{"id":186971,"date":"2013-08-05T19:42:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T00:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/08\/05\/this-is-the-best-political-slam-ive-ever-heard\/"},"modified":"2013-08-05T19:42:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T00:42:00","slug":"this-is-the-best-political-slam-ive-ever-heard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/08\/05\/this-is-the-best-political-slam-ive-ever-heard\/","title":{"rendered":"This is the Best Political Slam I’ve Ever Heard"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a> That’s Gotta<\/span> Hurt!<\/span><\/div>\n

And yes, I’m including Winston Churchill’s best slams*<\/sup> in my calling this the best.<\/p>\n

Even more surprising is that it comes from a woman, Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, who is running against Mitch McConnell for Senate in 2014, as women are frequently subjected to a double standard on such thing. (A man is assertive, and a woman is a bitch, etc.)<\/p>\n

At a political staple of Kentucky politics, a barbecue at a small hamlet known as Fancy Farm, Grimes let fly<\/a>:<\/p>\n

But in her speech, Grimes didn\u2019t shy from attacking McConnell directly, painting him as an obstructionist who\u2019s been in Washington too long, as her own supporters chanted, \u201cDitch Mitch.\u201d<\/span>

<\/span> \u201cIf the doctors told Sen. McConnell that he had a kidney stone, he\u2019d refuse to pass it,\u201d Grimes said, in her most memorable zinger of her six-minute speech.<\/span>

<\/span> While McConnell left after his likely Democratic opponents\u2019 speech, not staying to hear his GOP primary opponent at the end of the program, Grimes welcomed Bevin to the race, joking that he was glad to see the \u201cGOP nominee had shown up.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That is going to leave a mark!<\/p>\n

*<\/sup>A couple of Churchill’s more famous insults:<\/span><\/p>\n

One day shortly after the Second World War ended, Winston Churchill and Labour Party Prime Minister Clement Attlee encountered one another at the urinal trough in the House of Common\u2019s men\u2019s washroom. Attlee arrived first. When Churchill arrived, he stood as far away from him as possible. Attlee said, \u201cFeeling standoffish today, are we, Winston?\u201d Churchill said: \u201cThat\u2019s right. Every time you see something big, you want to nationalize it.\u201d<\/span><\/span>

<\/span><\/span> \u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><\/span>

<\/span><\/span> Lady Astor<\/b>: Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.<\/span><\/span>
Churchill<\/b>: Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That’s Gotta Hurt! And yes, I’m including Winston Churchill’s best slams* in my calling this the best. Even more surprising is that it comes from a woman, Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, who is running against Mitch McConnell for Senate in 2014, as women are frequently subjected to a double standard on such …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,1002,978,1050],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-good-writing","category-politics","category-snark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}