It's not just the narrative about republicans not being conservative enough, anymore. Now it's all out warfare between people elected under the republican banner. The big question is, however, considering how stealthily the enemy always tries to infiltrate the opposition's camp, who's the foe?
It’s the Senate Conservatives Fund, an organization that used to prop up underdog conservative candidates but now is training its fire mainly on Republican incumbents — rather than Democrats. The group has ginned up anger on the far-right towards Republican senators for refusing to use a government shutdown threat as leverage to defund Obamacare — a campaign that has been good for its bottom line.
Since it started engaging in the defund Obamacare campaign, the group brought in the vast majority of the $3.5 million it has raised this cycle, pulling in $1.5 million in August as it unleashed a barrage of attacks on party leaders like Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn and veteran Republicans like Lamar Alexander.
The group didn’t stop there, attacking GOP senators for lacking the courage to fight a law the party collectively hates. The group dropped $340,000 in an ad buy in Kentucky where it said McConnell “refuses to lead” the fight against Obamacare.
So what do the targets of this attack have to do in order to keep this movement from completely derailing the effort to win a majority in the Senate and hold the majority in the House? Spend money raised for the purpose of defeating democrats fighting back against their own party members?
Sounds like a great strategy to help democrats doesn't it? Particularly when the guys firing the shots at their leaders have no plan for what to do once the earth has been scorched.
Rand Paul wins either way.
A coalition of only Republicans is going to be a loser in 2016.
If he endorses but doesn't campaign hard for McConnell, McConnell is a dead duck. Paul will need some good hard promises and votes from McConnell in the next year for an enthusiastic edorsement. McConnell is going to need to endorse and vote for a full audit of the FED, a full 180 on foreign policy, some big civil liberty votes, and some party infrastructure behind Paul before Paul goes full board. A McConnell win will be strictly up to Paul and it will be forgiven by the progressives if he continues to be outspoken for progressive ideals like giving back voting rights to felons.
On the other side, Paul is going hard for the progressive vote. A Grimes win, especially if it is public knowledge that Paul was less than enthusiastic on the campaign trail, is huge. It is a start in solidifying a majority coalition.
Rand Paul can't lose next year. All he has to do is sit back and watch what happens.
Rand Paul is universally popular right now in KY. He would win with 80% if his election was next year.
Next year is going to be exciting.
Happy face !!!
That could change over night so Paul needs to continue to grind and stay one step ahead, but the fact that he is one step ahead right now means he has the big MO.
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Posted by: Mr. Scott Ryan | September 30, 2013 at 08:40 PM
And guess who wins no matter what?
Rand Paul.
He has positioned himself nicely.
The only adult tea partier in the room.
And gaining traction in Democratic circles as well as Republican.
More battles to be fought, but I am grinning ear to ear.
By the way ...
Grimes looks like she is going to bank more than McConnell.
Next year is going to be a fun year.
God Bless.
Posted by: Mr. Scott Ryan | September 30, 2013 at 05:34 PM