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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKY-Sen: McConnell makes "old lady" joke about Hillary Clinton
KY-Sen: McConnell makes "old lady" joke about Hillary Clinton
by Brainwrap
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Yes, that's right. Mitch McConnell (71) is making "old lady" jokes about Hillary Clinton (65).
(video available at Mediaite)
I don't have too much to add, except to say that for a guy who's already freaking out at the prospect of being challenged by a younger woman in the form of Ashley Judd (44) (or, alternatively, Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Grimes (34) for that matter), making sexist jokes about an older woman (who's still 6 years younger than he is, fer chrissake) seems, shall we say, unwise...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/03/15/1194413/-KY-Sen-McConnell-makes-sexist-jab-at-Hillary-Clinton
by Brainwrap
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Mitch McConnell Says Hillary Clinton-Led 2016 Field Like A Rerun Of The Golden Girls
The Republican Party continued its outreach to women and minorities Friday morning by featuring Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell telling a joke that compared former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with The Golden Girls. Speaking before a packed Potomac Ballroom at the Conservative Political Action Conference, McConnell said Dont tell me the Democrats are the party of the future, when their presidential ticket for 2016 is shaping up to look like a rerun of The Golden Girls.
Yes, that's right. Mitch McConnell (71) is making "old lady" jokes about Hillary Clinton (65).
(video available at Mediaite)
I don't have too much to add, except to say that for a guy who's already freaking out at the prospect of being challenged by a younger woman in the form of Ashley Judd (44) (or, alternatively, Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Grimes (34) for that matter), making sexist jokes about an older woman (who's still 6 years younger than he is, fer chrissake) seems, shall we say, unwise...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/03/15/1194413/-KY-Sen-McConnell-makes-sexist-jab-at-Hillary-Clinton
Ashley Judd thanks Mitch for the ad material.
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KY-Sen: McConnell makes "old lady" joke about Hillary Clinton (Original Post)
ProSense
Mar 2013
OP
So the guy who looks like he stared into the Ark Of The Covenant. Is
Guy Whitey Corngood
Mar 2013
#3
meow2u3
(24,761 posts)1. A 150-year-old turtle is calling Hillary old?
Look in the mirror, Mitch!
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,956 posts)2. The whole Republican party is a replay of "Grumpy Old Men".
Does McConnell have his Depends in a bind?
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,500 posts)3. So the guy who looks like he stared into the Ark Of The Covenant. Is
making old people jokes? Holy shit! Now I've heard everything.
ZRT2209
(1,357 posts)4. typical conservative jerk
ZRT2209
(1,357 posts)5. Mitch your jowls are dragging on the floor. gross.
surrealAmerican
(11,360 posts)6. I guess nobody told him he's old.
A (Republican) man is always the last to know.
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)7. so says the one senator that most resembles my genitals.
Good god are there no mirrors in the Senate?
donco
(1,548 posts)8. I think it will be on Hillary’s
to-do list to make a campaign visit for Ashley Judd if she runs for turdeles seat.
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)9. isn't mcC married to chao? she was screaming "racism" LAST WEEK.
wtf is wrong with that man?
libodem
(19,288 posts)10. Yeah, Yertle
And you are homely AND aged. And lippless and chinless and just plain FN mean.
And what kind of military discharge did you receive, again? And for what??? Hmmm?
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)11. McConnell also called Joe Biden
an old lady:
dont tell me the Democrats are the party of the future when their ticket for 2016 is shaping up to look like a rerun of The Golden Girls. Republicans have Rand Paul and Marco Rubio, he said, the other guys, theyve got Hillary and Joe Biden.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251294141
tanyev
(42,552 posts)12. 2014 Senate race shaping up to look like a remake of Grumpy Old Men.