Why Matt Bevin (McConnell's primary challenger) has fizzled (Hint: Same sex marriage - DV)
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BY SEAN SULLIVAN
February 22 at 12:00 pm
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's Republican primary challenger dealt with fallout from the revelation the he once backed a government program he uses as a punching bag. Then he stoked controversy with remarks about gay marriage. It all came as McConnell continued to avoid the pitfalls that have ensnared some of his Senate colleagues facing heat from the right.
The result is that with three months until the primary, Bevin's bid to defeat McConnell faces increasingly long odds. "He's having some trouble," said veteran political observer Al Cross, a former Louisville Courier-Journal political writer.
Bevin, a Louisville businessman, was veered off message after a Wednesday interview on Janet Mefferd's radio show in which he suggested legalizing gay marriage could lead to parents being able to marry their children.
"If it's alright to have same-sex marriages, why not define a marriage -- because at the end of the day a lot of this ends up being taxes and who can visit who in the hospital and there's other repercussions and things that come with this -- so a person may want to define themselves as being married to one of their children so that they could then in fact pass on certain things to that child financially and otherwise?" Bevin asked.
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