*Despite his victory over Tea Party-backed challenger Matt Bevin in Kentucky’s upcoming GOP primary looking all but guaranteed, Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell — who has always had a uneasy if not downright toxic relationship with the Tea Party — tried his best during a Thursday morning speech at CPAC to prove to the crowd that he was just as wing-nutty as the next guy. After walking on stage with a prop gun and delivering a lengthy paean to outgoing GOP Sen. Tom Coburn (one of the Tea Party’s favorite senators), McConnell kicked things off with a joke seemingly plucked straight out of a Dennis Miller act. “The president of the United States has treated the Constitution worse than a placemat at Denny’s,” McConnell said and then paused, likely hoping for a more boisterous response from his audience than the tepid chuckles he received. But the leader of the Republicans in the Senate soon dispensed with attempts at humor, transitioning immediately into an angry condemnation of the Democratic Party — and New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, in particular…* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more here from ELIAS ISQUITH / Salon.com: http://www.salon.com/2014/03/06/how_to_win_over_conservatives_mitch_mcconnells_desperate_gun_gambit/