One of the hottest races this election,and one of the closest, is one that has been flying under most people's radar screens, but its important, for it involves one of the most reliably Blue Dog Democrats in the Congress, Ben Chandler, locked in a tight race against attorney Andy Barr, the Republican who Chandler has tried to tie to the corrupt administration of former Kentucky Republican governor Ernie Fletcher. Chandler has even attempted to paint Barr as a convicted criminal. In reality, Barr was caught with a fake id when he was a college student, something he didn't mention when filling out a job application because he thought it was so minor it wasn't important enough to mention. However, it is telling that in all the ads Chandler runs, he never mentions the nature of the crime, just that Barr is a convicted criminal. In one ad, one I have so far been unable to dig up, and which hasn't run now in quite some time, the narrator, a woman, says of Barr, and I paraphrase here-"criminal charges are usually how politicians end their careers, not start them".
I always said, if I absolutely were forced to vote for one Democrat this year, and could do so for any one anywhere in the country, Chandler would be the Democrat I would vote for. He has been good on some things, like Second Amendment rights and border security/illegal immigration, and he voted against Obamacare. But, at the same time, he voted for the stimulus bill, and for Cap And Trade. So even this best of possible Democrats is a mixed bag.
If I could vote in his race, I would vote for Barr, who I am tentatively calling this race for. The Five Of Caps looks like Chandler morosely saying goodbye to his congressional career.
