The fact Bevin said animal cruelty laws are best handled at the state level is a non-issue.
However, the fact Bevin was stupid enough to go to a "pro-cockfighting rally" -- and not realize it -- means his campaign is DOA. No serious U.S. Senate candidate would be caught dead speaking at such an event. These types of blood sports were banned in ALL 50 states well over a century ago, and the only places left where anyone publicly lobbies for them to be legal are third world countries like Peru. Creeps who want the legal "right" to tie a couple of animals to a pole and bait them into ripping each other to pieces so they can bet money on the outcome don't deserve the time of day. It would be similar to a candidate attending a rally in favor of legalizing female circumcision and excusing it by saying circumcision laws are a "states rights" issue.
I suppose its better this happened now that if he had gotten the GOP nomination in an upset, and ended up like Todd Akins in the fall campaign.
I completely agree. Toss him onto the Akin-Mourdock-O’Donnell-Angle pile. While I wholeheartedly support the philosophies of the TEA Party, way too many of their supported candidates commit unforced errors that prove fatal to their candidacies.
One correction: cockfighting was not banned in all 50 states a century ago. It was legal in OK, LA and NM until a few years ago (and it still is legal in PR, a U.S. territory). The federal law in question covers the transportation across state lines of the animals and equipment used in cockfighting.
If I lived in Kentucky, I’d cast a protest vote for Matt Blevin all the same.
If I lived in Tennessee, I’d absolutely cast a protest vote for Joe Carr.
If I lived in Kansas, I’d lean towards voting for Milton Wolf, but I’m not certain of that. Pat Roberts isn’t a RINO, but he’s an establishment hack who has been in D.C for over 40 years. Also, Kansas is a strongly Republican state.
Bevin seems to keep going to meetings for groups that a smarter candidate would know better than to attend. Remember when Bevin attender that meeting of the John Birch Society?
Now, I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for Birchers, but they seem to have gone a bit kooky during the past few decades, and finding crazy stuff they’ve said of late won’t take Grimey more than 5 minutes of research. Bevin did not not show good judgment by speaking at their meeting (to put it mildly). But the most interesting part of the story is that, in Bevin’s attempt to brush off the controversy by saying that there were “mainstream people” there as well, he noted that the event was attended by staffers of both Senator Rand Paul and Congressman Thomas Massie ... i.e., the two Paulistinians in the KY congressional delegation (and two of only four Paulbots in Congress, with the others being Congressmen Amash and Bentivolio of Michigan). Oh, and the Rand Paul staffer who attended the meeting recently quit to join the Bevin campaign (despite Rand Paul “supporting” McConnell). This does nothing to quell my very strong suspicions that Bevin is a Paultard.
You could say this is a death blow but Bevin didn’t have a chance anyway. The CLOSEST poll done on this race had him 22 points behind McConnell. The fact is would have taken a top notch and well funded conservative to topple Mitch McConnell. Random guys who have never run for office before do not beat Senate leaders.
As for Milton Wolf, he’s a cypher and there’s no rationale for supporting him. Pat Roberts is no Lamar Alexander or a Mitch McConnell either. He’s a reliable conservative Senator, this not someone we need to be primarying let alone with some gleep who bases his entire campaign on the fact that he’s a distant cousin of Obama and a doctor, not a politician. I wonder if he has Doctor McCoy’s endorsement.