I know a fair amount of conservative men (both Republican and Yellow/Blue Dog Dems) in KY. For some strange reason they're enthralled with the possibility that this may be their next US Senator:
What you say would be wonderful in a pure world but the thing you are missing is that McConnell is a democrat; you just don’t know it.
McConnell is a big government ruling class democrat surrogate who has infiltrated the republican party because he knows how to play the voters for suckers. If you are not convinced of that with the latest but typical antic of his debt ceiling vote, then nothing will convince you.
Voting for McConnell is worse than anything because he will occupy our party and vote with democrats or enable them to pass what they want. And voters like you won’t know what to do because you have no party to represent you; McConnell has taken your party and twisted it to his own ends. He will never be a republican in spirit anymore than Bloomberg was before he went independent.
You have to understand that Senate seats are for sale to the highest bidder and the ruling class has allowed McConnell and his backers to buy the seat with an ‘R’ because KY voters think they want a republican. If KY voters were more democrat you would see a similar character to McConnell buying the seat with a ‘D’. That’s the reality. You have no representation with McConnell so if you vote for him you might as well hang a sign on yourself that says “useful idiot”.
I know it is first order logic to want your team to win but when someone tells you that your team players have been bought off to lose and they offer solid evidence over and over again, you have to come to a point eventually where you think “this sucks”. But if we keep buying tickets for that team and cheering them on knowing they are going to throw the game, what does that make us? It makes us fools.
It’s like having cancer, you have a choice, you can die from it or you can die later from it. What you have to do is to realize there isn’t a choice given what’s handed you.
Most people in your situation are going to not vote unless they warm to Bevin. And Bevin needs to get that warming into high gear. Kentuckians should thank God they have someone that is republican in philosophy and who is spending his own money to make a difference.
And guess what? Two months ago Bevin trounced McConnell in a straw poll in an important county of KY. So what does that make this reported poll? I smell propaganda. I see how the ruling class tactics of programming our minds to think one way and not another is in full force. This is what money buys, a PR and media campaign to program us to a false reality.
Go to a barbershop in KY and listen to what the barbers are saying and what they say customers are saying. Then be one who speaks for Bevin.
“Go to a barbershop in KY and listen to what the barbers are saying and what they say customers are saying. Then be one who speaks for Bevin.”
My point is that you may be right on principle, however, IF your argument about reality and how it is expressed is, to too many voters, more Washington D.C. beltway kind of talk (over their heads, as far as “them vs us”) and it does not have any resonance with what concerns them locally, and someone like Bevin cannot convert it, translate it, into a framework of the local interests, then, as right as you may be, it does get enough mass voter support. And, as right as you are, and even if Bevin agrees with you (and me) it is up to him to find the arguments that will work, in order to win.