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McConnell ad features women attacking female Democratic opponent:
The Week .Com ^

Posted on 10/22/2014 5:24:59 PM PDT by Din Maker

Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell (R) has a new ad in the Kentucky Senate race that zeroes in on the demographic of voters he thinks are mostly likely to be wooed by his opponent, Democratic candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes: Young women.

In the ad, young women make the pitch that it is Grimes who looks down on them, by implying they need the government's help to get ahead.

"Alison Lundergan Grimes wants me to think that I'm not good enough... That I couldn't get a job, unless Washington passed more laws...That I can't graduate college, without raising your taxes... She wants me to believe that strong women and strong values are incompatible." the women say in the ad.

McConnell and Grimes have been running close in all the recent polls, with most surveys showing just a slight advantage for McConnell. Watch the ad in full below.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections; grimes; kentucky; ky; mcconnell; senateraces
It's only a 30 second ad. Check it out and tell us what you think FReepers. Effective? Fodder for a "backfire"? Whaddya think?
1 posted on 10/22/2014 5:25:00 PM PDT by Din Maker
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To: Din Maker

Click on the source above to view the ad or go to this direct link:

http://theweek.com/article/index/270428/speedreads-mcconnell-ad-features-women-attacking-female-democratic-opponent-she-thinks-im-not-good-enough


2 posted on 10/22/2014 5:26:36 PM PDT by Din Maker (5r)
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To: Din Maker

Excellent ad. This is the Conservative answer to the Liberals’ “soft bigotry of low expectations” that tells certain groups that they’re not good enough without government help. It is the same message that ought to encourage blacks to escape the government plantation. This is our argument and the argument for freedom, and I’m glad to see it proclaimed.


3 posted on 10/22/2014 5:36:26 PM PDT by Always A Marine
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To: Din Maker

DIRECT LINK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq8NhMvo0pY


4 posted on 10/22/2014 5:37:55 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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To: Din Maker

Very good ad, not just for young women, but the whole conservative base.


5 posted on 10/22/2014 5:40:12 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: Din Maker

BTW, the first young lady in the ad gets my vote! B^)


6 posted on 10/22/2014 5:42:08 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: Din Maker
I'd say McConnell is definitely not going after the ghetto-trash-Obama-phone vote.
7 posted on 10/22/2014 5:47:10 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (It takes a gun to feed a village,)
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To: Din Maker

I like it a lot. Those women look like my strong daughters who are self sufficient. That is the message we need to send. Hypocrites touting feminism with government dependence should be shown for what they are.


8 posted on 10/22/2014 5:50:47 PM PDT by outinyellowdogcountry
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To: Din Maker

Great ad.

Too bad we have to have Senators who won’t use this kind of stuff until they face political death in just weeks.


9 posted on 10/22/2014 7:18:29 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: Din Maker

McConnell is the living personification of what is wrong with the Republican Party. That said, conservatism needs his vote, or does it, since a majority is a majority is a majority.

So, tonight I am wondering what freepers think about conservatism being better off if McConnell lost, as long as we (Pubs) still ended up with a majority.

My thinking is that if McConnell lost, but the pubbies still won a majority, could that open up the possibility of Cruz becoming majority leader or am I all wet for some technical or “reality” reason I am unaware of?


10 posted on 10/22/2014 7:45:15 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid)
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To: Cen-Tejas

If you keep reading all the posts that pertain to McConnell, you will find that that comes up all the time; numerous times. Many would like to see McConnell lose and the GOP still win control of the Senate. That is doable.


11 posted on 10/22/2014 8:23:28 PM PDT by Din Maker (I've always been crazy, but, that's the only thing that's kept me from going insane.)
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To: Din Maker

..........thanks for the info!

............u think Cruz would have a Chinamen’s chance in hell of getting elected majority leader?

also, would he want the job?


12 posted on 10/22/2014 8:57:28 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid)
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To: Din Maker
I would rather see McConnell defeated in this election. He is a Democrat doing the Democrats' biđding in the Senate while calling himself a Republican. A majority that includes him as majority leader will be no better than the current minority position. The same goes for Boehner. Both are statist Democrats.
13 posted on 10/22/2014 8:58:53 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: arthurus

I’m certainly no fan of McConnell, but to wish Grimes a victory is wrong! We don’t need another water-carrying DEM in the Senate. McConnell is with us some of the time. I find it just plain stupid to oust him when we need every seat we can get.


14 posted on 10/23/2014 12:07:20 AM PDT by Catsrus (A)
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To: Din Maker

Effective, heck yeah.

I’m surprised that it’s McConnell running it.


15 posted on 10/23/2014 3:10:56 AM PDT by MAexile (Bats left, votes right)
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To: Catsrus

Grimes is less dangerous than McConnell. McConnell would have real power to advance Amnesty and all the rest of the Democrat agenda. I wouldn’t vote ever for someone just because he is of my clan or wears the same kind of hat I do.


16 posted on 10/23/2014 5:24:25 AM PDT by arthurus
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