Mitch McConnell On RNC Fundraising Presentation: 'I Don't Like It,' No One Does

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) blasted the Republican National Committee on Sunday for producing a fundraising presentation that mocked the President and congressional leadership as cartoon villains and socialists.

Asked about the document -- which outlines how "ego-driven" wealthy donors could be persuaded to take out their checkbooks -- the Kentucky Republican called it "certainly not helpful" to the Republican cause.

"I can't imagine why anybody would have thought that was helpful," McConnell added. "Typically the way parties raise money is because people believe in the causes they advocate. I think the way we raise money from donors across America is to stand for things that are important for the country."

Appearing on ABC's This Week, McConnell was asked whether someone at the RNC should resign over the fundraising snafu, which was first reported by Politico's Ben Smith.

The Senate leader didn't take the bait.

"Well look, I don't run the RNC," he said. "That's up to them. But I don't like it and I don't know anybody else who does."

Comments

[dax49]

11:06 AM on 03/09/2010

fox still hasn't covered this story- wonder why?

[Pennsanic]

09:28 AM on 03/09/2010

McConnell looks like Beaker from the old Muppet Show.

[Navy26Yrs]

08:53 AM on 03/09/2010

I wholeheart­edly support the GOP's efforts to marginaliz­e themselves with their 30% base. Keep it coming RNC.

[indiethinker]

08:23 PM on 03/08/2010

"I think the way we raise money from donors across America is to stand for things that are important for the country."

Really? Standing for things like huge tax breaks for the wealthy & obstructin­g all efforts to achieve any meaningful health care reform? Demonizing the Obama administra­tion as socialist & soft on terrorism? That's about all we've heard from you & your Republican cohorts. But then running & supporting covert smear campaigns while publicly criticizin­g them has been the Republican modus operandi since Watergate, so why should anyone be surprised?

[capitaldysfunction]

01:24 AM on 03/09/2010

Are you saying that Mitch McConnell'­s attempt at self-right­eousness is phoney? Mitch also condemned his fellow Republican Senator Demint for suggesting that killing HCR will be Obama's waterloo. Of course, McConnell failed to mention he was the author of the obstructio­nist strategy that was designed to do exactly what Demint suggested. Yes, I would agree this bean counter-lo­oking Indiana politician is a festering sore on the body politic.

[Blitzschnell]

07:43 PM on 03/08/2010

He'd be all for it if he was convinced it would work.

[Timothy2700]

07:11 PM on 03/08/2010

That document was STRAIGHT out of the LEE ATWATER PLAYBOOK/
THIS SHOULDN'T SURPRISE ANYONE!!

[lagumbo]

05:39 PM on 03/08/2010

McConnell another in the closet gay who doesn't have the guts to be true to himself.

[Mark Twaine]

12:28 AM on 03/09/2010

So when he says, "I don't like it." He means, "I want some more of it!"

[okayigive]

05:39 PM on 03/08/2010

Just wondering, how can he blast the RNC for a presentati­on to donors when they have just put in print what many in the rep. leaderhip has been saying over and over again. Wake up America!!! To my recollecti­on it was people like McConnell who first pursed their lips in calling this administra­tion as having a socialist agenda. Remember terms like Marxist Agenda, Socialist Agenda, references to various dictators of recent years and inferring our country would be like theirs if Obama gets his way. Wake up America!!! He's only upset that informatio­n has been leaked about how they target anyone who listen to their foolishnes­s for donations. How can he talk about standing for thing that are important to the country when in actuality what he and others like him stand for things that benefit themselves­, or have become the decider of what is or is not important to the country based on personal ideology, beliefs and their politics while ignoring the voices of everyone else.

[irishinohio]

04:27 PM on 03/08/2010

Of course they dont like it...they got caught in a bad PR scandal...­.watch them change the subject

[seaddra10]

03:24 PM on 03/08/2010

"I don't like it"? That's the best he can do? Of course no one is blamed, it's the opinion of the RNC. The whole group would cease to exist if they were held accountabl­e.

Disappoint­ed in Democrats, but the Republican­s have nothing to offer me and probably won't if there isn't a fundamenta­l change in attitude.

[Genep34]

03:11 PM on 03/08/2010

so he says - of course he says he wants health care reform but that is certainly a lie

[enterhere]

02:51 PM on 03/08/2010

So skippy want to tell us what exactly do repubs stand for? Other than to take a leak on the American people.

[HHGodd]

02:34 PM on 03/08/2010

Here's how they play it: They know it's goig to get abrise out of the media and fire up the hateful majority of their base so they put it out there and then backtrack when it shows up in public.
Remember, the message is already out there and can never be unseen but the "apology" and "outrage" can almost seem sincere enough for people to think demonizing the President and other Democrats was not the plan of the whole lot.
Now, how's that for a conspiracy theory?

[clytemnestra slays]

02:16 PM on 03/08/2010

one of the few intelligen­t things he has said lately

[alice09]

02:11 PM on 03/08/2010

Anyone who has remotely paid attention could have written the powerpoint themselves­. Since January 20 Republican­s have been following the same approach they describe here.
An interestin­g question: what was the origin of the joker image? Republican­s want to tell you it came from grassroots spontanaei­ty but there's no doubt it was from the same great minds we see expressing themselves here.