Posted on 11/03/2015 4:34:20 PM PST by PJ-Comix
CANDIDATE PARTY PERCENT VOTES
Matt Bevin GOP 49.9% 213,492
Jack Conway Dem 46.2% 197,493
Drew Curtis Ind 3.9% 16,834
How badly do you think McTurtle wanted Conway to win? No one will ever convince me that McConnell, Boehner and many top leaders in the Republican Party are nothing more than Democrat infiltrators whose sole purpose was to destroy the GOP from within, and they’re very close to completing their mission.
Yes, Jenean Hampton, our new Lt. Governor-elect is the FIRST minority EVER elected to one of Kentucky's statewide Constitutional offices. And she is Constitutional as they come. When media ask her about being the "first black woman" to do this and/or that, she will correct them and say "I am a conservative woman, not a black woman."
Jenean Hampton sounds like a real up and comer! The new conservative Republican Party (!) will have to keep an eye on her.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Matt Bevin, a Republican political novice, wealthy Louisville businessman and Tea Party favorite, was elected Kentucky’s next governor on Tuesday and swept fellow Republicans into statewide office with him. The stunning victory heralds a new era in a state where Democrats have held the governor’s mansion for all but four of the last 44 years.In beating his Democratic opponent, Attorney General Jack Conway, Mr. Bevin, 48, shocked people in his own party, who believed that the climate in Kentucky was ripe for a Republican but feared that Mr. Bevin, a charismatic conservative with a go-it-alone style, was too far out of the mainstream and too inexperienced to win.
Matt Bevin, Republican candidate for the Kentucky governorship, at a religious freedom rally in Stanford, Ky. Mr. Bevin narrowly won the nomination in May.G.O.P. Eyes Kentucky Governorship, but Candidate Is Making the Party SweatOCT. 30, 2015 But in a year when outsiders like Donald J. Trump and Ben Carson have captured the attention of voters in the Republican presidential race, Mr. Bevin’s tendency to thumb his nose at the political establishment — coupled with President Obama’s deep unpopularity here — helped him upend Kentucky’s political status quo.
Hehehe... hahaha... hohoho...
Can't wait to hear Pat sing "Happy Days are Here Again" on Beck's show today.
Great news and Curtis likely drew from Bevin. Plus, Curtis endorsed Trump.
What a scum McConnell is. Petty, arrogant, and vindictive just like his entire caucus of power mad tyrants. Cochran from MS voted for the spending bill, thus paying his IOUs.
The Dems have no second tier. Name a Dem governor with a shot in 2020 (unless Hillary! wins). They’re all weak.
Bevin will have to make permanent changes that natural law will keep in place, i.e. the voters themselves won’t want to give up and will fight for. I’d like to see him do some Scott Walker moves, but the Dems hold the KY House.
I’d like to see him do some Scott Walker moves, but the Dems hold the KY House.
What is good for the goose is good for the gander.
I’m sure his first order of business will be to reach across the aisle in a an act of bipartisanship with the Dems. I’m sure McConnell already spelled out his expectations.
Jerry Brown? Perhaps he could campaign from the crypt.
and the polls had this one all wrong!!!!!
Can we say President Ted CRUZ???? GO TED GO!!!!!!
Nothing false in what I typed. The only thing we heard in regards to McConnell and Bevin out here in the past year was McConnell’s biographer wrote a column in the Weekly Standard that McConnell did not want Bevin to win. That was local media-hyped as well as trumped on Conway's ads.
That and the two old rednecks regurgitating McConnell’s attack ads and talking points while waiting for pie or to go fishing.
So what about any of that is FALSE????
The point was and is - McConnell always does dirty behind the scenes and then either votes or makes public comments to appear as though he is for what it is he worked to defeat in secret, or vice-versa.
McConnell is as great an enemy to Conservatives as Boehner was, if not moreso,
Mark Levin read an article from a month ago about how the GOP leadership in KY, had pledged their support for CONWAY because, like McConnell - they HATE the TEA Party and Conservatives.
So nothing I said was false, as there is ample evidence even I was not aware of, to justify what I said as having merit.
I’m not a KY resident, but am close enough to get the political ad bombardment.
Bevin’s strategy was very interesting, but, then he did get support from the Party right at the end. Or, maybe even that was planned. Conway had been consistently ahead in most polls throughout, and for many weeks was pounding Bevin in a veritable blizzard of radio & TV ads as a liar, a tax cheat, etc., with little response from Bevin. Basically Bevin ran a light ad campaign describing himself as a conservative, and Conway as an Obama disciple. Then, right at the end, Bevin ran fairly heavily a couple quite good TV ads with his wife defending him, her basically saying to Conway’s face that the accusations against Bevin were themselves lies. (Bevin’s wife is really more convincing in this mode than he is!!) Conway, whether out of arrogance or nothing to respond with, just kept running the same ads everyone was tired of hearing / seeing, and Bevin in the end blew Conway out of the water.
KY’s last pub gov., Ernie Fletcher, was generally fairly effective, given the Democratic House, but got tripped up on ethics charges (or at least clumsiness in that area.) I almost expect Andy Beshear (the former Gov’s son, and now Atty. General) to go after Bevin on anything he (Beshear) can come up with, so, Bevin really needs to walk the straight and narrow. I hope he (Bevin) can be effective...
They have to be the type that are irreversible because a majority of the voters (not the public, but likely and regular voters) support them and will be mad if they chance.
Walker is doing a great job on this in WI.
I’m really surprised the RINO Party didn’t stump for Conway. It’s getting that bad.
That clearly is not accurate to anyone paying attention. McConnell did everything Bevin asked him to do and Bevin even turned down some assistance McConnell offered on his own as Bevin himself has openly stated (he probably did not want to feel he “owed” McConnell anything or damage his branding as an outsider, which is understandable). And the RPK phone banks were loaded with people making calls, and the RGA dumped $6 million into the state. This information was hardly hidden from view. Either you are making things up, or you were not paying bit of attention yet comment like you are an expert on what is going on.
In addition, last year you kept commenting McConnell was clearly heading to defeat to Grimes and you doubted the polls showing McConnell taking a lead, as there was not a single McConnell sign in site but all kinds of Grimes signs and bumper stickers. This year, you stated that Bevin was may lose because all of the places where you saw McConnell signs, they were now filled with Conway signs and how that was “quite telling.” So unfortunately it is rather difficult not to view everything you say with a great deal of skepticism.
You did not refute a single evidentiary item I posted. Not McConnell’s biographer revealing to the Weekly Standard that McConnell did not want Bevin to win against Conway; not the litany of comments and claims by GOP leaders in the area that they were supporting Conway; not a single refutation of the ads Conway ran that were nearly word-for-word what McConnell’s ads were.
Such as you are revealed, I have no time or patience to argue with GOP Ruling Class Apologists and party hacks.
Keep carrying Mitch’s water. You are doing a bang-up job.
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