False. She is running in KY and she ended her ad with "Democrat" across the screen.

Good luck ...

https://www.govtrack.us/...s/KY#representatives

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If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. - Will Rogers

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She makes me want to move to KY just to cast a vote for her.

Yeah well, there's that.

Great ad, though.

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The devil made me do it the first time, second time I done it on my own - W

Very much so. Impressive.

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If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. - Will Rogers

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It's a great ad.

I don't know how elections work for the Senate and House but it seems to me that anyone from the military, particularly those in combat, don't have a very good chance of winning the Presidency.

Clinton, Bush 2 and Trump all did everything they could to avoid service and won handily (particularly Trump...). The Presidential nominees with service (Bush1 vs. Clinton, Dole, McCain, Kerry,) were beaten handily.

I find that a little odd.

Personally I'm sick of hearing how Repubs want to take your healthcare away, but I can see how people benefiting from Obama care get fired up regardless of how unsustainable it is.

She's a retired Marine. She's not benefiting from Obamacare. She has Tricare health insurance as a retirement benefit.

Amy was a classmate of mine at USNA. Never knew her that well, but she had a good reputation as far as I can remember.

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Slowguy

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So now the act of no longer forcing people to buy health insurance they don't want has been rebranded as "taking healthcare away"?

That's not a good ad.

That's insulting.

Oh yeah, there's no way a gnarly lesbian democrat wins in Kentucky either.



PS: the republicans can kiss my ass (McCain especially) for that cowardly bullshit they pulled last week.

Fuck all of them.

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Civilize the mind, but make savage the body.

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Must have been so hard for her to have been married to a Republican dude for 13 years and had three children.

This bit about her induction into the Ky. aviation Hall of Fame is pretty impressive (non-political). She was on the flight line at Miramar during 9/11 awaiting orders to scramble to take down airliners (as a WSO, not a pilot at the time).

I can't imagine the struggles "she" must have endured.

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Civilize the mind, but make savage the body.

- Chinese proverb

Tell that to this guy; POTUS 1953-1961. Maybe after another 3 1/2 years, what America needs is a little discipline...SLOWGUY 2020![/img]

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DFL > DNF > DNS

X2. I will likely vote with my dollars ;-)

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DFL > DNF > DNS

For the life of me I cannot imagine why you would ever need to delete any of your posts.

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I'm beginning to think that we are much more fucked than I thought.

And there were people here who thought the LR couldn't survive without your stellar contributions. Go figure.

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Every president from Eisenhower through GHW Bush were active duty during WWII.

Clinton was the only one of those 3 that won handily. G Bush and Trump just squeeked by - remember Bush was awarded the presidency by the supreme court and barely beat Kerry for reelection 286 v 251. Clinton began Vietnam as a student at Oxford then registered for the draft in law school, but got #310 (no one over #195 was drafted). Bill did protest the war though. He planned on ROTC at Arkansas, but didn't. The guy who ran that thought that he gamed the system to get a very high draft number.

Despite the situation that the armed services in the US get enormous respect (deservedly so) and if you say anything negative about them you will be stomped on it is only a tiny proportion of the population. The gap between people in the military and the general population has widened in the last 50 years. https://www.theatlantic.com/...-and-society/306158/.
It is an all volunteer army very professional and much more conservative than the population at large. I don't think the average person knows that many people in the military or can relate to what their lives are like. Ergo military service is much less likely to be viewed as an asset in the political arena. I did read a better article about this a few months ago that was more recent and from the Atlantic but a quick internet search has not found it right now.

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They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within
Dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good T.S. Eliot

Al Gore went to Vietnam and lost. Kerry lost. McCain lost. Romney got republican nomination no military service. Ms. Clinton no military service nor Mr. Trump. Military service doesn't help you win the presidency anymore. The 80s was a long time ago.

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They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within
Dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good T.S. Eliot

Worked well for so many out of staters in the Georgia election.

Obviously winning as a Democrat in Kentucky is a huge uphill battle. But if she can keep the dialogue as simple as "I fought for you against terrorists and I'll fight for you at home. All those guys do is talk," then she could be everything the right should fear. Particularly after the repeal-and-replace debacle.

Well, she is badass full of awesome. She doesn't have a prayer. The empty platitudes of love of military and country from the right will fall away when they dig into her history and destroy her. The Republican party and it's love of party above all will point out how she wants to take your money and is a leftist who loves weirdo trans people and will find some point in her career where she made a mistake that caused a brief pucker factor during a flight and call her a danger.

Go get'em Marine! You are the best and I hope you have good ideas but you are going up against old white men who look back fondly on the Mad Men days.

For the life of me I can't get myself all in a lather over some stupid political ad.

Bunch of lemmings around here.

Really? Two minutes of jets landing and "I'm a woman!!!!" is all it takes?

What she says referring to any actual policy is just an out and out lie.

I flew planes! I'm a gurrrl! Republicans want you to die!!!

Are you all really this easily manipulated by cool imagery?

Sad.

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Civilize the mind, but make savage the body.

- Chinese proverb

So if she loses no more KFC?

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How does Danny Hart sit down with balls that big?

Yeah. A story of hard work and accomplishment. YAWN! What a waste. Now your trolling on the other hand. Next level greatness.