Posted on 05/29/2015 6:38:53 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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Good for Comer..
I’ve got to say good on McConnell as well - despite being primaried by Bevin for the Senate, he was one f the first to publicly congratulate Bevin and endorse him for governor.
Of course, that’s only a +1 vs. about a -1000 for McConnell, but hey, they’ll never learn if you don’t actually praise them for doing the right things when they actually do them.
I’d like to think the RINO wing is beginning to see the writing on the wall, like Gerald Ford climbing off the fence and actively campaigning for Reagan in 1980.
Kudos to Comer for taking the good path. Congrats to Bevin. Now, let’s get ‘er done.
If you had received the hit job mailings from GOPe/McConnell surrogates on Bevin that I did during the campaign you might have my attitude towards the Turtle. As in too bad he isn’t crossing 65 during rush hour.....at the speed of a turtle.
Can I prove they came from McConnell surrogates? No. But the Kentucky GOP establishment was behind them and I know very well that wouldn’t happen without McConnell’s approval.
Oh well. The job is now to get Bevin elected. After Brashear, I can’t stomach the thought of another liberal puke in Frankfort.
Good Job Comer!
Congratulations Bevin!
Comer has a bright future here in Kentucky. He’s really very young. But, seems to have a good grip on conservatism.
OUTSTANDING!!!! Now, what will Mitch do to sabotage this Tea Party nominee?
When the obamacare state exchange bribe money starts to get weaned away the state’s Medicaid program we are going to be up the proverbial creek without a paddle. Democrats of course only saw $$$ falling from the scraps of the Washington DC’s table and ran to it like crack whores to give them a hit. Whomever is elected is going to be facing a budget disaster.
I think he does. Jack Conway hasn't yet shown any ability to win big races.
I don't think Bevin would have had a chance if Jerry Abramson (former Louisville mayor, and Lt. Gov) had decided to run. But, he decided to move on up to Washington. So, the Governor race is wide open.
In state-wide races in Kentucky, I think ANY Republican has an advantage.
Other than Agriculture Commissioner, which has been held by the GOP since 2003, the other offices have been harder to win (Sec of State, won just twice since 1971, last in 2003 & 2007; Auditor last won in 1971; Attorney General and Treasurer both have not elected one since 1943(!)).
Nothing. Because Mitch McConnell is the arch-enemy of the KY democrats.
The hicks out in the country only vote Democrat. They won’t vote Republican, because great, great, grandpa wouldn’t. I know, I am related to some of them.
The votes are schizo. In KY, they’ll vote GOP for President, for U.S. Senator, for Congress, for State Senator, but vote Democrat for Governor, other statewide offices and State Representative. Once the GOP get the KY House and the statewide offices, what’s left of the Democrat powerhold in Frankfort will collapse like a house of cards. Same thing happened here in Tennessee in the last few election cycles. Outside urban locales, the Democrat party is dead in TN.
I wonder if Kentucky’s elections being held in an odd-numbered year, not in the midterms with most other states or even a presidential year, insulates it from the kind of anti-Democratic waves that would have blown the KY Dems out of power.
It would be delicious irony if at some point, Bevin gets to appoint the turtle’s replacement...
The legislative elections are held with the national ones, and it still hasn’t helped the GOP take the KY House, yet. If you had told me 20 years ago that Arkansas and West Virginia’s legislatures would’ve gone majority GOP in both chambers before KY, I’d have thought that was nuts.
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