I basically agree with Steve M. that the secret tape recording of Mitch McConnell’s opposition research isn’t going to hurt him and may even help him. In fact, when I read the whole transcript, I found it so innocuous and unsurprising that I wondered whether McConnell played a dirty trick on himself and David Corn just so he could play the martyr. Politics can be uglier than it needs to be, but the job of an opposition researcher is to dig up dirt on potential opponents. They don’t decide what actually gets used. The presentation given to McDonnell was a nasty piece of work, but that’s just the nature of the beast.
More interesting is how McConnell goes about identifying the mole at the heart of his political operation.
Serious questions: is McConnell teflon then? If a defeat of McConnell already an uphill battle for Dems, then our only hope is that McConnell gets primaried from the right and then the Dems have a chance against an extremist view?
McConnell is beatable. He’s very, very unpopular. Kentucky is a conservative state but it isn’t really all that much of a Republican state. It’s more like West Virginia and Arkansas, where we hold three out of the four senate seats and control the governors’ mansions.
Ok, so if McConnell did this, then why involve the FBI?
Chuck Todd reported that is sources concede that they did a “sweep” of their offices when it was questioned about the tape and found no bugs.
I don’t see David Corn and MJ being Breitbart-like and not fully researching who and where the tape came from.
I think the tell will be how far the Turtle lets the FBI investigation go.
Where do you think the tape came from? My guess is someone from Yurtle the Turtle’s inner circle.
I think so too.
But Turtle et al claim that all those in the room were “turtle-ites” and were cleared.
If that is the case, then using the FBI doesn’t make any sensee.
the FBI if they open an investigation will have to report what they found right?
If there’s a mole on his team, it would be a teabagger collecting stuff for a primary challenger. Or perhaps they didn’t notice a wait staff person that has a crush on Judd.
What I don’t get is how such an accomplished and interesting woman as Sherrill Redmon could ever have been married to McConnell. (She also happens to be a signatory to the Abortion Providers Declaration of Rights)
Yurtle the Turtle was once married to Sherrill Redmon? Really? That’s nuts on all sorts of levels.
And had three daughters — one works for Oxfam, another is a history professor and the third one is a nursery/elementary school teacher.