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Democrat giving response to Trump speech calls himself a Republican
New York Post ^ | March 1, 2017 | 1:57am | Max Jaeger

Posted on 03/01/2017 5:20:50 AM PST by tired&retired

The Democrat giving the response to President Trump’s congressional address Tuesday seemed to have forgotten what party he was representing — when he inexplicably called himself a Republican during his address. “I’m a proud Democrat, but first and foremost, I’m a proud Republican, and Democrat, and mostly, American,” former Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear said via telecast from a diner in his home state.

It was not clear why Beshear called himself a “proud Republican,” but the small group of supporters surrounding him did not seem to balk as he flip-flopped affiliations.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Kentucky; Parties
KEYWORDS: beshear; oops; trumpsotu
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I heard this last evening and couldn't believe my ears.
1 posted on 03/01/2017 5:20:50 AM PST by tired&retired
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To: tired&retired

What a fool.

Who thought a diner was a good idea ?


2 posted on 03/01/2017 5:24:31 AM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: tired&retired

“And man ... I’m stoned!”


3 posted on 03/01/2017 5:24:43 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Col Frank Slade

Who thought Jeb Clampett should give the response.


4 posted on 03/01/2017 5:27:51 AM PST by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: tired&retired

Just admitting that the Uniparty does exist.


5 posted on 03/01/2017 5:34:18 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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Democrat giving response to Trump speech calls himself a Republican

I watched just a little bit of that old geezer and thought "if the studio had a power failure, his life support would fail".

6 posted on 03/01/2017 5:37:35 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (0bama made Bush look great; Trump is showing him to be the loser he is.)
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To: tired&retired

The people of Kentucky are lucky to have Matt Bevin as governor and not this befuddled old fart.


7 posted on 03/01/2017 5:37:58 AM PST by Farmer Dean ("Do you want me to shoot,I'm rested.")
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To: tired&retired

I heard him on NPR this morning. He called Obamacare a great success in my commonwealth (Kentucky). That is like someone saying their new credit card was a success because within a couple of months they maxed it out.

Meanwhile, he thinks he was such a success. Here is his legacy:

Governorship goes republican. First time in decades.
The state houses went republican for the first time in almost 100 years, and BOTH are super-majorites.

Different people define success different ways, I guess. :-)


8 posted on 03/01/2017 5:39:55 AM PST by Mr. Douglas (Best. Election. EVER!)
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To: Farmer Dean

Bevin is turning out to be our own “Local Trump” but with better manners. It’s truly amazing what is happening to Kentucky at both the state and federal levels.


9 posted on 03/01/2017 5:41:46 AM PST by Mr. Douglas (Best. Election. EVER!)
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To: tired&retired

I like Beshear. He was a do nothing governor and he left the state in Republican control for the first time since The Flood.


10 posted on 03/01/2017 5:42:44 AM PST by JusPasenThru (SJW is the weaponization of compassion.)
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To: tired&retired

Someone gave him the wrong envelope.


11 posted on 03/01/2017 5:44:19 AM PST by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: Mr. Douglas

You folks in Kentucky are blessed to have a man iike him.Look what we have to deal with here in Ohio,a sore loser with attitude.


12 posted on 03/01/2017 5:45:05 AM PST by Farmer Dean ("Do you want me to shoot,I'm rested.")
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To: tired&retired
Russians hacked his coffee.


13 posted on 03/01/2017 5:46:51 AM PST by a fool in paradise (patriots win, Communists and Socialist Just-Us Warriors lose)
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To: JusPasenThru

Which Flood was that ?


14 posted on 03/01/2017 6:10:07 AM PST by katykelly
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To: Col Frank Slade

I was quite surprised they used an “old white guy” for their rebuttal. I am sure someone at the DNC wrote his speech, and he just had to read it. My take on using him and the “diner” was that they were trying to connect with the “working-class, rural Americans” that all went for Trump in the election. It was a pathetic attempt, IMHO.


15 posted on 03/01/2017 6:13:55 AM PST by NEMDF
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To: tired&retired

I listened to the old guy for about one minute. He was babbling so incoherently that he sounded like someone they found roaming the halls at a nursing home.

‘I’m a Democrat. I’m a Republican. I don’t have any idea what I am doing here, but I was governor of Kentucky, I think.’


16 posted on 03/01/2017 6:14:27 AM PST by TomGuy
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I demand to know why this guy wasn’t made the head of the dnc!!!


17 posted on 03/01/2017 6:16:06 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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To: tired&retired

Steve Beshear proved himself worthy of the praise of his fellow democrats. And he further distanced himself from Kentuckians. Watch the KY GoP response to Beshear.
https://www.facebook.com/kygop/videos/10154255333881975/


18 posted on 03/01/2017 6:30:35 AM PST by lakecumberlandvet (APPEASEMENT NEVER WORKS.)
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To: katykelly
Which Flood was that ?

Seriously? Look up "Noah's Ark".

19 posted on 03/01/2017 6:46:48 AM PST by nwrep
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To: tired&retired

This is what happens when you have no moral structures. You flop around trying to please whomever you think is listening. The democrats are truly lost. They have nothing but hate and anger to guide them.


20 posted on 03/01/2017 6:50:54 AM PST by raybbr (That progressive bumper sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
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