{"id":2015,"date":"2019-07-11T09:21:23","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T13:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=2015"},"modified":"2019-07-11T09:21:29","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T13:21:29","slug":"pioneer-aviator-vs-career-pol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2019\/07\/11\/pioneer-aviator-vs-career-pol\/","title":{"rendered":"Pioneer Aviator vs Career Pol"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Politician\u2019s Life<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, started his thirty-fourth year as a Republican in the United States Senate last January. Before that, he spent eight years as the Judge (Chief Executive) of Jefferson County, Louisville, Kentucky.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He started as an intern for Republican Senator Cooper of Kentucky at twenty-two, followed by law school, a very brief few weeks in the Army Reserve (medical discharge for optic neuritis) during the Vietnam era, and four years as a political staffer.\u00a0After a stint with the Justice Department, he ran for the Judge position in Jefferson County.\u00a0\u00a0He has, with the exception of a couple years in the seventies, spent his entire working life as a career politician.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pushing the Envelope<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p> Amy McGrath was born while McConnell was in the Justice Department.\u00a0\u00a0She grew up in Northern Kentucky, just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati.\u00a0\u00a0Childhood visits to the Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio,  inspired her to want to fly in the military.  As a middle school student, she discovered women weren\u2019t allowed to fly in combat.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She wrote her Senators (one was McConnell), and all of the Congressmen on the Armed Services Committee.&nbsp;While McConnell never responded, Democrat Congresswoman Pat Schroeder wrote back, encouraging McGrath to follow her dream.&nbsp;&nbsp;McGrath won a nomination to the US Naval Academy in 1993, the same year that Congress lifted the ban on women becoming fighter pilots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Graduating from the Academy, she took a commission in the Marine Corps, and became a Weapons System Officer in F-18 fighters.\u00a0\u00a0She flew fifty-one missions in Afghanistan, provided air support in Iraq, and, after corrective eye surgery, earned her pilot\u2019s wings.\u00a0\u00a0McGrath became the first woman to pilot a combat mission in the Marines during her second tour of duty in Afghanistan.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McGrath also earned a Masters Degree in International and Global Security Studies from Johns Hopkins University.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;She retired from the Marines after twenty years of service, ending her career as a Lieutenant Colonel.&nbsp;&nbsp;In 2017 she ran for Congress in Kentucky\u2019s 6<sup>th<\/sup>Congressional District around Lexington, losing to Republican Andy Barr by less than 10,000 votes or 3.3%.&nbsp;&nbsp;Barr won with 60% of the vote in the prior two elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Changing Washington<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Amy McGrath announced her candidacy for the Senate on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amymcgrathky\/status\/1148544945265020928\">Twitter<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I\u2019m running to replace Mitch McConnell in the U.S. Senate. Everything that\u2019s wrong with Washington had to start somewhere\u2014it started with him. With your help, we can defeat Mitch and defend democracy.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McConnell responded with a website entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/wrongpathmcgrath.com\/\">Wrong-Path McGrath<\/a> calling her an \u201c<em>extreme liberal<\/em>\u201d and\u00a0\u00a0\u201c<em>just another Washington Democrat<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0The website also claims that the retired Marine Lieutenant Colonel is \u201c<em>weak on border security<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Running against the second most powerful Republican in America will be no easy task, but McGrath announced she raised $2.5 million in the first twenty-four hours after her announcement.\u00a0\u00a0McConnell has virtually unlimited funds to match against her, so it will be a highly publicized campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McGrath has an additional issue.\u00a0\u00a0In 2016 Kentucky voted for Trump over Clinton by nearly 30 points, and he will be on the ballot in 2020.\u00a0McGrath&#8217;s key strategy will be to separate McConnell from Trump, citing McConnell\u2019s inability (or unwillingness) to pass legislation that helps average Kentuckians.\u00a0\u00a0In a CNN interview she said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;A lot of these things are being\u00a0halted by Senator McConnell.\u00a0\u00a0Kentucky is tired of the swamp and the dysfunction and people in the state don&#8217;t\u00a0like both political parties. Folks like Senator McConnell\u00a0who have been around for 34\u00a0years are not the answer.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Politics of the Senate<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Kentuckians will  make a choice for themselves and the rest of the nation in 2020.\u00a0McConnell, the self-described \u201cgrim reaper\u201d for any Progressive legislation, is the poster \u201cturtle\u201d for Congressional gridlock.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0His rating in Kentucky is poor; only 36% approve of his performance, while 50% disapprove.\u00a0\u00a0He is the most unpopular Senator in the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Democrats know that winning the Presidency without controlling the Senate is a prescription for future gridlock.  They need to recruit strong candidates across the nation.\u00a0McGrath joins fellow aviator Mark Kelly in Arizona in challenging Republican incumbents.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other vulnerable Republican seats include Cornyn in Texas, Perdue in Georgia, an open seat in Kansas, Collins in Maine, and Gardner in Colorado.&nbsp;&nbsp;Democratic candidates haven\u2019t solidified for those seats yet, but Democrats need to make a \u201cfull court press\u201d throughout the nation. This will not only increase the chances of Democratic wins, but also force Republicans to financially defend nationwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the Democratic Presidential race narrows down, hopefully some unsuccessful candidates will return home to run for Senate.&nbsp;&nbsp;O\u2019Rourke or Castro in Texas, Hickenlooper in Colorado, and Bullock in Montana would all be solid Senate candidates should their Presidential aspirations fail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Great Candidate<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Lieutenant Colonel McGrath is a solid candidate for Senate, with a great story, great experience, and realistic stand for her home state of Kentucky.\u00a0\u00a0She is the kind of Democrat that can win there, especially running against the \u201cking turtle\u201d of the real Washington swamp.\u00a0\u00a0She is exactly what the Democratic Party, and the Nation, needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Politician\u2019s Life Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, started his thirty-fourth year as a Republican in the United States Senate last January. Before that, he spent eight years as the Judge (Chief Executive) of Jefferson County, Louisville, Kentucky.&nbsp;&nbsp; He started as an intern for Republican Senator Cooper of Kentucky at twenty-two, followed by law school, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2019\/07\/11\/pioneer-aviator-vs-career-pol\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pioneer Aviator vs Career Pol&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pioneer Aviator vs Career Pol : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Democrats winning the Presidency won&#039;t be enough. 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