Posted on 09/24/2014 5:27:52 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes released a web ad Wednesday, countering an attack ad from a pro-McConnell group last week that said she supports amnesty for undocumented immigrants.
Grimes’ spot, titled “Say Anything,” features Republican U.S. Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina speaking in favor of an immigration reform bill that passed the Senate, without McConnell’s support, last year. The legislation ultimately died in the House.
“This is not amnesty,” McCain says in the spot, taken from an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
The online ad can be viewed here:
The ad comes after the nonprofit group Kentucky Opportunity Coalition released a pair of television ads insinuating Grimes backs amnesty for undocumented immigrants. The ads, which cost about $2.1 million in air time, juxtaposes Grimes with President Barack Obama, who both say in the spot they support a pathway to citizenship.
The Kentucky Opportunity Coalition’s ad, released Sept. 16, can be seen here:
The second ad, released Tuesday, can be seen here:
The Grimes campaign included in its release Wednesday an article from The Washington Post’s Fact Checker, which gave the group’s spot a three-Pinnochio rating the day after the first spot aired.
From The Washington Post:
Grimes certainly supports a bill that would prove a pathway to citizenship for undocumented aliens, as does Obama. Whether this is “amnesty” is in the eye of the beholder. But this was not a bill crafted by either Obama or Grimes, but a coalition of Republicans and Democrats–an unusual example of bipartisan cooperation in this period of intense partisanship.
Moreover, the bill that emerged from the Senate set tough rules for that pathway — including denying access to virtually all federal means-tested benefits. In doing so, the bill largely met criteria set by donors and supporters of the very organization that is now blasting Grimes on this issue. It is bizarre and hypocritical for this group to now falsely attack Grimes for supporting a middle ground approach that its supporters once championed.
Kentucky Opportunity Coalition’s spot also includes an allusion immigrants receiving tax-funded benefits such as Medicare, which The Washington Post also questioned because the legislation that cleared the Senate included a provision stating Registered Provision Immigrants would not have access to benefits like Medicare or food stamps.
Scott Jennings, senior advisor to Kentucky Opportunity Coalition, stood by his ad in The Washington Post piece.
“While you are correct that she (Grimes) didn’t author or write the immigration bill, she has clearly, on numerous occasions, supported the idea of allowing illegal immigrants to become citizens, as has Obama,” Jennings told the newspaper. “… Our ad is about the benefits illegal immigrants would get when they become citizens, not ‘registered provisional immigrants,’ so your point is irrelevant.”
The Satanic Grimes makes Mitch look like a saint by comparison.
If McConnell is basing his re-election on opposing Amnesty, then the contest is already over.
Amnesty is a HANGING CURVEBALL for ANY Republican to hit out of the park. The only problem is that the First Base Coach, Karl Rove, keeps telling them to stay back and wait for a “better pitch”.
I can’t read Alison Lundergan Grimes’s name without thinking of that stupid YouTube video McConnell’s campaign put out.
“What rhymes with Alison Lundergan Grimes?”
Sad to say, but the issues play very little significance in the Senate race in Kentucky now. It will come down to this one thing to determine the winner: Do more voters in KY hate or love Mitch McConnell the most. If those who love him out number those who hate him, he wins. If not, he loses. This election in KY is all about Mitch McConnell not Amnesty, the National Debt, ISIS or anything else. It’s a referendum on McConnell.
Her chances have eroded to the point that Kentucky is now the third most vulnerable GOP seat. She’s gonna lose.
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