Election night wasn’t a good night for Kentucky Democrats. Conservative Republican Matt Bevin, who was expected to lose handily, won an easy victory over the Dem incumbent. Rand Paul’s would be Senate challenger was trounced.
The loss was particularly hard on Kentucky House Speaker Greg Stumbo, who had a lot of feelings and theories about how to make Kentucky Democrats great again. As Molly Hemingway notes:
He gave a speech that was striking for its odd content and rambling delivery. Flanked by state Reps. Martha Jane King and Jeff Greer, Stumbo discussed his thoughts on the political affiliation of Jesus and his view on what Scripture really is and how it influences politics.
“And the other thing I know is that if in fact the Bible is a book of parables, like I believe it is, think about this: Mary did not ride an elephant into Bethlehem that night,” he said to a restrained crowd.
King and Greer do their best to be supportive as the six-minute speech does everything from encourage Democrats to go to church and confront other people about politics to how he doesn’t agree with everything President Obama does.
His mangled syntax reaches a climax at the end when he makes an allusion to Hillary Clinton:
“I believe there’s a horse out there. Not American Pharoah. It’s an Arkansas Traveler. And that horse is bringing a lady jockey and that horse and that jockey are going to come to Kentucky next year and help us rebuild this party,” he says.
Bevin is the first Republican to govern Kentucky in decades. If Stumbo’s speech is indicative of the mindset of top Dems in Kentucky, it might be quite some time before Dems knock him off.
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