McConnell & Co.'s very thin and incompetent skin

Hilarious. Mitch McConnell's Paulite boy, Jesse Benton, goes on characteristic offense in the face of humiliation:

We've always said the Left would stop at nothing to attack Sen. McConnell, but Nixonian tactics to bug campaign headquarters is above and beyond.

That via New York Magazine's Joe Coscarelli, who also quotes Benton admitting that he and his fellow sissies at McConnell's headquarters are "working with the FBI.... Obviously a recording device of some kind was placed in Sen. McConnell's campaign office without consent. [This] will presumably be the subject of a criminal investigation."

What wimps. What weak-sister, thin-skinned wimps. One job of any competent campaign organization is to conduct routine sweeps for electronic bugs, the planting of which is less "above and beyond" than par for the course. Jesse Benton's shock in finding that political espionage has taken place in his establishment is just that, isn't it? Shocking. (And incompetent.)

What's more, isn't it the right that for decades protested in its law-and-order campaigns that a bit of Big Brotherly eavesdropping and wiretapping and illegal surveillance is really no problem if you've nothing to hide? And of course real Americans have nothing to hide or be embarrassed about, so what's the problem here, Jesse?

Comments

[Peter G]

I wonder which of his abused staffers had enough and decided to make a spectacular split.

[AnneJ]

I suppose it's the old It's Ok If You're A Republican thing again. If it is something the left did, well look where they learned it from. How do they know it wasn't an operative working for a potential tea party primary challenger? Quite telling that they choose to attack a WOMAN who did not even make a commitment to run for his job.

[Suzanne Holland]

Love your comment Peter G!!!

[Bruce Adams]

You would think that a series of mutual cavity searches would be an integral part of Republican team-building/ security enhancement exercises by now.