“He wants to make sure your kids are blackjack dealers and they can only count to 21,” Fletcher said referring to Lexington lawyer Steve Beshear, the Democrat who is running against him for Kentucky’s top job in state government.
Yes, according to Mark Nickolas of BlueGrassReport.org that’s exactly what the governor said. I raise the same question that he did, can anyone sense the desperation from the Fletcher camp?
I must admit that when the first Republican Governor in 32 years was elected in Kentucky I was a bit excited at the prospect of what impact a Republican Governor would have in Kentucky Politics. Almost four years later I have come to one conclusion, it’s not worth it. It seemed to me that as soon as Fletcher took office, Democrats in the state were just itching for Fletcher to screw up so they could pounce on him, and who is Ernie Fletcher to not oblige them.
They only had to wait to June of 2005 when Enrie decided to give the axe to certain members of the excecutive branch. Now whether politically motivated by the Attorney General Stumbo or not, I think that Governor Fletcher should have known better. By this I mean that he should have thought about the political climate of the state, and the effects upon it by the introduction of the first Republican Governor in 32 years. Kentucky has historically been a democratic state and if it weren’t for the conservative movement that has been so active in the past 15 years it probably still would be. In a state where the losers never let the victors enjoy the spoils, I think that if Fletcher was smart, he would have not done anything to try and encite the Democrats that were now united under the fact that if wasn’t one of them in the Governor’s Mansion. So Dems waited and sure enough Fletcher fires some of his executive workers sparking a debate on the merit of these firings. Two years later we are still hearing about this and Fletcher has had his entire administration paralyzed by claims of scandal, which he has more than helped with his blundering damage control.
Which puts us where we are today, with a completely desperate and overwhelmed Fletcher administration trying to stay in office by any means they can, including telling people that Casinos will mean that kids can only count to 21. The problem with that is that in counting to 21, you need to say all the other numbers we have, you can also see the order to system of numbering, and could probably deduce how the rest of it works.
But so exists the state of Fletcher’s re-election campaign. Recent polls released by the Lexington Herald leader show Beshear up by 17%. The saddest part about the whole thing is that Beshear doesn’t even have to say anything, he just needs to let Governor Fletcher keep saying the wrong things. Like when he said that he had helped create 100,00 new jobs in the state. The correct figure is more like 60,000. http://www.bluegrassreport.org/bluegrass_politics/2007/09/governor-why-do.html If you can’t even get your talking points straight, I guess I will be telling my grandchildren about the last time there was a Republican Governor in the state. Way to go Ernie!
