KENTUCKY: Are You Buying What Mitch Is Selling?

[napkinz]

[Ken Burch]

1. Hopefully not.

But who knows?

This might be a state where "If you keep your health care, the uppity n____r wins" works as a vote pitch.

We can only hope the voters are smarter than that. Working folks should be.

[napkinz]

5. Well if they're buying, they're dying

500,000 Kentucky residents would lose their health insurance if Mitch has his way

[theHandpuppet]

14. I read somewhere that the very voters we need for a Dem victory...

...i.e., women and minority voters, have a greater tendency to NOT vote in off years. I hope to hell that a lot of women who normally wouldn't vote will turn out for Alison. I'm trying to keep my hopes up.

[napkinz]

35. not voting, or voting Republican, is voting against her own interests ...

[SummerSnow]

2. How much are turtle shells going for on the open market?

[kentuck]

3. Alison has one day to challenge him on it.

Will she ask him if he is still for repealing Obamacare? And isn't "Kynect" and Obamacare the same thing? Isn't it time for him to tell the voters that, before they are tricked into voting for him?

[napkinz]

7. you mean she hasn't been hitting him on this issue?????

[msongs]

4. the conservadem chose to disown obama and not use Kynect as a campaign issue from what

Ive read on DU at least

[world wide wally]

11. Dems don't use anything except trying to pretend they do't know Obama.

They say his popularity is too low, so they pretend to support the policies of the congress with an approval rating of 9%

Can anyone figure out where the Dems went wrong this year?

[CherokeeDem]

6. There are many Kentuckians are not buying his nonsense....

The key here is voter turnout... and all we can do is hope.

I watched that debate where this piece of crap said he was going to get rid of Obamacare in Kentucky but we get to keep the pretty website. Allison should have slapped him silly when he said that.

I am trying not to get disillusioned but increasingly the American public is voting against its best interest for these thieves, thugs and charlatans.

[pangaia]

12. From the little snippets I have seen of Grimes, and the quotes

I have read... I gotta say,, blechk.....To paraphrase the old saying, she has brought a wet noodle to a gun fight.

Feel free to correct me if I am wrong.

[CherokeeDem]

15. You're wrong....

Find a You Tube of the debate and see for yourself.

"Blechk" or not she is far better than McConnell for this state and for this nation. Would I have preferred another candidate? Yes. Was I unhappy with her answer about voting for Obama? You betcha! But then I am unhappy with all Democrats running from Obama.

I have been surprised at how well she has done and how smart and articulate she is (barring the no answer on voting). Her campaign has been well-run and they have a huge ground effort in place. The majority of her ads have been very well done... all in all... we can't complain about the candidate. It's now up to the voters.... let's hope they come through.

No candidate is perfect, if anyone believes the candidate of their choice is going to agree with them 100% is very naïve. At the moment, she is what we've got... and we're going for it.

BTW.... the restaurant her family owns that the press is going on about "Hugh Jass" is a very popular restaurant right on one of the main intersections of UK. I'm certain the college students love the name and the fun... place is packed every time I've been by.

[Unknown Beatle]

8. He doesn't have a voice,

his talking points come via the koch sucker brothers.

The koch brothers own his ass.

[sheshe2]

9. I especially love the last one napkinz

[napkinz]

17. too bad the rest of the media aren't being as persistent

I would hope there is an ad campaign hammering him on this ... but from what others have said in responding to this post, no such effort has been made by the party or Alison Grimes

and that's unconscionable

[sheshe2]

20. To a small extent she is~

Read more about her at the link, napkinz.

Meanwhile, there are signs the Kentucky press sees this as a real story. As a very tough editorial in the Kentucky Herald Leader puts it:

Nothing could be more connected — or should be more important to Kentucky’s senior senator — than the fates of the more than 400,000 Kentuckians who are getting health insurance, many for the first time, and the federal Affordable Care Act, which is making that possible. [...]

As a result of a law that McConnell wants to repeal, one in 10 of his constituents no longer have to worry that an illness or injury will drive them into personal bankruptcy or a premature grave.

Repealing the federal law would also end the Medicaid expansion that is enabling Kentucky to expand desperately needed drug treatment and mental health services. [...]

Kentuckians are waiting to learn if their five-term senator understands — or cares — how much is at stake

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2014/05/28/grimes-hits-back-on-obamacare-mitch-mcconnell-is-in-fantasyland/

Not great but, there you have it. Damn I hope she wins this, I never want to see that mans face again.

[napkinz]

22. if he wins, we have THIS to look forward to ...

[napkinz]

26. from that article back in May

Now the Grimes campaign is finally hitting McConnell over his gyrations on the issue, accusing him of “voting to destroy Kynect.” From Grimes senior adviser Jonathan Hurst:

Mitch McConnell has been in the fantasyland that is Washington for so long that he cannot tell the difference between fact and fiction. McConnell has voted to destroy Kynect — and he has said he will do it again. In the U.S. Senate, Alison Lundergan Grimes will fix the law to ensure it is working for all Kentuckians.

I wish she had continued hammering him on this issue. I wish she had done an an all-out ad blitz for the past five months.

Well, now it's just wait until Tuesday and hope!

[world wide wally]

10. If people buy his bullshit, I'm sorry, but it's just too bad for them.

Let them take all the pride they want in being stupid. Just keep them there.

[pangaia]

13. But then WE are stuck with the results as well.

[world wide wally]

23. That is what really pisses me off.

But it doesn't seem like the candidates care that much. Of douse, the only race I am seeing first hand is Colorado, but I haven't heard very much at all about Dems bragging about their own accomplishments or nailing the Repunks on how they have screwed up the country.

You can't play the game without some balls

[Cha]

16. "The Senator who will say Anything to get Re-elected"..

Mahalo, napkinz [font color=blue][font size=lg]TURN KENTUCKY BLUE![/font][/font]

[napkinz]

18. he's despicable

[Cha]

19. "Mitch has sabotaged Jobs and Transportation Bills..."of course, he has.. he's a good ol Koch boy..

PERFECT!

Mahalo, napkinz! [font color=blue][font size=lg]TURN KENTUCKY BLUE! GOTV2014[/font][/font]

[napkinz]

24. ad from Alison Grimes regarding his Koch addiction ...

[Cha]

27. "Hard Working Kentuckians Cannot Trust Mitch McConnell"!.. No Shite.. have truer words been

spoken in a campaign ad?!

Mitch.."I want to thank Charles and David Koch for the Important Work they're doing"..



Mahalo, napkinz! [font color=blue][font size=lg]TURN KENTUCKY BLUE! GOTV2014[/font][/font]

[napkinz]

32. too bad most Americans don't know who the Koch brothers are and how

their money is corrupting our political process

[napkinz]

25. ...

[SableonBlonde]

21. I wish Alison

would have embraced the ACA from the start; it's been a huge success in Kentucky. Her stance has been, at best, tepid support in her effort to eschew anything remotely related to the President. But on the other hand, she's trying to get elected in the state that's kept McConnell in for 30 years, so...

Instead of harping on Grimes' refusal to admit she voted for Obama (which was admittedly stupid), the mainstream media should have been reporting the outright lies and complete BS spewed by McConnell in that debate and elsewhere. Grimes initially made the voting comment to the Courier-Journal editorial board; McConnell refused to meet with them. In the debate, McConnell said repeatedly that Kynect is a "website" and spewed the "I'm not a scientist" crap on climate change. The MSM should have been all over his ass.

[napkinz]

28. where was Chuck Todd?

Todd doesn't find anything that disqualifies Mitch McConnell?

[Cha]

29. The corporatemedia=the goPropaganda Big Lie Machine.. they wouldn't turn on one of their own.

[napkinz]

30. goPropaganda Big Lie Machine

I like that phrase ... sums it all up!

[Cha]

31. Hey napkinz.. I was calling it the Big Lie Machine back in 2002 when I joined a

site called "The Fringe Left".. or something like that. It was after what Bush called the War ON Iraq Protesters.. the "fringe left".

I was spouting my little head off about the Big Lie Machine.. and then later added the very descriptive GOPropaganda. I guess more people are noticing now.. so it hasn't all been for nothing. It's just they haven't Stopped.. only gotten worse and are imploding themselves.

Good Morning.

[napkinz]

33. it's going to keep getting worse if Americans don't wake up

too many don't question; too many choose to remain uninformed; too many are misinformed

[napkinz]

34. kick

nt

[napkinz]

36. one last kick!

nt