Ever since Borat tricked Barr into eating a “Kazakh cheese” that he claimed was made of breast milk, Barr has been wary of milk products, even quiet ones; I can only imagine his fear of milk that is louder than normal. Go Loudermilk!
BTW, with Karen Handel, Donna Sheldon and Tricia Pridemore each finishing third in the GOP primaries for Senate, GA-10 and GA-11, respectively, this will be yet another cycle in which no female Republican is elected to Congress from GA. GA never has had a female Republican in its congressional delegation, making it the largest state of the union fir which that is the case.
Like most Southern states, Kentucky has considerably more registered Democrats than registered Republicans -- and yet, it has voted consistently Republican at the Presidential and Senatorial levels in recent years. The primaries were closed -- that is, registered Democrats couldn't vote in the Republican primary, nor vice versa. So it is hardly surprising that the total Democratic vote was higher than the total Republican vote.
Consider the 2010 Senate primaries in Kentucky. Rand Paul won the 6-way GOP primary with 58.8% of the vote, and Jack Conway won the 5-way Dem primary with 44.0% of the vote. And note this well: a total of 352,275 votes were cast in the Republican primary; a total of 521,659 votes were cast in the Democratic primary. And yet, Rand Paul prevailed in the general election.
Returning to 2014, I suppose that if I were a Kentucky resident, I'd have voted for Bevin in the primary. But McConnell having defeated him, I'd be on Team Mitch this morning. This year, there is nothing more important than achieving a Republican majority in the Senate.
With Republican control of the Senate (I take continued Republican control of the House as a given), Obama becomes the lamest of lame ducks, a political nonentity. He'd play a lot of golf, which I'd much prefer to him signing legislation. Every Senate Committee, standing or special, would have a Republican majority. And Senate Committees are were bills are born, or more importantly, go to die. With a Republican Senate majority, the chances of running out the clock on a Supreme Court nominee by Obama, should a vacancy arise in the last two years of his term, would be quite good.
Not every Republican will meet the conservative ideal of FReepers, of course. But the larger picture is important. Vote for the most electable conservative in your primary. And if he or she loses, support the Republican winner if you can, based on the national implications.
Mugwumpery rarely ends well.