Some good news today—Mitch McConnell got a rather unfriendly greeting at yesterday’s Fancy Farm picnic. As he took the stage, and for the bulk of his speech, people were chanting, “Moscow Mitch! Moscow Mitch!”
WKMS, the NPR member for much of western Kentucky, caught the scene here.
In his Friday column for The (Louisville) Courier-Journal, Joseph Gerth predicted that Addison Mitchell wasn’t going to be able to run away from his new nickname this weekend, as much as he hates it.
Throughout our history, our politicians who have stood up to the Russians are the ones who have become heroes. Kennedy. Reagan.
We don't honor those who capitulate.
And if you believe this isn't going to come up repeatedly at Fancy Farm this weekend, I've got some ocean-front property to sell you in Severo-Yeniseysky.
Well, Gerth couldn’t have been more right.
The really telling thing? Western Kentucky is probably the reddest part of the state—even more so than the mountains in the east, which are more similar demographically to East Tennessee. That region’s vote allowed Jim Bunning to win a second term by the skin of his teeth. So if Moscow Mitch got this kind of a greeting now, Amy McGrath really could give him a run for his money. But will they get out and vote?