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What is it with Kentucky and Libertarians?

Posted on 1/6/26 at 2:03 pm
Posted by Kenna City Solja
America’s City
Member since Nov 2025
928 posts
Posted on 1/6/26 at 2:03 pm
Massie is a dick, Paul turned into a dick, yet the state has a Dem governor

Beshear won his first term by 5K votes, while the Libertarian candidate garnered 28K votes

It’s almost like Libertarians give Dems wins because of their virtue signaling…
Posted by kingbob
Sorrento, LA
Member since Nov 2010
69488 posts
Posted on 1/6/26 at 2:07 pm to
Massie is right on every issue where he breaks from republican orthodoxy and so is Paul. The only issue one can take with these libertarian leaning republicans in Congress is that they let the perfect be the enemy of the good. This is only a problem because so many republicans in Congress are corrupt and the GOP's majority is razer thin and exists practically in name only due to how many GOP'ers are staunchly or quietly anti-MAGA.

Kentucky has a libertarian streak because Appalachian people have a libertarian streak. They are extremely critical of government authority and resist it at every turn. With that said, they are also very pro workers rights, and there's a large northern city in Louisville containing a significant percentage of the electorate. The democrats used to be the workers rights/pro-union blue collar party in that area, so combined with their urban populations in Louisville (and the liberal white elites in Lexington) Bashear managed to get in power. If the GOP wants to win in Kentucky, they need to be the party of reduced government overreach and better working conditions for American laborers. Basically, they need to be MAGA, not McConnel.
This post was edited on 1/6/26 at 2:18 pm
Posted by Y.A. Tittle
Member since Sep 2003
109943 posts
Posted on 1/6/26 at 2:10 pm to
And then there’s freaking Turtle.

What a schizophrenic freaking electorate.

Yelling this from my glass house, of course.
Posted by hogcard1964
Alabama
Member since Jan 2017
18158 posts
Posted on 1/6/26 at 2:12 pm to
Kentucky is really a northern state. They have a large trash and ghetto population, so they're going to be liberal/nuts.
Posted by Zach
Gizmonic Institute
Member since May 2005
116879 posts
Posted on 1/6/26 at 2:19 pm to
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They have a large trash and ghetto population

It's from their ancestors...mostly Scottish who invented the most brutal form of wrestling in Kentucky back in the 1700s. They went beyond eye-gouging and nose biting. Let's just call it orally castrating your opponent.
This post was edited on 1/6/26 at 4:59 pm
Posted by TigerAxeOK
Where I lay my head is home.
Member since Dec 2016
35863 posts
Posted on 1/6/26 at 2:51 pm to
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Kentucky has a libertarian streak because Appalachian people have a libertarian streak. They are extremely critical of government authority and resist it at every turn. 

My ancestral Appalachian Irish roots are in full verification of your assessment. Don't let anyone tell you that mistrust in governmental authority cannot be inherently passed down among sequential generations.
Posted by StrongOffer
Member since Sep 2020
6447 posts
Posted on 1/6/26 at 3:16 pm to
quote:

Massie is right on every issue where he breaks from republican orthodoxy and so is Paul.
Posted by kingbob
Sorrento, LA
Member since Nov 2010
69488 posts
Posted on 1/6/26 at 3:59 pm to
Yes, yes I am.
Posted by Stumpknocker
SWLA
Member since Mar 2021
796 posts
Posted on 1/6/26 at 4:52 pm to
Attention starved performative rebels.
Posted by ShoeBang
Member since May 2012
22015 posts
Posted on 1/6/26 at 4:56 pm to
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They are extremely critical of government authority and resist it at every turn


You say that like it’s a bad thing. I wish more people thought of resisting authority as a virtue and not a weakness.
Posted by TheHarahanian
Actually not Harahan as of 6/2023
Member since May 2017
23325 posts
Posted on 1/6/26 at 4:57 pm to

Not saying there’s a correlation >200 years down the road, but many of the people who settled Kentucky were inspired to go west by the Whiskey Rebellion.
Posted by THRILLHO
Metry, LA
Member since Apr 2006
50251 posts
Posted on 1/6/26 at 4:58 pm to
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Massie is right on every issue where he breaks from republican orthodoxy and so is Paul.


I'm fans of both of them, but they're both soft as shite on immigration. Most of the Libertarian party is.
Posted by oldskule
Down South
Member since Mar 2016
23630 posts
Posted on 1/6/26 at 4:59 pm to
Whiskey, fast horses, and coal dust.....a bad combo!
Posted by GooseSix
Member since Jun 2012
22116 posts
Posted on 1/6/26 at 5:06 pm to
quote:

Massie is right on every issue where he breaks from republican orthodoxy and so is Paul.







Posted by L1C4
The Ville
Member since Aug 2017
16233 posts
Posted on 1/6/26 at 5:25 pm to
Someone from Alabama calling someone else trash. Lol
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