Mitch McConnell Appears on Twitter in a Big Cloud Of Cocaine
“Cocaine Mitch” had the last laugh.
Team Mitch, the official campaign Twitter feed of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), made it snow after former coal baron Don Blankenship lost the Republican primary for U.S. Senate in West Virginia on Tuesday.
Blankenship’s campaign was marked by repeated attacks on McConnell, and at one point he called the senator “cocaine Mitch” in a campaign ad. The nickname stems from accusations that a ship owned by the company of McConnell’s father-in-law was used to carry 90 pounds of cocaine. No charges appear to have been filed, according to The Washington Post.
That led to this blow from McConnell’s campaign account after Blankenship came in third:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mitch-mcconnell-cocaine-tweet_us_5af2722ae4b00a3224ee42e3?ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067&__twitter_impression=true
= new reply since forum marked as read
But that is very funny.
I will confess. I am the one who sent him that story. He seemed like the kind of guy who would go for it. A week later he put out the cocaine Mitch ad.
Why did the media quash the story? Nothing about what an investigation turned up. Was there an investigation? Mitch's inlaws gave him millions of dollars are these 3 things connected?
Do I think turtleface had anything to do with the smuggling. No. But those questions should be answered. What better way is there to get that info out there, than by a member of his own party?
