The Daily Caller has learned that Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul is endorsing Sen. Mitch McConnell for re-election in 2014, ending speculation that Paul would back a tea party challenge to the Senate minority leader.

“Rand Paul has endorsed McConnell,” Jesse Benton, McConnell’s 2014 campaign manager, told The Daily Caller.

Benton, who has worked for both Rand Paul and his father, former Texas Rep. Ron Paul, is credited by insiders with brokering Paul’s support for McConnell.

The move quashes a determined effort by Kentucky Republican Liberty Caucus chairman David Adams, who launched Paul’s Senate bid and served as Paul’s campaign manager through the 2010 primaries, and other tea party leaders to mount a primary challenge against McConnell.

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Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/27/rand-p.../#ixzz2OrURcGID

By party unity do you mean entreched out-of-touch career polititians club/ with delusions of grandeur-- then woohoo

So Paul is going mainstream.

Who didn't see that one coming?

Big disappointment. But, then, his dad did the same thing fairly often.

Melvin Schmutz has done more constructive things for this country as City Clerk then Sen Tippy Turtle ever could hope for as GOP Senate Leader.

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No, I mean when a first term, Tea Party, libertarian-leaning, Senator has the common sense to endorse a conservative Senator (who wouldn't get beat in a primary, anyway) from his state, so energy and resources can be directed toward defeating Democrats, that's a very good thing.....woohoo, indeed!

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When are the old geezers like John McCain, McConnell, etc. going to turn loose of that power and retire into the sunset?
They've been in Washington so long I'm surprised they remember what state they're supposed to represent.

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They've been in Washington so long I'm surprised they remember what state they're supposed to represent.

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They've been in Washington so long I'm surprised they remember what state they're supposed to represent.

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Oh. They know what state they represent besides confusion...

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No, I mean when a first term, Tea Party, libertarian-leaning, Senator has the common sense to endorse a conservative Senator (who wouldn't get beat in a primary, anyway) from his state, so energy and resources can be directed toward defeating Democrats, that's a very good thing.....woohoo, indeed!

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BTW, when did Tippy Turtle become a Conservative?

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