This Tea Party Blogger is Sticking with Mitch McConnell

I opposed Richard Mourdock's challenge to Senator Dick Lugar not because I loved Lugar but because I knew Mourdock. Mourdock had no right to claim the Tea Party label. Before hitting a hot streak by winning the Indiana State Treasurer seat twice he had lost 5 elections in in the first 16 years of his political career including a fifth place finish in a six candidate field for county commissioner. I warned on this blog that he would lose a safe Senate seat in the general election if he got past Lugar and sure enough he did just that. He is a career politician who wore the Tea Party label when it suited his needs and took it off when it was to his advantage. Hell, Lugar was right better than 50% of the time.
Not all career politicians who have been adopted by the Tea Party are failures. Congressman Daniel Webster who represents Florida's 10th district served 28 years in both state legislative houses before taking on the Tea Party label. He defeated the obnoxious Alan Grayson and has for the most part been a reliable conservative vote. No, he did not lose the last election. Grayson now represents the 8th district.
Senator Mitch McConnell is now facing a Tea Party challenger and if his opponent, Matt Bevin, was another Rand Paul I would have no misgivings. Bevin is an unknown quantity in Kentucky politics with a business background and no political record to defend. Living in Southern Indiana, I occasionally pick up on Kentucky campaign ads. The latest charge coming from the McConnell camp is that Bevin fudged his resume and to me it shows a flaw in his character. Bevin’s LinkedIn page was misleading, to be charitable, before it was altered. Bevin had listed Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the top of the education section in the headline section of the LinkedIn page. Looking further down the page one sees he earned a B.A. in East Asian Studies from Washington and Lee. He stated he was a 2008 graduate of the Entrepreneurial Master’s Program at the MIT Endicott campus. He described it as a “renowned executive education program sponsored by the MIT Enterprise Inc. Magazine and the Entrepreneurs Organization.” MIT officials say the program has no connection to their university.

Kate Anderson, the director of marketing and enrollment at MIT’s Sloan Executive Education program, told The Hill earlier this year that the program Bevin attended was “not an official program offered by MIT, MIT Sloan or MIT Sloan Executive Education.”

“It is not a Masters program, certificate or any other kind of MIT program and does not bear any MIT credit whatsoever,” she said.
Anderson added that MIT does not have an Endicott campus although she noted there is a conference center called the MIT Endicott House, which is rented to outside groups.

According to Bevin it's all a misunderstanding brought about by McConnell's lack of experience in the private sector.

“Clearly, Mitch McConnell — not being part of the real world — doesn't understand how people in the private sector work," Bevin said. "This isn't even a resume. It's an online basically database of information of things people have done and where they currently are."

Yeah, and without a degree in East Asian Studies how does McConnell find his way to his office? Luckily The Hill did a screen capture of Bevin's web page before the revision.
Whatever one may think of McConnell his seat is safe notwithstanding Democratic delusions. Consider the following; Probably 25% of Kentucky's counties mine coal and they are not about give Obama's EPA anymore support. Obama lost Kentucky by 16 points. In the Democratic primary Obama barely edged out "uncommitted".
Yes, it would be nice if Kentucky could produce another Rand Paul but Matt Bevin is no Rand Paul. He isn't even a Richard Mourdock. Yes, character does count. I'm sticking with Mitch.