Discussion for article #229187
A standard attack ad. It’s good, but hardly scathing though.
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Come on Grimes- throw the kitchen sink at him!
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Keep slugging Allison!
Don’t stop until after the bell.
Because McConnell certainly won’t.
jw1
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Yes!
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I want turtle soup!!!
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Scathing? Seems pretty standard…even mild, to me. Are these “attacks” anything the right wing in the south doesn’t already know? No minimum wage hike? In with big money? That’s the Republican platform! The south eats that nonsense up.
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I have an image in my head of Mitch getting shelled.
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I’d say its pretty good, and factually correct
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Mild can be pretty hot in Kentucky, btw. From talk among many Republican voters alone I’d say Mitch is leaning dry toast.
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As Gen. Geo. Patton said of war, God help me, but I do love it.
She should hit him once after the bell, it would be nice to keep his head ringing for a while.
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Not in KY. KY is more of a fiscally moderate/socially uber conservative state than a purely conservative one. There’s a reason we’ve only had two Republican governors since the 60s…
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LOL I was thinking the same thing. This IS a state in which nearly 1/3 of it’s counties are dry counties despite being famed for our Bourbon. And, good Lawd, let’s not even talk about casinos and the “evils” of gambling despite the fact that there’s no place in KY further than 200 miles from another state’s casino. I remember when they first proposed the lottery. One would’ve thought Satan himself endorsed it.
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The ad is pretty tame. I hope people in Kentucky realize that Kentucky needs someone like Grimes. McConnel is just terrible for Kentucky. He votes against everything that would actually help the people in Kentucky.
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Send him home! Make him a SEA TURTLE (see what he thinks about climate change then)!
Sadly, accusations of mendacity are probably rather ineffective as a political strategy. People expect politicians to lie and just harumph & say they all do it.
Home is Virginia, not Kentucky.
I’d like to see a version of this where they use the creepy smile ad… y’know, like the voice-over “McConnell will say anything” as McConnell smiles serenely, reassuringly at the viewer. The face of deceit.
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Too little, too late.
Legend has it that LBJ, in one of his early congressional campaigns, told one of his aides to spread the story that Johnson’s opponent fcked pigs. The aide responded "Christ, Lyndon, we can’t call the guy a pigfcker. It isn’t true." To which LBJ supposedly replied “Of course it ain’t true, but I want to make the son-of-a-bitch deny it.”
Today’s Democrats could learn a lesson from this. The GOP certainly did.