McConnell: "I can laugh about "Grim Reaper," but calling me "Moscow Mitch" is over the top"

[Miles Archer]

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/459747-mcconnell-over-the-top-moscow-mitch-nickname-effort-to-smear-me



Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday vehemently denounced political opponents who have dubbed him “Moscow Mitch,” calling the nickname an “over-the-top” effort to “smear” him.

“It’s modern-day McCarthyism,” McConnell said during a radio interview on Salem Media Group’s “Hugh Hewitt Show” when asked about the nickname he received after blocking Democrats’ efforts to pass bipartisan election security bills. “Unbelievable for a Cold Warrior like me who spent a career standing up to the Russians to be given a moniker like that.”

"You know, I can laugh about things like the 'Grim Reaper,' but calling me Moscow Mitch is over the top," the Kentucky senator added, before suggesting that Democrats would "say anything and do anything."

"This is what we’re up against with the hard left today in America," he said.

[Initech]

1. Suck it up, buttercup! There are no safe spaces in the real world!

You are a snowflake, Mitch. Deal with it.

[Miles Archer]

2. From Brian Karem:

Brian J. Karem
@BrianKarem

I grew up with you in office in Louisville. The first politician I ever covered outside of my family. You are reprehensible. You are there for no one but yourself. You remain the worst of any politician I've ever covered in my life. You smear yourself. @senatemajldr

Link to tweet

[Hermit-The-Prog]

11. Moscow Mitch is a spoiled brazhnik

[Corgigal]

3. What about massacre Mitch?

Since you won't protect any Americans?

[Crunchy Frog]

8. He'd probably like that.

[smirkymonkey]

4. No it isn't. It suits you perfectly, and you know it, otherwise it wouldn't bother you

so much. You are the biggest lying, cheating, grifting, Russia-loving scumbag in the Senate.

The moniker is sticking to you for a reason. Nobody needs to make much of an effort to "smear" you. You give people all the ammunition they need. All they need to do is tell the truth about you.

[gratuitous]

5. He can laugh about being the Grim Reaper?

So, millions of Americans suffer due to Senate inaction, and McConnell just laughs. But calling him a name? Merciful heavens! That's just modern-day McCarthyism! Wait is McConnell saying that McCarthyism was bad?

[lame54]

6. He even sold Cocaine Mitch merchandise...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/time.com/5593273/cocaine-mitch-shirts/%3famp=true

[Guilded Lilly]

7. The truth hurts. Obviously. The name is etched in your history, Comrade! n/t

[question everything]

9. Good. Getting under his skin

[oasis]

10. Moscow Mitch and his deplorable henchman, Leningrad Lindsey Graham

can both go straight to hell.

[Johonny]

12. He's sad because he's much more Beijing's Mitch...

[MrsCoffee]

13. How about we just go with Traitor.

That enough unMcCarthyism for him?