Bluegrass Poll: Gaining momentum, McConnell holds 4-point advantage over Grimes

Lexington Herald-Leader ^ | August 30, 2014 | Sam Youngman

[Republican Wildcat]

The re-election campaign of U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has gained momentum in the last month, propelled by huge leads over Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes in Western and Eastern Kentucky and among men, according to a new Bluegrass Poll.

With less than 10 weeks until Election Day, the poll of 569 likely voters shows McConnell with a 4-point lead over Grimes, up from a 2 point margin a month ago. McConnell now leads Grimes 46 percent to 42 percent...

[ROCKLOBSTER]

You left out the House of Representatives.

Why, are they in the Senate too?

I see liberal republicans (which you call, incorrectly, RINOs)...They are normal, regular republicans, in deed and in name...They are liberal.

But Republicans are conservative, can't you read?

The Republican Party of Kentucky is committed to growing our party, advocating common sense, conservative principles, working to elect Republicans at every level of government, and putting Kentucky back on the right track.

OUR HISTORY

The Republican Party began taking form among anti-slavery activists who opposed the extension of slavery in western territories of the United States. Republicans ran their first presidential candidate in 1856, and Republicans first won the presidency in 1860 when Abraham Lincoln, who was born in Hardin County, was elected.

Just as the Republican Party was founded on the idea that all men are created equal, Republicans were at the forefront of advocating for women’s suffrage. In 1896, the Republican Party was the first major political party to support extending the right to vote to women. Margaret Park of Bardstown and Minerva Embry Allen of Fayette County, among others, fought for women's suffrage and were active in their local Republican organizations.

Throughout the 20th century, Republicans candidates in Kentucky ran and won on platforms of rooting out corruption in government, reducing wasteful government spending, balancing the budget, and promoting economic growth and prosperity. Republican candidates in Kentucky continue to promote those core values, and our Party continues to grow as our message continues to resonate with Kentuckians who want common sense, conservative solutions.

Anything in there you don't like? You don't think RINOs wrote that do you?

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Yeah, so was David Duke.

[JRandomFreeper]

Republicans aren't conservative. I don't care what lies got written where.

Romney, who you supported was a pro-abortion, pro-amnesty, anti-gun, socialized medicine, big government liberal hack.

And he was a republican that you insisted that I vote for.

/johnny

[JRandomFreeper]

Did you demand people vote for David Duke? Here on FR?

I'm fairly sure I would remember that, and you would be zotted.

John McCain is republican. Like you. Registered and everything.

Give up liberal republicans. They don't do anything for you, and cost you so much grief.

Come to the conservative side, and work to keep babies alive, borders secure, the 2nd Amendment safe from encroachment, and eschew socialized medicine and big government.

/johnny

[JRandomFreeper]

Talk, talk, talk. You can get more from politicians than rhetoric and platitudes.

You can get freedom, if you can scare the bastards badly enough by depriving them of votes.

/johnny

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Well sweet talker, you've just called a third of Kentucky voters liars, and another third are RATs.... So where did you plan to get your support?

Another election...lost.

[JRandomFreeper]

Nope. You don't get to put words in my mouth.

You'll do anything to avoid that John McCain is a registered Republican, just like you, and you voted for him.

And so is Romeny, and you demanded that others vote for him.

/johnny

[JRandomFreeper]

And another election lost for who?

Republicans?

/johnny

[INVAR]

Well, it's a little over the top, you comparing the GOP to GOD (well, they have three letters and "GO" in common)

You have a reading comprehension problem. We were discussing principles. You said that 'my' principles (Conservative) 'elect' Democrats if I do not vote for the guy - (even if he is a liberal Statist) with an 'R' after his name.

I said: Your stupid assertion is like trying to tell a Christian that his obedience to God and refusal to sin helps Satan.

I was not comparing the GOP to God. I was making an analogy about being beholden to principles and that to compromise those principles is akin to sin.

But in that sense, it's more like trying to tell a Christian that his disobedience to God and willingness to sin helps Satan.

You got it bass ackwards pal, unless you want to establish the analogy that disobedience to God is akin to not voting for the GOP candidate, which in your estimation helps Satan.

[JRandomFreeper]

Republicans aren't generally conservatives.

I don't care what BS anyone writes.

You can call a tail a leg, but the dog still has 4 legs.

And when was that undated crap written? You left out attribution and date, liberal that you are.

/johnny

[JRandomFreeper]

Any man that has to lie to himself and say that John McCain is a Democrat, when John McCain is actually a republican is pretty far gone into self-delusion.

Facts and reason aren't going to matter much.

/johnny

[INVAR]

I suppose not.

The idea that the GOP has always been a Conservative party flies in the face of it’s own history. Reagan was the one to give Conservatives a home there, but the Ruling Class even then did everything it could to stop Reagan.

Fixing what ails us is not going to come from anything having to do with the mainstream parties or from within corrupted institutions.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

And when was that undated crap written? You left out attribution and date, liberal that you are.

Well, I'm no liberal, noobie, but why don't you try taking a look at the Kentucky Republican website? I can see it from my house. ...Right here at:

RPK.org

You can also see the Republican Platform, written by the good honest hard-working people of Kentucky.

Aw geez, they're anti-amnesty...damn liberals

And look at that...they want to preserve and protect "traditional marriage" freaking atheists.

What's this...The bastards want to repeal Obamacare.

%^&*^#!, THE ANIMALS oppose embryonic stem-cell research and RU-486!

Oh-MY-GOD!...They talk about God...and the "sanctity of life" THEY'RE PRO-LIFE! What a bunch of liberal RINO moonbats!

[ROCKLOBSTER]

You two talk amongst yourselves...

I have an important game of free-cell coming up, and have to go to bed since I have to get up and go to work in the morning.

[JRandomFreeper]

What they wrote was false. Maybe hopeful, as you are, but false.

The republican party doesn't stand for conservative values.

If it did, the republican Senate minority leader wouldn't have made sure Harry Reid had the cloture votes he needed to get amnesty, removal of the debt limit, and funding of obamacare.

That's what the republican party, as represented by it's leadership, stands for.

You get to own what they do.

And you sure do seem to hate being held to account for it.

/johnny

[JRandomFreeper]

If you vote for a liberal republican, you ARE a liberal.

/johnny

[JRandomFreeper]

You aren't the only one that works. Others do to. Some just don't punch clocks to someone else's schedule.

/johnny

[ROCKLOBSTER]

What they wrote was false.

There you go again, calling your own conservative neighbors liars.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

That's what the republican party, as represented by it's leadership, stands for.

How the hell did you come up with that whacked out idea? The RINOs betrayed the people. Get a clue.

[JRandomFreeper]

It's false. Characterize that how you want. You're trying to 'score points'. I'm trying to get rid of liberal republicans.

You'll get a warm feeling of 'being right'.

I'll get the satisfaction of knowing that the liberal bastard has to find another job.

/johnny