{"id":197486,"date":"2008-01-30T17:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T22:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/30\/senator-mitch-private-handjob-mcconnell-gets-wealthy-opponent\/"},"modified":"2008-01-30T17:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-30T22:31:00","slug":"senator-mitch-private-handjob-mcconnell-gets-wealthy-opponent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/30\/senator-mitch-private-handjob-mcconnell-gets-wealthy-opponent\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Mitch &#8220;Private Handjob&#8221; McConnell Gets Wealthy Opponent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McConnell is getting a number of opponents, with <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/leading-the-news\/lunsford-to-run-vs.-mcconnell-2008-01-30.html\">Bruce Lunsford throwing his hat into the ring<\/a>, this gets him, &#8220;Andrew Horne and another wealthy candidate, businessman Greg Fischer&#8221;, all competing in the primary to face him in the general.<\/p>\n<p>This is a campaign Democrats should make a priority, for the following reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Payback for what they did to Daschle, who my spell checker flogs as &#8220;Schlemiel&#8221;.<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>The campaign against Daschle in 2004 was unprecedented, the parties don&#8217;t go after each other&#8217;s leaders, and payback is deterrence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>McConnell has been the most obstructive minority ever, and he has no respect for the Senate.<\/li>\n<li>Mcconnel is consistently polling below 50%, and that makes him vulnerable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have no clue who to support in the primary, but I&#8217;m not giving money to the DSCC so that they can waste money Landrieu in the ethnically cleansed Louisiana.<\/p>\n<p>Whoever wins though, will go on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actblue.com\/page\/40yrs\/\">Act Blue page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McConnell is getting a number of opponents, with Bruce Lunsford throwing his hat into the ring, this gets him, &#8220;Andrew Horne and another wealthy candidate, businessman Greg Fischer&#8221;, all competing in the primary to face him in the general. This is a campaign Democrats should make a priority, for the following reasons: Payback for what &hellip;<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197486"}],"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=197486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}