While Mitch McConnell is busy making up stories about Bruce Lunsford flying off to Chicago on the 4th of July, Bruce Lunsford is busy attacking Mitch McConnell where it really hurts: with honesty and with the people.
Lunsford spent yesterday in Grayson (Carter County in northeastern Kentucky) pumping gas at Randy’s Roadside Market and talking to everyday people.
“He has been in there 24 years and on the government payroll for 40 years. He is not in touch with the men and women of this state,” he said. “Because I’ve been a job producer, I think I understand what it takes to get people re-employed.”
Lunsford said he sees several avenues for improving the state’s economic situation and scolded that McConnell “has not done a lot for the transportation system of eastern Kentucky.” He also criticized McConnell for serving the interests of oil companies when he should have been touting coal as a “savior” for the nation’s energy needs.
It would probably do Mitch McConnell well to stop complaining about Bruce Lunsford owning real estate in major metropolitan areas. Because there are easily a hundred (okay, we’re being kind with that estimate) issues Mitch McConnell would be terrified to discuss. The least of which would be his support of racist hatemonger Jesse Helms.
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1 Gunti // Jul 8, 2008 at 9:50 am
I hear Sen. Mitch McConnell (R) was going to pump gas for average Kentuckians, too, just like Lunsford, but when his AIDS took him to the gas station for practice, he kept sticking the pump nozzle in the vehicle tail pipes instead of the holes The Designer intended it for.
2 Terri // Jul 8, 2008 at 10:22 am
I know a certain someone who owns millions of dollars worth of real estate in a major metropolitan area but who keeps an empty, sterile condo in another state due to pesky residency requirements.
3 Gunti // Jul 8, 2008 at 10:26 am
Terri, quite talking about me that way.
4 kilowat // Jul 8, 2008 at 11:42 am
Bruce was in the freedom fest parade in Murray ky sat. july 5 he walked while Mitch was riding
http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t283/kilowat1946/Heather%20Murray%20freedom%20fest/IMG_5095.jpg
http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t283/kilowat1946/Mitch%20and%20Ed%20Murray%20freedom%20fest/IMG_5124.jpg
5 Not confused ... // Jul 8, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Jake, one must conclude that you’re completely in the tank for Bruce Lunsford. How about some of that “journalism” stuff wherein you disclose your history and relationship with the candidate? Have you supported him financially? Has he supported you financially? Has he taken controversial stands that you also support? Is he just a nice guy? Is he particularly insightful or intelligent? Does he have a history of doing good works? Or is he simply not Mitch McConnell, the evil one?
6 jake // Jul 8, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Regular readers of this site (or anyone who knows how to Google) can answer those questions on their own.
Completely in the tank for Bruce? That’s a long shot.
Supported him financially? Please.
Has he supported ME financially? HAHA! I love that kool-aid you people are drinking. No, Bruce isn’t supporting me financially, nor has he ever. He’s never even advertised on this site. Nor has any company or business he’s affiliated with. If he (or anyone else, for that matter) were supporting me financially I wouldn’t be driving a Jeep from 1994.
Clicky Clicky. Read up for the past year on what I’ve written about Bruce. I stand by everything I’ve said and everything anyone else has published on this site. It hasn’t always been positive.
What journalism? My personal work history, personal history and political history has more than been fully disclosed and aired on this site and others.
I don’t play ‘nice guy’ politics wherein I like someone purely because they’re a nice guy. Nice one, though.
Mitch McConnell is what’s wrong with this country. That’s the end of the story.
7 Cyberhillbilly // Jul 8, 2008 at 6:03 pm
Jake:
Tell me, how is coal going to be the savior of this country if Bruce Lunsford gives Harry Reid a fillibuster proof majority? And since when did libs become impressed with the virtues of coal?
8 jake // Jul 8, 2008 at 6:21 pm
I’m not sure who referred to Bruce as a “liberal” ?? He even refers to himself as independent. But he’s certainly not a right-wing psych job who eulogizes racists.
Fancy how you’re parroting the McConnell talking point of Bruce flying off to Chicago with no proof.
Who said anything about pussy Harry Reid?
And since when did Democrats become “libs” and when did ALL “libs” start holding the same ideology?
Nice spin.
9 Cyberhillbilly // Jul 8, 2008 at 7:16 pm
So where did Bruce go?
As for promoting coal, how is Bruce going to do that in a Democratic Senate that’s anti-coal? How is giving Reid a fillibuster proof majority, when Reid and the bulk of his party are against coal mining, good for the coal industry?
10 Chris // Jul 8, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Jake-
On Saturday, Bruce Lunsford boarded a Cessna Citation (tail number: N409CS) at Kyle-Oakley Field in Murray. The flight took off from Murray at 12:38 PM CDT and landed at Chicago Midway at 1:42 PM CDT.
Where is your “proof” to the contrary?
11 jake // Jul 8, 2008 at 8:16 pm
Must’ve been a mighty quick trip because he was back in action not long after that.
12 Republicans are brainwashed // Jul 8, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Wow were did Mitch go? Oh thats right his million dollar town house in Georgetown. I can think of bashing Bruce if Mitch had fulfilled his 1984 campaign pledge to not move to DC and live in Kentucky as much as possible, but that’s not the reality we haven’t seen Mitch for 5 years and then magically he decides to show up when he is up for re-election. I think that Mitch is scared and instead of talking about the issues that really matter to KY he is talking about gas prices and Bashing Bruce. Oh yeah i remember why Mitch wont talk about the issues because he is a neo-conservitive hack who votes lock step with the worst president of the modern era who has a sub 30% approval rating.
13 Cyberhillbilly // Jul 8, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Do you even know what a neo-con is? McConnell, whatever your politics may be, certainly isn’t a neocon. Do your research before you go spouting off nonsense and making a fool of yourself.
14 CyberHillbilly is on Mitch's Payroll // Jul 8, 2008 at 8:59 pm
I will tell you that right now anyone who votes with George Bush the majority of the time ISNT Worth being re-elected. I noticed that you didn’t respond to the comment about Mitch living in Georgetown full time insted of living in Kentucky, is that because its true or is it because you don’t have marching orders from McConnells Senate campaign/ Senate office (I mean the two are mixed.) Anyone who sends jobs to china and give LESS jobs to kentucky voters really tells me that A) anyone who actively spreads Mitch/Bush propaganda deserves to not be able to vote and B) the person who gives those jobs away deserves to not be in the US Senate any more.
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ne·o·con·ser·va·tism also ne·o-con·ser·va·tism Audio Help (nē’ō-kən-sûr’və-tĭz’əm) Pronunciation Key
n. An intellectual and political movement in favor of political, economic, and social conservatism that arose in opposition to the perceived liberalism of the 1960s: “The neo-conservatism of the 1980s is a replay of the New Conservatism of the 1950s, which was itself a replay of the New Era philosophy of the 1920s” (Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.)
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