Lies Drive Mitch McConnell

Kentucky GOP Senator Mitch McConnell would be laughable, if he wasn’t so scary, and by that I mean scary stupid. And he’d be laughable if the good [?] people of Kentucky didn’t continue to send him back to Washington. I mean, after Obama was elected in 2008, didn’t McConnell say it was Job #1 for the GOP to ensure that Obama was a one-term president?

How’d that work out for him? Yeah, not so much. He gave himself one job and three-and-a-half years to do it and failed.

Still, while that in itself is laughable, it’s also endlessly fun to note that, despite his position of power in Washington, his ‘Red’ State home, and his nearly three decades of politicking, most recent polls show McConnell basically tied in his upcoming re-election bid with … wait for it … an unannounced, unannounced, Democrat.

So, what’s Mitchy to do? I mean, when it looked like he might have to run against actress Ashley Judd, McConnell the Turtles sent his Hellhounds after Judd, who subsequently announced she would not run; and then the desperation continued when McConnell, the incumbent, began running re-election ads a full 20 months before the election.

Then we’ll throw in that new video, hoping to exploit the IRS controversy into making Obama seem like this year’s Nixon. McConnell says, in the video:

"I think that the leader of the free world and his advisers have better things to do than to dig through other people's tax returns."

Of course, that never happened, There is no proof, nor any reliable allegations that Barack Obama dug through anyone’s tax information and doesn't appear to have had anything to do with the IRS's tax-exempt office in Cincinnati.

Still, it isn’t McConnell’s warped and untrue insinuations that are what’s wrong with McConnell. It’s his message at the end of the video where you see the words, "Intimidation. Retaliation. Secretive" and then hear President Obama say, "We're going to punish our enemies and reward our friends."

Sounds bad, no? Yes, it does, but the words in McConnell’s propaganda campaign ad are taken out of context.

The out-of-context quote is part of a comment made more than two years ago in an interview with Univision radio when Obama said this: "If Latinos sit out the election instead of, 'we're going to punish our enemies and we're going to reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us' -- if they don't see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election, then I think it's going to be harder."

McConnell's use of the quote is the height of desperation and dishonesty.

This is not a man who deserves to be re-elected. He’s spent the last four years working against the President in any, and every, way and yet has failed to do the one thing he said he’d do: limit him to one term.

This is not a man who deserves to be re-elected. He lies, plain and simple; he takes a person’s words and then inserts them into non-existent conversations, twisting what was said because it suits his need to be in office, collecting his salary, his future pension for life, and his lovely health care package.

This is not a man who deserves to be re-elected. He went after Ashley Judd on the rumor that she would run for office, and used some of her personal background and history in an attempt to make her seem unstable.

This is not a man who deserves to be re-elected. In fact, as I said earlier, recent polls show he tied with an unnamed, unannounced candidate.

Kentucky, when you know better, you do better, and you should know better.

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