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Mitch considered attacking Judd

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Really?! Mitch, you were caught talking about using Ashley Judd's medical condition as a way to attack her. Now you're claiming to be the victim?!

Wow. Way to turn it around. Instead of defending your actions, you attack the actions of the "secret spy."

Could it be, instead, that maybe one of your staffers found it totally disgusting and was the leak?

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sen-...ng-ashley-judd/story?id=18914051#.UWTfWqKyBc0
 
Apparently their not aware of smart phone technology. He's making himself look like a fossil.

Steve S
 
"Senator McConnell's campaign is working with the FBI and has notified the local U.S. Attorney in Louisville, per FBI request, about these recordings," Benton said. "Obviously a recording device of some kind was placed in Senator McConnell's campaign office without consent. By whom and how that was accomplished will presumably be the subject of a criminal investigation."

The Senate Minority Leader described the tactics used against him to reporters at the Capitol Tuesday as "quite a Nixonian move."

"This is what you get from the political left in America," McConnell said. "Much like Nixon in Watergate, that is what the political left does these days."
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Thanks Obama!
 
thaiboxerken said:
Really?! Mitch, you were caught talking about using Ashley Judd's medical condition as a way to attack her.
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Oh noes! A politician was caught talking about how to make a potential opponent look bad using publicly available information! What is this world coming to?

:rolleyes:
 
steve s said:
Apparently their not aware of smart phone technology. He's making himself look like a fossil.
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I dunno, I thought it was a master class in diversionary tactics. We'll see how it plays out.

How did McConell feel about Linda Tripp recording Lewinsky?
 
Cain said:
How did McConell feel about Linda Tripp recording Lewinsky?
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If someone within McConnel's circle who was part of the discussion did the recording and leaked it, then this would be a parallel. If someone eavesdropped on the discussion, then it would not be.
 
Ziggurat said:
Oh noes! A politician was caught talking about how to make a potential opponent look bad using publicly available information! What is this world coming to?

:rolleyes:
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I agree. This is something all campaigns do. I don't see why it's getting so much coverage. It is possible however that someone committed a crime by surreptitiously recording this depending on what the applicable jurisdiction is.
 
thaiboxerken said:
Really?! Mitch, you were caught talking about using Ashley Judd's medical condition as a way to attack her. Now you're claiming to be the victim?!

Wow. Way to turn it around. Instead of defending your actions, you attack the actions of the "secret spy."

Could it be, instead, that maybe one of your staffers found it totally disgusting and was the leak?

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sen-...ng-ashley-judd/story?id=18914051#.UWTfWqKyBc0
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Mitch is clearly a little bitch. And he's clearly still not Housetrained.
 
Ziggurat said:
Oh noes! A politician was caught talking about how to make a potential opponent look bad using publicly available information! What is this world coming to?

:rolleyes:
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Her religious views:
“I still choose the God of my understanding as the God of my childhood. I have to expand my God concept from time to time, and you know particularly I enjoy native faith practices, and have a very nature-based God concept. I’d like to think I’m like St. Francis in that way."

From the cited article:
The aide also suggests they should go after Judd's religious beliefs with an aide saying, "She is critical…of traditional Christianity" as well as being "anti-sort-of-traditional American family."

I want to live in a country where I expect the ninth most senior senator in congress to say "you know, if we cannot beat a candidate with absolutely no political experience without bringing up her religion, we should just give up now."

Yes. It is absurdly naive of me to say that, but I have no problem criticizing anyone of either party for not taking hold of a strategy meeting in that manner.
 
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A politician talked about attacking a rival politician?

In the USA???????????

STOP THE PRESSES!!!!!!!!!!
 
Ladewig said:
I want to live in a country where I expect the ninth most senior senator in congress to say "you know, if we cannot beat a candidate with absolutely no political experience without bringing up her religion, we should just give up now."
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Your issue is with the people who care about that issue, not the pols who exploit it. If the voters in Kentucky cared about something other than religion the pols would campaign on that.
 
WildCat said:
Ladewig said:
I want to live in a country where I expect the ninth most senior senator in congress to say "you know, if we cannot beat a candidate with absolutely no political experience without bringing up her religion, we should just give up now."
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Your issue is with the people who care about that issue, not the pols who exploit it. If the voters in Kentucky cared about something other than religion the pols would campaign on that.
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Last time I was in Kentucky during an election I saw no commercials about a particular candidate's regular use of toilet paper or whether they wore shoes.

If the voters in Kentucky cared about candidates' regular use of toilet paper or whether they wore shoes the pols would campaign on that.
 
Better get out the fainting couches - it seems there is "rudeness" in political campaigns.

If a candidate for public office has mental health issues, why shouldn't the opponent bring it up? Seems like it might have a direct impact on one's ability to perform in a high-stress, life-under-a-microscope environment.
 
Before I get all worked up over this kind of stuff, I try to figure out the remedy.

McConnel held a strategy meeting to beat a potential rival, and during the meeting he considered making an issue of things that he believes his voters will care about. Sounds like he was willing to distort the truth in doing so. The remedy: don't vote for the scumbag.

Someone in the meeting might have illegally taped the conversation. The remedy: investigate and prosecute.


Apply the remedy and the problem goes away.
 
The only story here is if the leak came from within his inner circle or if someone outside committed a crime recording the meeting.

Talking about mental competency and religion of your opponent is the default for most campaigns these days. That the so called christians in the meeting didn't get the St. Francis Donkey/bird reference speaks to their their own religious convictions.
 
sarge said:
Before I get all worked up over this kind of stuff, I try to figure out the remedy.

Sounds like he was willing to distort the truth in doing so. The remedy: don't vote for the scumbag.
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Pretty much that means you can not vote for anyone. Rarely do you see a politician who doesn't distort the truth.
 
eeyore1954 said:
Pretty much that means you can not vote for anyone. Rarely do you see a politician who doesn't distort the truth.
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Or I could accept that the behavior is relatively common and choose other criteria for selecting who to vote for. I have dozens of reasons for not voting for McConnel - none of them related to his campaign integrity.
 
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