8 thoughts on “Alison Lundergan Grimes”

  1. Speaking as a Kentuckian, she probably also thinks Appalachian coal mines own such a large number of helicopters because they make it easier to go up and down the vertical shafts.

  2. I shouldn’t laugh because a dude got seriously, seriously hurt, but this was from a news item about this dude who was trimming trees from a helicopter that had some kind of saw attached to the bottom of the helicopter to trim the trees . . . it was for real but it sounded like the idea of using helicopters for rapid egress from mine shafts.

    1. Possibly not. A lot of my conservative friends went ballistic when McConnell won the Republican primary, and said very nasty things about the intelligence of Kentuckians, having never heard what went on here during the campaign.

      I couldn’t shake the feeling that the Tea Party candidate, Matt Bevin, who was a hedge fund manager who apparently didn’t even run his own office, wasn’t being forthright about who he was. His own campaign website wouldn’t say where he was from, other than that he was raised poor in a farmhouse with no heat – somewhere on planet Earth. Well, it turns out he’s from New Hampshire and his family has owned a manufacturing company on Bevin Road in East Hampton Connecticut since 1832, and it happens to be the only dedicated bell maker in the entire US. So if he grew up with no heat, it’s probably because… hippies. Then he claimed he was an MIT graduate, which MIT clarified to mean that he went to a three-week seminar held at MIT.

      But it got worse. He went to speak at a rally in support of legalizing cock fighting, got called on it, and denied he knew it was a pro cock-fighting rally. Then someone produces a tape of him telling the crowd that cockfighting should be legalized, so he turned around and went on the air to say that the Founding Fathers loved cock fighting and dog fighting, and that Congress should look into legalizing dog fighting. At that point his chance of defeating Grimes in the general election stood at about zero, and the Tea Party might as well have run Michael Vic.

      I had the distinct impression, given that he funds humanitarian causes (such as orphanages) throughout India and Africa and adopted four Ethiopian children, that he was in fact a liberal hippy who was trying to impersonate a conservative, because nobody who builds orphanages would really come out in favor of legalized dog fighting, but a liberal would assume that conservatives and libertarians would support that, along with incest and wife beating.

      So the choice on Let’s Choose a Senator was to stick with the Dodge Dart or go for what was behind door number two, which looked more and more like a booby prize. Since even our liberal papers can’t figure out where Alice Lundergren Grimes stands on anything, the general election will be a choice between the Dodge Dart and door number three, and door number three isn’t looking good.

      If Kentucky is going to replace Mitch McConnell with someone, it had better be someone like Dick Cheney or Grover Norquist, not “random dude.”

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