wanted to address the “elephant in the room” at a fundraising retreat in Sea Island, Ga. Speaking before roughly 300 K Streeters and big donors, McConnell said


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Wait, you mean the "elephant" was not the kick back he got for caving on the debt ceiling?
Link Posted: 10/29/2013 4:35:34 AM EDT
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Progressive is as progressive does.

Innt that right Lt. Dan?
Link Posted: 10/29/2013 4:36:13 AM EDT
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I would love to demonstrate to McConnell how his strategy would work in sales:  tell your best customers to fuck off whenever they buy something and see how well you do.
Link Posted: 10/29/2013 4:41:26 AM EDT
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Why are these folks so determined to give away another safe GOP seat to another hard-left socialist?

Mitch McConnell isn't a "real conservative?" what B.S.

The shut-down strategy hasn't worked a single time it's been tried over the past 25 years. It didn't work when Gingrich was speaker, it didn't work last month for Boehner.

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They'll be here shortly to beat the "libertarians" over the head for splitting the GOP.
Link Posted: 10/29/2013 4:52:25 AM EDT
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In before Hugh and beararms tell me it is chess not checkers.
Link Posted: 10/29/2013 4:53:03 AM EDT
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Same.   Funny how these good ole boys only seem to get fired up with a little passion when challenged by members in their own party.  Shame they don't do the same when it comes to the Democrats.
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Funny how these good ole boys only seem to get fired up with a little passion when challenged by members in their own party.  Shame they don't do the same when it comes to the Democrats.




 
Spot on; And people still don't recognize it because of it being overshadowed by being a "safe seat." The only thing that is safe with McConnell are Obama's policies...
Link Posted: 10/29/2013 5:01:51 AM EDT
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That 3.2 B earmark really worked.
Link Posted: 10/29/2013 5:04:35 AM EDT
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In before the anti-libertarian brigade.
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Funny how these good ole boys only seem to get fired up with a little passion when challenged by members in their own party.  Shame they don't do the same when it comes to the Democrats.

  Spot on; And people still don't recognize it because of it being overshadowed by being a "safe seat." The only thing that is safe with McConnell are Obama's policies...


There shouldn't be any such thing  as a "safe seat" based on the last several years.
Link Posted: 10/29/2013 5:08:43 AM EDT
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Can anyone say TERM LIMITS!!!!!!
Link Posted: 10/29/2013 5:10:45 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 10/29/2013 5:11:27 AM EDT
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So people like Cruz who make a stand based on principle paralyze the party?



If principle can paralyze a party, then that party has no principles.
Link Posted: 10/29/2013 5:12:41 AM EDT
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Really.  What kind of rumors?
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Really.  What kind of rumors?


Toe tapping?
Link Posted: 10/29/2013 5:25:01 AM EDT
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Ok. Nothing new from this asshole. However, Let's (anybody with a brain who wants to get back to something resembling what the founders intended) agree



to primary these fuckers as hard as possible. But, if we can't take them out in the primary, we must still return their worthless ass to congress rather than




letting a straight-up commie, i.e., democrat take the seat. And regardless of whether or not the RINO mends his ways we will primary the fucker next tine




too.





Link Posted: 10/29/2013 5:43:05 AM EDT
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He needs to be primaried.
Link Posted: 10/29/2013 5:50:16 AM EDT
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if he wants to fight, then someone needs to knock him on his ass.
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Of course he does.

Good fucking luck with that.
Link Posted: 10/29/2013 5:55:42 AM EDT
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Too late.  It's him or Obama clone. Bevins is a nonstarter and outsider.
Link Posted: 10/29/2013 6:02:53 AM EDT
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Why do these jerkoff keep getting elected as minority/majority leaders. Both McConnell and Bonner are fucking retards.
Link Posted: 10/29/2013 6:12:36 AM EDT
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He can fight his way to the other side of the aisle.
Link Posted: 10/29/2013 6:24:42 AM EDT
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I'd prefer to say perp walk and orange jump suit
Link Posted: 10/29/2013 6:28:00 AM EDT
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Really.  What kind of rumors?


Yes...enlighten us, please.
Link Posted: 10/29/2013 7:16:47 AM EDT
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Judas goat.
Link Posted: 10/29/2013 7:17:38 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 10/29/2013 7:27:42 AM EDT
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Uh O, He mad....    Dork.
Link Posted: 10/29/2013 7:36:35 AM EDT
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Exactly where do you get that he is set on fighting the GOP base from that article?  Unless the base wants to be stupid and shutdown the government while taking another negative hit with the public, nothing Mitch said is fighting the base.  Mitch just saw the Republican's get their asses handed to them by shutting down the government.  His statement makes it clear that it won't happen again because it is a losing strategy with the public.  There are other ways to fight that battle without shutting down the government.






I'm not fan of Mitch, just read the Kentucky forum, but if you are going to attack him at least attack him based on real issues.  What exactly where is his "fighting words" because I'm not seeing it.

 
Link Posted: 10/29/2013 8:13:29 AM EDT
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Sounds like more and more establishment republicans are reaching out to the money, instead of the people, to get re-elected. The PEOPLE need to rise above this and vote correctly to remove these establishment folks.
Link Posted: 10/29/2013 3:06:57 PM EDT
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One party with two competing wings.
Link Posted: 10/29/2013 3:09:11 PM EDT
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Not once cent to the RNC until they get ride of the RINO shitbags.
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