Mitch McConnell hires Jesse Benton to run his 2014 re-election bid

[acptulsa]

Really? You relentlessly did everything you could to make sure everybody knew you thought the idea of a simple music festival simply to honor Ron Paul was a stupid idea. Then you come up with......this?

Speechless.

Yeah. Everybody knows you follow Collins' advice and only do what has worked before.

Not rock stars. That'll only get you elected mayor of some California suburb. Washed up B movie actors who are most famous for co-starring with chimpanzees, now that's the ticket.

I still say Clint Eastwood would work fine. Even though he's still not washed up, wasn't limited to B movies, and the monkey was bigger than any chimp...

 

[AdamT]

So is Benton trolling Mitch's campaign lol? Exactly which "grassroots" is Benton supposedly going to organize with his superman-like campaign powers. #fail

 

[CaptLouAlbano]

Time will tell. I think he's in the pocket of the military industrial complex, and will sell Rand Paul down the river in a New York second when the time comes. I stand by my opinion that this isn't about reaching out to a new base - this is about political preparation in the form of self preservation. McConnell may well start pandering to the small government conservatives, but I predict his voting record will never pass the litmus test.

Time will tell for sure. As Leader though, his job is to get GOP legislation passed though (technically that is the Whip's job, but I have never seen a Whip and Leader's votes differ). Since we have Rand and his current allies (DeMint, Lee and to a lesser extent Coburn) and this year will potentially see Cruz, Flake, Mack & Mourdock (not necessarily liberty candidates, but definitely Tea Party aligned) and maybe a few long shots like Bills & Hinckley in the Senate, alot of the legislation that is going to be coming forward in the Senate is certainly going to me more libertarian/Tea Party oriented than in year's past. So we will see what happens, but with Paul leading a charge on a lot of issues, I think we could see a lot of the bills we like move through the Senate, particularly if the GOP takes control of it. At the end of the day, it is far better to have the Leader pandering to you and somewhat on your side, then standing in direct opposition.

 

[Sine Die]

 

[orenbus]

Reporter: "Would you want to someone else to run against Mitch McConnell in the Primary two years from now?"

Kentucky Tea Party Activist: "Absolutely" (smiling)

 

[orenbus]

"How long ago did those conversations start?"

"Several months ago"

And people think there is absolutely no way he may have been influenced in any way while he ran Ron Paul's campaign while these "conversations" were taking place?

 

[JK/SEA]

I'm sure Benton will run McConnell's campaign like he did Ron's.....personally, i hope so.

 

[helmuth_hubener]

Highlights from Jesse Benton interview above:

"forge a cohesive alliance"
"Senator McConnell stood on principle"
Referring to us: "First of all, I just respect those people so much....I hope they know from the bottom of my heart that I really respect and appreciate what they do."
"become part of a governing coalition that can actually get things done"
"Senator McConnell is a friend, an ally, that he respects them, that he listens to their voices, and that he's leading on key important issues to them"
"I'm going to speak to all willing Kentuckians who want to be part of the solution"
Referring to Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell: "that they're genuine and that they care and they're working hard and they're going to stand on their principles."

So there you have it!

 

[The Dude]

Cya Benton. You ran an incompetent campaign in 2012 from beginning to end, which looks deliberate now, and you're a traitor to this movement. I wish you nothing but failure in your future political endeavors and I certainly won't be supporting any campaigns that you're involved in.

 

[brandon]

So I guess shutting down the Ron Paul delegates and ensuring a smooth RNC was the test put forward to Benton. He passed, and now he's in the establishment. Nice.

 

[low preference guy]

Benton at 7:35: "McConnell has always been concerned about an unrestrained Fed, creating money and credit out of thin air".

 

[LibertyEagle]

Benton at 7:35: "McConnell has always been concerned about an unrestrained Fed, creating money and credit out of thin air".

Well, that is sickening, isn't it.

 

[low preference guy]

Well, that is sickening, isn't it.

nothing out of the ordinary for Benton and the backstabbing crowd.

 

[ninepointfive]

We really need to make sure that Mitch McConnell loses. Badly! We need to start right now doing opposition research.

• Listen to every radio interview this bum ever gave.
• And TV interview.
• Search the newspaper and magazine database at the library for every reference to his name.
• Find everything he ever said and ever wrote.
• Find everyone that gave him money.
• Look up every vote he's made.
• Look up the names of all his former employees and staffers and see if anyone has some beans they want to spill.
• Entrap him into doing or saying something explosively awful while wearing a micro-videorecorder.

Any other ideas? Pour it on!

We've been needing a new productive avenue to direct our grassroots energies. THIS IS IT!

OPERATION:
DESTROY MITCH MCCONNELL​

Someone's got to be able to come up with a better name than that. Come one, come all! Let's get the creative juices flowing.

Do you not like Rand? I happen to think he's our best Senator - and although Mitch is disgusting - destroying him isn't going to help Rand in any way.

 

[erowe1]

although Mitch is disgusting - destroying him isn't going to help Rand in any way.

Why do you think this?

 

[DylanWaco]

Benton was no longer able to rip off Paul supporters with impunity, so now he's going to cash in somewhere else. That's what political whores do and from a purely materalistic perspective it is smart business.

My view is that I will do everything in my power to make sure any Jesse Benton affiliated candidate going forward is not elected.

 

[Romulus]

Benton at 7:35: "McConnell has always been concerned about an unrestrained Fed, creating money and credit out of thin air".

Oh good lets shake out fist at the Fed in public while they shake hands with them in private.

Fuck you Benton.

 

[ninepointfive]

Why do you think this?

Efforts aught to be positive in nature - not for the sake of destruction of a candidate. just my opinion.

 

[Romulus]

Efforts aught to be positive in nature - not for the sake of destruction of a candidate. just my opinion.

Agreed.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Of course, as a budding young politico... - Jesse Benton

In the USSR he would have been called an apparatchik. ( аппара́тчик )

James Billington describes one as "a man not of grand plans, but of a hundred carefully executed details." It often is considered a derogatory term, with negative connotations in terms of the quality, competence, and attitude of a person thus described.

That's all he wants out of this, a career and paycheck.

For him, this never was about ideas, or saving the republic, or energizing a whole swath of pissed off and disillusioned American people (that's us).

No, that was, in fact, a hindrance, an embarrassment, a drag to explain on the DC coke hunting, hooker chasing, wife swapping circuit.

What a joke.

Throw him in the woods.