Posted on 05/20/2015 4:01:14 PM PDT by cotton1706
One year after Senator Sen. Mitch McConnell soundly thumped him in the 2014 Kentucky Republican U.S. Senate primary, Louisville businessman Matt Bevin has apparently mounted a spectacular comeback. With all precincts reporting, Bevin leads Agriculture Commissioner Jack Comer by a whopping 83 votes in the primary to be the party’s nominee for governor.
While Comer has called for a “recanvass” of votes, most political pundits in the state are calling Bevin the likely victor. Bevin himself claimed victory late Tuesday night.
“For those of you in the media who thought Republican politics in the state of Kentucky was boring, think again,” Bevin said late Tuesday night to his supporters at an event in Louisville.
On the campaign trail Bevin hit hard in support of Tea Party ideas, calling for the repeal of Common Core and the closing of Kentucky’s Obamacare state health care exchange.
Bevin benefited from strong Tea Party support, a holdover from his Senate race a year earlier, in which he was endorsed by a loose coalition of more than a dozen of the leading Tea Party groups in the state.
Bevin also made a smart strategic move early on, adding Jenean Hampton, leader of the Bowling Green Tea Party, to his ticket as his running mate for Lieutenant Governor. Hampton, a veteran, would be the first African-American woman to serve as Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky if elected with Bevin in the November general election.
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If this guy is good enough to have his signs all over Knob Creek Gun Range, he must be good!
Just want to say this particular election is a reminder of how important every last conservative vote is. We must defeat RINOs in the primaries, so that we aren’t faced with lesser of two evils dilemmas in general elections.
It’s going to be a very tough fight, because the RINOs hold most of the power in the party and are backed by the big money. Nevertheless, we have the votes IF we can get them to the polls.
Saw that Comer will have pay for a recount.
Don’t think the GOPe want him that bad LOL!
“Nevertheless, we have the votes IF we can get them to the polls.”
This is exactly why Ted Cruz really needs to be *the* man next year ... Conservatives all across the nation would do the proverbial crawl on broken glass to vote for him. I also think Cruz would sway a substantial number of independents much like Romney did.
Couple that with Emperor Clinton’s (assuming she makes it) depressed minority turnout compared to Obama’s, we could be seeing President Cruz next year :-) ... that’ll make liberal heads explode more than another Bush (and I don’t want Bush ... that’s handing POTUS to Clinton even if she’s incapacitated ... I mean, she could win w/o campaigning against Bush).
I, for the first time in a long time, would be proud of my country again :-)! I’d also look forward to defending a President Cruz against those racist Democrats that are sure to trash him just because they don’t like his nationality ;-).
Congrats Kentucky ... I hope this win holds up!!! :-)
Knob Creek is a real kick except for the artillery piece going off especially if you are a vendor. It sometimes catches a person by surprise.
The Governors office is more important anyway.
Ted Cruz is employing the same kind of strategy enacted by David Brat, IMHO. If you don’t know who David Brat is, then you need a healthy immersion to the guy who beat soundly the sitting Republican Majority Leader in the House.
Eric Cantor spent more on one steak dinner fundraiser and Brat did his whole campaign.
Message, message, truth.
President Cruz would not and could not undo the lawlessness that is doomed this country.
You can’t bring back a Constitution by simply choosing to follow it for a few years. When the choice exist among our leaders the law does not. No president can ever fix that, only a constitutional convention to add enforcement mechanisms and reform the existing ones will have any choice.
Right now the biggest challenge are the progressively more lawless and dictatorial Federal employees in black robes. Currently there seems to be nothing to keep them from rewriting the federal Constitution at whim replacing their judgement and values as men for the law. If we don’t find a way to impose the Written Constitution’s limits upon Washington and in particular that branch the Federal constitution and all its amendments will soon enough be worthless.
Oh, you are soooo speaking my language! Praying God gives America one last chance with a President Cruz. I know it’s the hearts and minds of Americans that need to be changed but one man can do a lot. Cruz might slow our slide into the pit a little.
Fascinating. HOORAY Matt!
The Establishment would like the lesson to be “take on a RINO, you will be destroyed and will never be heard from again.”
However the lesson from Kentucky will be: “Fear not! Take on a RINO, and higher office is yours for the taking!”
The Establishment’s power is beginning to crumble, and all it took was to challenge them, repeatedly. In Pennsylvania (bye Specter), in Delaware (bye Castle), in Maine (bye Snowe), in Indiana (by Lugar), in Utah (bye Bennett), in Georgia (happy retirement, Chambliss), in Florida (bye Crist), in Texas (bye Dewhurst), in Alaska (Murkowski defeated in primary, forced to get democrats to vote to reelect her), in Mississippi (forced the Establishment to show its filthy hands), and on, and on.
It’s been a hell of a six years since the Tea Party started bubbling up to take on these worthless office-holders.
Knob Creek was a blast, literally and figuratively. I especially liked that they didn’t treat me like a “little lady who is blonde”! And yeah, I did startle at the first big gun shot, but I always do that, wherever I am.
Exactly - if we want a conservative choice, we need to expend time/effort/money to support those who come along. If we don't, we are just as much to blame as anyone for our failures to have good candidates.
It seems that many of the most vociferous "hard core conservatives" prefer rhetoric to actual expenditure of what it takes. I've had several telling me how principled they are in recent months and I don't know if they donate any time or money to conservative candidates/causes, but I have noted that some of the biggest mouths don't have any donations showing for FR - of course, it could be that they are all too shy and modest to allow their screen names published....
Fascinating. HOORAY Matt!
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Matt was in this for the long haul. There should be more like him in the Republican party.
its funny how often RINO’s take off their republican sheep clothing to revile the democrat they always were underneath.
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