Posted on 01/17/2014 2:28:07 PM PST by Kaslin
This rhetorical smear is heinous for so many reasons. But I'll give you one: it’s an apples to oranges comparison. If McConnell loses his job, it will be because the voters sent him packing -- peacefully. By contrast, it took the Allies an alliance with the Soviet Union of all countries to defeat the Nazis, and only after untold lives were lost and a continent laid to waste. There’s a major difference between “liberating” a state from an ostensibly evil incumbent Republican Senate, and liberating the world from “that wicked man” -- Winston Churchill’s famous moniker for the most hated of all Nazis: Adolf Hitler. How one could compare these two events in the same breath is beyond me. Even if he’s speaking extemporaneously here, the remark is as offensive as it is stupid (via NRO's Andrew Johnson):
Kentucky Speaker Stumbo Compares Defeating Sen. McConnell To Liberating Europe From Nazi's
“It reminded me of the feeling our troops must have had when they liberated the European nations after World War II,” state representative Greg Stumbo said at an event for McConnell’s Democratic challenger, Kentucky’s secretary of state Alison Lundergan Grimes. “Can you imagine what it felt like that you were liberating a country?”
“Well, you’re about to liberate your state from the worst reign of misabuse that we’ve seen in the last 30 years,” he added.
Polls have shown McConnell and Grimes in a close race, although most give McConnell the lead.
Good thing Rep. Greg Stumbo and Ashley Grimes aren’t “close political allies,” or anything. Oh wait. They are…
Remember how Grimes’ campaign kickoff was so poorly orchestrated Rightie media had a field day making fun of it? This might be slightly more embarrassing.
Ping
Liberals are people who bite the hand which feeds them and lick the boot which kicks them.
A 100% Dem is way more useful to the regime than a 40% Dem.
Study our state of Indiana as a reference.
Conservatives will call it a win as well, if he can be beaten in the primary.
Getting rid of Boner will be like Hiroshima and Nagasaki rolled into one.
Not much chance that a Rat will beat a conservative in red Kentucky.
I never thought I would agree with a democrat.
So far, it seems like it would be like the Italians trying to win WWII.
We had one that ran 10 points behind Romney and lost. When the MSM stages a full assault, it can be deadly.
Shame on you. I will never agree with a Rat
Good
If we can trade off the seat elsewhere, I’m all for McConnell losing this one. I might even be all for it anyway.
You forgot to work in the damage Mitch has done to conservative values in your percentages.
He’s a negative for America. He has to go. We have to replace him with a conservative. But whether we do or not, he has to go. If people want it bad enough he WILL be replaced with a conservative. If not and the Dem wins, no real difference.
He is far below the 80& mark. He sides with libs and trashes his base. He has to go.
McConnell must go down!
Uh, don't kid yourself. We have a Rat governor (emulating Zero with illegal EOs) and one house Rat infested. When someone asks you how Rats get elected in KY, just say Jefferson County. COexist and Obummer bumper stickers are all over the place there. The school board is nuts, black members get away with crimes up the whazoo and yell racist when anyone points out their crimes, everyone cringes and backs down.
IMO, The Chinless One can’t win without the conservative base. Which, again IMO, he has so alienated here that it looks to me as if he beats Bevin, he will get none of our votes. I will not vote for him again. And my gut feeling is that I have a lot of company.
If McConnell wins the primary, it will be Grimes’ election to lose.
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