Last week, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, who is up for reelection in 2014, was the target of what appears to be a coordinated liberal smear campaign. Such partisan teamwork is certainly not unprecedented or exclusive to the Left. However, the recent activity warrants some additional scrutiny of the various groups involved.
Within a span of several hours last Tuesday, the following occurred: Left-leaning polling group Public Policy Polling (PPP) released a Kentucky Senate poll showing a number of state Democrats “within striking distance” of McConnell, the pro-Democratic Senate Majority PAC launched a microsite targeting “Beltway Mitch,” and the liberal magazine Mother Jones published an audio recording of a McConnell campaign meeting, which appears to have been obtained secretly (and possibly illegally) by individuals with ties to Progress Kentucky, a left-wing super PAC that had previously come under fire for posting racist tweets about McConnell’s wife. Mother Jones followed up its original story with an item suggesting that McConnell may have violated Senate ethics rules, after top officials with the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee raised the issue on Twitter.
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