Tom Cotton (R) is running for Senate in Arkansas. His campaign manager, Justin Brasell, a longtime Mitch McConnell ally known for making campaign moves "by remote control," made a last minute $100,000 ad buy to defeat a Republican primary candidate, Ben Sasse, in Nebraska. McConnell told the NY Times that he'd "crush us everywhere," in 2014, that we wouldn't have "a single nominee anywhere in the country." Added: "The Republican Establishment Would Rather Lose Nebraska Than Support Conservatives," Erick Erickson, Redstate
5/5/14, "Does Tom Cotton Want Democrats to Win?" Erick Erickson, RedState.com
"With Shane Osborn out of the running, Sid Dinsdale trailing, and Ben Sasse in the lead in Nebraska with little time left, Tom Cotton’s campaign manager is running an ad campaign against Ben Sasse. Cotton is, himself, running for the Republican nomination for the Senate in Arkansas.
Sasse is supported by conservatives as diverse as National Review, the Club for Growth, the Senate Conservatives Fund, Paul Ryan, Tom Coburn, Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, and me. He is winning. In fact, he’s surged ahead in the last few days.
But Tom Cotton’s campaign manager, Justin Brasell, just placed more than $100,000.00 in advertising in Nebraska to attack Ben Sasse.
Does Tom Cotton want the Democrats to win? If not, is he cool with his campaign manager attacking a Republican just as he is headed into a general election against the Democrats?"
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Longtime Mitch McConnell ally Justin Brasell is known for attempting to influence elections "by remote control:"
5/12/2010, "Here's What (Trey) Grayson Adviser Justin Brasell's Boss Says About Bailouts," bluegrassbulletin.com
"Voila, we find the former campaign chief of Mitch McConnell, who many times plays political chess by remote control, out there in the Black Hills helping John Thune....
Is Brasell's involvement with (Trey) Grayson indicative of a "kindred spirits" relationship with the kind of philosophy held by those like Thune and McConnell who have a record of supporting significant government intervention in private business?"...
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Republican "leader" Mitch McConnell tells NY Times he's going to "crush" conservative Republicans: “I think we are going to crush them everywhere,”...“I don’t think they are going to have a single nominee anywhere in the country.”...
3/8/2014, "Leading Republicans Move to Stamp Out Challenges From Right," NY Times, Carl Hulse
"This election season, Republicans led by Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky are taking a much harder line as they sense the majority within reach. Top congressional Republicans and their allies are challenging the advocacy groups head on in an aggressive effort to undermine their credibility. The goal is to deny them any Senate primary victories, cut into their fund-raising and diminish them as a future force in Republican politics.
“I
think we are going to crush them everywhere,” Mr. McConnell, the Senate
Republican leader, said in an interview, referring to the network of
activist organizations working against him and two Republican incumbents
in Kansas and Mississippi while engaging in a handful of other
contests. “I don’t think they are going to have a single nominee
anywhere in the country.”...
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Among comments to Erickson article at Red State:
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No to Mitch McConnell life-lines today in hopes for future promises of slots on committees that make a difference. If the price for National Senate funding is so high that Cotton feels he must help defeat a SCF candidate then Cotton should forgo funding and future promises. But if the campaign manager is freelancing--fire him and get another loyal one.
What did Mitch promise and what does Mitch want. Mitch needs every vote to retain his majority caucus position and the heat is on should Republican retake the Senate. He may have tried to buy Cotton's vote. If Mitch has Cotton's vote to continue business as usual then all we fought for will have been in vain."
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4/6/2012, "(Justin) Brasell managed McConnell's 2008 re-election campaign which he won by 53 percent to 47 percent over Democrat Bruce Lunsford. McConnell spent $21.3 million in 2007 and 2008, more than any other Senate candidate."...
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McConnell pal Trey Grayson lost to Rand Paul in 2010 but no matter, Rand Paul flipped and endorsed McConnell early:
5/4/2010, "McConnell Endorses Trey Grayson over Rand Paul," CBSNews.com, Stephanie Condon
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Added: Re McConnell and Rand Paul: McConnell's pal Grayson might as well have won in 2010. Rand Paul effectively nullified his own Tea Party victory along with those who worked so hard to elect him by making an early endorsement for McConnell in the 2014 election. Rand Paul exemplifies the worst in politics and human beings.
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