Posted on 05/17/2023 8:23:27 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Glad you spoke up. I'm in neighboring Tennessee and I was feeling the same way about Trump's success rate.
Would have been nice if the base hand funded their campaigns. They were left twisting in the wind - the base voluntarily decided to make McConnell’s statement they were of poor quality come true.
Well, I'm sorry, you are including races where they had zero chance of losing - like endorsing Brett Guthrie, for example. The competitive races that should have been GOP pickups in an off year election, the rate of success was much lower. They simply did not have fundraising support, and Trump could have done that with his vast contact lists.
Actually - yes. If the base continues to sit on their behinds and keep their wallets closed, that is exactly what has and what will continue to happen - and it is a completely voluntary action.
Yes, and the younger Beshear proposed the same thing in his own budget. Many prior Dem governors and Dem controlled legislatures underfunded and spent this money on other things - getting the endorsements of the teacher's unions as their funds were spent leading to total insolvency. No protests, no nothing. Then along comes the insolvency and the need to confront this avalanche - and they get mad at the people having to deal with this mess - not the people who caused it.
Were the victories of Kemp and Ratzenberger and the loss by Walker due to voter fraud in Fulton and surrounding counties? The Democrats may have been rewarding them for blocking any investigation of voter fraud in 2020. Defeating Walker keeps the U.S. Senate in Democrat hands. Also, keeping Kemp and Ratzenberger in office may prevent the MAGA wing of the GOP from taking over. Like Hogan in Maryland or Christie in New Jersey, the Democratic machines in the urban centers may allow an occasional Republican to win, to maintain the facade of bipartisanship even as these governors do little to thwart the leftist agenda.
Or Herschel Walker was a terrible candidate and Trump pissing off Kemp and Raffensberger alienated a percentage of the Republican Party which was enough to put the Democrat in office
MAGA doesn’t work if you can’t win elections by constantly dividing the party makes winning that much harder, Georgia is a perfect example
Nope, Trumps rate of success was very high even considering that the RNC sabotaged him. He endorsed about 200 candidates. Leave FR and go back to MSNBC and huffpo.
I don’t think it has anything to do with race at this point. I’m just saying historically Kentucky has a strong record of electing Democrat governors. Kentucky has grown increasingly red but still elects Democrats governor. It doesn’t make a lick of sense but it is what it is.
I work in higher education and through the Bevin years we took drastic cuts. My institution went from 250 employees to 180 in that time frame. All the while the public teachers cried like whiney two year old’s about their pension and we are not getting raises. We in higher education paid to shore up their pension with layoffs, steep budget cuts and no raises many years. My wife had several public educators who she was friends with on social media and she finally got to the point of not checking it anymore because she was afraid she was going to go off on these cry sacks moaning about pensions when her husband and others were taking job loses and real cuts.
The public school teachers still bitched about their pension when Bevin was trying to fix it. You couldn’t get it through their heads, you’re mad at a man who’s putting money into your pension and supporting the man who stole its son, are you stupid?
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