Spurious talk, infighting feed the MSM
Making it easy for the Democrats
We hear about a ‘great reset’ in reference to a takeover of nations. Terrifying, but for many conservatives the ‘great reset’ only refers to replacing local and state political leaders who have not upheld the US and Kentucky constitutions.
How are candidate choices discerned? Leaders review their records and statements, and then post Voter Guides. At times conservative organizations clash in their selections. Probably, we should look at a number of guides and carefully select after we research even further.
Though armed with guides as we go to the polls, the election process is vulnerable to salvos that can destroy its integrity, with fraud being the most destructive round.
The demise of the Election Day through early voting, absentee voting and so on is a serious concern that must be raised and then raised again.
What can we do?
Along with battling fraud, voter-ID issues et cetera, we can take caution against spurious talk and infighting.
A challenge to a tried-and-true incumbent may be destructive. In the recent Primary, some without any political experience stepped up to run against Congressman Thomas Massie. This was a case where political experience would be an important chevron, based on the incumbent’s record.
Claire Wirth won 10,521 votes against Massie’s 50,301. Two other candidates got 6,052.
Which conservatives provided the blocks of voters? What is the quarrel with Massie? The John Birch Society gives him a 99% rating in its Freedom Index* which tracks the rollcall votes of members of Congress as to whether they upheld the US Constitution.
Of the total number of registered Republicans in the Fourth District, 306,623, Claire and the others got 5.4 percent and Massie got 16.4 percent. Only about 22 percent of those who could have voted turned out.
Questions: For whom will Massie’s Republican detractors vote on November 8 and will their votes help to retain a Democrat majority on the Hill? Will they just stay home? Do we want the mostly-just-lazy 78% to vote?
About blocks and boomerangs
A block of voters can be good or bad. When a mob mentality grabs the wheel, beware of the result. The Take Back Kentucky group endorsed Matt Bevin for Governor in 2015, but did they stand by their man?
Most reading this post will recall that Bevin selected Sen. Ralph Alvarado for his running mate in early 2019. What happened next?
By spring that year, the acting-chief-of-staff for Lt. Gov. Jenean Hampton, Adrienne Southworth, was fired by a member of the Bevin administration. Was this Constitutional? We will look at that in a later post.
Adrienne fought back and criticized Bevin at a TakeBackKy meeting on June 15, 2019, and her comments were featured in the Courier-Journal— nearly in ‘real time.’ How? Phillip Bailey, USA Today national political correspondent, covered the meeting in Elizabethtown. Bailey tweeted her comments.
“I'm in Elizabethtown, Ky. where @LtGovHampton's former deputy chief of staff, Adrienne Southworth, is going address a conservative activist group about her termination and the ‘real workings’ of @GovMattBevin's administration.”
“A member of ‘Take Back #Kentucky’ came up to me to express how they are behind Southworth 100%.”
“FYI. Southworth was a member of ‘Take Back #Kentucky’ before joining @LtGovHampton's staff.”
“Heeeeeeeeeeeeere's Adrienne.”
Bailey tweeted, “Southworth says good people can't win in #Kentucky because ‘thugs’ are in control of the process. She says she is glad the Libertarian Party has ballot access this year.“
After Adrienne’s many disparaging remarks about Bevin, Libertarian candidate John Hicks was next to speak. He thanked her for voicing support for them to have ballot access.
The C-J opined that Gov. Bevin’s reelection chances were uncertain after the fired Hampton aide controversy. Who wouldn’t have that opinion?
Following the TakeBackKy meeting on June 15, it took only a few days for a wildfire to spread upon the horizon of the Bevin campaign—
Infighting among conservatives will be Important Breaking News in the mainstream media.
Some infighting is inevitable and some damage cannot be undone. What we say will come back to haunt us.
*The John Birch Society Freedom Index gives the following rating on Ky’s other Congressmen: 56%-Andy Barr, 66%-James Comer, 61%-Brett Guthrie and 52%-Hal Rogers. Democrat Yarmuth has 19%. (Aside: Rand Paul has 95% and McConnell has 57%.)