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FRANKFORT ¡ª Many of Kentucky's Tea Party leaders are plotting a strategy to defeat U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell in the 2014 Republican primary, a spokesman for a group calling itself the United Kentucky Tea Party said Tuesday.
Tea Party groups in the state are so dissatisfied with McConnell that "we are working on a battle plan with the ultimate goal to retire him next year," said John T. Kemper III of Lexington, a spokesman for the group.
Kemper's comment came a day after the group, which describes itself as a roundtable of leaders from more than a dozen Tea Party groups in Kentucky, issued a news release warning McConnell that "we will not allow our message or movement to be co-opted for political purposes."
Kemper, a developer who lost a bid for state auditor in 2011 and a bid for Congress in 2010, would not identify any potential opponent for McConnell, the Republican Senate leader, but acknowledged that he is "probably on a short list of folks."
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/01/22/4025789/several-kentucky-tea-party-groups.html#storylink=cpy
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,571 posts)Yikes.
Lone_Star_Dem
(28,158 posts)They made the monster, now they have to deal with the after effects.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)tanyev
(42,514 posts)RickFromMN
(478 posts)We have problems governing with the Republicans in Congress now.
Trying to govern with their primary challengers from the right will be that much worse.
Let's hope McConnell loses to a Tea Party challenger and the Senate seat goes Democratic.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)They are getting crazier & crazier and will be easier for a "normal" democrat to pick 'em off...
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)Bring them on.
1-Old-Man
(2,667 posts)If turtle man thinks he has to take his entire party hard right to keep his own seat all it can do is lead to even more seats lost by the Republicans in the next election, both sides of the Rotunda.
A Little Weird
(1,754 posts)I don't think Kemper stands a chance against McConnell but maybe he will force him to waste some of his resources on a primary fight.
To my knowledge, no Democratic candidate has declared an intention to run yet but I will vote for anyone who opposes him. Kentucky desperately needs new senators!!
sad-cafe
(1,277 posts)for them?