bluegrass primitive ponders Kentucky senate race

[BattleHymn]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025682374

Fri Oct 17, 2014, 08:35 PM
kentuck (71,785 posts)

Who thinks Alison Grimes did not vote for Barack Obama??

They just had this conversation on Hardball with Chris Mathews. A couple of the guests said "maybe she didn't vote for Barack Obama? Maybe she wrote in Hillary's name? Maybe she voted for Mitt Romney?

But the question is, if she said she voted for someone else besides Barack Obama, would that not hurt her more than not saying anything? Would you vote for someone that voted for Mitt Romney?

Whether she voted for Obama or not, is it better, in the state where Obama is 29% favorable, just to let people guess who she voted for? She says she is an "independent, Kentucky woman", but she is running as a Democrat?

Wouldn't it be less confusing just to come out and say she voted for Obama but she disagrees with him on several issues?

The politics of deception seems to be working quite well for Republicans, why can't it work for a Democrat? For example, Mitch McConnell is telling the voters of Kentucky that he wants to repeal Obamacare "root and branch" but that they can keep the website, Kynect. And Corey Gardner of Colorado is a sponsor of the "Personhood" bill in Congress, yet, he says there is no such bill?? He is ahead by 6 points in the latest polls. Republicans win with their deceptions.

A good sum of Republicans like Alison Grimes, especially Republican women. She may get a good amount of switchover votes if she continues to say that it is her right to keep her vote private.

Do you think she is making the wrong decision? Is this too deceptive for Democrats to accept?

Fri Oct 17, 2014, 08:39 PM
Star Member samsingh (11,939 posts)
1. who's to say and why is that important? Her business.

romney, i don't believe even released all his tax returns, and yet was accepted by tens of millions of voters.

there's always a double standard when it comes to repugs versus us.

Fri Oct 17, 2014, 09:00 PM
Star Member yeoman6987 (3,752 posts)
9. I don't know what the best answer would be

But clearly what she said wasn't it. Still diagnosing every word after 2 weeks. Not good. She does not need this distraction.

Fri Oct 17, 2014, 08:41 PM
kentuck (71,785 posts)
3. But it confuses the hell out of them..

This is 12th dimensional chess.

Fri Oct 17, 2014, 08:43 PM
Star Member femmocrat (17,706 posts)
4. I agree with Jonathan Capehart who said there is no good answer to that question.

Either way, she loses.

Personally, I think it's a sideshow and no one's business how she voted. I was satisfied with her reply at the debate which said as much.

Fri Oct 17, 2014, 08:53 PM
kentuck (71,785 posts)
7. She hasn't wavered on her response yet.

I hope she sticks with it. I think people may come around to her view in a couple of weeks? After all, people are tired of giving up every right they have.

Fri Oct 17, 2014, 09:04 PM
kentuck (71,785 posts)
10. Politics is not so simple sometimes.

They battle to control the psychology of the simple-minded. They demonize each other. They lie about each other. As Mao said, ""Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."

Democrats tend to be idealists, honest and trustworthy. And they wonder why the scoundrels win?

 

Fri Oct 17, 2014, 09:57 PM
LawDeeDah (439 posts)
23. She was trying to be a republican

I understand that in red states Democrats are tied in and have to do unsavories for one day being able to do great savouries.

Sorry, Grimes was a loser in this. Did she think this was to be confined to only KY and not piss off a lot of people all over the land?

Still, wishes and hopes she wins, but I don't like her.

Fri Oct 17, 2014, 09:44 PM
Ykcutnek (40 posts)
18. She was asked again today by the closeted conservative mouthpiece of Big Coal and KY Republicans...

Steve Hensley of WYMT.

http://www.wkyt.com/wymt/home/headlines/Grimes-continues-to-dodge-question-of-who-she-voted-for-279624262.html

I hate that ****ing channel and the creepy drones who work there. WYMT is the FOX NEWS of East KY.

^^The above link has yet another hilarious video of the horse faced thumb twiddler refusing to answer the question.

[Carl]

Funny how they have no problem with every "when did you stop beating your wife?" gotcha questions Republicans routinely have to deal with.

[BattleHymn]

I like watching the primitives squirm around just how toxic evoking the name of their high priest Obumbles has been in 2014.

[BattleHymn]

Dear primitives,

Explain to me the differences between your support of public unionization ballot with that of the "sanctity of choice by secret ballot" privilege you afford to your party members running for public office. 



I'll wait. 

[I_B_Perky]

Fri Oct 17, 2014, 08:39 PM
Star Member samsingh (11,939 posts)
1. who's to say and why is that important? Her business.

romney, i don't believe even released all his tax returns, and yet was accepted by tens of millions of voters.

there's always a double standard when it comes to repugs versus us.

At least Romney PAID some taxes... unlike half the people in obumbles administration misadministration.

[Karin]

Democrats tend to be idealists, honest and trustworthy.

 

I just adore how they have no relationship with reality.  They don't realize that zero's constant lying (also his entire administration) has hurt the party badly.  Democrats are now associated with liars.  Incompetent ones at that.  And the DUmbasses have not one clue.

[obumazombie]

I'm still waiting for owebuma's transcripts to be released. Not that I doubt they will show him to be the most impeccable scholar to ever grace the education institutions he ever attended.