There’s no love lost for outside conservative groups in Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s new memoir, which hits bookshelves next week.

The Kentucky Republican, always a political strategist, makes the case in “The Long Game” that he could have ascended to the majority leader position earlier if not for forces like the Senate Conservatives Fund .

“As more dollars from patriotic Americans rolled in, SCF staff would direct those resources exclusively toward campaigning against the most electable Republicans from the comfort of their town home on Capitol Hill,” McConnell writes, according to excerpts posted by Google Books .

“[R]eminiscent of what happened in 2010 in Delaware, Colorado, and Nevada, thanks to groups like SCF, we threw away two seats with unelectable candidates, this time in Missouri and Indiana,” McConnell says of what played out in 2012, when Republicans ended up nominating Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock, respectively.

Akin, a Missouri Republican, provoked outrage when he said a pregnancy rarely occurs as a result of what he called “legitimate rape.” Mourdock, the GOP’s candidate in Indiana, said any woman who became pregnant from rape should consider the child a “gift from God.”