The Kentucky Randslide

So by now you’ve probably heard about Dr. Rand Paul; both Kentucky and Ron Paul’s favorite son (don’t tell Ronald or Robert).  In August of 2009, the little-known Ophthalmologist from Bowling Green announced his campaign for Jim Bunning’s vacated US Senate seat – and yesterday the Tea Party darling defeated the epitome of an ‘Establishment’ candidate in Kentucky’s Secretary of State Trey Grayson by 23.4%;  58.8% to 35.4% (Full Election Results here).

When Paul announced his candidacy in August, Greyson hadn’t even stepped in the race, yet was still more than double digits ahead of Paul due to his high name-ID as a Statewide-Elected Official.  Yet Paul had two things that would help demolish Mitch McConnell’s chosen son and propel him to the Kentucky Randslide of 2010:  Principles and Papa.

As founder and chairman of the anti-tax organization Kentucky Taxpayers United (KTU) since 1994, Rand was clearly a limited government conservative – something his opponent could only talk about after repeatedly asking for budget increases for his Department as Secretary of State.

And as the son of Tea Party favorite Ron Paul – the inventor of the ‘moneybomb’ – Rand had no problem raising money from all over the country – Trey Grayson even ran a commercial saying as much as 75% of his donations were from outside the state.

It also didn’t help that Trey Grayson was a Clinton Democrat in 1992, and was even a Delegate for him in the Presidential Election that year.  And in 1994, when the Democratic Party was in decline, guess what?  Time to ‘Specter’ on over to the winning side (and yes, I want to verbalise the word Specter, so please feel free to use that as much as you want).

Americans, whether they consider themselves ‘Tea Partiers’ or not, are tired of politicians who will do whatever it takes to get elected.   We saw it in Pennsylvania, and we’ll see it again and again going forward.  Strong, principled men and women who are fervently against expanding government will win big in 2010.  This is only the beginning.

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