Matt Bevin, the Tea Party candidate facing Sen. Mitch McConnell in the Republican primary next May, challenged the Minority Leader to “be a man” during the annual St. Jerome’s Fancy Farm Picnic in Fancy Farm, Ky. Saturday.
Bevin was calling out the 28-year Senate veteran for resorting to his politics-as-usual approach, demanding instead that McConnell stand by his congressional credentials in the race.
“It is beneath the dignity of the office he holds, and I am asking him to be a man, run on his record…David will win,” he told NowThisNews, evoking the famous Biblical story of David v. Goliath.
The Tea Party candidate also stressed the idea that Kentucky voters should vote on the issues – and not just “for the sake of sending someone back to Washington.”
“But in reality, principle should trump power,” Bevin said. “This is a battle between re-electing someone just for the sake of sending someone back to Washington, but I beg him to tell the people of Kentucky anything that he promises to do in the next six years that he’s somehow been unable to get done in the last 30 years.”
McConnell has tried to slaughter Bevin since he entered the race last month. He already nicknamed the former bell manufacturer “Bailout Bevin” for taking state funds to help rebuild his company after a 2012 fire. Bevin, in turn, labeled the state’s senior senator “Mudslinging Mitch.”
Watch Bevin’s comments below.
