The Hill reports on the fight within the Republican party in Kentucky over whether to return Senator McConnell to Washington in '14. As good an explanation of the core issue making the tea party candidate a likely successor to the Senate Minority Leader comes from a journalism professor:
Al Cross, a political columnist and journalism professor at the University of Kentucky, explained that McConnell got his start in politics as the judge-executive of Jefferson County. His job then was to run programs and deliver services effectively.
“McConnell was a guy who got into government to make it work,” Cross said. “You could almost say he was a pro-government kind of guy.”
“Since he was elected to the Senate [in 1984], the party moved in an anti-government direction,” Cross added. “His political DNA is different th[a]n Jim DeMint’s and the other guys.” ...TheHill
