GOP Strategist Calls Alison Lundergan Grimes 'An Empty Dress'

[onehandle]

Source: Huffington Post



A month after Kentucky Democratic senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes pulled slightly ahead of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R) in the polls, Republican strategists seem to be sharpening their claws.

Brad Dayspring, communications director for the National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, called Grimes “an empty dress” in an interview with The Hill published Wednesday.

The insults continued from there. “Alison Lundergan Grimes seems incapable of articulating her own thoughts, and faced with questions, either directly parrots the talking points handed to her by [Sen.] Chuck Schumer or she babbles incoherently and stares blankly into the camera as though she’s a freshman in high school struggling to remember the CliffsNotes after forgetting to read her homework assignment,” Dayspring told The Hill.

"This degrading and offensive comment from McConnell's campaign team is appalling and he should condemn it immediately," Grimes spokeswoman Charly Norton told The Huffington Post. "It shows his team's true feelings towards women and continues his disgraceful pattern of not standing up for the women of Kentucky. From misleading Kentuckians on his votes against the Violence Against Women Act, to voting against equal pay for equal work, Senator McConnell has failed to lead on issues important to women and their families."


Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/04/alison-lundergan-grimes-empty-dress_n_3865060.html

[iandhr]

1. Are they trying to loose?

[onehandle]

2. The only explanation. nt

[mac56]

3. Exactly what I was going to post. It sure seems like they are.

[groovedaddy]

4. Their attempts to "whack the mole" appear to be mostly

just whacking off.

[warrant46]

14. Yes, can you say Condescending Drivel ?

[otohara]

5. They Are Quite Proficient in Name Calling

governing, not so much.

[Populist_Prole]

6. "First they laugh at you......"

"Then they fight you...."

Well, you know the rest.

[Treant]

10. Then they

vote your useless butt out of the Senate and send you off to pasture to do the Sunday morning TV shows in a desperate and ultimately futile search for relevancy.

[Populist_Prole]

11. That wasn't really what I meant

My post was a condensed Ghandi quote. Here is what he said: "first they ignore you. They they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win"

[Treant]

12. I know

I should have added "/snark" to that.

[Berlum]

7. the GOP War on Women malingers onward, as does

the GOP wars on science, honesty and integrity. What a pack of pathetic losers.

[Orrex]

8. As opposed to McConnell's empty rhetoric, empty head and empty soul

[Treant]

9. That'll win those valuable Women Voters

And they should reflect on the fact that somebody they consider an empty dress is currently polling ahead of the (arguably) fourth or fifth most powerful politician in the US.

Really, the comment doesn't say much for Mitch's capabilities, does it?

[silvershadow]

13. Happy to K&R so they can have their day in the sun with this story. Congrats, Alison! :)

If you think this won't motivate women to get out the vote, wow, I bet you'd be mistaken. I agree with other posters here, they must be deliberately trying to lose.

[tanyev]

15. This the same Brad Dayspring that was open to Sarah Palin running for Senate?

Oh, the irony.

[Arkana]

16. Open mouth, insert entire leg.

[davidpdx]

17. My response

Keep running your mouth. Sooner or later it's bound to sink you.