Mitch McConnell: "The Delaware primary was interesting."

[ProSense]

QUOTE OF THE DAY....

There were several noteworthy exchanges between Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Christiane Amanpour on ABC's "This Week" earlier, but I was especially struck by their discussion of pending Senate races.

The host noted, for example, the Republican Senate primary in Delaware. McConnell replied:

"The Delaware primary was interesting."

Amanpour followed up by asking, "(W)hat is Christine O'Donnell's qualification for actually governing? What is Sharron Angle's actual qualification for governing?" McConnell replied:

"Well, they won the primary fair and square against real competition."

The host asked whether the Republican leader might be afraid that these extremist candidates' "some might say, bizarre statements, their sort of fringe quality might actually turn people off." Amanpour noted, in particular, Angle's talk of armed rebellion against the United States government. McConnell replied that it's Democrats who are "extreme."

The host tried one last time, asking McConnell would agree that some of this year's fringe GOP candidates have made "bizarre" comments. The senator replied that the question might represent an "attack" on the judgment of primary voters.

I often wonder how a clown like Mitch McConnell rose to such a prominent position in the first place.

[impik]

1. Mitch McConnell: I still can't explain why my head looks like this

[golfguru]

8. McConnell's answers were from a well seasoned politician

He is good at repeating talking points ad nauseum.

[napi21]

2. I detest McConnell but his responses were those of a

very experienced politician. Alway answer controversial questions with a non-answer. That way your supporters won't gt mad at you and your opponents didn't like you anyway.

[ProSense]

3. "Alway answer controversial questions with a non-answer."

Yeah, can you imagine a response like this from a Democrat?

The media would blast them from dodging the question.

[Drunken Irishman]

7. Right...

After he dodged the extreme question by saying it was the Democrats who were extreme, if that had been a Democratic response, they would've been pushed to answer.

[budkin]

4. "I'm not sure but I resemble a rotting toad."

[COLGATE4]

5. Looks more like a confused, nasty turtle

[harun]

6. Rich asking McConnell about people "being fit for governing". I bet even he laughed

on the inside about that. I mean the whole damn platform of people like him is that you DON'T GOVERN. You just complain about Liberals and make sure the super-rich get more rich and don't have anyone messing with them. He had to be thinking, "Well, they can't be much crazier than the rest of the GOP".

[saltpoint]

9. Recommended. The Delaware GOP primary was

interesting, alright. It was damned interessting.

The Baggers have roared up in the Stalinmobiles, parked them out front of the restaurant, and are proceeding to chow down in the booths, eating with their fingers and howling and slobbering.

Used to be such a nice family restaurant, too.

Castle would never have my vote were I in Delaware to vote, but nevertheless he was a better choice than the flibbertigibbet who defeated him. Polling showed him leading Coons and likely going on to the Senate, and then the Baggers came.

Mitch backed the GOP establishment candidate in Kentucky only to see Rand Paul crash the picnic. We could mention Utah, too.

The GOP establishment strategized a while back that to weaken the Democrats, they had to energize and mobilize the nutbags, the crazies, the fire-belching Fred Phelps-type lunatic fundies on social issues, with a view toward a fundamentalist Christian apocalypse in the balance. Abortion, stem cell research, gay marriage, and so forth -- all introduced as "issues" to political discourse, and entire campaigns advancing on these "issues." The number of mailers sent out by "concerned" citizengroups on abortion in the months before the idiot Dan Quayle unseated Birch Bayh (D-IN) in 1980. It goes back at least that far.

But you can't invite uncivilized nitwits and Stalinists into your nice family restaurant and expect the regular neighborhood customers to be repeate customers. Castle's voters, presumably the more moderate GOP vote in Delaware, stayed home. The nutbags for O'Donnell showed up and now a likely red pick-up is off the table. What a dirty shame!