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Even GOP Senate Leader Is Worried About Re-Election
Wow. Things are so bad for the GOP that even Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, a powerful institutional player from a red state, is taking his re-election fight very seriously.
The evidence? McConnell is already on the air with a negative ad against his opponent, businessman Bruce Lunsford, even though there are still three and a half months until election day:
If Democrats can beat McConnell or even make it close, it will be a very huge deal -- after all, nobody in the Senate has done more than McConnell to keep the Iraq War going against the efforts of the Democratic majority to end it.
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I guess nobody is immune from double posting. ;-D
July 18, 2008 1:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
...but some folks can remove their's...
July 18, 2008 1:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
I looooooooong for the olden days when even the lowliest of us could edit typos. Now, I am stuck with the continuing stupid of my fingers on the keyboard of my Treo.
July 18, 2008 5:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
What efforts?
July 18, 2008 1:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
zing.
July 18, 2008 2:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey, I never said they were particularly good efforts.
July 18, 2008 2:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
I know it's wishful thinking, but I would love to see mr. turkeyman go down. Talk about poetic justice.
July 18, 2008 2:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
A Rasmussen poll from three weeks ago had McConnell 48%, Lunsford 41%. . . .
July 18, 2008 2:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Am I the only person who hears about/reads about bad news for the GOP and gets the opening riff of "Crazy Train" stuck in their head?
I'm so sick of these bastards. I don't like seeing them on my TV. I don't like their policies. I don't like their smug little workerbee drones cluttering up DC, nattering about "true conservatism"...
Sorry. That wasn't change we can believe in...
July 18, 2008 3:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
If the polls are from Rasmussen, add three points to the Democrat.
July 18, 2008 3:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ol' Mitch should have whined about how much gas prices are eating away at the 'bitter' moonshiner's delivery costs.
NASCAR 911.
July 18, 2008 3:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
McConnell's vulnerable? Good. We owe the GOP for Tom Daschle.
July 18, 2008 5:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
even better, it's a blatantly dishonest ad and the Lexington paper called him out on it immediately.
Barefoot and Progressive
July 18, 2008 5:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
I dream of McConnell sitting on his porch day after day crying about the power he lost . . . I dream he sits there thirty maybe forty years . . . A good long live . . . Knowing that the thousand year Republican Reich was crushed on his watch.
July 18, 2008 6:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Throw all the GOPeeing their pants out!
Full steam ahead, into the future!
Barack Obama for America!
July 18, 2008 6:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Mitch is worried (with good reason -- believe me, I'm *from* KY, & his support there has dropped like a rock becaue of his association with Bush & McCain), & I'm surprised he's only doing this now. KY politics is *particularly* dirty; look for this race to get much worse before November.
Not for nothing did Kentuckians kick out their previous dirtbag governor & elect a Democrat. Tip of the iceberg, & definitely a state to watch this year.
July 18, 2008 8:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
clearly Kentuckians are a sensible lot, especially when they elect excellent leaders like Gov Beshear and Rep Yarmuth, and I look forward to more sensibility when they, hopefully, 'fire' Mitch McConnell for a job badly done, later this year. it will be well deserved for that lemon puss. he never met a fund raising dollar that he didn't think was his.
July 18, 2008 9:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
The worm is turning for sure . . . McConnell has done enough damage and Kentucky needs better representation by a more intelligent individual.
Buuuut, we still have to get by the lousy voting machines that can dictate the end result. The closer the race, the more vulnerable the switch becomes.
July 19, 2008 11:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
I woner ifin ole mitch the bush bitch mcconnell will take up crying like his good friend john boner
July 19, 2008 5:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sadly, this KY resident expects to see McCain win this state in November. So leaves the question: can we still unload the downticket tripe on that day? It would seem that Lunsford has to hang the Bush/Cheney albatross around McConnell's neck extra-firmly, for McCain will likely be given far too much credit in this state for any daylight he can pretend to show between himself and Bush.
July 19, 2008 6:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
the black vote in KY could do him in.
62 Dems in the next Senate!! Here's how:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/6/13/103229/281/664/535305
July 21, 2008 10:50 AM | Reply | Permalink