Mitch looks scared..
Posted on 06/22/2007 4:31:43 PM PDT by freespirited
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is “facing the most difficult reelection campaign” of his career, or at least that’s what he’s telling his political supporters.
McConnell, who has yet to draw a major opponent, sent a fundraising letter characterizing his 2008 reelection bid as a battle against “radical national liberal organizations” and calling himself one of the top Democratic targets in the country.
The letter was posted this week to a blog dedicated to drafting another Republican, former gubernatorial nominee Larry Forgy, to run against him in a primary.
McConnell decried the efforts against him by Americans United for Change, an anti-war group that he said “is funded by big labor union bosses” and “has already spent six figures running attack ads against me for fighting terrorism.”
The “most difficult reelection campaign” assertion is interesting because McConnell won reelection in 1990 by less than 5 points in a tough race against former Louisville Mayor Harvey Sloane. McConnell took 55 percent in 1996 and 65 percent in 2002.
Charlie Owen, a millionaire businessman who has self-funded in the past, is among McConnell’s potential Democratic challengers. The others include Attorney General Greg Stumbo.
McConnell was one of the top fundraisers in the Senate during the first quarter of the cycle, pulling in about $1.7 million. He also has one of the biggest war chests, at $4.4 million.
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has targeted him in recent months, but the race generally is considered a second-tier target.
Rebecca Fisher, spokeswoman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said, “This is very common language typically used in fundraising letters.”
Can't imagine why.
If he doesn’t stop the amnesty bill, he will be. He might even have a serious primary challenge.
Just say NO to Illegal Alien Amnesty!! Keep calling!! It’s NOT OVER!!
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Hey Mitch! I speak as a former Kentuckian of almost 40 years.
This shamnesty bill is gonna be your downfall. Time to come out strongly against it.
Takes a lot of gall to come whining to the base about what a tough election he’s got coming up, while at the same time he’s selling out the country.
What pandering. What’s next, acting afraid of Code Pink?
I M M I G R A T I O N B I L L
M C C O N N E L L Y O U A R E N E A R F I N I S H E D
Y O U R W I F E ‘ S “F R I E N D S” M I S L E D Y O U
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Y O U T O O ?
You're not kidding. There's a glut on gall in D.C. these days. If Washington gall were crude oil, the going rate would be less than $2.00 a barrel.
Ol’ Mitch the myopic mangler should be in a “tough” fight, one that he could win at any moment if he decided to *GASP* listen to “We the People” in his home state of Kentucky and across the country.
Not a chance of that happening!
I figure he will vote yes on cloture, then vote no on the bill so he can say he opposed it. If he pulls that, it's tantamount to a yes vote, and we should pull out the stops to find him the strongest primary opponent possible.
There is no Republican in Kentucky that could successfully take on Mitch in a primary.
Still, the corrosive debate seems to have taken a toll on McConnell. On Tuesday and Wednesday, he refused to take reporters’ questions on immigration, a rare move in the Capitol hallways for a man whose deadpan demeanor and calm, monotone voice seldom change.
From My Way News
“Privately, some Bush allies say they wish McConnell would openly back the immigration bill. Publicly, colleagues who support the bill have placed McConnell’s comments and actions in the best possible light.
“I take him at his word,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., noting that McConnell repeatedly has said the Senate bill is preferable to the status quo. “He has been helpful in making sure it comes back” for more amendments and votes, Graham said, referring to last week’s hiatus that nearly doomed the bill.
McConnell agreed that keeping the process moving, without embracing or rejecting the bill, has been his aim,”
Mcconnell has been taking a lot of heat in Ky.
Vote against the SHAMNESTY bill, start fighting back against the dims like they did against any of our legislation, filibuster when needed and start telling America the truth about the dims... in the same way they lie and deceive about our side. At least you will have the truth behind you... and oh yes... the BASE will be solidly behind you too. Money will be no problem for any CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS that vote his or her Conservatism!
If Kay Baily Hutchison votes against this Re-Conquistador bill, I’ll send her funding to help with her run for reelection. I would not even consider it before now!
LLS
It’s not too late to change his position. But Yes on closure will cook him, and he will deserve it.
It makes me sick that the Republican leadership can’t manage to push hard for any of the good bills, and then go all-out pushing this abomination.
I don’t vote in Kentucky or South Carolina, but I’ll be happy to send a contribution to any good candidates in the primaries there, if that’s what it comes down to.
A Yes vote on S.1639 will give us the chance to test your assertion.
Even so, doesn't mean he can win the general.
Term Limits - Term Limits - Term Limits
They get a little arrogant after they get re-elected once or twice.
The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators - people from different walks of life entering public service for a time then returning to their non-government profession.
Instead we have a breed of people that have become professional politicians who think of themselves as America’s Royalty.
They develop a sense of entitlement to a government job and become so out of touch with their constituency they resent it when voters expect them to do the job to which they were elected.
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