I fight fire with fire by keeping the commonly demanded link references ready to copy/paste into a reply. The holly makes everything better!
Re-re-re-reading my response, I noticed a subtlety I had not clicked on before that I thought I would share with xzins, if you really are open to discussion.
Trump's victory tweet to MConnell referenced "$'s". Not only was Trump congratulating the establishment GOPe guy, he was high diving over the prospect of more pork for Kentucky.
Very unlike a small government conservative, wouldn't you say?
In the headline section of his LinkedIn page, Bevin listed his education as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Further down his page, Bevin listed the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the top of his educational profile. Below that he stated he was a 2008 graduate of the Entrepreneurial Master's Program at the MIT Endicott campus. He described it as a "renowned executive education program sponsored by the MIT Enterprise Inc. Magazine and the Entrepreneurs Organization."
The presentation of the information was misleading because it suggested he graduated from an MIT-affiliated program, but MIT officials say it has no connection to the school.
Kate Anderson, the director of marketing and enrollment at MIT's Sloan Executive Education program said the program "is not an official program offered by MIT, MIT Sloan or MIT Sloan Executive Education."
"It is not a Masters program, certificate or any other kind of MIT program and does not bear any MIT credit whatsoever," she said.
She described the MIT Enterprise Forum as "an alumni-created network of loosely affiliated regional groups interested in entrepreneurship, not an official program of MIT."
"I am afraid the title, the venue and the involvement of the ‘MIT Enterprise Forum' ... are easily misconstrued as implying a connection with MIT which does not exist," she said.
I live across the river from N. Kentucky, and we share the same radio stations, so I got all the ads and news items on the Senate primary. McConnell was clobbering Bevin with the MIT error, then they turned to the cock fighting misrepresentation that truly was a mistake on Bevins' part. It became evident about this time that he'd lose. He and McConnell seemed to reconcile and then he was running for governor, although not McConnell's preferred selection. Surprisingly, though, all opposition against him was poorly funded and ineffective.
He made some good comments about helping out Kim Davis and he proved the polls wrong with a strong win.
All throughout, I was a Bevin supporter, although an Ohioan, so I couldn't vote. I knew he'd blown it during the senate race with the MIT thing, even though his explanation holds water, it doesn't match entirely the written profile and MIT's disavowal. The cockfighting thing killed him, though. That was amateur politics on his part.