Evidently, somebody forgot to tell the people of Lexington Kentucky that the Repubican Party is on it’s way out, because even if this much is true, it would appear that at least in the Bluegrass, Republican politics is alive and well-strong, in fact. All you have to do to realize this is to watch the local Lexington tv stations on which, at any given time of the day, you are likely to see a television ad on behalf of Lexington mayoral candidate Bill Farmer, a self styled conservative. Yet, more than talking about his own self, and ideas, Farmers ads seem to be more centrally focused on attacks on one of his primary opponnents, Jim Newburrey.
Newburey is, accorrding to the Famer ads, a liberal after the manner of Hillary Clinton-whose smiling face is prominently featured in some of the ads. Farmer accusses Newburey of wanting to implement a Hillary style medical program which, Farmer warns, might well threaten to run doctors out of the Bluegrass State. No explanantion as of yet as to how a mere, lowly mayor of Lexington would accomplish such a milestone achievement, which makes the ad all the more remarkable. Farmers campaign staff evidently has good reason to believe these negative ads are effective. And, so it would seem they are. Newburrey has called on Farmer to remove the ads-a sure sign they have caused him some degree of alarm.
Who do I support for Mayor of Lexington? Anybody but Theresa Issaacs.
4 comments:
I don't really think Republicans are on the way out of places like Kentucky either. But, they would seem to be running out of ideas, if all they stand for is not being liberals. Not that they can't get elected with that message. Just that they don't really offer much.
Believe it or not, Kentucky is traditionally a Democratic State, in fact the Democrats dominated Kentucky poiics for years. The current Governor, Fletcher, elected in 2003, is the first Republican Governor elected sisnce 1969. It is only over the last couple of decades that the Republicans have epxerienced a resurgence, due to Democrats gun and tobacco policies, mainly, but there are other reaosns for this as well, some reasons which are understandable, though some which are to me dubious.
Kentucky was one of the few states, in fact, to vote for Democrat Adlai Stevenson for President over the war hero Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower. And, unless I'm mistaken, they did this twice.
Oh, that's right. Where I grew up in VA, we called them yellow dog democrats, becuase they would vote for a yellow dog before they'd vote Republican.
Exactly. It may be hard for most people to realize just how much a minority party the Republicans were in the South and in border states, such as Kentucky. That's one of the main reasons why the South lagged behind the rest of the country so much, not so much because the Democrats are that bad, it's just that that is the usual result of any kind of one party domination in politics, which is why I believe so strongly in a strong two party system.
Unfortunately, it seems anymore the two parties are engaged in more of a chess match with money from contributors being the main goal, as oppossed to enacting policies for the good of the country.
Maybe it's time for a good strong three party system, then. But given enough time that as well would probably end up corrupted. Just one of the fatal flaws of democracy-unchecked capitalism.
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