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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWow! Amy McGrath's opening video body slams the Turtle
What an impressive spot in every way. The best part is when she takes down McConnell factually and with heart.
CurtEastPoint
(18,672 posts)Bradshaw3
(7,538 posts)Fritz Walter
(4,292 posts)According to Snopes:
While the SCV might be considered an organization whose use of the Confederate flag places it in an appropriately historical context, the group was the subject of some notoriety over a rift between those who wanted the SCVs focus to remain about preserving history, and those who wanted to use it to fight for the right to display Confederate symbols everywhere
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We did not receive a response from Senator McConnells spokesman in response to our request for background on the photograph.
cutroot
(876 posts)Kentucky was a border state of key importance in the American Civil War. ... Kentucky officially declared its neutrality at the beginning of the war, but after a failed attempt by Confederate General Leonidas Polk to take the state of Kentucky for the Confederacy, the legislature petitioned the Union Army for assistance.
PhilipDC
(76 posts)When I worked as a lifeguard at the JCC across the street from Big Springs CC, we always called it Bigot Springs...
Tiggeroshii
(11,088 posts)Texas and Kentucky can go blue next year because of these women.
CurtEastPoint
(18,672 posts)Bradshaw3
(7,538 posts)Will be donating to both.
Brother Buzz
(36,487 posts)And the update:
Tiggeroshii
(11,088 posts)Such inspiring videos!!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Both of them. It amazes me how much more courage and bravery these women have - and this could be said for millions of women out there - than about 95% of the men out there representing us in government today. Look at how many draft dodgers and military cowards there are out there, especially in the republican party.
Not only militarily, but these women have fought hard and taken bigger risks than most of those men could ever dream of taking. For most of them, every thing was handed to them on a silver platter and their way was paved by the "good old boy's club". These are the people who are going to fight for us! These are the people we need to elect to office!
Go Amy and MJ!
Judi Lynn
(160,656 posts)YessirAtsaFact
(2,064 posts)Nm
Calista241
(5,586 posts)California_Republic
(1,826 posts)mcar
(42,426 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(22,475 posts)"If you think about why Kentuckians voted for Trump, they wanted to drain the swamp, and Trump said that he was going to do that," McGrath said during an interview on MSNBC's Morning Joe. "Trump promised to bring back jobs. He promised to lower drug prices for so many Kentuckians. And that is very important.
"And you know what? Who stops them along the way? Who stops the president from doing these things? Mitch McConnell. And I think that thats very important, and thats going to be my message the things that Kentuckians voted for Trump for are not being done. Hes not able to get it done because of Senator McConnell."
McGrath, 44, embraced the president in a way that is bound to agitate some progressives voters, but it is an early window into her acknowledgment that Trump's popularity in the Bluegrass State, where he pummeled Hillary Clinton by 30 percentage points, is nearly impenetrable.
McGrath had a drastically different take on Trump when she described her feelings about the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)So, she's pro-Trump?
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,475 posts)I get the concept of overall numbers in a chamber. And I get the importance of getting McConnell out. This, though? No thanks.
icymist
(15,888 posts)crazytown
(7,277 posts)GOP has failed to produce a health care plan. McConnel tried to kill the ACA before there was an alternative.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)It's not a bad move to settle on the most agreeable position Trump took on this or that issue, and claim that McConnell has stopped Trump from, say, lowering drug prices. Certainly McConnell's obstructionist tactics have killed any number of good ideas from congressional consideration; and Trump has likely taken a position at some time or another that many people would find palatable. Are those positions actually where Trump has come down on an issue, or is it reasonable to credit Trump with the correct position? Why not, if it hurts McConnell and makes his opponent look better?
kag
(4,079 posts)McConnell is certainly Trump's henchman in most cases, so why not use that. Also, McConnell is the one whose "biggest priority" was making Obama a one-term president. Dump had nothing to do with that.
If you can peel off Dump voters using this tactic, more power to ya.
smb
(3,476 posts)The bottom line is that McGrath genuinely supports popular policies (draining the swamp of government corruption, lowering drug prices, etc) that Napoleon Boneyspurs uses as bogus applause lines with absolutely no intention of following through.
Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)your Campaign. Full out attack your opponent with a fact based Video and spend the Bucks to get it aired. And keep doing this Video's only amping up the hard facts.
IronLionZion
(45,601 posts)Thekaspervote
(32,813 posts)Gopeee if he were taken down. Not to mention he would be retiring on someone elses terms, not his. And, it would put the rest of them on notice!
Chipped in, hope others will be able to help
kag
(4,079 posts)We'll do what we can to get turtle the hell out of there.
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)Bam! What a great ad!
ADX
(1,622 posts)...Semper Fi, Devil Dog!!!
malaise
(269,239 posts)Rec
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)With the Chinese.
Just ask his wife!
AJT
(5,240 posts)iluvtennis
(19,891 posts)Karadeniz
(22,599 posts)grumpyduck
(6,276 posts)Win that election!
If anyone can win that election she will be the one. What powerful video.
How can anyone vote for that turtle faced asshole when there are people like this in that state?
DFW
(54,465 posts)She can say what she wants about Trump in the campaign. If she is clever, she will point out Trump's lies about how and whom he would help, and then make it look like it was McTurtle who thwarted Trump in trying to do all those good things (I know, cough, gag, choke). With any luck, when she takes office, Trump will have all of 18 days (max!) left in office. He'll have his hands full pardoning murderers, polluters and sex offenders. He won't even notice McTurtle is gone.
Jim__
(14,090 posts)... republicans?
obamanut2012
(26,165 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I thought so last time, and I am even more impressed this time. If she doesn't beat Mitch this time around, Kentucky deserves exactly what they get and I won't feel a bit sorry for them when they all lose their health care and become permanently unemployed.
bdamomma
(63,941 posts)does she have a website yet, monetary donation to her would be nice.