Bar Fight with a Bully...Mitch McConnell

Fellow Conservatives:

Last week, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported that U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has decided to declare "war" on the conservative groups that disagree with him.

He is specifically targeting the Senate Conservatives Fund (SCF), Heritage Action, Madison Project, and FreedomWorks in a misguided attempt to destroy the Tea Party. 

But that's not all...

McConnell's operatives told the New York Times on Friday that he has ordered the Republican Party to stop doing business with private companies that provide services to SCF and to oppose candidates endorsed by SCF.

Their offense? They're associated with us and we support Matt Bevin, McConnell's conservative primary challenger.

Mitch McConnell can't hurt us directly so he has instructed the party to punish our vendors and our candidates.
Not only has McConnell forced his party to support bailouts, debt limit increases, tax hikes, and funding for Obamacare, he's now going to force it to abandon the free market and even the freedom of speech. 

Here's what his Chief of Staff, Josh Holmes, told the New York Times:

“S.C.F. has been wandering around the country destroying the Republican Party like a drunk who tears up every bar they walk into. The difference this cycle is that they strolled into Mitch McConnell’s bar and he doesn’t throw you out, he locks the door.”

McConnell's aide was alluding to the bar fight scene in A Bronx Tale where mobsters beat up a biker gang. He's wrong about SCF being drunks, but he got the description of his boss right when he compared him to a mobster.
Mitch McConnell can't defend his record so he's using threats to intimidate those who disagree with him.

Conservative blogger Dan Riehl described it this way:

"Yet, here we see a DC GOP establishment on display at its worst. In effect saying -- If you engage in a form of commerce we don’t like, we will try to destroy you! If you attempt to exercise your First Amendment right to free speech to say something with which we disagree, we will try to destroy you?"

Unfortunately, this is how Mitch McConnell operates. He doesn't lead. He doesn't inspire. He just intimidates. He can't beat Matt Bevin in a debate on the issues so he's smearing him and threatening everyone who supports him.

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WAR ON CONSERVATIVES

For many of you, Mitch McConnell's hostility toward conservatives is not news. But this the first time he has been open about it. In the past, he only attacked conservatives in private meetings or through disconnected surrogates.
Now, he's admitting something that he's tried to keep quiet for years: he doesn't like conservatives.

You see, Mitch McConnell is a Democratic dealmaker and he doesn't like conservatives getting in his way. It's why he has lashed out and called conservatives "fringe", "traitors", ... and now "drunks."

Erick Erickson at RedState.com described how McConnell's war on conservatives is hurting people in Kentucky and across the nation:

"It’s all the sadder still in that McConnell worked against Ted Cruz’s effort to defund Obamacare. 280,000 Kentuckians are losing their insurance. But McConnell would rather drive a private enterprise out of business than fight for those Kentuckians losing their health insurance. If only McConnell had put as much energy into stopping Obamacare as he has stopping a business that does work with the Senate Conservatives Fund."

McConnell says conservatives hurt the Republican Party, but what truly hurts the party is a leader who doesn't listen to or even like his own voters.

What hurts the party is a leader who refuses to stand up for conservative principles and helps the Democrats enact their liberal agenda.

What hurts the party is an incumbent who ignores his unpopularity at home and selfishly chooses to run for another term rather than retiring and helping the party hold his seat and save money to win others.

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WE WON'T BACK DOWN

The Senate Conservatives Fund is a grassroots organization driven by freedom-loving Americans across the country. We're not controlled by special interests in Washington, we're not controlled by a small group of big donors in New York City, and we're not controlled by the Republican Party.
We listen to the grassroots and do everything we can to help them bring about real change in Washington.

Before we endorsed Matt Bevin in Kentucky, we polled our members to get their views. Out of 70,000 ballots cast, 98% disapproved of Mitch McConnell's record.

On the question of whether we should endorse Matt Bevin, 90% said we should while 8% were undecided and only 2% opposed.

We listened to the grassroots and answered the call to help Matt Bevin win this important Senate race. Now, we're in a bar fight with a bully. He has locked the door and he's trying to kill us. 

We aren't intimidated.

Sure, the odds aren't in our favor. Matt Bevin is an underdog. He doesn't have McConnell's money or his power. But he has you, and the support of thousands of others like you, and that's more than enough to win.

The grassroots in Kentucky are rising up and need our help. Here's what the United Kentucky Tea Party said over the weekend:

"We have the next U.S. Senator from Kentucky in Matt Bevin and we intend to roll out a grassroots campaign in Kentucky -- the likes of which Mitch McConnell has never faced. Kentucky will lead the way in this national fight against out-of-control big government Republicans. This is a historical moment in the future of America. Will we continue to be a government ‘Of, by and for the People?’ If so, average Americans must engage in the fight.”

Will you join the fight? Will you help us defend liberty? Will you do it for your kids and grandkids and for generations to come? Will you help us elect true conservative leaders like Matt Bevin, even if it means standing up to powerful bullies like Mitch McConnell?

We can win if we all work together.

The most powerful thing you can do to help is make a donation to Matt Bevin's U.S. Senate campaign.

If everyone receiving this email gives something -- even just $5 -- we can collectively raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for him.

If you can't donate, please spread the word by forwarding this email to your family and friends and by following Matt Bevin on Facebook and Twitter.

Thank you for your support and your willingness to fight for freedom.

Best regards,

Matt Hoskins
Executive Director
Senate Conservatives Fund