After Kentucky’s Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andy Beshear pulled off an upset victory over Trump-endorsed Gov. Matt Bevin (R) on Tuesday night, President Donald Trump and his conservative allies performed Olympic-level verbal gymnastics to argue that Bevin’s defeat actually proved Trump’s “political star power.”
And yet Mourning Joe reported Bevin was +5 before the election
Donnie fixed that
Edit - Confirmed
538
Should not be hard: It was Bevin, not Trump who went down to defeat. Good news!
It is also good news for John McCain.
Trump left the Kentucky election with his tail between his legs like an old egg sucking dog.
Trump’s blown more leads than Jim Jordan guest lecturing at the Ohio State Drama Department.
They’re not twisting themselves into knots. They are lying.
Lying.
You know, not telling the truth. Making shit up. Inventing out of whole cloth.
“The madness” the GOP is referring to is holding elections at all.
I’ll play devil’s advocate this much: you can argue that Bevin didn’t lose because of Trump; Bevin lost because he actually did the things that every mainstream Republican is saying they’ll do.
The GOP hated teachers, unions, and Medicare long before Trump came along. Bevin, seeing that he’d run and been elected as a Republican, acted accordingly.
Was Trump the final nail in the coffin? Yeah, probably. But it’s absolutely possible—I would even say likely—that there’d have been a similar result with President Rubio or President Jeb! or some other less Trumpian Republican in the White House.
If I were a Republican, that’s what would worry me. Bevin might be unlikeable, but it was Republican policies that killed him.
That and being an asshole who rubbed the wrong way republicans and democrats alike.
Conservatives Twist Themselves Into Knots To Spin KY Gov Defeat Into Good News For Trump
I thought that, if they were really twisting themselves into knots, there’d be photographs.
“Desperation seeps through the seams of fear.” ― T.A. Cline, Archomai
What came out of last nights elections especially in Kentucky is one fact and one question. The fact is that racism and democracy are mutually exclusive. The question is the future of Mitch McConnell.
To the fact, Trump is popular in Kentucky for trying to erase any trace of Obama being president especially Trump’s attempts to destroy “Obamacare” wheres Bevin is extremely unpopular for tying to kill the “Affordable Care Act” (ACA). Remembering that over 70% of those who benefited most, got health care for themselves and their children under Obamacare/ACA or whatever you call it, are White people with a high school diploma or less, or as the media calls them “Trump’s base”, Trump’s base was forced to choose between hatred of Black people and love of their children. Enough chose love of their children and Bevin/Trump lost.
Which brings up the question, even more unpopular in Kentucky then Bevin and up for reelection in 2020 is Mitch McConnell. With Trump being on the ballot in 2020 will that be enough to save “Moscow Mitch” or again will enough Kentuckians again choose their own best interests over shafting “those people”. My prediction and the complication for McConnell is Kentuckians will try to have it both ways and vote for Trump and against McConnell as they did last night picking the pro-Obamacare candidate for Governor and the Trumpians for everything else. That is last nights results must make McConnell and the other 22 Republican Senators running in 2020 very nervous that being in bed with Trump will save versus screwing them and could affect their inevitable Trump removal vote.
If you spend all day with your head far up your ass, s it really that difficult to twist yourself into knots?
No matter how much I drink, the next morning I still wake up in some alternative universe. At what point do the bad, stupid people go away?
And this
Kentucky Republicans are already considering ways to install Matt Bevin as Governor or call a new election because he lost the first time.
Test Run For the Presidential Election
Maher been saying he won’t go if he loses
Starting to wonder
Watch what they do
Not what they say
What a shock; the Party that doesn’t believe in Science doesn’t believe in the consequences of elections either.
I always try to remember that half the population is of below-average intelligence.
They’re ultimately cowards. They won’t try something that blatant.
They might pull a Walker and “find” a spare 7k ballots.
