{"id":6344,"date":"2014-08-28T20:03:21","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T20:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=6344"},"modified":"2014-08-28T20:03:21","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T20:03:21","slug":"mcconnell-campaign-goes-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6344","title":{"rendered":"McConnell campaign goes national"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting to me how some ostensibly local races gain national attention.<\/p>\n<p>One of them involves Kentucky Republican U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, who&#8217;s in a tough for fight for re-election against Democratic nominee Allison Lundergan Grimes.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell&#8217;s future is the subject if a large New York Times Magazine article by Jonathon Miller.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Mitch McConnell Is Headed Down the Stretch\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/svc\/oembed\/html\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2014%2F08%2F31%2Fmagazine%2Fmitch-mcconell-kentucky-senate.html#?secret=mU5bkNIyos\" data-secret=\"mU5bkNIyos\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Grimes isn&#8217;t going to accept any political advice from yours truly, but I&#8217;ll offer it anyway.<\/p>\n<p>If she wants to hang something around McConnell&#8217;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 &#8220;one-term president.&#8221; He&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>How did\u00a0the Senate&#8217;s minority leader\u00a0deliver 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.<\/p>\n<p>So, Sen. McConnell&#8217;s top priority will have gone unmet.<\/p>\n<p>Grimes ought to make that a signature issue of her campaign, along with whatever positive alternatives she proposes if she wins the Senate seat.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s a winner.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s interesting to me how some ostensibly local races gain national attention. One of them involves Kentucky Republican U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, who&#8217;s in a tough for fight for re-election against Democratic nominee Allison Lundergan Grimes. McConnell&#8217;s future is the subject if a large New York Times Magazine article by Jonathon Miller. 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