War of words: Rick Scott 'shocked' by Mitch McConnell accusing him of playing 'victim'

War of words: Rick Scott 'shocked' by Mitch McConnell accusing him of playing 'victim'

Bad blood from recent years hasn’t been forgotten by the Kentucky Colonel of the Senate.

In his upcoming biography, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is not holding back with criticisms of U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, as revealed by a juicy excerpt spotlighted by CNN.

“I don’t think Rick makes a very good victim,” McConnell said. “I think he did a poor job of running the (Senate campaign) committee.”

“His plan was used by the Democrats against our candidates as late as the last weekend (before the election). He promoted the fiction that we were in the middle of a big sweep when there was no tangible evidence of it. And I think his campaign against me was some kind of ill-fated effort to turn t...

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