# McConnell vs. McGrath for Kentucky Senate seat! **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [July 9, 2019, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcconnell-vs-mcgrath-for-kentucky-senate-seat/836773 "2019-07-09T15:03:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![SmellMyWort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SmellMyWort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmellMyWort)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcconnell-vs-mcgrath-for-kentucky-senate-seat/836773/61 "2019-08-02T15:19:38Z")
NPR has been doing a series on McConnell over the last few days. > **[Mitch McConnell Has Long Argued For More Money In Politics](https://www.npr.org/2019/08/01/747368694/mitch-mcconnell-has-long-argued-for-more-money-in-politics)** > > Senate Majority Leader McConnell is one of the few politicians who argues for more money in politics. His stance led to a decades-long fight with Sen. John McCain, who pushed for donation limits. > **[A Look At The Power Wielded By Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell](https://www.npr.org/2019/07/30/746687036/a-look-at-the-power-wielded-by-senate-majority-leader-mitch-mcconnell)** > > Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is one of the least popular politicians in the country, and yet he has exerted significant power over the direction of the U.S. government. > **[What Mitch McConnell's Early Political Days Say About The Senate Majority Leader](https://www.npr.org/2019/07/31/747041518/what-mitch-mcconnells-early-political-days-say-about-the-senate-majority-leader)** > > Mitch McConnell's early political races provide clues on how he approaches politics, and how the Kentucky Republican ultimately ascended to the position of Senate Majority Leader. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcconnell-vs-mcgrath-for-kentucky-senate-seat/836773/62 "2019-08-02T15:22:43Z")
NPR does reach a lot of McConnell voters, don’t they? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcconnell-vs-mcgrath-for-kentucky-senate-seat/836773/63 "2019-08-02T23:28:32Z")
NPR certainly broadcasts in Kentucky, like Pepe le Peu pitches woo. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2019, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcconnell-vs-mcgrath-for-kentucky-senate-seat/836773/64 "2019-08-06T00:33:09Z")
[What a fucked up asshole.](https://twitter.com/AmyMcGrathKY/status/1158411295852511233/photo/1) Seriously, there are no words. Putting your opponent’s name on a mock tombstone. If only Kentuckians had the sense to vote against this sucker of orange cock. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2019, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcconnell-vs-mcgrath-for-kentucky-senate-seat/836773/65 "2019-08-06T00:42:46Z")
What do you mean? ‘Lowlife’ is a word, ‘vile’ is a word, ‘indecent’ is a word, ‘typical’ is a word… ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2019, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcconnell-vs-mcgrath-for-kentucky-senate-seat/836773/66 "2019-08-06T02:14:04Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > What do you mean? ‘Lowlife’ is a word, ‘vile’ is a word, ‘indecent’ is a word, ‘typical’ is a word… But those that we have previously called lowlife or vile or indecent pale in comparison to Moscow Massacre Mitch McTurtle. There need to be more profound words to describe the depth of his depravity. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2019, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcconnell-vs-mcgrath-for-kentucky-senate-seat/836773/67 "2019-08-06T14:54:05Z")
OK, then, “McConnell” is a word. And apologies to anyone else who happens to carry that surname. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2019, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcconnell-vs-mcgrath-for-kentucky-senate-seat/836773/68 "2019-08-06T15:17:35Z")
Perhaps at some point “Mitch” and “Donald” will be as unthinkable names for children as “Adolf”, “Benedict”, “Lee Harvey”, and “John Wilkes” are now. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2019, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcconnell-vs-mcgrath-for-kentucky-senate-seat/836773/69 "2019-08-06T15:22:54Z")
[Where have you been?](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-baby-name-popularity_l_5cd07cd4e4b0548b735e2aa2) > [@](#): > > Here’s How Much The Name ‘Donald’ Is Dropping In Popularity > … > Between 2017 and 2018, the name Donald fell 39 places, from the 487th most popular baby name for boys to No. 526 ― its lowest ever ranking in the annual SSA lists, which date back to the 1880s. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2019, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcconnell-vs-mcgrath-for-kentucky-senate-seat/836773/70 "2019-08-06T15:49:52Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > McConnell is a unique beast: a bwahahaha evil politician who brags about it and gets a twinkle in his eye when called on his bullshit. Not any more. It’s hard to see any twinkles beneath the sad tears he sheds when his delicate fee-fees are hurt by the name “MOSCOW MITCH”. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2019, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcconnell-vs-mcgrath-for-kentucky-senate-seat/836773/71 "2019-08-06T16:46:38Z")
I thought that was a teardrop _tattoo_, like you get if you’ve murdered someone. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2019, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcconnell-vs-mcgrath-for-kentucky-senate-seat/836773/72 "2019-08-06T17:02:09Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > What do you mean? ‘Lowlife’ is a word, ‘vile’ is a word, ‘indecent’ is a word, ‘typical’ is a word… “Moscow Mitch, Putin’s little…” “Mitch McKremlin, Russia’s little gremlin”? “Rigor mortis tortoise”? (From the Pit thread…) > [@Mitch McConnell in the Pit!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitch-mcconnell-in-the-pit/837681/79): > > How about a Moscow Mitch home made you tube song? > > At the very least, you have to give that you tuber an A for effort! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2019, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcconnell-vs-mcgrath-for-kentucky-senate-seat/836773/73 "2019-08-06T19:37:58Z")
When I was a lad, we were subjected to Civil Defense cartoons featuring a CD turtle offering us advice on how to survive a thermonuclear bomb. Steal that image and use the legend “Suck! and Cover!!”. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2019, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcconnell-vs-mcgrath-for-kentucky-senate-seat/836773/74 "2019-08-06T22:27:59Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > When I was a lad, we were subjected to Civil Defense cartoons featuring a CD turtle offering us advice on how to survive a thermonuclear bomb. Steal that image and use the legend “Suck! and Cover!!”. Or Suck The Coward, in Mitch’s case. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2019, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcconnell-vs-mcgrath-for-kentucky-senate-seat/836773/75 "2019-08-06T22:56:50Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > But those that we have previously called lowlife or vile or indecent pale in comparison to Moscow Massacre Mitch McTurtle. There need to be more profound words to describe the depth of his depravity. “Republican”. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcconnell-vs-mcgrath-for-kentucky-senate-seat/836773/76 "2019-08-07T05:06:14Z")
Just scratching a mental itch, I google what’s his net worth? I got 22 million. Naturally, I’m thinking modest living habits and shrewd investment. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcconnell-vs-mcgrath-for-kentucky-senate-seat/836773/77 "2019-08-07T12:13:47Z")
If Trump and McConnell lose, then I’m hosting a party, and you’re all invited\*. But seriously, Trump obviously has no place being president. Neither by ability nor character. But McConnell is just pure vile evil. He’s everything that is wrong with any political system. - - Offer not valid in this universe. ---
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcconnell-vs-mcgrath-for-kentucky-senate-seat/836773/78 "2019-08-07T21:57:16Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Just scratching a mental itch, I google what’s his net worth? I got 22 million. Naturally, I’m thinking modest living habits and shrewd investment. He married someone with an MBA from Harvard and a rich family. She’s dabbled in lower paying appointed political positions but has been the primary earner in the household between those periods. Then his mother in law died and his wife received an inheritance in the 5-25 million mandatory reporting band in 2007. From the Washington Post fact check when his 2014 opponent tried implying something more nefarious about his net worth and it’s rapid increase: > [@](#): > > In other words, virtually all of the increase in McConnell’s increase in net worth comes from his wife’s money, not his congressional work. I probably shouldn’t be surprised it’s coming up again. There are still people that question Obama’s birth certificate. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2019, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcconnell-vs-mcgrath-for-kentucky-senate-seat/836773/79 "2019-08-08T12:34:10Z")
How are the early Kentucky polls looking? Does McGrath have a chance? ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2019, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcconnell-vs-mcgrath-for-kentucky-senate-seat/836773/80 "2019-08-08T15:21:22Z")
McConnel’s campaign Twitter account was just suspended for posting protestors swearing outside his home. Interestingly, the account wasn’t suspended when he posted pictures of tombstones with his political opponent’s names on them. > **[McConnell's campaign suspended from Twitter for posting critic's...](https://news.yahoo.com/mcconnells-campaign-suspended-twitter-posting-211249646.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=1_14)** > > After sharing a video of a profanity-laced protest outside of McConnell's home in Louisville, the campaign's Twitter account has been locked out. > **[Mitch McConnell campaign tweets image of tombstone with opponent’s name](https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/05/mcconnell-mcgrath-tombstone-tweet-1448627)** > > The tweet was shared as details of the El Paso shooting were still developing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcconnell-vs-mcgrath-for-kentucky-senate-seat/836773.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcconnell-vs-mcgrath-for-kentucky-senate-seat/836773.md?page=5)