On Tuesday night, he certainly had the last laugh, and to his credit, he declined to take it, calling instead for unity in addressing the challenges facing Kentucky.
Bevin’s win can also be seen as a warning sign for national Democrats.
Conway was an experienced public servant who ran a gaffe-free campaign while raising significantly more money than Bevin did.
Bevin was an outsider, a Tea Party favorite with limited knowledge about state government and a habit of unnecessary confrontation.
None of those things mattered in the end.
Ultimately, the political environment was exactly what we thought it would be when Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis went to jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
And it’s difficult to imagine that President Barack Obama didn’t loom large over this race as he did last year.
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At least one Democrat was still optimistic Tuesday night.
House Speaker Greg Stumbo acknowledged that “it was a night that some of us didn’t see coming.”
“But there is a dawn tomorrow,” Stumbo said.
He’s right about that in the literal sense. But after Tuesday night, it certainly looks like a red dawn.
And this talk of ‘unity’ with our domestic blood enemies, our greatest enemies, is worrying. Is he a faker? Is he stupid enough to not understand that ‘compromising’ with “Liberal”(commie) trash always means moving in their direction?
When you dance with the devil…
And this ‘red state’ crap is disgusting propaganda created by commie newswhores to hide their evil. The commie states should be red. I have an old clipping from the Liberalville commie journal from the 50s that calls the Chinese army ‘reds.’ How strange that now ‘conservative’ republicans are labeled such. It’s not strange, but expected. The evil trash in the mainstream news media always lie about what they are and always pretend to be opposite of what they are. Free speech is only useful to the trash as long as it furthers their agenda.
And this is ‘Red Dawn’:
FK – Only there was probably never any real chance of a military invasion. Our commie enemies were here from the 19th century and infiltrated every segment of our society. Rooting them out may involve a similar scenario…
FK – Dumbo is a long recognized moron here in Kentucky. Let’s hope the election really means something and the sheeple didn’t just hire a bunch of RINOs.
(This was written yesterday afternoon before the election results were known. That doesn’t really change anything. Let’s hope our new republican elected public servants work to restore Liberty and the Bill of Rights here. In the meantime history shows we should prepare for business as usual.)
Earlier today I actually stopped at the entrance to the church parking lot where two local precincts share a polling place.
I had to sit there, in the two-lane highway, for a few seconds before I finally decided I was hungrier for lunch than for democracy. Another excuse is that my eyes were dilated from a visit to an optometrist.
But those weren’t the reasons.
I’ll plead guilty to not being informed enough about some of the candidates. But unless you can find out their voting records, all their affiliations and donors, then strap them down and administer truth serum and a lie detector test what do we really know about any of them anyway? Their campaign ads, speeches and so-called debates don’t prove anything, never have, never will.
A crystal ball won’t cut it. No magic can discern the depths of a politician’s twisted heart, nor that of any so-called human.
I’m not looking for a yallar dawg so I didn’t really have a reason to vote in the governor’s race though I did heavily consider writing in Blackie Effing Whyte just for fun. I talked with Bevin for 45 minutes one day and have heard him speak publicly 2 or 3 times and have read about some of his ‘stands’ that I can agree with. He’d be better than his opponent but then so would a mangy rabid skunk.
Bevin has never said anything that really impresses me, not that he’d probably care to. He’s too busy pandering to the average dumbass which is admittedly a little less of a dumbass than 20 years ago when I was still struggling to leave those ranks.
Claiming to be ‘pro Second Amendment’ because of an NRA membership and a CCW doesn’t cut it anymore. Too many realize now the NRA is part of the problem and a right applied for is a privilege. Wanting to ‘reform’ an income tax system that doesn’t belong in a free country is uselessness.
(Bevin did get an endorsement from Gun Owners of America. But so did Ted Cruz. I usually greatly admire GOA but I guestion them on these decisions. As they and others often say about the NRA, “It’s not just about guns.” We could win the gun battle and lose the war.)
Bevin’s statement last summer that he would agree to removing the Jefferson Davis statue from the capital rotunda was the last straw for me. It’s not about what the War for Southern Independence was really about or if we’d be any better off if the South had won or why we have so many yallar dawg voters but about not having the backbone to stand up against the communist propaganda stream and calling it out for what it is.
If they really want to prove they can or will attempt to change anything they must begin openly calling out our domestic blood enemies, our greatest enemies and stop kowtowing to their propaganda streams and stop using their key terms and phrases as if they actually mean something.
They are our blood enemies. They are the blood enemies of the Bill of Rights and human Liberty and every time they vote they vote to kill us. Simple fact. Treating them with anything approaching respect is a deadly mistake.
To be clear there are different kinds of respect. There is the respect one shows for a good parent that one loves and there is the respect one gives a rattlesnake in a sleeping bag. The latter is what our domestic blood enemies deserve.
For the benefit of pacified patriots I’ll have to state: “I’m not saying one should never vote or voting never does any good.” I’ve never advocated not being politically involved though I have been accused of such many times simply because I do constantly advocate being prepared for what will be required when the ‘system’ finally completely fails those who value human Liberty.
I am sick of and done voting for milquetoast pea brain RINOs and fake NWO hack conservatives and assorted authoritarians of whatever stripe. We don’t have a Ron or Rand Paul or a Thomas Massie in every election cycle, sad sickening fact. If Bevin wins and proves himself to be worthy by pushing a Kentucky version of the Firearm Freedoms act or refusing to enforce Kentucky’s income tax and refusing to allow the IRS or the BATF Nazis to enforce their evil laws here that’ll be a great thing. I’m not holding my breath and he should’ve started out in the legislature so he’d have a real record we could analyze.
If our would-be elected public servants are putting their religion or their ancient tribal propaganda before the Bill of Rights or individual human Liberty or true free will, which doesn’t involve eternal slavery vs. eternal torture, under some form of a ‘Lord,’ then they don’t need to be in the ring much less taking an oath to uphold the aforementioned document.
Yes, many ‘christian’ candidates might do a good job on some issues. But if they want to continue the drug war or control what others do in their private lives because of some ancient interpretation of ‘sin’ or morality then they’re on the wrong boat and in the wrong country.
Yes, almost any ‘christian’ candidate of whatever version, sub-version or subversion, real or fake or fooled would be better than the mangy rabid skunk mentioned above but that’s not the issue.
After watching this for 30 years I’ve finally reached the point of thinking the system will have to collapse completely for anything good to come of it. Recent actions or inaction by the republicrats in the U.S. Congress bear me out.
We’re gonna have to go up there, not packin’ signs. We won’t have enough numbers to make a difference unless the average dumbass ‘conservative’ or ‘libertarian’ finally sees there’s no other way. That probably means a lot of pain for the average American and amerikan. Don’t worry, the pain will come either way, either farther down the road with the NWO hack RINOs or more immediately with a hitlery or a bernie or some other such trash with it’s hands on the wheel.
This is historically a ‘christian’ country. But I like to think we’re transitioning to something better, where all our natural born rights will be acknowledged and not compromised by some primitive version of morality though I don’t expect to be in this realm long enough to see that happen.
Neither do I wish to see it ruled by a mindset that turns any governmental body into our gods, our angels, our saviors or our superiors. It’s not a completely communist country, yet. If it is someone needs to tell me so I can walk out my front door and start killing the trash.
Let’s link to one of our major commie rags for once just to rub it in their faces, not that it may mean that much in the long run…
FK – Yes, I ‘feel’ a little better after yesterday’s unexpected for me results, whatever the real reasons for the outcomes are. Maybe the sheeple really are waking up. Maybe this is just another bump in the road for the New World Order and our domestic blood enemies. Some of our horses won the short race. Now it’s time to really ride them.
What’s your duty?
FK – I feel your pain. If only we had a nation of men…
Something we should all learn for we will need it:
FK – Yep, we’re definitely going to need that. That is if we ever have a nation of men again.
While we cannot say that we have agreed with every vote Comer has ever made as a representative, we have found over the years of working with him in Frankfort that he is humble enough to admit when he is wrong like voting for HB 299 in 2005 that increased legislator’s pensions. For those that don’t know what Frankfort is like, it is no easy task sorting through legislation. There are some in this race that haven’t been put on the hot seat to make a good or bad vote legislatively in the mess that is Frankfort, and believe us when we say even the best legislators can make some of the worst votes. We do not expect perfection, but what we do expect is someone willing to listen and act. Comer has done this. We recall when the 10th Amendment movement was just coming into full swing, certain legislators such as Stan Lee and James Comer worked front and center on passing our bills. Unfortunately those efforts failed, but it was not for a lack of trying. Organizing discharge petitions in a democrat-controlled House resulted in at least getting hearings.
Before his race for Ag Commissioner, Comer made a very tough decision in another race: fall in line with the State GOP and Sen. Mitch McConnell to endorse the very liberal Republican candidate and former Secretary of State Trey Grayson, or back a little-known local doctor who had some radical ideas about liberty that many in the GOP were leery of. What did Comer do? He endorsed Dr. Rand Paul, now one of Kentucky’s senators and presidential hopeful.
FK – Comer will likely draw a lot of votes from ‘conservative’ democrat farmers in the fall.
FK – Those who wish to be our elected public servants should have to run a race that involves filling potholes on the way. Those who survive a week in the July sun and January cold while carrying a bucket full of asphalt and a shovel earn the privilege of being our servants.
None of Gatewood Galbraith’s three daughters could be reached Wednesday for comment.
Dea Riley, a Frankfort marketing professional who was Gatewood Galbraith’s running mate in their independent campaign for governor and lieutenant governor in 2011, said via email that “there will only ever be one Gatewood Galbraith.”
“To have Gatewood’s name and message prostituted, for the sake to garner political office, is a personal affront to me in that I was not only his running mate but equally his friend and confidant,” Riley said.
She said she hopes that “Mr. Newman understands he has very big shoes to fill in taking on the name of Gatewood Galbraith. I hope he will honor Gatewood accordingly.”
Riley said she thinks Galbraith would be amused. “I can hear him now: ‘I’ll tell the IRS to send him the tax bill,'” Riley said.
FK – That’s just plain weird. Gatewood usually remembered peoples’ names anyway if memory serves. He would’ve made a better governor than the last several we’ve had, maybe all of them.
