There’s a tendency to scoff at “political negativity” by doing the historical reckoning with the harsh political rhetoric of the past.  See the supposed political attack ads of 1800.  Which may be a bit like pointing out that there isn’t really any golden age of civil liberties.

Yeah, well.  There’s some word play there at least, isn’t there?  Long winded thoughts and the like.  Today we just skip to the bottom line.

“I can be really brief tonight and just say, Mitch McConnell sucks,” Yarmuth said Thursday, according to the Washington Post.

McConnell campaign manager Jesse Benton called the comment “classless.”

“The liberals are coming completely unhinged,” he told the Washington Post.

To be fair the McConnell response than goes on at great length, with a reasonably partisan line of attack.  And 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”.

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

As for who they’re running in Kentucky– the Democrats… they’ll get someone out there, eventually.  And they’ll be plenty of time for positive feel good ads that add much more to the public discourse.

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