This has to be a huge disappointment to folks like Elephants in the Blue Grass, about whom I wrote last month, who were gung-ho for the Establishment guy. I will say of Mr. "Grass" that he was extraordinarily gracious in defeat.
But others weren't, particularly Elephant establishment leader Mitch McConnell (via his spokesmouth).
“The electorate is pissed,” said Mike Shea, a long-time political adviser to McConnell. “Rand did a really good job of tapping into those themes and tapping into that anger. Trey is a nice guy, but in his commercials and everything else, he seemed completely unable to generate any kind of dialogue to indicate he was tapping into that. If you meet him, he didn’t seem like he was angry.”Oh. That's what it was. It wasn't that the electorate liked Paul. They just wanted to vote for an angry guy.
Those of us of a certain age recall that in 1994, when Team Elephant took the House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years, Big Media (the BM for short) spun it as "revenge of the angry white man". Is that really where you want to go, Mr. McConnell? Because you're every bit as expendable as anyone in Washington.
Tired establishment candidates and RINOs went down to defeat. This has to have the Elephant elites banging their heads on the wall. The last thing they want is for their party to be coopted by mundanes.
