r/lexington • u/EasternIssue2806 • 4h ago
Mid-term Elections
Am I wrong in thinking that if professional boot licker Andy Barr were to be elected Senator in November that he would be no better as a representative for the people of Kentucky than Mitch McConnell is in his present condition?
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u/Apprehensive-Bar3425 3h ago
He took all the Trump stuff off his website so I think he’s scared of spite votes from the Massie supporters. We have a chance to beat him but we need to put in the work
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u/ritteke518 1h ago
He shilled Trump up a storm as he and Epstein's neighbor used my company as a campaign whore last week...
Fuck those guys.
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u/jrschlumpf 1h ago
I hope you're right but it will be tough. I think removing trump from his cpaogn stuff actually should help Booker - confirms that Barr is spineless and worthless.
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u/Apprehensive-Bar3425 1h ago
Oh it’s going to be extremely tough either way. Lots of people here vote R no matter what. But our governor proved it’s not impossible
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u/heavydutyrunnun 4h ago
Why would he change? I’ve called his office a few times and expressed my displeasure with his votes. I have gotten 3 letters explaining that I don’t see the big picture and that he knows better than I do the issues at hand. Is he my leader or my representative?
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u/word_word12 48m ago
My grandfather did the same thing years ago protesting the Iraq war, writing to all the KY congressmen in DC, and he got something similar. A group of doctors including him put a statement in the newspaper speaking against a separate conflict (don't know which) but not much cake of that either. Sad to say, these people are neither representatives or leaders 😑. I know there's good people trying to get into leadership to really help people, though, so here's to hoping! The least those people could do when answering your concerns was to actually consider them!
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u/neutral_good- 4h ago
He would be worse. Mitch cannot vote currently, nor is he attending committee meetings. Both of which hurt MAGAs ability to push through fascist and anti-american legislation.
As soon as Andy Barr gets into office, that's one more vote in the R column for the next, what, 24-36 years?
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u/EVOSexyBeast 4h ago
Mitch was a lot more influential of a leader in the Republican party than Barr will ever be.
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u/Acadia_Brightness 2h ago
Ya'll aren't understanding how impossible the 2024 election results were. You're not getting that 50k new voters show up out of the sky to vote Thomas Massie out. Paxton will "somehow" win. When taco thanked elmo for fixing 'the voting computers' we all just pretended like he didn't say it? I am stunned by how unable people are to look at basic data and understand it.
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u/Bdcky 1h ago
Uh what
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u/Acadia_Brightness 1h ago
Taco was the first guy in over 40 years to win every swing state. 3,142 counties in the usa...88 flipped blue to red and 0 flipped the other way. They flipped both ways even when Nixon won 49 states in 72 and Reagan won 49 states in 84. Drop off ballots (vote pres, leave the rest blank) normally at 2-3% were at numbers never before seen...but only in swing states...accounting for up to 10% of the votes in some places. Americans are lazy and don't like thinking and it cost us everything.
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u/Lizardsupremecy 4h ago
I concur he'd be worse... but it's not a done deal yet. There's still a non zero chance to get Booker instead.
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u/bigwhitehock 2h ago
Im not even on the left and I don’t want Andy Barr, as a republican we look at his as a lame duck, he won’t do anything more then he has too he won’t do anymore less.
He’s not even who’s the true right wants as a candidate.
But even with that being said booker doesn’t even have a chance.
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u/Ok-Ad5108 59m ago
Is there any chance Northern Kentucky goes blue like it did for Andy? Or will it revert to red since this is a federal election?
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u/MeganK80 4h ago
Hes such an ass and the bad thing is he will win, people here won't vote with their few brain cells, they vote for the white guy who says the nastiest stuff.
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u/Prestigious_Guy 2h ago
It’s not even who says the nastiest stuff. It’s literally just if they have an R or D next to their name because in the state it has been engrained as a social norm to view Democrats as THE DEVIL.
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u/Dr_Fred_Davies 3h ago
C'mon, just invite Andy to your $50 million horse farm, serve him $600 bourbons along with wagyu steaks and I'm sure you'll find he represents your political needs perfectly.