How much money did the Democrats spend on this one, again? – Because I bet that, say, Bruce Braley wouldn’t have minded getting some of that. Or Mary Burke. Or Greg Orman, later this month:
U.S. Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes is lying about her support for the state’s coal industry according to Kentucky Democrats, including members of her campaign team, who were captured on a hidden camera video.
The video, produced by conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe, shows five employees of the Grimes campaign and local Democratic Party affiliates speculating that the Democratic challenger to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) is only professing her support for the industry out of political expediency.
Oopsie. I am amazed that there are people still in this business who will step on their own candidate’s message like these people did:
Executive summary: O’Keefe got a bunch of Democratic and Grimes staffers on-camera telling the world that:
- Alison Grimes is lying about her coal stance;
- She’s doing that because you can’t win statewide elections in Kentucky if you don’t support coal;
- Democrats, of course, don’t support coal;
- And Kentucky voters are STUPID stupid-heads for liking coal so much.
This would have destroyed Alison Grimes campaign, except that it wasn’t exactly alive to begin with at this point. It’s certainly not going to help her, though. To the point where Kentucky Democrats are probably thanking God right now that at least they don’t hold statewide elections in a mid-term year…
Via @lachlan.
Moe Lane (crosspost)
O’Keefe is promising more videos, on a national level. I guess from where depends on the answer to the question Where do state Democrats habitually lie about their support of the national Democratic agenda? Oh, wait, my bad: the answer is They all do. So, basically, the next one could come from anywhere – although, preferably, somewhere where there’s a tight Senate or governor’s race.
O’Keefe is simply a national treasure. I fear for his safety, for obvious reasons.
You read my mind, peg_c! A very brave young man, indeed!
RE: I am amazed that there are people still in this business…
You go into a campaign office and indicate that you are hesitant to vote for a candidate because of his / her lack of support for a particular progressive / conservative position and I almost guarantee the staff will fall all over themselves with similar assurances.
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But what I am amazed about is that Grimes is not aware of other acceptable ways of holding a rifle
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Well if you go to the NRSC they’ll say “you have nowhere else to go, I mean we know you aren’t going to vote Democrat, give us more money!”
Blatantly lying to your base is perhaps a more successful strategy, that and have a base that is dumber then a bag of bricks which the Democratic Party has.
There are actually two lies here, one to KY voters and that is Grimes is the pro-coal candidate. The 2nd lie is to the person holding the video camera in which Grimes and Dem operatives state that she will push for “green” which we all know she won’t.
If elected Grimes will blatantly refuse to push for green anything, and that’s because she isn’t an idiot ( I think) but at the same time she won’t be any more pro-coal then Mitch McConnell ( in fact she’d be decidedly less)
While she’ll as an individual be adequately pro-coal vote to satisfy the average KY voter, her party decidedly won’t be, and she’ll do nothing besides a mild protest to stop her party from ripping KY’s economy to shreds.
Interestingly enough the biggest hit against the Grimes campaign came from a conservative activist that Mitch probably doesn’t like and vice versa, as opposed to the vaunted McConnell machine. Score 1 for the little guy.