It’s interesting to me how some ostensibly local races gain national attention.
One of them involves Kentucky Republican U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, who’s in a tough for fight for re-election against Democratic nominee Allison Lundergan Grimes.
McConnell’s future is the subject if a large New York Times Magazine article by Jonathon Miller.
Grimes isn’t going to accept any political advice from yours truly, but I’ll offer it anyway.
If she wants to hang something around McConnell’s neck, she ought to dig up the video of McConnell saying that his No. 1 goal, his top priority back in 2009 was to make Barack Obama a “one-term president.” He’d block everything the president proposes. He would fight him every step of the way. He would obstruct and derail every initiative coming from the White House.
That’s what McConnell said. He said it with emphasis. By golly, I believe he meant it. It was a promise he made to the nation, not to mention to the people of Kentucky.
How didĀ the Senate’s minority leaderĀ deliver on his promise to the nation? Not very well. President Obama was re-elected in 2012 with 65 million votes, 51.7 percent of the total, 332 electoral votes.
So, Sen. McConnell’s top priority will have gone unmet.
Grimes ought to make that a signature issue of her campaign, along with whatever positive alternatives she proposes if she wins the Senate seat.
I think it’s a winner.