Courtesy of the Daily Kos:
Obviously, McConnell's campaign is trying to mock Grimes, but it's hard to see how this video accomplishes that goal. Instead, it strings together a series of one-word clips of Grimes speaking, sets them to a musical beat, and then uses autotune in an effort to turn the whole thing into a musical attack video. But instead of raising questions about Alison Lundergan Grimes, the video leaves you thinking three things: First, Mitch McConnell must be pretty damn scared of Grimes; second, Mitch McConnell doesn't have anything good to say about himself; and third, Mitch McConnell really needs to put down the crack pipe.
WTF? No more magic mushrooms for Mitchy!
But WHY would Yertle the Turtle be so worried about a little ole gal taking him down? After all she's no Ashley Judd and isn't HE supposed to be the big muck-a-muck down in Kentucky?
Well perhaps Nate Silver can answer that:
Mr. McConnell, the Senate minority leader, is likely to win re-election. Kentucky is a solidly Republican state, and President Obama received less than 40 percent of the vote there in 2012. Mr. McConnell has also amassed a huge war chest and hired Jesse Benton, who led Senator Rand Paul’s upset win in Kentucky in 2010, to run his campaign.
However, he is unlikely to sail to victory. Ms. Grimes was elected to statewide office in 2011 with 60 percent of the vote. She has deep ties to Democratic politics, both in Kentucky and nationwide, as the daughter of the state’s former Democratic Party chairman, Jerry Lundergan. Those connections and the high-profile nature of the race should make it relatively easy for her to raise money.
While there have not yet been any nonpartisan surveys testing a potential contest between Mr. McConnell and Ms. Grimes, the four partisan polls that have been conducted so far (three by the Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling and one by the Republican-leaning Wenzel Strategies) have shown a relatively tight race, with Mr. McConnell leading by an average of 4.5 percentage points.
Only leading by four and half points and his opponent has only JUST thrown her hat into the ring?
Yeah I think Yertle might want to put together something a little better, and more coherent, than that LSD induced ad at the top.
Yikeroos. I think it makes her look great! Nice clips of her! And I learned her name. And I learned that McConnell is a fool!
ReplyDeleteI liked it! Name recognition & rocking out for sure. I hope she thanks Yertle profusely when she wins. I'll have Alison Lundergrun Grimes new theme song dancing in my head all night.
ReplyDeleteThe video makes Alison Grimes look great! She is very attractive and has lots of supporters behind her. And she seems hip and trendy, exactly the image Kentucky needs to cultivate for itself (Louisville and Lexington are beautiful cities).
ReplyDeleteThis was an epic fail for McConnell. What a dumb ass.
I love it that none of things they put in the captions actually rhyme with "Alison Lundergan Grimes."
ReplyDeleteAlso, if I were Grimes, I'd be thanking Mitch McConnell for making a video that guarantees anyone who watches it will never forget my name.
His people have done a great job in boosting her name recognition. Remember, "I don't care what the newspapers say about me as long as they spell my name right."
ReplyDeleteThat was positively adolescent. And Mitch McConnell approved this message. I can only assume he's trying to appeal to the younger voters. You know, with something really groovy and hep.
ReplyDeleteOh my god - I'm still laughing.
Ol' Turtle boy Mossback appeal to YOUNGER VOTERS?
DeleteThat's a laugh, and whoever produced and edited this travesty of a video deserves to return the money and be banned for life from touching another video editor
Gryphen,
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http://www.ksl.com/?sid=25842650&nid=148&title=man-arrested-for-assault-after-saved-seats-taken-at-church&fm=home_page&s_cid=featured-4
Are you SURE that wasn't produced by those Taiwanese animators and hacked into stations across Kentucky for broadcast?
ReplyDeleteWild Tortoise
Mitch McConnell is one of the vilest pieces of Republican garbage in the Senate. I hope he gets his ass handed to him in this election. It could happen and it sure would be fitting for him to lose to a woman.
ReplyDeleteYertle the Turtle is the perfect name and analogy for Old McConnell.
ReplyDeleteAnd they didn't even spell Yertle's name right at the end! This ought to be amusing.
ReplyDeleteThat is one of the lamest campaign ads I've ever seen! I don't live anywhere near Kentucky, but I think I'll send Ms. Grimes a campaign contribution just because I dislike The Turtle Man so very much!
ReplyDeleteHe and John McCain's teeth are yellow and gnarly. You'd think with their vast wealth and vanity, they'd do something about it.
ReplyDeleteAs for his race, I'm glad to see he's sweating it. He should withdraw into his shell and shut the whole thing down.
Just please, please tell me she is nothing like Michele Bachmann, Christine O'Donnell, Sharon Angle, Carly Fiorina or that old bag of bones with ginormous hands, Sarah Palin?
ReplyDeleteShe's a Democrat.
DeleteGreat answer, Lynne!
Deleteo/t but skank has a fb post about fishin and cookin and rhubarb pies and a collage of pictures..................let's eee, the picture at bristol's house with everyone around the table is pre chin implant for bristol so that is what? 2-3 years old?
ReplyDeleteskank in front of the sign "welcome to pedro bay"-it is green around her yet she has on three layers of clothing so you alaskans tell us-is that recent?
the picture of bristol in her new boat is in front of palin compound so that one is on lake lucille.
picture of bristol and tripp and puppy we know is from last year when the puppy was a puppy right?
so tell me, are any of these photos from now? this past weekend? anyone?
Let me guess.., Bristol rides her boat to work as a doctor's assistant every day. BFD
DeleteShe's afraid of a bikini at 22yrs old. And that's funny, especially with the "flat ab" gene that family brags about.
Tripp's five full costume changes are to show off his immense wardrobe. Add points for the muck boots. Oh look, a cameo of Trigg - with glasses!
DeleteSarah's giving recipes and cooking tips, that's SOOO Paula Deen!
See Bristol's pontoon! (Everyone else has!)
Todd got a new cessna and can fly. Fly Todd Fly!
No mention of the anniversary of the quitter's epic lakeside resignation speech? Guess RAM's fingers got tired or stuck to the bowl of twinkie filling.
Obama’s Brilliant Move Deals A Blow To The GOP’s 2014 Hopes
ReplyDeleteWith one brilliant political masterstroke, the Obama administration pulled the rug out from Republicans who were hoping to run against Obamacare in 2014.
An innocent looking blog post at the Department of the Treasury has turned the GOP’s strategy for the 2014 election on its ear. Mark J. Mazur wrote, “The Administration is announcing that it will provide an additional year before the ACA mandatory employer and insurer reporting requirements begin. This is designed to meet two goals. First, it will allow us to consider ways to simplify the new reporting requirements consistent with the law. Second, it will provide time to adapt health coverage and reporting systems while employers are moving toward making health coverage affordable and accessible for their employees. Within the next week, we will publish formal guidance describing this transition.”
Republicans have been telegraphing since they lost the 2012 election that they intended to run against the employer mandate. John Boehner mentions Obamacare every week when he meets with the media for a reason. Republicans at both the congressional and state level can’t run on their economic records. They can’t run on their legislative records. Republicans were planning on making 2014 a replay of 2010 by focusing on Obamacare, but the White House kneecapped them with an announcement that nobody expected.
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/07/02/obamas-brilliant-move-deals-blow-gops-2014-hopes.html
Everyone should up arrow this one, ok, at least read it!
DeleteThe Republican Party Has Become Toxic to High Information Voters
ReplyDeleteWith their disdain for intellectuals, their flat refusal to acknowledge global warming, their denial of evolution and their inability to comprehend that rape can result in pregnancy, the modern, heavily tea-stained version of the Republican Party is simply unpalatable to the vast majority of scientists, professors and other educated professionals. As GOP candidates continue to pander to aging white religious fundamentalists and conspiracy theorists, they undermine their own hopes for reclaiming the White House in 2016.
While much attention has been paid to the demographic changes that may doom the GOP as the country becomes increasingly non-white, that is only part of the Republican’s electoral problem. The other problem they face is that they have alienated highly educated voters of all races, to the point that their electoral prospects have grown dim even if they do somehow succeed in suppressing a large number of minority voters and even if they do manage to stem the flow of immigration. Tuesday’s results in Cambridge starkly illustrate the continuing erosion of support for the GOP among high information voters.
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/07/02/republican-party-toxic-high-information-voters.html
And you can dance to it.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't go that far. Now I can dance better than Bristol Palin, but you won't find me embarrassing myself on TV like she should've been.
DeleteLooks like Yertle missed the Ham Rove seminar "How to denigrate your opponent using simple words that rhyme with their name".
ReplyDeleteOr, Yertle's campaign staffers have given up trying to find derogatory words that rhyme with Alison or Lundergan or Grimes, and they are seeking the public's help.
Either way...EPIC Fail.
That ad is so juvenile, a seventh grader would have been embarrassed to slop it together.
ReplyDeleteIs this the mentality of your average Kentuckian, or is this just how stupid McConnell thinks they are?
I love the catchy tune - does make you remember her name and she isn't saying anything negative in any of the grabs. Maybe she will win that election. I'd love it.
ReplyDeleteI'll donate to the campaign for anyone that opposes McConnell in Kentucky and I'm from a northwestern state. Hope others across the nation do the same thing! The guy needs to be cut off at the knees! Money will come in by the truck loads to support his run (from the national Republican party). There is a very positive thing occurring though as his ratings have dropped considerably in Kentucky. He is not well respected both in Kentucky and throughout the US.
ReplyDeleteThis is the guy that has done nothing but obstruct our government since President Obama and VP Biden took office. He is a proven first class jerk with zero concern for the American people.
He will be a very dirty fighter too which makes me sick to my stomach. DOWN WITH HIM, Kentuckians.
Cut off at the knees...I like it.
DeleteI agree. Sedition is a crime and these Republicans, led by McConnell and Boehner are both guilty of it. As are all of their GOP colleagues in Congress. I'd love to see them rounded up and arrested. But I know that will never happen. So let's do the next best thing: let's un-elect as many as possible in 2014. Kentucky and Ohio seem to be like good places to start.
DeleteBeaglemom
Mitch McConnell uncovers dirt on Grimes: Her name rhymes with stuff. (But ‘Mitch’ rhymes with words too)
ReplyDeleteSince an Ashley Judd candidacy never came to fruition, another candidate threw her hat in the ring to challenge Mitch McConnell , so in an effort to try to dig up some dirt of his contender, they find something explosive on Alison Lundergan Grimes. Her name can rhyme with stuff, unlike Mitch’s. Oh wait,
http://freakoutnation.com/2013/07/02/mitch-mcconnell-uncovers-dirt-on-grimes-her-name-rhymes-with-stuff-but-mitch-rhymes-with-words-too/
http://freakoutnation.com/2013/07/02/mitch-mcconnell-uncovers-dirt-on-grimes-her-name-rhymes-with-stuff-but-mitch-rhymes-with-words-too/
WTF? Was that conceived and produced in a junior high computer class?
ReplyDeleteTurtle Face is an old closet queen from way back. Not that there's anything wrong with living a lie while being a hypocrite in some parts of Kin-Fucky. Instead of being a sister-fucker or mother-fucker, Mitchie prefers to be a brother-fucker or daddy-sucker. It's a family thang in KY. Lots of KY-Lube abound the house.
ReplyDeleteWow, what's the word? Palinesque? Rule number one of political ads. Don't bolster the name recognition of your opponent. Rule number two. Clearly and concisely compare and contrast your message vs that of your opponent.
ReplyDeleteThis ad says "Vote for Allison Grimes, she's attractive, vivacious and is someone you'd like to get to know better" and "Allison Grimes, Remember my Name".
That whole part about "what rhymes with Allison Lundergran Grimes - stick to the party line" is so completely disingenuous - who dictates the party line for the Repubs at the moment (or at least has a HUGE influence upon it) - perhaps the Minority Leader of the Senate?
ReplyDeleteWhat a fucking turtle-faced joke.
One of the great parts which has been replaced is that they apparently mis-spelled "McConnell" in an early version of this stupid ad:
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/352138499597692930/photo/1
Here's my contribution: "What rhymes, with Senator McConnell, Mitch? Oh that's right, karma's a bitch!"
ReplyDeleteYellowgirl
Wait a minute. Did you mean "threw together" or "threw up"? I'm having a hard time deciding.
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