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Posted on 10/18/2014 6:18:05 PM PDT by cotton1706
Mitch McConnell is still an enigma.
He’s the most powerful Republican in Washington and in his home state of Kentucky, now on the cusp of realizing his lifelong dream of becoming Senate majority leader. But those wishing to learn more about the man are left with precious few options, other than a friendly authorized biography and a handful of durable magazine profiles.
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The story begins with a focus on McConnell’s election as Jefferson County judge-executive in 1977, a period the author mines for fresh detail about his early political thinking. As a Rockefeller Republican running for office in a sea of Democrats, McConnell pleaded for and won an endorsement from the AFL-CIO during his campaign and, once elected, made friends in the pro-choice movement by blocking local measures that would have restricted abortions. Back in those early post-Roe v. Wade days, the young Republican “had a very feminist perspective” on abortion, recalls one local official who worked with him.
But McConnell, a Gerald Ford man in a party drifting rightward in the direction of Ronald Reagan, soon backed away from these positions as he prepared for higher office.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
But note that McConnell was a "Rockefeller Republican" and a "Gerald Ford" man.
Do any of us think that THIS man, as Majority Leader of the Senate, will do ANYTHING to roll back liberalism? Are any of us surprised that he works so hard to undermine conservatism and destroy conservatives.
I see him purposefully watering down, with the help of his buddies the democrats, ANYTHING conservative that comes from the House. Of course, Boehner is of the same type as McConnell.
Jeb Hensarling for Speaker!!
“...now on the cusp of realizing his lifelong dream of becoming Senate majority leader.”
Dear heavens. Definitely worse than Boehner.
Aside from the debate over whether McConnell is “good” or “bad”, a completely objective history of his political career would likely be a very interesting read for any political junkie. Unfortunately this book profiled is just written by some liberal angry man as the article describes.
I was too young then (and not even around yet during some of it) to remember his time as county judge (which is not a judge - other states call them county executive). I do remember a story being told about how Senators Dee Huddleston and Wendell Ford declared after McConnell narrowly won re-election as county judge that McConnell’s political career would be going nowhere... Well... http://youtu.be/Hh95GHiYD4o?t=4m36s
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