Libertarian Fail

Red Paul did it:

Thanks to Rand Paul, Russian Media Are Naming the Alleged Whistleblower

Standing next to Trump, Rand Paul demanded the media unmask the whistleblower. In a 2019 re-play of “Russia, if you’re listening”—Kremlin-controlled state media jumped on it.https://t.co/EhTQDovTgE

— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) November 6, 2019

 

The whistleblower's identity is the worst keep secret on the internet. If you don't know it by now you aren't paying attention.

 

So who is it? Does his name rhyme with Dee-Lish?

So much for the idea that if you see something, you should say something. According to The Party Of Law And Odor, "snitched get stitches."

 

Rand Paul's a traitor. Libertarian movement takes another L

 

The best argument to not vote third party:

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I looked at the numbers, and my first thought is that there sure are a hell of a lot of swing voters in Kentucky. The GOP AG candidate ran very strong.

So just looking at the numbers as a layman, I couldn’t see anything. But you’ve got that statistical wizardry, so you might be able to find something.

Nvm

 

That is the best 3rd parties can do in the current system. Good for them.

 

Total of 1,425,561 votes in the 3rd race.

The democrat got 107,628 less votes than the Democratic Governor.

That meant that about 7% (my math may be a bit off) of voters split their ticket in favor of the Democrat governor.

Or if we look at the Republican side, 118,500 voters picked the republican for attorney General, but then voted for the Democrat for governor (in theory), that is about 16% of all Republican voters split their vote.

This tells my untrained mind, that split ticket voters are a bigger effect on swinging elections than 3rd party voters.

 

BTW, if anyone thinks that McConnell may be in trouble in KY, just look at all the other races in the link that American Brumie posted.

Straight Republican shut out.

You can take the positive of the Suburbs, and how that may transfer to more swing states, but Kentucky is still solid red.

 

I don’t think he’s in trouble. But I do think he will be tied down in Kentucky.

 

Not you but random people with blue check marks on Twitter that were retweeted by the old Chicago red stars ticket rep does.

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But reading the comments they do say McConnell is also very unpopular in KY.

So perhaps he is not as safe as I would imagine.

 

I’m pretty sure Dowd is a either a Never Trumper GOPer, or a Country Over Party guy. (There’s literally a group called Country Over Party.)

 

Bevin is one of the least popular governors in the country.

I would say he lost solely due to 3 things:
1- He gutted the KyNect, the Kentucky version of the affordable health care act. It was a model program for the rest of the country. (I'm positive I mentioned it here in the past).
2-He lowered taxes but jacked up tolls.
3- He tried to gut all state pension programs, starting with the teachers, the strongest in the state. I know I mentioned it here, but Bevin introduced a mundane sewage bill, it passed the house, then they completely replaced the words, didn't allow anyone look at it, voted on the state senate, and got it passed.

He then tried to place the blame of tje shooting of a little girl directly ar the feet of a teacher's strike - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/26/us/matt-bevin-kentucky-teacher.html

 

OH!, LiberTARIAN................never mind.

 

So you’re saying he’s wildly unpopular for doing Republican things. The above is practically their national platform.

 

What that suggests to me is that most Republican voters like the idea of being Republican but don't actually like the politics of Republicans. It's an identify, a brand, an affiliation.

 

Yup. I hate when my team parks the bus and winds the clock down.


Unless we're winning. Then we're playing a master game.

 

So the trick is to be a "Republican" who acts like a Democrat, trying to pass progressive legislation and all that. Maybe the new mascot should be a different animal from the elephant. Maybe a hippo or something like that, but with horns...

 

Republican In Name Only mascot rep.

 

"Oh. Now I get it" rep

 

How about one of these? The fact that they're extinct is a nice touch too.

 

Now that's a badass looking animal!

 

Libertarians need a mascot