McConnell Seeks to Defuse Cultural Hot Buttons

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McConnell Seeks to Defuse Cultural Hot Buttons

July 4, 2022 at 6:00 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 125 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2022/07/04/mcconnell-seeks-to-defuse-cultural-hot-buttons/

"SNIP......

NBC News: “The Kentucky Republican’s goal is to downplay the contentious issues on which suburban voters may be more sympathetic to Democrats — including gun restrictions, abortion rights and former President Donald Trump’s lies that the 2020 election was stolen — to soften the GOP’s image with this group of voters ahead of the midterm elections.”

“A Republican leadership aide familiar with McConnell’s thinking said he wants to make the 2022 midterms a referendum on President Joe Biden, hoping that disenchantment over inflation and gas prices will power the GOP back into the majority.”

Said the aide: “Not about Trump. Not about guns. Not about abortion. But about the things that are really keeping people up at night.”

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[kimbutgar]

1. You can't make a sows ear and say it's a silk purse.

[Bayard]

2. Blarp

[bluecollar2]

3. Actually...

Trump, gun violence and human rights do keep me up st night asshole!

[Ohiya]

8. Just what Iwas going to say!

[crickets]

22. You read my mind. nt

[GoCubsGo]

4. Too late, Mitchy!

It already blew up in your face, and you're just to stupid to realize it. You are past the point where you can "downplay" this. Real 10-year-olds are being refused abortions after being impregnated by their uncles. And, real people are getting getting mowed down at fucking July 4 parades. We ALL know who owns this shit, and no amount of "softening" is going to fix that. If you don't think that kind of stuff keeps people up at night, then you are even more fucking deluded than we all thought.

[electric_blue68]

10. Preach!!!

Oh, sooooo well said!



It's certainly raised my level of misery at times.

[Phoenix61]

5. I think the prospect of being gunned down while

breathing or trying to figure out how to get your 16 year old-daughter the reproductive health care she needs or what to tell your students when they ask why you took your wedding photo down etc keeps people awake at night.

[Hekate]

6. Too late, jerk. You created a lot of this mess.

[bronxiteforever]

7. Every state & local election is about reproductive rights

That is what Dodds did. That is what gun decision did.
This is now a 50 year battle for reproductive rights and it is never going to go away.

[MyOwnPeace]

9. Sadly, I can see his 'idea' working..........

too many people had already turned their backs on the 'dirty deeds' of IQ45, as well as those same 'dirty deeds' of the 'Pukes.' They're pizzed at paying $5 for gasoline and listen when the Pukes say it's Joe's fault.
I don't think 'tRump' will ever win again (even if he runs from his jail cell), but I DO think we need to be serious about GETTING OUT THE VOTE for these mid-terms.
And in STATES, too! My GAWD, Texas, how can you continue to have Senators, Congressmen, as well as a Governor, Lt. Governor, and AG that are as amazingly un-American as that? (not to pick on Texas - heaven knows all-too-many states have similar problems!).
We HAVE to get more majorities in state capitols and chambers.
We MUST get majorities in both the House AND Senate- the ONLY way that Joe can get done what he has tried to do to rescue us from our nightmare of "IQ45!"

[FalloutShelter]

11. You keep us up at night

You asshole! You and all the soulless that follow you and the worthless skin suits you put on the court.

It’s not about divisive issues! It’s about REPUBLICANS. In the words if Liz Cheney, “ YOU FUCKING DID THIS!”

[bdamomma]

20. Mitch

has a lot of blood on his hands.

[Novara]

12. Yeah, that's pretty funny, because the GOP is ALWAYS all about cultural grievance

[madinmaryland]

13. That is exactly what keeps me up at night, Moscow Mitch.

tRump,guns,womens rights, voting rights are what keep people up, Moscow Mitch.

[dalton99a]

14. MoscowMitch needs to acquire a fatal and painful disease

[PortTack]

15. What the aide said..that's everything that does keep me up at night..what an idiot!

[PlanetBev]

16. How does that bumper taste, Mitch?

The car you’ve been chasing for the last 40 years doesn’t taste quite as good as you thought it would, does it?

[hatrack]

17. Senator Soulless Void (R-KY) wants to "pivot"

Good luck with that, you treasonous piece of shit.

[CatWoman]

18. good luck with that, Mitch

[yardwork]

19. TOO LATE.

[Silent3]

21. Downplay the issues, not change what the GOP intends to do about those issues

This is the kind of lazy just-repeat-the-press-release reporting where the media blithely enables propaganda.

[Tree Lady]

23. I wonder how many women are up at night

Worried about getting pregnant or their kids getting shot at school or in the streets

He is gaslighting, lying and more.