Doubling Down On Red InThe Bluegrass State

After Republicans here in Kentucky spent quite a bit of time and money trying to convince everyone that all Democrats here personally worked for Barack Obama's army of Thug Life baby-eating New Black Panthers and failed miserably, it looks like they've discovered the keys to their defeat:  One, their Tea Party candidates in a state that produced Rand Paul for them last year are simply not insane enough, and two, Democrats are still allowed to vote.  Both oversights apparently must be fixed.

Loyalists in Kentucky's Tea Party movement who helped propel Republican Rand Paul to the U.S. Senate last year say they share no blame for the GOP's poor showing in Tuesday's state elections, especially in the race for governor.

Instead, they point to the Republican Party establishment, which they say too often backs and fields candidates who don't adhere to their call for limited government and fiscal responsibility.

"I'm a registered Republican, but my reasoning for Tuesday's loss is that we saw an establishment candidate, Republican David Williams, get rejected by the Tea Party," said Lexington conservative radio talk show host Leland Conway. "The establishment part of the Republican Party of Kentucky needs to learn that its candidates have to be true conservatives for the Tea Party to line up behind them and to win."

Now, the funny part is if you're a Kentucky Democrat like myself, you've long since realized that a Democrat like Gov. Steve Beshear would be a Republican in any other state in the nation, save maybe West Virginia, and a Kentucky Republican in any other state would be laughed out of the party for being a complete nutjob.  Instead, we get Sen. Rand Paul.

The notion that David "The Axe Man" Williams lost huge because he wasn't conservative enough in his crusade to rid the state of income tax, is both hysterically funny and outright bone-chilling.  Here's the thing:  if that notion is true, independent candidate Gatewood Galbraith and his Ron Paul glibertarianism would have stomped Williams AND Beshear.  Instead, Beshear got 56% of the vote anyway.

But sure guys, go ahead and run a candidate next time who has a platform of dissolving the Commonwealth of Kentucky, firing every state employee and turning us back into a territory so we can play Oregon Trail for real everyday.  I'm sure people will go for that.