Mitch McConnell’s Worst Nightmare

Women and Vets Come Together In New Grimes Ad 

Alison Lundergan Grimes strong campaign continues to win over voters as Mitch McConnell's last worst nightmare is eclipsed by the next one.…

Alison Lundergan Grimes strong campaign continues to win over voters as Mitch McConnell’s last worst nightmare is eclipsed by the next one.
Under conventional wisdom, McConnell should have the advantage because he is the Senate Minority leader. The latest poll continues  the trend during the past five polls. All these polls show Alison Lundergan Grimes in a dead heat with McConnell or in the lead.  Trends like this are never good for an incumbent.  It’s a disaster when the incumbent also happens to be the Party leader because generally that brings with it a political advantage.  The fact that none of this holds true for McConnell shows the extent to which his campaign has been a disaster of incompetency.
“Despite Mitch McConnell and his Washington special interest backers wasting millions, today’s news makes clear that the McConnell campaign is spinning its wheels with Kentucky voters,” Grimes senior adviser Jonathan Hurst said Wednesday. “After Mitch McConnell has spent 30 years turning Washington into a gridlocked embarrassment – putting himself and his party first – Kentuckians are ready to put him last in November.”
Now, McConnell’s worst nightmare is coming true as women and Vets come together in support of Lundergan Grimes in her first television ad which brings women and vets together in support of Alison Lundergan Grimes.
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As Johnathan Hurst, Grimes senior adviser said: “The campaign is honored to highlight Alison’s accomplishment on this issue that is very close to her heart; helping our men and women in uniform. With Washington paralyzed by partisan gridlock, Alison will be an independent, commonsense problem solver who fights for Kentucky values in the U.S. Senate.”
Allison Lundergan Grimes proves to be a candidate with bold ideas for the issues and concerns that Kentuckians care about.
While she offers bold ideas to help our vets, McConnell is going to the repugican plan b: if you can’t win them over with big money, suppress their votes – including vets who fought for other people to have the very rights that McConnell is trying to take away.
Mitch McConnell was hoping that his 30 year career, his title as Senate Minority Leader and big money from special interests would be enough to bamboozle the voters of Kentucky into giving him another term.
The combination of Allison Lundergan Grimes proven record of bold ideas and her understanding of the issues that Kentuckians care about leave McConnell with the dubious distinction of being the most vulnerable incumbent this election year. That’s a distinction McConnell earned because his priorities have been about partisan politics and assuring gridlock, instead of doing the work that people in Kentucky and across the United States need their elected representatives to do.
People want someone with bold ideas that improve their lives and protect their freedoms first and foremost. This is especially true for vets who have fought wars to protect or win freedoms for people in other lands.  Ironically, McConnell is showing his “gratitude” by trying to take away the very freedoms that vets have fought wars for other people to have.
McConnell is only making it easier for Kentuckians to see that Allison Lundergan Grimes represents their interests and their future.
This race shows Alison Lundergan Grimes as a candidate willing and able to represent the people of Kentucky with fresh ideas and an understanding of today’s reality while Mitch McConnell is a candidate of old ideas and old ideas who is totally out of touch with most people.  The fact that McConnell is alienating vets shows that his campaign is on life support even before Lundergan Grimes launched her first TV or radio ad.  It only gets better for Lundergan Grimes from here and frankly, McConnell’s weaknesses not only as a candidate but as Minority Leader become more pronounced.