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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMcConnell: "I can laugh about "Grim Reaper," but calling me "Moscow Mitch" is over the top"
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/459747-mcconnell-over-the-top-moscow-mitch-nickname-effort-to-smear-me
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday vehemently denounced political opponents who have dubbed him Moscow Mitch, calling the nickname an over-the-top effort to smear him.
Its modern-day McCarthyism, McConnell said during a radio interview on Salem Media Groups Hugh Hewitt Show when asked about the nickname he received after blocking Democrats efforts to pass bipartisan election security bills. Unbelievable for a Cold Warrior like me who spent a career standing up to the Russians to be given a moniker like that.
"You know, I can laugh about things like the 'Grim Reaper,' but calling me Moscow Mitch is over the top," the Kentucky senator added, before suggesting that Democrats would "say anything and do anything."
"This is what were up against with the hard left today in America," he said.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday vehemently denounced political opponents who have dubbed him Moscow Mitch, calling the nickname an over-the-top effort to smear him.
Its modern-day McCarthyism, McConnell said during a radio interview on Salem Media Groups Hugh Hewitt Show when asked about the nickname he received after blocking Democrats efforts to pass bipartisan election security bills. Unbelievable for a Cold Warrior like me who spent a career standing up to the Russians to be given a moniker like that.
"You know, I can laugh about things like the 'Grim Reaper,' but calling me Moscow Mitch is over the top," the Kentucky senator added, before suggesting that Democrats would "say anything and do anything."
"This is what were up against with the hard left today in America," he said.
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McConnell: "I can laugh about "Grim Reaper," but calling me "Moscow Mitch" is over the top" (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Sep 2019
OP
No it isn't. It suits you perfectly, and you know it, otherwise it wouldn't bother you
smirkymonkey
Sep 2019
#4
The truth hurts. Obviously. The name is etched in your history, Comrade! n/t
Guilded Lilly
Sep 2019
#7
Initech
(99,915 posts)1. Suck it up, buttercup! There are no safe spaces in the real world!
You are a snowflake, Mitch. Deal with it.
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)2. From Brian Karem:
Brian J. Karem
@BrianKarem
I grew up with you in office in Louisville. The first politician I ever covered outside of my family. You are reprehensible. You are there for no one but yourself. You remain the worst of any politician I've ever covered in my life. You smear yourself. @senatemajldr
@BrianKarem
I grew up with you in office in Louisville. The first politician I ever covered outside of my family. You are reprehensible. You are there for no one but yourself. You remain the worst of any politician I've ever covered in my life. You smear yourself. @senatemajldr
Link to tweet
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,041 posts)11. Moscow Mitch is a spoiled brazhnik
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)3. What about massacre Mitch?
Since you won't protect any Americans?
Crunchy Frog
(26,548 posts)8. He'd probably like that.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)4. No it isn't. It suits you perfectly, and you know it, otherwise it wouldn't bother you
so much. You are the biggest lying, cheating, grifting, Russia-loving scumbag in the Senate.
The moniker is sticking to you for a reason. Nobody needs to make much of an effort to "smear" you. You give people all the ammunition they need. All they need to do is tell the truth about you.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)5. He can laugh about being the Grim Reaper?
So, millions of Americans suffer due to Senate inaction, and McConnell just laughs. But calling him a name? Merciful heavens! That's just modern-day McCarthyism! Wait is McConnell saying that McCarthyism was bad?
lame54
(35,141 posts)6. He even sold Cocaine Mitch merchandise...
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)7. The truth hurts. Obviously. The name is etched in your history, Comrade! n/t
question everything
(47,271 posts)9. Good. Getting under his skin
oasis
(49,152 posts)10. Moscow Mitch and his deplorable henchman, Leningrad Lindsey Graham
can both go straight to hell.
Johonny
(20,684 posts)12. He's sad because he's much more Beijing's Mitch...
MrsCoffee
(5,801 posts)13. How about we just go with Traitor.
That enough unMcCarthyism for him?