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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMcConnell calls on McGrath to take down political ads as coronavirus cripples Kentucky
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnells campaign called on a potential Democratic opponent former Marine Corps pilot Amy McGrath to stop running political advertisements during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Amy McGraths decision to blanket the airwaves with deceitful ads during the coronavirus outbreak is tasteless and shameful, said McConnell campaign manager Kevin Golden. As Kentuckians adjust their daily lives and schedules to help stem the outbreak, the last thing they need to see on TV is negative political advertising. The McGrath campaign must stop airing all of their advertisements.
McGrath has been running advertisements in Kentucky since July, when she first announced her campaign for U.S. Senate. Recently, she has been running national ads on MSNBC and Fox News in an effort to boost her already prolific fundraising totals.
Amy is well aware of the stress the coronavirus pandemic is causing Kentuckians and our nation. The only person who doesnt seem to understand that is Sen. McConnell, said Terry Sebastian, a spokesman for McGrath. He has a 35-year failed track record on issues like health care and jobs in Kentucky, and now during a public health crisis he took a long weekend instead of doing his job and working to pass a relief package immediately.
Read more: https://amp.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article241231726.html
Just_Vote_Dem
(2,820 posts)Roy Rolling
(6,947 posts)The ads about McConnell dragging his feet in the Senate for political advantage while residents of Kentucky die in the streets.
In a few weeks, she wont need to spend money on ads as the whole world sees firsthand what an asshole he is.
orleans
(34,105 posts)i like it
i don't know if this was an ad but ...
calimary
(81,612 posts)Let me know when I start getting my moneys worth out of the Senate, eh, Moscow?
hangaleft
(649 posts)Fuck you, Mitch. I want you (and Billy Boy) gone just as badly as I want tRump gone.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)...while you're busy killing people.
live love laugh
(13,228 posts)mucifer
(23,634 posts)madaboutharry
(40,248 posts)No other comment.
James48
(4,444 posts)Dem2theMax
(9,662 posts)You were so much more polite!
DENVERPOPS
(8,900 posts)Boy Moscow Mitch can sure hand it out big time, but he turns into a whiny little girl when it comes to taking it......
Call the Waaaaaaambulance.
He is nothing but a maggot infected with parasites and puss
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)Poor turtle
dweller
(23,712 posts)may have to kick $
to McGrath
✌🏼
Windy City Charlie
(1,178 posts)Coronavirus bill? Ah, plenty of time for that, let's delay it....but political ads? Stop immediately!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Mitch can go fuck himself. I hate that bastard with every fiber of my being!
lastlib
(23,393 posts)with a pitchfork. An old rusty, manure-encrusted, tetanus- and coronavirus-infected pitchfork. Sideways.
concreteblue
(626 posts)I always liked "Knock yourself up".
lastlib
(23,393 posts)"Fornicate" was the only synonymous term I could think of, hence.....
I like to think I'm pretty crafty with words sometimes!
I like yours too--kinda subtle.
BigmanPigman
(51,675 posts)what the Hell he is doing while they are just waiting for TP!
llmart
(15,572 posts)I'm sure that no-chin asswipe would love for her to stop her ads because he's worried he'll lose his job to her.
I hope Kentuckians toss him out in November. He's despicable. And he can take his grifting wife with him.
elleng
(131,457 posts)captain queeg
(10,314 posts)capechacon
(91 posts)your characterization of McConnell as a reptile, bloated or not. After years of study, I can assure you that no extant reptilian is anywhere close to being as deceitful, untrustworthy and just plain evil as Moscow Mitch.
To brutalize a Pogo quote...we have met the enemy and he is the current Senate majority leader.
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)Those are more talented than Mitch.
captain queeg
(10,314 posts)CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)I always thought that defined amphibians.
There's also all that biology stuff about family, species, and genus too.
GetRidOfThem
(869 posts)Agent Orange as a giant orangutan, they are actually kind, intelligent, and sensitive creatures...
diva77
(7,686 posts)renate
(13,776 posts)diva77
(7,686 posts)lastlib
(23,393 posts)Poor McTurdle haz a sad!! --- I like him to have a whole LOT of sadz!!! While he ROTS in a supermax!
diva77
(7,686 posts)exposing them
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,041 posts)Leith
(7,818 posts)Run that miserable termite right out of the Senate.
Windy City Charlie
(1,178 posts)I say run more ads spotlighting how Mitch is delaying vote in the Senate on the coronavirus bill.
fierywoman
(7,709 posts)stillcool
(32,626 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)If not, then I don't think Amy McGrath has to do what Mitch says.
PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)If you actually showed you cared about the people you are supposed to represent you wouldn't have to worry about those ads, Mr. Grim Reaper.
gibraltar72
(7,522 posts)John Fante
(3,479 posts)bluestarone
(17,147 posts)FUCK OFF!!!
MyOwnPeace
(16,955 posts)turtles had such big balls!
Hope Amy stomps the shit out of them!
Tanuki
(14,931 posts)has been spending his time calling up older federal judges who were appointed by Republicans and urging them to step down so that the sick, incompetent narcissistic sociopath who is currently wrecking the health and economic security of our nation can pack the Federal bench.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,596 posts)flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)What do you know, there's very likely going to be a silver lining this November, when Yurtle the Turtle is voted off our backs. No longer benefitting from our very existence, he'll rightly become "King of the mud, it's all he can see."
Aquaria
(1,076 posts)Id send it to have her ads on the airwaves in KY 24/7, on every billboard in that state, and blanketing the idiot social media sites.
Alas, though, I iz a poor, so I cant do that.
But dont stop sticking it to this evil traitor scum, Amy. No matter how much he cries. When he goes low, knee the fuckers nose into his amygdala.
Lexblues
(180 posts)She needs to take them down and get new ones. My whole family groans when they come on TV. I don't know who her ad agency is, but she needs a new one. She needs to call Bloomberg or something. She has funeral music like someone is dying and then she's whispering in the camera like she's at church. WTH? How is that gonna beat dirty Mitch?
My brother works at a nursing home and he said the residents there also are sick of her sappy commercials. Even they don't understand what her point is.
Bayard
(22,251 posts)She calls out Yertle's complete lack of empathy (like trump). And I'd say the shots of her Air Force background plays well here, especially compared to prez bonespurs.
Lexblues
(180 posts)Or they wouldn't have made them, but it's probably not a good idea to play ads where people also hate them. You need to make ads that people universally like that's receptive to your message. Bloomberg's a good example of making ads that everyone likes.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)IN THE U S MARINE CORPS, not the Air Force.
PLEASE know your services.
hangaleft
(649 posts)sarge43
(28,947 posts)First woman Marine to fly a combat mission.
The Turtle should be afraid of her.
I don't know what came over me.
sarge43
(28,947 posts)The Colonel is going to paraphrase another Marine 'Retreat hell, I just got here.'
Botany
(70,673 posts)uponit7771
(90,378 posts)diva77
(7,686 posts)Bayard
(22,251 posts)He just doesn't want a bunch more people seeing her ads because they're stuck at home.
I got my Amy McGrath hat today (Yay!) I may really be taking my life in my hands if I wear it while wearing my Biden sweatshirt. Oh wait.....I won't be going anywhere.
I wish someone would come out with a MANA hat. Make America Normal Again!
Duppers
(28,134 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)lastlib
(23,393 posts)tRump's callin' ya--he needs you to go kiss his liddle balls again.
XRubicon
(2,213 posts)LOL
C_U_L8R
(45,047 posts)Too bad, so sad.
Brother Buzz
(36,509 posts)2naSalit
(87,012 posts)Suck it moscow mitch! I hope she beats you like a drum! And she should keep up with the ads progressing into his role in this fucking mess.
Moostache
(9,897 posts)I hope she uses the donation to KEEP THE PRESSURE ON THE TURTLE...its time to flip the seat and rid the country of the worst Senator in the last 40 years...
Moscow Mitch, start making your getaway plans with Vlady you traitorous scumbag POS...
Karadeniz
(22,607 posts)GemDigger
(4,305 posts)diva77
(7,686 posts)K&R for exposure!
Thanks, McTurtle, for reminding me to go contribute more to Amy!!
spanone
(135,958 posts)poor baby
lettucebe
(2,337 posts)Oh, and pretty much letting the senate vote on anything? He can go F himself, if he's able cuz you gotta wonder
titanicdave
(429 posts)....and stay there Turtle McTurtle......you jackass......
GoCubsGo
(32,103 posts)sprinkleeninow
(20,272 posts)he can GO. TO. HELL.
yellowcanine
(35,706 posts)Brainfodder
(6,424 posts)Gets off on doing nothing for the people?
Good Luck!
Botany
(70,673 posts)Kerry had a bronze star, a silver star, 3 purple hearts, and never lost a man in the
most hazardous duty in the war and Karl Rove sold him as a coward. Fuck You
Mitch. BTW Kentucky and America would not be under so much stress not having
Trump as President too.
Evolve Dammit
(16,820 posts)Hope you are cuffed and stuffed for treason after Biden is sworn in.
Raster
(20,998 posts)...keep it up, Amy!
Cha
(298,139 posts)and you can't handle it. you and your boss are why we're in this pandemic hell hole.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)He's so transparent and such a hypocrite! He doesn't like it when he is the one getting his flabby, old ass kicked! I can't wait until the actual "Grim Reaper" pays him a final visit. It will serve him right after the nightmare he has brought down on the people of this country. Burn in hell, Mitch!
Good to see you, Cha!
Cha
(298,139 posts)Take Good Care & Stay Safe
IronLionZion
(45,678 posts)due to his epic failures to protect his constituents during crisis.
Niagara
(7,778 posts)Here's hoping that she hands him his russian owned arse in November.
redstateblues
(10,565 posts)Retrograde
(10,188 posts)and theres a chance hell lose. Also, McGrath is an uppity woman who is persisting in making McTurtle look bad.
Demovictory9
(32,507 posts)SiliconValley_Dem
(1,656 posts)SunSeeker
(51,824 posts)Marcuse
(7,566 posts)diva77
(7,686 posts)Marcuse
(7,566 posts)diva77
(7,686 posts)babylonsister
(171,113 posts)without the coronavirus aid package being addressed?
NBachers
(17,192 posts)rocktivity
(44,588 posts)rocktivity
Sloumeau
(2,657 posts)If he wanted McGrath to suspend her ads for some reason, he could have just asked her, and they might have come up with an agreement. Doing it this way means he is, as we always knew, a pathetic idiot.
iluvtennis
(19,913 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,884 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,504 posts)Screw him and the limousine he rode in on. I say double up on the ads.
Just got a mailer from Amy and she'll be getting another check soon.......
TygrBright
(20,780 posts)degage
(103 posts)Fuck you McConnell. You wouldn't take down your ads if the situation were reversed.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)He wouldn't even dream of it. He is such a raging hypocrite! I want him to lose in November just as much as I want Trump to lose. We need to take out the trash!
xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)He'd put up twice as many. What a whining snowflake
Traitor!
OverBurn
(974 posts)patphil
(6,266 posts)NellieStarbuck
(266 posts)Moscow Mitch has the nerve to call someone else "tasteless and shameful".
RandySF
(59,902 posts)rufus dog
(8,419 posts)Hekate
(91,055 posts)soldierant
(6,969 posts)(but not nearly so sanctified. Sanctimonious, but not sanctified.)
meow2u3
(24,778 posts)The Virus of the Senate must be eradicated ASAP! WTG, McGrath!!
dawg day
(7,947 posts)From his constituents.
turbinetree
(24,745 posts)asshole........................oh I know, so that you could go home to your grifter wife and read up on how to fuck people over again and again and be your true libertarian asshole self, collect a taxpayer check and then whine that the government is big ......................and then just to be little man that is aligned to a Russian oligarch................
November 3, 2020 cannot and I repeat cannot get here fast enough......................
Here is the solution................................
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/adopt-ditch-mitch
LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)Instead, Amy should be finding ways in the community she can help (packing lunches for kids, volunteering etc.), take pictures of doing so and post it on every social media platform available.
When folks are trying to determine how to feed their families and survive, they don't want to hear about a candidate running for election if you are not HELPING or offering HELP.
This is McConnell's advantage as he is a Elected Official and can "look like" he is "trying to help" when he is really not. Amy needs to FLIP THE SCRIPT. ASAP!
cstanleytech
(26,368 posts)back in 2016.
marble falls
(57,647 posts)DFW
(54,527 posts)dchill
(38,641 posts)AlexSFCA
(6,139 posts)non stop relentless negative advertising against GOP. The turtles is danger to America and the world.
PatrickforO
(14,608 posts)republic immeasurably better.
captain queeg
(10,314 posts)Grins
(7,274 posts)Because no Republican would EVER do that!
She must be getting to Moscow Mitch.
gibraltar72
(7,522 posts)DonaldsRump
(7,715 posts)mahina
(17,778 posts)Wouldnt be cricket, is that it?
Dear Moscow Mitch, a hearty stick it in yer ear!
Historic NY
(37,463 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,509 posts)mikelgb
(6,021 posts)58Sunliner
(4,432 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,317 posts)Volaris
(10,281 posts)Please stop running to actually win, or I might LOSE.
Fuck Yertle. Keep em comin, Amy!
no_hypocrisy
(46,329 posts)Gothmog
(146,018 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,274 posts)fuck your oily, orange douchebag of a master.
Large crowds of very angry people with pitchforks will come for you and Trump if you try and use this crisis to illegally seize more power.
Freethinker65
(10,118 posts)Zambero
(8,982 posts)...his ramrodding of unqualified right-wing judges through the Senate when he should be taking up legislation that has piled up. He's now trying to entice older conservative judges to step down before the election, so he can install a bunch more nutbag youngsters while there's still time to do so.
C Moon
(12,227 posts)luvallpeeps
(935 posts)<iframe width="1280" height="750" src="
" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>SergeStorms
(19,208 posts)This, from the King of Tasteless and Shameful. He's actually accusing someone of playing politics? Two words, turtle boy: Merrick Garland. So fuck you turtle boy. Amy McGrath will defeat you in November, asshole!
luvallpeeps
(935 posts)King of underhanded. Now he's gonna pretend someone else should play fair? He is so gross and dripping with putrid pretend indignation. There is no underhanded trick he wouldn't try to stay in power. Oh eff him to the moon and back.
Mike Niendorff
(3,465 posts)... McGrath tells McConnell to go fuck himself.
Film at eleven.
MDN
hangaleft
(649 posts)Look in the mirror, asshole!
Merrick Garland says hi, asswipe.
bucolic_frolic
(43,562 posts)Mitch really does think he can get away with anything
Baitball Blogger
(46,786 posts)He is self-interested with every decision he makes.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)That McThroat Pouch is a lying sack of shit must be brain dead.
lark
(23,206 posts)Stop being such a traitor, stand up for American instead of the rich and Russia for a change, and the ads would be different. She's just calling him on his actions to date. She must be having a significant effect or he wouldn't have done this. It just shows a lot of weakness on his part.
Oh yeah and no one believes Mitch has even the tiniest shred of caring or he wouldn't have just had a 3 day weekend in the midst of a crisis. He, like drumpf is MIA when it comes to protecting We the People.
CaptainTruth
(6,623 posts)gademocrat7
(10,690 posts)An evil racist greedy power hungry rethug.
True Blue American
(17,998 posts)Mitch shut down the Senate for 3 days, delaying helping the average person?
Sherrod Brown said it best. Mitch would be right there when the airlines asked for a bailout! They just asked for $50 billion!
B Stieg
(2,410 posts)Tough question...
blue-wave
(4,379 posts)Don't stop now Amy!!
You got that dirty dog on the run!
Wounded Bear
(58,799 posts)geardaddy
(24,936 posts)MissMillie
(38,616 posts)Afraid people will find out you're not doing your job... that you're holding up bills?
AllaN01Bear
(18,884 posts)Bengus81
(6,941 posts)FUCK YOU McConnell!!
lpbk2713
(42,777 posts)It's so damn obvious. Pity is, he thinks it's worth a try.
DinahMoeHum
(21,843 posts)Hit him again, hit him again! Harder! Harder!
#newrostrong
catchnrelease
(1,946 posts)Interesting how Moscow Mitch has rules for himself and rules for everyone else. Like when he was adamant that the Scalia Supreme Court vacancy could not be filled in the last year of a president's term, election year etc. But NOW he says if there is a vacancy he would fill it right away.
And it's shameful for his opponent to run ads against him during the health crisis, but you know he would do it in a heartbeat, crisis or no. Expect him to use any dirty tricks or ads against McGrath that he can come up with.
Meanwhile he's dragging his feet and those of the Senate rather than getting work done to help those affected.
Sogo
(5,025 posts)Upthevibe
(8,115 posts)done......I don't want to think about it. I sent $7.50 (I'm a substitute teacher so on a budget and now am not working at all) to her campaign. I think something came up on my FB feed about her and I REALLY wanted to do something to get him out. After getting a Dem. in for President getting McConnell out is almost a priority for me (and of course getting the Senate back).
Skittles
(153,321 posts)KENTUCKY NEEDS TO SEE THE FALLOUT OF WHO THEY VOTE FOR
Pacifist Patriot
(24,654 posts)samplegirl
(11,530 posts)your going down!
coeur_de_lion
(3,690 posts)Take your medicine like a man you useless pile.