Matt Gunterman April 2nd, 2007

Sen. Mitch McConnell’s statements are getting more and more off the wall. I think the pressure and constant spotlight of the senator minority leader position really are getting to him.

He’s just making strange, strange statements as of late. First, there was his inability, after admitting the surge might fail, to articulate any position on what might come next. Second, there was his terrible performance in an interview yesterday when confronted about his shifting positions on the testimony of presidential staffs before Congress.

Now, we get Sen. McConnell so out of touch with Kentuckians that he seems to think that the desire to end the war in Iraq is only a majority position in places like liberal Berkeley, California.

What’s the problem here? Well, for months now, Kentuckians have been sitting around the family dinner table, the local coffee shops, and every where else people gather and they’ve been talking about this war.

And the consensus that they’ve come to is that the war’s just not a good thing. Our soldiers have done the best job they could with the inferior support and equipment that the Bush administration and Senator McConnell’s Republican Party have given them, but the task they’ve been asked to do — police a civil war for a decade or more — is simply not what the nation’s military force was intended or designed to do.

So, with this latest crazy statement, McConnell reveals that he hasn’t a clue that this debate has been going on among Kentuckians. After all, he’s only in the state to raise money with George W. Bush.

Well, Sen. McConnell, I think you have a lot to learn a lot about your constituency and their opinions over the 20 months.

And it won’t be pretty for you.

• 2008 KY U.S. Senate Race , Iraq War , Mitch McConnell , Senate Minority Leader , U.S. Senate
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