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Message from Kentucky: Strong candidates matter: Not even a mighty Trump endorsement is quite enough
American Thinker ^ | 11/06/32019 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 11/06/2019 7:50:00 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: Buckeye McFrog

KY is safe for Trump. He’ll carry it comfortably next November.


21 posted on 11/06/2019 8:09:05 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop
He’s a dead man walking come 2023.

Maybe, but does the governor have say in redistricting after the 2020 census?
22 posted on 11/06/2019 8:10:02 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Oh, I see. It’s on the ... digest page? or whatever that screen is ... but it’s not there if you go straight to the article.

I give the author credit for not using the phrase.


23 posted on 11/06/2019 8:10:35 AM PST by Tax-chick (Down with the ChiComs! Independence for Hong Kong!)
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To: goldstategop

It is a suspicious win. The winning Agriculture Commissioner got 100,000 more votes than the guy who won the Governor. How many people can even name the AG Commissioner? That said it should not have been that close. KY was down to 1 abortion mill. So the pro abortion machine got the women to make this close enough to steal. Does the GOP not care that somehow they seem to lose every close race even if it takes a few days?


24 posted on 11/06/2019 8:10:43 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: setter

KY has only recently began to vote GOP Statewide. So, this is not a big deal. A better candidate will take back the seat in the next election. The GOP dominated the rest of the State election.


25 posted on 11/06/2019 8:11:06 AM PST by fortheDeclaration
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To: SeekAndFind

Message from Kentucky: People like their free-shit from the Government, and particular, people in government like their free-shit from the taxpayers. if you oppose them, they will destroy you.


26 posted on 11/06/2019 8:11:18 AM PST by PGR88
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To: SeekAndFind
According to the WaPo, he had a brash abrasive personality that tended to annoy people.

I think this is a cop-out. One would think that if he had a record to run on then the personality wouldn't have beaten him. Otherwise Trump is in trouble.

27 posted on 11/06/2019 8:11:56 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: SeekAndFind
The midterm lose of the House was due to a combination of it being a midterm election and Democrat fraud. Trump added two Senators and we held the Governorships in FL. and GA.

No one is underestimating the Democrats, but lets not overestimate them either.

28 posted on 11/06/2019 8:13:25 AM PST by fortheDeclaration
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To: gibsonguy

People just didn’t like Bevin! You had a lot of split ticket voting. People voted for Beshear as a protest then switched to down ballot support of the GOP.

Nothing suspicious about it.


29 posted on 11/06/2019 8:14:07 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Baby B1¹oomers and the GI Generation moved to the right as they aged. The World War II veterans and their wives supported Kennedy and Johnson, but later became strong Reagan supporters. The Baby Boomers are currently the backbone of Trump support. The doomsayers of the 1970s would be astonished. As bills and responsibilities accumulate, the millenials may follow suit.

Churchill once said that someone who is a conservative at age 20 has no heart, but that someone who is a liberal at age 40 has no head.

30 posted on 11/06/2019 8:15:32 AM PST by Wallace T. ( .)
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To: fortheDeclaration

And OH. It could have been a lot worse. That’s always the case with midterms, barring rare elections such as those in 1934 and 2002.


31 posted on 11/06/2019 8:16:23 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: SeekAndFind

IMO, the Beshear campaign ad that brought up irregularities regarding Bevin’s use of State aircraft during the campaign was a coffin nail. Especially Bevin’s quote of (paraphased) “It’s no one’s business” when asked about it.


32 posted on 11/06/2019 8:18:51 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: fortheDeclaration

RE: The midterm lose of the House was due to a combination of it being a midterm election and Democrat fraud. Trump added two Senators and we held the Governorships in FL. and GA.

1. RE: FRAUD: If the fraud was rampant in 2018 and the Dems got away with it, HOW MUCH MORE FOR 2020? WE SHOULD EXPECT MORE OF IT !!

2. RE: Mid term elections: Not sure what this has to do with anything. If there was overwhelming support for Trump’s policies, I would expect a huge Republican turnout to MAINTAIN Trump’s momentum in 2016 in the 2018 elections. That did not happen. At least we would not have seen a huge Congressional takeover of over 30 seats.

I’d understand a few seats, but this huge turnover? It shows energy on the Democrats’ side and lethargy on the Republican side.

3. RE: Governorships in FL. and GA.

Yes, squeakers both. Two red states should have been an easy win, which they were not. And Ted Cruz won by a squeaker in red Texas against the substance-less, extreme liberal, gun grabbing pipsqueak Beto O’Rourke. We are hanging by a thread in this country.


33 posted on 11/06/2019 8:20:55 AM PST by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: Tax-chick

Good Catch!

“The article does not contain the phrase “mighty Trump endorsement,” either in the title or in the text. How did it end up in quotes in your title?”

Actual headline/title

“Message from Kentucky: Strong candidates matter”

November 6, 2019 By Monica Showalter
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/11/message_from_kentucky_strong_candidates_matter.html


34 posted on 11/06/2019 8:24:11 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: SeekAndFind

WOW! Talk about reading the “fine print”. How did you ever find that?

Better yet, why would you use it? It’s not the title of the article. It’s not even the title under the “blog” heading.

The link under the blog heading just takes you to the same exact article as posted, where “The Mighty Trump Endorsement” language is NOT used.

The only place I found it used was right where you got it from. A “sub” heading or description used under the “Blog” category. There is no attribution as to WHO actually wrote those words. The author doesn’t use them no matter how you get to the article.

So, I said all that, to say this.... You seem to have gone very deep to try to find something to smear Trump with, Why?

I think you’ve been outed. (caught)


35 posted on 11/06/2019 8:53:45 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: SeekAndFind

President Trump helped Republicans win 5 out of 6 statewide offices. To some people, the glass is always 1/6th empty.


36 posted on 11/06/2019 8:53:48 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would be have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: faucetman; SeekAndFind

I don’t think that was the intention. Just one of those glitches where the site has a mess of different screens. Sometimes sites will even change the title of a piece after a day or so.


37 posted on 11/06/2019 8:58:53 AM PST by Tax-chick (Down with the ChiComs! Independence for Hong Kong!)
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To: goldstategop

So you’re saying that 100,000 people voted for the the Agricultural Commissioner and didn’t cast a vote in the Governor’s race. Sorry that just seems pretty unlikely. Granted I am going by another posters figures so I could be wrong.


38 posted on 11/06/2019 9:02:38 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: faucetman

RE: So, I said all that, to say this.... You seem to have gone very deep to try to find something to smear Trump with, Why?

Let me ask you this... why would you take this as a smear
against Trump?

Calling him “mighty” is a compliment the way I see it.


39 posted on 11/06/2019 9:13:08 AM PST by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: faucetman

RE: I think you’ve been outed. (caught)

I’ve been in FR for nearly 20 years.

My posts are well known. Many are supportive of Trump. So are my comments about him ( generally supportive of his policies ).

I don’t know what “outed” means.


40 posted on 11/06/2019 9:14:55 AM PST by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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