The Kentucky GOP Blew It

I receive constant reminders from the GOP to give them money.  I refuse to give money to an organization that can not win an election.  

Within the last couple of decades, Kentucky has turned into a red state.  It overwhelmingly supported President Trump and all state offices and the legislature are dominated by Republicans.  The conditions are ripe to gain the governor's office and the Kentucky GOP just can't do it.

For some reason, they run mealy-mouth campaigns for governor.  The GOP let the Democrats set the tone for the Bevin campaign and they did it again for Cameron.

Let us review the situation.  Governor Andy Beshear is a soy boy politician who has everyone convinced he is a nice guy.  This is despite the fact that he destroyed thousands of Kentucky jobs with his Covid lockdowns and sent the state's unemployment system into a tailspin causing economic hardship for thousands. Beshear even ordered state police to record license plates of church goers defying his Covid mandates.   It finally took the Kentucky legislature and Attorney General Daniel Cameron to stop him.  Kentucky still has not recovered in jobs from the lockdowns and Democrats nationally have created a labor shortage.  Not once did this come up in the election.

Beshear has linked himself at the hip with the teachers union and Kentucky education consistently receives low or failing marks.  Beshear supports the caustic CRT curriculum. Nothing from Kentucky GOP.

Beshear, along with Biden and the Democrats have destroyed Kentucky's oil and gas industry causing the continued economic misery of Eastern Kentucky.  Yet, never brought up during the election.

Beshear in a campaign ad exploited a victim of sexual abuse to set the tone on the abortion agenda, manipulating people's emotions.  Incest and rape are extremely rare when it comes to reasons for abortion.  The vast majority of abortions are elective and Democrats support killing babies in the womb up to birth.  Even people who support abortion want restrictions on this.  Yet, the GOP and Cameron did not even try to combat this issue and let Democrats lie to the pubic.  

Instead, the Cameron campaign runs ads trying to link Beshear with Biden in the belief that Trump's political popularity would carry Cameron through.  Big mistake.

People in Kentucky are not stupid, but they were being lied to and the Kentucky GOP did nothing to counter the political misinformation.  They ran ads with Cameron calling Beshear a "nice enough guy," but never really differentiated the two .  When you are calling your incumbent political opponent a nice guy and the only difference is that you have a different approach, you are going to lose.  Same situation occurred in the Louisville mayoral race.

The Kentucky GOP needs some new leadership with some backbone to voice its conservative views, strongly.  Now is not a time to be timid.