Breitbart has a great interview and outline available where they interview Mitch McConnell’s primary challenger, Matt Bevin. Here are some excerpts:
[…] There is a tug of war going on between ‘We the People’ who still believe at the ballot box that this is a government by and for us. And it’s a battle between us and those who think it’s by and for a handful and that that handful gets to self-select and self-profligate and self-choose who’s next in line.”
[…] We are as a nation, and I don’t care what side of the aisle people are on, seventy-plus percent of Americans strongly believe that we’re on the wrong path financially and I couldn’t agree more,” he stated. “The path we’re on financially is unsustainable. And I look at my children and I think I can leave money to them, I can try to leave businesses to them, but to have in what type of America? What type of a world?”
“Winston Churchill once said history turns on these sorts of insignificant moments in times,” Bevin said. “You look back through the lens of history and you realize how critical they actually were. But he said shame on the man who finds himself at such a juncture who is either unprepared or unwilling to take up the task.”
[…] When asked why Sen. Rand Paul would endorse McConnell, as he has done, Bevin said that Paul “does support the same things I do.”
“He knows that,” Bevin said. “I know Rand and his wife Kelly. I like Rand a lot. I think he’s done a heck of a job in what he said he would do when he ran. But we all know Rand aspires to potentially higher offices and those things cost money.”
Bevin added that Paul “made that alliance” with McConnell “long before I was in this race.”
[…] When asked about whether he or McConnell had the best shot to beat Alison Lundergan Grimes in the general election, Bevin said, “It’s not a coincidence that her advisers are saying both on the record and off the record that they want to run against McConnell.”
“They could much more easily beat him in the general,” Bevin said. “And you see, based on this polling, that, which is insane. Obama lost the state by 23 absolute percentage points. The fact that this is neck and neck with a guy who’s been a senator for 30 years is an indication of the fact that he’s going to lose.”
“She runs on four things,” he continued. “She runs on being young, being new, being a woman and not being Mitch McConnell. Frankly, those are all pure emotion. It has nothing to do with life experience, nothing to do with knowledge of issues. She won’t need to talk about experience or issues to beat him because there are that many people that are that tired of him.”
Bevin said he has driven more than 20,000 miles around Kentucky meeting with people, gaining momentum for his campaign. “The crowds are getting bigger and bigger and the rooms are getting more interested,” Bevin said. “And this is all good. This is how it’s going to be won, from the bottom up.” (read the full article here)
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