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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLipless Mitch: Obama's "priorities" should be higher than "picking on Fox News!" USA! USA! USA! USA!
Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), McConnell said he always loved the event "because conservatives are just simply more fun" than liberals. "There's a reason for that, by the way," he explained. "It's because we are always right. Now, the reasons liberals are always wringing their hands all the time -- you notice that? They always wring their hands all the time because they know we've got better arguments than they do. So, they spend half their time trying to convince people what's wrong is right, and the other half looking for conservatives to tear down or CPAC conferences to disrupt."
The Kentucky Republican continued: "You all know the liberal playbook. Here's how it works: Pick a target, freeze it, personalize it and then polarize it. But rarely have we seen those kind of tactics employed with the kind of zeal that we see today. The White House and it's lieutenants have made an art form out of the orchestrated attack. ... You know the drill. Expose the folks to public view, release the liberal thugs on them, and then hope the public pressure or the unwanted attention scares them from supporting similar causes down the road."
"The president seems to have forgotten that he was elected to lead all Americans, that he was elected to be president of the United States, not the Occupy Wall Street fan club!" he exclaimed. "I think the leader of the free world has better things to do than to dig through other people's tax returns."
"At a time when nearly 13 million Americans are looking for a job and can't find one, I think the president of the United States has higher priorities than picking on Fox News!"
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Lipless Mitch: Obama's "priorities" should be higher than "picking on Fox News!" USA! USA! USA! USA! (Original Post)
Amerigo Vespucci
Feb 2012
OP
It'd be nice if Turtle Beak tried putting the nation first instead of using projection... n/t
backscatter712
Feb 2012
#4
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)1. Your country thanks you for looking after it's best interests, Yertle.
MiniMe
(21,717 posts)2. Perhaps Fox News's priorities should be higher than lying about the President
brooklynite
(94,602 posts)3. Mitch, could you remind us of YOUR priorities?
Botany
(70,520 posts)6. Here you go; Mitch McConnell: Top Priority, Make Obama a One Term President
But this clip doesn't matter because Mitch was talking in front of the "hooting cracker crowd"
aka CPAC, who aren't bothered by things like the truth.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)4. It'd be nice if Turtle Beak tried putting the nation first instead of using projection... n/t
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,842 posts)5. We really are living in two parallel universes these days.