Posted on 08/15/2016 6:41:18 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
With most of the seats on the stage filled by Republicans, the name “Clinton” became akin to a four-letter word at Saturday’s Fancy Farm picnic as multiple speakers took turns bashing Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, an unconventional candidate who has courted controversy across the country during his campaign but appears poised to capture the state’s eight electoral votes, was rarely the butt of jokes from Democrats.
Trump was also scarcely mentioned by most GOP speakers, who instead mostly focused much of their national attention on Clinton.
Even state Sen. Ralph Alvarado, other than urging the audience to support Trump, spent most of his Fancy Farm speech as Trump’s surrogate criticizing Clinton on a variety of fronts, from her handling of terrorist attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, as secretary of state to her support of gun reforms and renewable energy.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who is fighting to retain GOP control of the upper chamber in Congress, mentioned Trump once in his speech, urging Republican supporters to send the New York real estate mogul to the White House to ensure a conservative U.S. Supreme Court and a repeal of the Affordable Care Act.
McConnell, like U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, spent some time trying to link Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Jim Gray with Clinton during his remarks.
Gray was the lone Democrat seeking or elected to statewide office to take the podium at Fancy Farm, the unofficial start to Kentucky’s campaign season. Democratic Attorney General Andy Beshear and Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes skipped the picnic to be with family.
“Jim, rather than campaign along Hillary in Kentucky, I think you’re better off joining the rest of your party in witness protection,” McConnell said. “… There’s a reason Democrats went from dominating Kentucky politics to being represented here by a couple of nobodies and a couple of no-shows. There’s a reason they had to import a North Carolinian to support Hillary Clinton.”
Paul, who didn’t mention Trump in his remarks before he was played off the state to NSync’s “Bye Bye Bye,” started his speech with a poem specifically about Clinton, with the first line, “How doth Hillary hate us, let me count the ways.”
“According to a new poll, Hillary has lost most of her support in Kentucky,” Paul said. “It seems to have gone because of her viewpoint on coal, but there’s still debate as to whether she lost these supporters or accidentally deleted them from her email.”
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Although the Clinton campaign’s selection of [ex NC Senator Kay] Hagan was a likely signal that they didn’t want to concede the Fancy Farm stage, Grayson said he was pleasantly surprised to see Republicans armed with signs for Thom Tillis, the Republican who topped Hagan in the 2014 election.
“As a Fancy Farm observer, I thought that was really creative and funny,” Grayson said. “Hey, welcome to Kentucky. We’re not going to hold up Trump signs. We’re not going to hold up anti-Hillary signs. We’re going to hold up the guy who beat you. Welcome to Fancy Farm.”
Hagan also twice misstated the name Fancy Farm and referred to Gov. Matt Bevin as Mark Bevin, something that Grayson and Erwin attributed to the novelty of the Fancy Farm environment.
In a normal, sane, healthy country, that would be the appropriate reaction to her, her politics, her personality, and her crimes.
But that isn't the way things are in this country.
Kentucky could have had Matt Bevin in the Senate instead of Yertle.
Info on the Fancy Farm Picnic:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fancy_Farm,_Kentucky
It is said the temperature at the farm goes up 5 to 10 degrees during the picnic due to all the political hot air :)
Then he wouldn’t be our governor...which he has been excellent at, by the way, and probably much more suited to his skill set to be a chief executive. He’s tossing a lot of cronies out and straightening things out. He has a very long way to go but he’s doing great so far. Unfortunately he has the son of the former governor who barely got elected as attorney general being a thorn in his side.
Wait, did McConnell say Democrat cronies need to be in witness protection. Lol, he deserves credit for that one.
Glad to hear that Bevin is performing well above expectations. So many once in office are just Demo-lite.
Fancy Farm is way to the southwest near MO.
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