The Kentucky Republican Party had its convention over the weekend, and the, um, star attraction was Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who left something out in rallying Republicans for November's election. What was missing? The Republicans.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is urging Republican delegates to focus on a single politician: Barack Obama.
McConnell focused nearly all of his speech during Saturday's Kentucky Republican Convention on opposing the outgoing Democratic president. Not mentioned were any of the potential Republican alternatives, who are embroiled in a nasty fight over delegates heading into a possible chaotic national convention this summer. "What is the fundamental argument our nominee will make? I think it is pretty much like this: 'If you are happy with where we are, if you think this is as good as America can do, then Hillary is your candidate. But if you think we can do better, by taking an entirely different path, you should be for me,'" McConnell said, speaking in the voice of the future GOP nominee without saying who that person would be.
McConnell is the second-highest ranking Republican elected official in the country, after House Speaker Paul Ryan, and he can't even utter the name of the Republican nominees for president. And it’s clear that seven years of focusing all his attention on fighting President Obama is a hard habit to break.