Mitch McConnell dealt a blow at home in Kentucky.

[alfredo]

Four years ago he used he money and attack machine to put Ernie Fletcher in the the governor's seat in Kentucky. They fell out of love with each other. This year Mitch backed former congresswoman Ann Northup, a Republican bush bot. Well, even though Ernie is severely wounded, he trounced Northup. Kentucky Republicans rejected Mitch's negative campaign against Fletcher.

Us Kentucky Dems didn't care if it was Fletcher or Northup. We're going to whup them in November. It will be Steve Beshear against Ernie Fletcher. Mitch will be sucking air. This won't help him come 2008 when he runs for reelection. He is not the king maker anymore. Not only will state republicans remember his ugly campaign with Northup, but he will be saddled with the Iraq war.


In little over a week, more Kentucky Guardsmen will head for Iraq. They will be running shot gun on convoys. In other words, they will be IED magnets. they aren't truck drivers, they are artillery.

[AzDar]

1. Oh. I thought you meant with an OBJECT.....

[MissWaverly]

2. Good News, best I heard all day

ever since I heard that McConnell was one of the leading forces in getting Sen. Bunning re-elected, I have been hoping things kind
of change for good old Mitch.

[UTUSN]

3. K&R for thanks for the positive word, contrasting with much on the page today n/t

[alfredo]

4. In our primary today, the R's had three candidates, the Dems six.

The Dem winner still got 40,000 more votes than the Republican winner (an incumbent). More Dems voted. Republican turnout was low. This is a good sign.

I will be appealing to you guys about helping to put a Democrat back in the state house. There are three races for governor this year. We need to win them all. Lend a hand.

[MissWaverly]

5. Keep us posted, we will be glad to lend a hand

I donated to Gov. Strickland, Ms. Brunner in Ohio for Secretary of State/OH, and Jim Webb in Virginia, although I live in Maryland.

:-)

[alfredo]

6. Thanks, Just click on the Change for Kentucky link in my posts to

find out how to help. As the campaign heats up, there will be more specific info. They have endorse Beshear and Conway and will be working to help them get elected.

We will need help to turn Kentucky Blue. It can be done.

Here's our candidate:

http://www.stevebeshear.com/ He's a good honest man.

I will probably be working for this candidate:
http://jackconway.org/main/index.php


these are the two candidates that Change For Kentucky will be supporting. Change for Kentucky is a part of Democracy For America.

[MissWaverly]

9. thanks, added this to my bookmark list

Good Luck!

[alfredo]

14. We're going to need it. Fletcher and Lee will be getting money

from the theocratic right. They will try to vilify us, but we will try to out hustle them. What usually works for the Reps is to start rumors that the Democratic candidate is gay. The political right is terrified of gays. They think they have magical power so strong that no man can resist.

[MissWaverly]

18. well, people are wise to their tricks

and that picture of him with the rifle is pretty much red meat for the voters, why don't you suggest that he go on Ed Schultz's show.

:-)

[alfredo]

20. I will talk to our coordinator when she gets back in town.

It might do us some good to nationalize this campaign.

[MissWaverly]

24. heck, he might even come down for a promo

if you combine it with the opportunity to do bass fishing or some hunting, have no idea about outdoor life opportunities in
Kentucky, looks like back home in Pa from your pictures.

[MissWaverly]

10. definitely interested, keep us updated

Conway sounds like someone I would vote for. His opponent is still running on flag burning. I am tired of the whole flag burning thing, yes, I don't like to see it but we have a much more pressing problems than that, ie the state of our health care and global warming.

[alfredo]

13. My sister says he is a certified hunk. She also likes his

politics.

[MissWaverly]

19. they have had their day

let them go around with their rants with their friends, they will probably become "consultants" like Rummie
and Tom DeLay.

[alfredo]

21. I'd like to tell them to

"consult THIS assholes."

[MissWaverly]

25. yes, it has been the attack of incompetents

people who look like government officials but are clueless, unfortunately they are not in sitcoms but in our highest offices in the
land.

[alfredo]

26. Click, there's no place like home, Click, there's no place like home.

Click, there's no place like home.

[MissWaverly]

27. that's a good one, they do resemble the flying monkeys

rummie, cheney, wolfowitz with his comb

[alfredo]

28. You insulted flying monkeys.

[MissWaverly]

29. sorry, I have underestimated the integrity of flying monkeys

everywhere.

:-)

[alfredo]

30. That's OK. They are misunderstood. They are just doing jobs that

nobody else would do, and better jobs are closed to them. Anyway, the Wicked Witch did offer healthcare and paid vacations. The pension plan wasn't that great, but at least she offered a plan.

Oh, and that wicked act was just that. She was a master at marketing herself.

[MissWaverly]

31. a little snip for the Bush Haters Handbook on consultants

by Jack Huberman, Nation Books

"Bush political advisor Karl Rove was a lobbyist and consultant for Phillip Morris from 1991 to 1996." - page 311

"Heading the consumer protection bureau at the Federal Trade Commission was Howard Beales, a former professor and consultant
to RJ Reynolds Tobacco, who wrote an article saying that the Joe Camel ads were not aimed at teenagers." - page 312

[alfredo]

32. RJR was the most aggressive, most deceitful of the

tobacco companies. Rove fit well with their corporate culture.

[MissWaverly]

34. yes, I was thinking that too

[alfredo]

35. Could Karl be the force behind all evil that has plagued

mankind since the serpent effectively used talking points on Eve?

[MissWaverly]

36. no, but they are always able to excuse bad news with spin

the Clinton recession actually started during the reign of W in March of 01, and no matter how many times they say "Clinton recession" it is a lie.

:-)

[alfredo]

37. I used to refute that with a graph that showed there would

be a recession in the first year of Republican rule. The graph begins in 1960. It also showed that recessions during Dem presidencies were not as severe, and didn't last as long.

Recessions shift the power to the employer.

[MissWaverly]

38. yes, you are probably right

it so hard to believe that we will have to wait until 08 for a new prez, it seems like he has been president forever.

[alfredo]

39. It has been forever. All these years wasted. America could have been

rebuilding our schools, our manufacturing base, and well on our way to cornering the market on clean energy technology.

[MissWaverly]

40. interesting point I read

that America was liberal even when Bush was elected, he pretended he had a mandate for change but only 14% of the American people
actually support his programs. That is why he polls so low, the high polls were an aftershock of 911 and only that.

[alfredo]

41. This tells the tale

Notice his numbers were dropping even before 9-11.

[MissWaverly]

42. yes, 2 high points 9-11 and Mission Accomplished promo

the problem is that he was elected in 2000 with the most money of any candidate roughly 200 million, that's a lot of promises made
which he has faithfully kept over the wishes and needs of the American people or the global community.

[alfredo]

43. 9-11 saved his butt, and gave cover for his massive giveaway of

our treasury.

[MissWaverly]

44. Yes, Indeed

and the saddest thing is that when America was most vulnerable, he exploited us to the maximum, to fulfill not what was best
for America but some private neocon agenda.

[alfredo]

46. Richard Perle summed up the administration position

"If we let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now." Richard Perle

[MissWaverly]

47. Great songs about what

Nobody has ever written a great song about war or those who brought it, after time goes by some tales are told like the Illiad
that still impress us with its cruelty, throwing children off the walls of Troy, or winning the city not by skill but by trickery.

[alfredo]

48. The great songs about war speak against war.

Just saw this:

http://youtube.com/MarkosProduction

[MissWaverly]

49. you are correct

like morning has broken by Cat Stevens

[alfredo]

50. Too bad the radio stations won't play anti war songs. We used to

hear them all the time during Vietnam. Of course there were still some independent stations back then.

BTW, Steve Earle writes and sings some fine anti war songs.

[MissWaverly]

51. November 2, 2000, the day the music died

we need to rekindle the freedom of ideas, this lockstep we have now is not in our best interests, we need difference of opinion
and free exchange of ideas.

sigh, where have all the young men gone, long time passing. I miss the antiwar songs, and real news.

[alfredo]

53. The music died when Clear Channel took over.

[MissWaverly]

55. don't forget about Faux News

[alfredo]

56. I wish I could.

[Tellurian]

45. McConnell is long overdue for a permanent furlough

I never could stand the boldness of his bare faced lies. He's gained so much weight lately, he looks like an overcooked jelly donut!

[alfredo]

54. He's Kentucky's Karl Rove.

[EFerrari]

7. Oh no.

:(

[alfredo]

8. We're going to send him back to his beloved private sector.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

11. Dems here need to seriously challenge Lipless Mitch

He's not that popular. He's just entrenched because the Dems gave up on the seat a decade ago.
His arrogance on campaign finance and lobbying reform piss off a lot of people.
Remember, this is a guy who said that it's a good thing when people don't vote. because he belives low turnout means people are satified with Washington.

He's as out-of-touch and crooked as they come. There's a reason why everytime Ralph Nader comes to Ky., he always gives a good section of his speech to detailing why Mitch is the worst Senator in America

[Forkboy]

12. I thought this thread would be about another Republican sex scandal.

[cloudbase]

23. I'm guessing that it wasn't Elaine

who blew him.

[Bake]

15. I think Beshear's got an EXCELLENT shot at unseating Fletcher

Fletcher is one of the most corrupt politicians in the history of the Commonwealth (and that's saying a lot). The fact that Northup (who lost her congressional seat in '06) couldn't defeat such a crook says a lot about the state of the Repubs in Kentucky.

I firmly expect to see another state house in the Dem column. Unseating Mitch "Howdy Doody" McConnell would be the icing on the cake.

Bake

[Hubert Flottz]

16. "Mitch McConnell dealt a blow "

Mitch has always been a firm believer in..."It's not who ya know, it's who ya blow!"

[alfredo]

17. I wouldn't stick anything I value into that ugly hole.

[blm]

22. Cheering with you on McConnell, alfredo - that man's evilness cannot be underestimated

even though he does fly under the radar for the most part nationally.

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