Posted on 04/25/2014 9:31:41 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The Tea Party candidate challenging Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to a primary challenge has been caught in an undercover video attending a cockfighting rally last month and there is evidence that he lied repeatedly about the event.
Matt Bevin, who is seeking to wrest Kentucky’s Republican Senate nomination from McConnell, and his campaign have said they thought it was a state’s rights rally he attended in Corbin, but in the undercover video from WAVE 3 News it’s clear what the event is about with signs supporting the legalizing of cockfighting. Bevin even speaks right after a cockfighting activist who explained clearly why they were: “For the sole purpose of legalizing gamecock fighting at the state level.”
The video emerged less than a month before the May 20 primary vote.
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Got to vet some of these T Party candidates as some are nothing more than political opportunists who will do more harm to the T Party movement.
Lol!
I was said cockfighting was real life’s equvilant to pokemon training.
I believe you meant to say a POST TURTLE.
Geez, is this the best the RINO Establishment can come up with?
Ad hominem to eliminate the competition...
So?
Pssshhhttt...this will win Bevin more votes in Eastern Kentucky.
Um,make that four of us.
Maybe he does, but he won’t be defeated by candidates who make bonehead campaign mistakes. We need to run smart candidates who won’t make these kinds of blunders, because all they do is distract from the important things. Look at all the time O’Donnell wasted in the Delaware Senate campaign answering questions about a stupid statement the press just picked up and ran with. It’s not enough to be right about the important issues of the day. In politics to make a difference you have to win, and a conservative today who makes bonehead statements or does bonehead things is going to be crucified by the ‘Rats and the media, more than they would otherwise.
The problem is that it goes against our character to engage in those tactics. We may have to do it, but it doesn’t come naturally to us, as it does the other side. We want to win on ideas and reason and logic and character and integrity. The trouble is, the ‘Rats don’t, they just want to win, any way possible. So we’re starting at a disadvantage in that we don’t naturally play dirty. But there comes a time when you just have to give it back to the bully and tormentor in equal or greater measure, because in politics you have to win office to effect your ideas. Howling in the wilderness generally doesn’t effect change.
Sort of like their human gender counterparts, I guess.
McConnell is a hard core, visciously nasty, campaigner.
So don’t think of this so much as him being in trouble (I’d contend he isn’t) as doing something straight out of Enders Game: trying to so thoroughly obliterate an opponent to not only render that opponant unviable as a future candidate but also send a clear message to future challengers about the statement that if you’re going to take a shot at the King, you better damn well kill him.
McConnell loves his Senate seat. I have little doubt that he’ll go after Grimes just as visciously as he has Bevin and Ashley Judd ...
“The problem is that it goes against our character to engage in those tactics”
Then I issue the following thought experiment:
OK, I will stipulate that it goes against our character to so engage. But it does not go against our character to observe the overwhelming success of such tactics.
Now, that the previous sentence is just one sentence does not mean it is so pat. Eg;
It is within our character to “observe”, meaning, it is within our character to not approach situations with preconceived notions and attempt to force reality into our preconceptions. There are dozens of easy examples for this one. We do not believe in Global Warming just because our armpits stink on Thursday. We do not believe in overwhelming white racism even if we see overwhelming examples of Black ghettoization because all of us have multiple experiences that lead us to believe that whatever ideas we may have are more than slightly justified. Same with Islamic extremism. Same with Socialism.
Now to the “overwhelming success” part of that sentence.
So although we may be keen observers of tactics or mandates that appear to be massively successful, that we do not engage in them is....stupid. That we are unwilling to adapt our tactics and strategies is....a loser.
And so, should we continue in this state of, yes, being keen observers of all kinds of stuff that works but be unwilling to adapt our own behaviors to incorporate those winning tactics, then we are doomed to failure. We’re wrong about being smarter, or thinking that it matters. We are letting inferior opponents overwhelm us and win elections. Maybe we can get them to spend lots of money, but they win, they therefore aggregate continued contribution, and we lose.
And that is the choice we make.
Before 350 idiots jump on me and claim that this observation makes me a practicing abortionist or a Jeb Bush supporter, doesn’t this crap get old?
o yes also what I found funny that 13 years ago when the last time I raised chickens. We had miniature chickens. OMG me and my father laughed because the Hens did not allow the roosters to rule over them. The Hens would chase after the rooster while he is trying to escape them. I’m like ok who rules this group. My father said “the Hens” lol. Just amazing how much you can learn from animal behavior.
Then you see my point.
That we do not engage in any such shenanigans is really a triple-whammy, if you think about it.
First, our candidates are made to look like goofballs and Alinski’ed into making follow-up goofs and follow-up goofs and pretty soon the whole party is branded as goofball. Tell me this isn’t an ongoing, every-day effort that is overwhelmingly successful. War on Women. Hate Blacks. Only for the Rich. Every stupid bumper sticker that’s ever been printed, works, because there’s never a counter.
Second, we are consistently thrown into a defensive mode from which all manner of goofy statements are made. Todd Akin. Christine O’Donnell. It is not my suggestion that every one of our candidates has to go through a 21-day intensive North Korean media-conditioning exercise (although it wouldn’t be the worst idea I’ve heard) because frankly, there are perfectly viable candidates from flyover country who are...well, hicks, and that’s fine, their constituents are hicks, and that is great. Those folks should damn well want their representatives to be one of them versus the polished turds the other side seems to have an endless supply of. It is not possible to prevent any and all gaffes, but the other side is the only ones actively trying to induce them and actively working to exploit them. We forgive the other side when they make their outrageous statements and move on. Fifteen minutes later the next dirtbomb gets thrown at us.
Third, the continued and virtually uninterrupted success of these tactics does nothing if not encourage the other side to keep using them. If, every time you took on an opponent, your left hook knocked them out, would you get bored using your left hook? The left spends loads of money getting this crap out, but we let them use the same tactics over and over and do not give them the opportunity to destroy themselves having to come up with newly-minted sleaze. They get to stick adhesive labels with new candidate names on the same hit pieces they were using in 1996. It’s embarassing and appalling to fall victim to such cheap shots but who can blame them for reusing what works?
So it’s just flaming stupid to keep losing to stupidity, that’s all I am saying, and if people are to be judged by their actions, then we are being stupid. It’s a tautology. Good decisions are being *not made* because people with the smarts to see an opening have no confidence that the machine behind them will act with deftness, and those with integrity aren’t all that interested in seeing their reputations smeared. We are cooperating in our own extinction. It is our own meek behavior which is causing these sleazeball tactics to be repeatedly used and used successfully, entirely to our detriment.
LOL! Indeed, chickens are one of the most fascinating animals on the planet. My Dad had a pet hen who really sucked up to him. She’d hop on the fence and talk to him and gently pull at his pant cuff if he ignored her. She knew what she was doing because she remained alive after all the others in her group quite laying and went to stew pot heaven. It was a sad day when she succumbed from old age.
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