Louisville Courier-Journal: McConnell Tape Contents Are "Despicable" and the "Real Story"

[Drale]

In a blistering editorial on Sunday, the Louisville Courier-Journal, the largest newspaper in Kentucky, weighed in on the controversy kicked up by the Mother Jones article disclosing a tape that captured Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell and his campaign aides at a private strategy session laughing about using actor/activist Ashley Judd's past struggles with depression and her religious views as political ammunition, should Judd challenge McConnell for his seat. The newspaper derided the super-PAC that reportedly was connected to the tape, but it unloaded on McConnell, who is up for reelection next year:

The contents of the audio are as despicable as they are damaging, leaving Mr. McConnell unable to defend them. Instead, he blustered he was the victim of "Watergate style" bugging by left-leaning enemies and demanded an FBI investigation.

The paper, which McConnell targeted for a "Whac-A-Mole" offensive at that meeting, blasted McConnell for ducking the true issue at hand:

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/04/courier-journal-mcconnell-tape-despicable-judd

McConnell knows he's political career is over and a terrible person is going even more horrible

[hrmjustin]

1. Without a doubt it shows him to be the creep that he is.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. I don't think despicability is a disqualifying trait in Republican politicians.

Tom Delay. Darryl Issa. Darth Cheney. Newt the Grinch. (The rest of the list is left as an exercise for the reader.)

[Betsy Ross]

3. I agree

I wince when people say his career is over. I'm so afraid this is only wishful thinking on our part.

[leftyohiolib]

5. it is wishful thinking nothing will come of this

[Jackpine Radical]

7. On whose part?

Brevity is sometimes the soul of incoherence.

[leftyohiolib]

8. read the post i replied to

[blm]

4. Being truly despicable is a requirement for Republican candidates.

GOP strategists need to know their candidate will say and do the lowest things possible in order to maintain its mask and the lies the party runs on in every election cycle.

[cali]

6. Did you even read the LC editorial?

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But now, Progress Kentucky — a political action group formed by a few activists for the sole purpose of unseating Mr. McConnell — through its clumsy stumbling has played right into his hands, helping establish him as the victim he badly wants to be.

Democrats and Republicans throughout Kentucky expressed bewilderment.

Meanwhile, Mr. McConnell has masterfully diverted public attention from the offensive content of the tape — which is the real story here — to his outrage over how it was obtained. McConnell campaign manager Jesse Benton called the tactics “comparable only to Richard Nixon’s efforts to bug Democratic Party Headquarters.”

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He doesn’t need more help holding onto office from groups such as Progress Kentucky.

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20130414/OPINION01/304140002/Editorial-Regress-Kentucky?nclick_check=1

or from your link:

With his I'm-the-victim act, McConnell may have nudged the narrative in his favor, but he did not win over the Courier-Journal.