English: Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell has the field to himself in his upcoming re-election bid. He has used attack ads to eliminate one possible opponent, actress and activist Ashley Judd. Seeing his approval ratings in the mid-thirties and fearing Judd for her name recognition and possible fund-raising prowess, McConnell wasted no time. Judd was given a taste of what a no-holds-barred campaign could be. Blasted for being a non-resident “Hollywood type”, Judd decided to sit this one out. Rumor has is that she will soon establish residency in Kentucky for a future race.
Now a group called American Commitment is running ads in the state urging voters to call our dear Senator and thank him for standing up for hard-working voters. The 501 (c)4 group has previously run ads against Democrats who supported ACA. McConnell “stood up” for voters by opposing the “carbon tax” which would have “raised more money for the federal goverment to waste.” No mention here of the brave fight he put up against ending the Obama payroll tax holiday. Because of course not a peep was heard from the dear Senator. He spent his energy in a mostly successful bid to protect those in his donor base from the repeal of the Bush tax cuts.
A page on the American Commitment site rails against Obama and his “war on coal”. Unabashedly pro Fossil Fuel, it warns of a “staggering array of anti-coal regulations” that will “shut down all coal-fired power plants in America.” This message is tailored to appeal to voters in the eastern part of the state. No mention of record low natural gas prices, which have done to the coal industry what the most onerous of regulations could not. Emissions in 2012 returned to levels not seen since the 1990’s due to the wholesale switch from coal to gas for power generation. American Commitment should salute the free market at work instead of hacking away at straw men.
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