Are Kentucky Republicans Rigging Senate Race Against Rand Paul?

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Are Kentucky Republicans Rigging Senate Race Against Rand Paul?
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Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
March 22, 2010
On March 19, the Associated Press reported that Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson, who is running for a U.S. Senate seat against Rand Paul, will be allowed to oversee the election race. Grayson is Kentucky?s chief elections official. Paul is currently the frontrunner in the Senate primary.

Rand Paul questioned whether Grayson should recuse himself from oversight of the race. Paul sent a letter to Grayson?s Capitol office in January asking for a recusal.
The Kentucky Executive Branch Ethics Commission apparent does not see a conflict of interest. ?There?s nothing on the face of it that requires abstention,? said John Steffen, head of the commission.
The Commission reached a unanimous opinion that it is ?highly unlikely? that a secretary of state in Kentucky could influence the results of a statewide election ?without having the universal cooperation of election officials across the state.? In Kentucky, the secretary of state also serves as chairman of the Kentucky Board of Elections.
?He quite simply, under normal circumstances, lacks the ability to affect the election?s outcome,? the commission concluded in a six-page opinion. Members also said ?it seems unlikely that his participation would affect the public?s confidence in the integrity of the executive branch,? according to the Associated Press.
Rand Paul?s political views are at odds with those of the establishment Republican party. He is an ardent critic of the Federal Reserve, the USA PATRIOT Act, the bailout of Wall Street, and the erosion of civil liberties and the Bill of Rights under the contrived global war on terror. Paul opposes the Department of Education, the war in Iraq, and the federal income tax.

Paul believes his political philosophy ?resonates in the Republican primary. I think what we?re finding is as we get our message out ? is that the message is actually popular,? he told Judge Andrew Napolitano last November. ?I think there is a disconnect between the Republican primary voter who does believe, like myself, in limited constitutional government, in our leaders who have sometimes let us down. It is like the bank bailout. I said I have yet to meet a Republican primary voter who would have voted for it.?
Establishment Republicans, however, vehemently oppose the Libertarian faction of their party. In October, Lindsay Graham told a town hall meeting he would not allow Ron Paul to ?hijack? the Republican party. Graham also said the GOP will not be ?the party of angry white guys,? a reference to the Tea Party and patriot movements.
In February, Republican and former presidential hopeful and Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee criticized the CPAC event for its support of Ron Paul and the Tea Party movement. ?CPAC has becoming increasingly more libertarian and less Republican over the last years, one of the reasons I didn?t go this year,? Huckabee said in an interview with Fox News, where he is a paid analyst and has his own show.

 

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The bullshit never stops, Repugnicans act just like Demorats.

Hope and Change Huh?

There is no hope until this shit changes !

PRESIDENTIAL TICKET 2012 PAUL/PAUL

HOPEFULLY AMERICA WILL WAKE UP AND CHANGE THIS SHIT !

 

[Trampled Underfoot]

I hope people pull their fucking heads out of their asses this time around and consider Paul.

 

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We can only hope TU.

We are going to need a voice of reason

 

[DOGS THAT BARK]

Paul will win by landslide and will carry conservatives by large margin also.

 

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Paul will win by landslide and will carry conservatives by large margin also.

That's good to hear DTB, I do hope Rand punishes the "Establishement Candidate" Greyson and more candidates nationwide like the Paul's decide to step up to the plate.

This is only the beginning

 

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Counting folks and Senate votes

Counting folks and Senate votes

Counting folks and Senate votes
In the mountains, neither is an exact science

Larry Webster

Contributing columnist

Tie Rod and Slemp got the contract to count the census in their county and were able to do it in an hour.

On the third day of the month they rolled an Oxy down the aisle of Wal-Mart, counted the white socks which ran after it and divided by two, then subtracted one for the out-of-state guy who got it.

If a man had a pain pill in the mountains, he would have to climb a tree to take it.

Slemp says a census is necessary so all these Attila the Hun right-wing conservatives can get their full share of federal dollars. To get a real accurate count in the mountains this year, a census taker will have to:

■ Stop cop cars on the Mountain Parkway and count the prisoners in back on the way to do time.

■ Read the paper and deduct all this week's ODs.

■ Decide whether or not to count all the buried people who vote.

Tie Rod needed to be out of the house anyway, after an ill-advised quip to the Big 'E' that for her to do sexting, it would have to be on broadband.

Big 'E' told him that if he said one more word the legislature would pass "Tie Rod's Law, to protect victims of being hammered into the ground six inches by a cast-iron skillet, Wagner 1891 Original, 10.''

Tie Rod cannot imagine why they would even consider outlawing teenage girls e-mailing nekkid pictures of themselves, something he is all for, but could only get through regular mail, and then not on Saturdays, which is the day a fellow most needs dirty pictures.

Tie Rod longs for the day that he has the technological skill to involve himself in more stuff like sexting, but he doesn't even own a pornograph to play it on. He turns the TV off by unplugging it. In adapting modern technology, Tie Rod never got much beyond Saran Wrap.

He went to buy a new television, which is all you can do now when one breaks down, and the salesman asked him if he wanted a remote control. "Heck no," said Tie Rod, "when I get too sorry to get my wife to come in out of the kitchen and change the channels, then I might get a remote!"

Neither Slemp nor his friend can believe the candidates for Senate.

Slemp says the relationship between the Senate candidates and the coal industry reminds him of the relationship between journalists and the Mexican drug cartels, and wonders, if any of the four wins, would elk be allowed to kill liberals?

If Daniel Mongiardo wins, will he be listed as Sen. Mongiardo, (D-Massey)? Will he get a tonnage royalty, or so much a mountain?

If the ex-Democrat beats the Texan, will the latter be known as an "Also Rand?"

Trey Greyson claims that Rand Paul said that coal is dirty, and Slemp said it either is, or all those miners coming home from work are going to perform in the minstrel show.

Paul claims that Three Sticks Grayson wants to get along with the president of the United States ? a disgraceful Obamination.

Tie Rod said that Mitch McConnell wouldn't be happy with Obama if Obama "poured sugar up his..." Well, Tie Rod didn't say "tail" and neither did he explain the mechanics of such a gesture.

Larry Webster is a Pikeville attorney.

 

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Grayson begins new attack on Paul in Senate race
The Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. -- Republican Trey Grayson has begun airing another in a series of attack ads against Rand Paul in the U.S. Senate race.

The latest ad appearing on Kentucky television stations says Paul thinks it's not a problem for Iran to have a nuclear bomb. The ad contains an excerpt from a speech Paul gave in 2007. Paul campaign manager David Adams said the statement was taken out of context.

The Paul campaign quickly began airing a response ad saying Grayson "is lying to save his campaign."

Grayson and Paul are running for the seat being vacated by retiring U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning. They are among five Republicans in the race.

The 78-year-old Bunning opted not to seek a third term in the Senate.



Read more: http://www.kentucky.com/2010/03/19/1189185/grayson-begins-new-attack-on-paul.html#ixzz0j0Zb6pm4

 

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Rand Paul may ride a wave into Senate

Rand Paul may ride a wave into Senate

Rand Paul may
ride a wave into Senate

Al Cross ? March 21, 2010

Two months before the primary election,
Kentuckians are waking up to the prospect
that their most likely next U.S. senator is a
snarky nonconformist who's never run for
office before but is riding the national tea
party wave and confounding the leader of
his own party.

Rand Paul could still flame out during his
primary battle with Secretary of State Trey
Grayson, or as the nominee in a general
election. But he could also be this year's
version of Ron Lewis, the unknown Baptist
minister and Christian bookstore owner
who signaled the Republican takeover of
Congress in 1994 with a special-election
victory in Kentucky's 2nd District.

That landmark triumph was engineered by
U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, now Republican
leader of the Senate and the chief behind-
the-scenes supporter of Grayson.
McConnell's record of helping Republicans
beat Democrats for federal office is
excellent, but his intraparty record is not so
good.

In 1991, his choice for governor was then-
Rep. Larry Hopkins, who proved to be a
poor candidate ? and would have even
lost the primary if surprise opponent Larry
Forgy had put a more reasonable voluntary
limit on individual contributions to his
campaign.

In 1995, McConnell stayed out of the
governor's race and Forgy lost the general
election by 2.2 percentage points. If they
had been true allies that year, the result
might have been different.

In 1999, he dissuaded any credible
Republican from running for governor,
saying the public subsidy at the time made
it impossible to beat Democratic Gov. Paul
Patton. That's debatable, but his argument
also served to prevent the rise of a
competitor for influence in the state GOP.

In 2003, McConnell got then-Rep. Ernie
Fletcher into the governor's race, which
Republicans were primed to win after 32
years of Democratic rule and Patton's sex
scandal. Fletcher won the primary and
general elections, but his demise from a
hiring scandal showed why people who
have to be talked into running for governor
shouldn't.

This year's election is for federal office, not
state office, so McConnell and his allies are
more conversant with the issues and voters'
feelings about them. But it is also a
primary, in which the conservative core of
the Republican Party holds sway, and
circumstances have given Paul a good grip
on that core.


His firm positions against deficit spending
and for term limits, and the fact that he is
an outsider running against an insider, fit
hand in glove with the tea party movement
and the anti-establishment feelings
generated by a poor economy and
Washington dithering.

Grayson, who fairly reeks of the Republican
establishment, has found himself trailing in
every recent poll. He has assured worried
supporters that he has the money and the
ammunition to regain the advantage, and
about 10 days ago he began firing ?
saying ?Rand Paul has strange ideas? about
national security, such as closing the
Guantanamo Bay prison and sending
terrorists back to the battlefield.

Paul now says he wants to keep the prison
and its military tribunals, but audio and
video of his words live on, on a Grayson
Web site where you can feel the terror-
level alert. The background is orange, and
Paul, pictured in a turtleneck in front of
concentric circles, looks like a cult leader
broadcasting from a spaceship.

The message, of course, is not just that
Paul has strange ideas, but is just plain
strange. And there is probably more to
come, given Paul's previously libertarian-
leaning stances on drugs and abortion.

A Paul reply ad anticipates such, casting
him as a compassionate, ?pro-life? eye
doctor. Another ad, which casts Grayson
and President Barack Obama as
?dangerous allies,? is a trick that uses
Grayson's words out of context and seems
to presume that voters are dumb. But it
also reflects that fact that Grayson is still a
blank slate to many voters.

That fact figures in the most interesting
thing about Grayson's commercials: He
makes the attacks himself, speaking
directly to the camera, in the same format
as his other ads. That flies in the face of
the long-held belief that candidates need
to take a low profile in their attack ads to
limit voter backlash against negative
campaigning. But federal law now requires
candidates to say they approved the
message, so Grayson and his advisers may
think that he might as well do the deed, in
the introductory format.

It's a gamble. Since Grayson is still virtually
unknown to many voters, he risks being
identified primarily as an attacker who uses
scare tactics. If his messages don't
persuade, they will backfire. Grayson
surely has polls showing that Paul loses
support when voters are told about Paul's
views, but what you tell a pollster may not
predict what you will do in the voting booth.

National security remains an important
issue, but voters are much more animated
and driven by economic issues, and that's
unlikely to change, absent a terror attack
or national-security crisis.

Grayson and his Washington advisers who
worry about a libertarian, non-i
nterventionist senator are smart people,
but they are reminiscent of the old myth
about the fox and the hedgehog, and a
Greek philosopher's analysis: ?The fox
knows many things, but the hedgehog
knows one big thing? ? how to confound
the fox. Right now, Republican primary
voters know one big thing: Paul would be
their anti-spending, anti-government, anti-
incumbent tribune in Washington. What one
big thing does Grayson have to offer them?

WoW, does this guy have an agenda or what? Why doesn't he just come out and say "VOTE FOR GRAYSON"

 

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Dick Cheney sticks nose in KY Senate race to back Rand Paul?s NeoCon opponent

Dick Cheney sticks nose in KY Senate race to back Rand Paul?s NeoCon opponent

Dick Cheney sticks nose in KY Senate race to back Rand Paul?s NeoCon opponent

March 25, 2010

America 20xy
3/25/10
By Andrew Steele
On Trey Grayson?s campaign site today is a quote from former Vice President Dick Cheney:
?I?m a lifelong conservative, and I can tell the real thing when I see it. I have looked at the records of both candidates in the race, and it is clear to me that Trey Grayson is right on the issues that matter ? both on fiscal responsibility and on national security.?
Indeed, Cheney? the man who helped construct the lies that sold the Iraq War, who endorses perpetual conflict and endless spending in order to maintain over 700 military bases overseas, and who still delusionally calls himself a ?conservative?? came out in support of Trey Grayson, one of Rand Paul?s primary opponents.
As odd as it might seem that in modern America Dick Cheney, (or anyone from the Bush administration), might still have any credibility left to anyone after the ruinous legacy that they left behind, the Grayson campaign has proudly seized the endorsement, attempting to paint Rand Paul as weak on terrorism in the same way that the Neocon establishment tried to do to his father during the 2008 presidential election.
Last week Grayson?s campaign released an ad that stated:
?Paul thinks it?s not a problem if Iran has a nuclear bomb?
Nine years after 9/11, candidates are still exploiting fear for their own political gain, painting non-interventionism as isolationism and pushing the debunked myth that Iran is close to developing a nuclear bomb when our own CIA said that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program back in 2003.
During his term as Vice President, Cheney ?ordered? the media to ?sell? a war with Iran to the American people, believing it needed only 35-40 percent of public support to do so. Even under the Obama administration the drumbeat to attack Iran has continued. Afraid that the American right might realize once again that the concept of pre-emptive war is not a conservative one, Cheney has thrown himself back into the picture, attempting to steer voters towards candidates who will continue the American pursuit of empire in the Middle East and Eurasia, and create new wars for his cronies to profit from.


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[THE KOD]

It figures that dickwad Cheney would endorse
Grayson

Two crooks in a pod

 

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