Mitch McConnell

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Addison Mitchell "Master of Disguise" McConnell, Jr. is the senior Senator from Kentucky, as well as the leader of the Republicans in the Senate. He is the longest serving Republican Senator from Kentucky ever. He is also a massive tool who will do anything and violate any principle for the sake of his party.[1]

Interestingly, despite the fact that he has risen to a very high office, he does not seem to have that much in personal ambition. When Trent Lott resigned his post as Senate Majority Leader, and McConnell was Majority Whip, he did not lobby to be made the next Majority leader, but instead let Bill Frist take it.

The only two issues that McConnell seems to be passionate about are flag desecration and campaign-finance reform. Contrary to his party, he believes strongly in the right to desecrate the flag, seeing it as protected under the First Amendment.[2] He is also fiercely against campaign finance regulation, feeling that it violates the First Amendment.

To date, McConnell has not been caught in any scandals. During his tenure as the chairman of the Ethics Committee, it recommended that Republican Bob Packwood be expelled knowing full well that Packwood's replacement would almost certainly be a Democrat. The most questionable thing he has done so far has been to campaign for the utterly corrupt Republican governor, Ernie Fletcher. However, none of Fletcher's scandals involved McConnell in any way. However, even in Kentucky the Republican brand is thoroughly damaged, and he had a tough fight for reelection in 2008.

He is considered ever-so-slightly better on gay rights than the rest of the GOP. This means, of course, that he is OK with the fact that gays exist and might, conceivably, hire one. Moreover, he is usually unwilling to use gay rights as a wedge issue in a campaign, unlike the erstwhile junior senator, Jim Bunning. That he is not as anti-gay as the rest of the party has helped fuel extensive speculation that he is, in fact, gay (Last election saw fliers photo-shopped to make McConnell into a member of the Village People. That the Democrats of Kentucky would use such gay-baiting tactics tells you everything you need about KY politics.)

McConnell has also vehemently stated many times that the Republicans' goal was to "deny Obama a second term." Not only has he failed in that regard, he also slammed him for supposedly not trying to work/working with the GOP.

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