Beshear Madness At Fort Campbell

President Obama is coming to Kentucky today to Fort Campbell to meet with the Navy SEALs that took down bin Laden.  But the real news is who won't be there:  our "Democratic" governor, Steve Beshear (up for re-election this year).  Joe Sonka over at Barefoot and Progressive has plenty to say about Beshear pussing out.  Beshear is claiming he has too much to do in Louisville today with the Kentucky Derby this weekend.  The reality is much different:

Considering the fact that Beshear's office or campaign won't even answer my question on whether he will support Barack Obama's re-election next year, this isn't exactly shocking. Horsey duties or not, I assume he's not really anxious to have that photo op next to the president, nor having reporters there asking him that question. With David Williams' ads attacking Obama, Beshear's "get off our backs" campaign strategy, and Obama's poor numbers in Kentucky, I assume his campaign isn't exactly heartbroken about the conflicting schedules.

P.S.- Yes, and his decision is quite lame.

UPDATE: Oh, and the SEAL team that killed Osama bin Laden will be there, too.

Did I say quite lame? I meant monumentally lame.

One of Sonka's readers argues that Beshear should show up and bait his Republican opponent (most likely David Williams) into attacking Beshear supporting the guys that killed OBL.   But that would indicate Beshear A) wants national attention as a Democrat, B) is smart enough to play the political jujitsu game with a schlub like Williams in the first place, and C) actually could stand being in the same zip code as the President anyway.

On Twitter Joe puts Beshear's odds of changing his mind and showing up at about 40%.  I put it at precisely zero.  It would be interesting to see what Obama's job approval in Kentucky would be post-OBL, but I'm guessing it's not going to be too much more than the 35-39% he's been clocking since 2009.  Considering it's been going so badly in Kentucky for Obama in the last several months, pollsters have simply stopped asking since October or so, I'm betting it's even lower than that, or was up until this week.  Still, Obama might have topped 40%, and Beshear's too chicken to risk it.

Beshear doesn't have the guts nor the brains to defend even showing up to greet the President to thank the guys that killed bin Laden, and that's a pretty damning assessment given that he's the guy I would vote for in a heartbeat over any of the Republicans running for Governor here.