{"id":12113,"date":"2013-06-12T09:10:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T16:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=12113"},"modified":"2013-06-12T09:40:39","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T16:40:39","slug":"no-we-never-heard-this-line-of-attack-from-jefferson-or-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2013\/06\/12\/no-we-never-heard-this-line-of-attack-from-jefferson-or-adams\/","title":{"rendered":"no, we never heard this line of attack from jefferson or adams."},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a tendency to scoff at “political negativity” by doing the historical reckoning with the harsh political rhetoric of the past. \u00c2\u00a0See the supposed political attack ads of 1800<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0Which may be a bit like pointing out that there isn’t really any golden age of civil liberties.<\/p>\n

Yeah, well. \u00c2\u00a0There’s some word play there at least, isn’t there? \u00c2\u00a0Long winded thoughts and the like. \u00c2\u00a0Today we just skip to the bottom lin<\/a>e.<\/p>\n

“I can be really brief tonight and just say, Mitch McConnell sucks,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Yarmuth said Thursday,\u00c2\u00a0according\u00c2\u00a0to the Washington Post.<\/em><\/p>\n

McConnell campaign manager Jesse Benton called the comment “classless.”<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The liberals are coming completely unhinged,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he told the Washington Post.<\/em><\/p>\n

To be fair the McConnell response than goes on at great length, with a reasonably partisan line of attack. \u00c2\u00a0And this may be the point of the 3 word “Mitch McConnell sucks” line — Yarmuth didn’t just walk off the stage at that point, his speech finished, and the rest of his speech wasn’t reported; just as the response was clipped right off after “liberals are coming completely unhinged”.<\/p>\n

To be honest, I’d be much more sympathetic to a McConnell response of “I know you are, but what am I?”<\/p>\n

As for who they’re running in Kentucky– the Democrats… they’ll get someone out there, eventually. \u00c2\u00a0And they’ll be plenty of time for positive feel good ads that add much more to the public discourse<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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There’s a tendency to scoff at “political negativity” by doing the historical reckoning with the harsh political rhetoric of the past. \u00c2\u00a0See the supposed political attack ads of 1800. \u00c2\u00a0Which may be a bit like pointing out that there isn’t really any golden age of civil liberties. Yeah, well. \u00c2\u00a0There’s some word play there at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12113"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12115,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12113\/revisions\/12115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}