We waited until later in the morning to focus on Mitch McConnell’s new ad because it’s pretty powerful:
That’s why Progress Kentucky is no longer a thing.
Democrats are going to have to hit hard and often – beginning now – in order to have any hope of beating McConnell/getting close to beating him.
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1 Monica // Mar 13, 2013 at 10:29 am
Yes. Very powerful and effective. So, are we going to go ahead and blame Progress Kentucky NOW for losing the Senate seat in ’14?
Or will we do something about it?
The Democrats can’t hit hard and hit often. That would take organization and a vision. From where I sit, I can’t see either of those right now.
2 Me // Mar 13, 2013 at 10:35 am
This ad isn’t powerful. It’s stupid.
3 Matt W // Mar 13, 2013 at 10:48 am
That’s a really good ad and a no brainer to do. Running against McConnell-whether if your a candidate or an outside group-is like stepping into the ring with the younger Mike Tyson. If your not ready then you will be seriously hurt and possible killed. The candidates that are being mentioned all have strengths and weaknesses; however, I’m not sure any of them know how to fight. Well see soon enough.
4 Novena // Mar 13, 2013 at 8:15 pm
“This Ad Is Not Paid For”
Mitch: “How do I get around the notion that I avoided the draft, Hon?”
Empress Elaine: “Divert attention–defend my ethnicity and say your critics are assaulting both it and your patriotism.”
Mitch: “Great–anything else?”
Empress: “The standard: with as much passion and sincerity as I can muster, I’ll murmur, ‘Mitch loves Kentucky. Mitch loves Amurka.’”
Mitch: “Genius!”
5 Conservative Kentuckian // Mar 13, 2013 at 9:17 pm
McConnell didn’t avoid the draft. He was in the service but was discharged.
6 Novena // Mar 14, 2013 at 8:28 am
“Response to Conservative Kentuckian”
Thanks for the distinction you make. I am still wondering why he had better things to do (like Cheney) instead of going to Vietnam before he was “discharged.”
7 FreeManNKy // Mar 14, 2013 at 8:58 am
Dodging the Draft…… That should help McConnell. How many things are named after Ali in Louisville and he dodged the draft (My statement is the GOP version of “Let’s Get Ashley Judd to run”)
8 Novena // Mar 14, 2013 at 10:31 am
“Difference between Ali & Mitch”
Ali saw himself as a conscientious objector who grounded his anti-war stance in sincerity integrity–and he took the consequences for that position. Mitch, a real war and chicken-hawk, did not serve in Vietnam (like Cheney) because he wanted to save himself for the political arena. Amurka has been suffering from his “service” for many decades now.
9 Bill Adkins // Mar 14, 2013 at 12:44 pm
Mitch could always point to his accomplishment. Wait, I’ll make a comprehensive list of them here:
1.
10 FreeManNKy // Mar 14, 2013 at 5:15 pm
Bill, I’ll help.
1. Not get beat by a Tea Party Candidate.
See…. he already surpassed your accomplishments.
Novena, I honestly would believe Mitch was feeble and not physically be able to serve.
11 Bill Adkins // Mar 14, 2013 at 6:09 pm
Freeman, let me help by completing your sentence — “yet.”
12 Conservative Kentuckian // Mar 14, 2013 at 10:17 pm
Trying again since it says my original comment is awaiting moderation…
I’m not sure that Googling this subject would bring up any definitive information, because so much has been speculated on the subject and I don’t trust Wikipedia as a source, but IIRC McConnell enlisted on his own instead of being drafted. I always understood that his discharge was health-related, because of either eyesight problems or his childhood polio. Others posit more sinister reasons for his discharge, namely that someone asked or someone told, if you know what I mean.
My opinion of McConnell has changed for the worse over the years (not for any of the reasons most of the posters here express) but I don’t think his military service record should be a source of controversy. He did his duty.
13 Novena // Mar 14, 2013 at 10:24 pm
“Response to Conservative Kentuckian”
Thanks for clearing up some of the Mitch mystery. However, don’t you think it’s a bit hypocritical that he is one of Congress’s biggest war hawks, yet never deigned to go to war himself–even in a capacity that would have been behind the lines? That is not an unfamiliar stance for many GOPers (Cheney is among the most vile in terms of being a chicken-hawk.) As for health issues from Vietnam (where Mitch never went), one of my best friends never recovered psychologically from that damn misguided, immoral war (he continues to be a stock boy in a grocery even though he was an honors student in high school). We never seem to learn, do we (right Cheney? right Mitch?)?
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