Thursday, 3 August 2006
Fletcher Makes Big Mistake Not Attending Fancy Farm
« Murray State Regent Nominees Sue Fletcher Administration | Main | Fatal Blow for Yarmuth? »I have been a ardent supporter of Fletcher through his dark times under a tyrannical AG. But what he is doing this weekend by skipping Fancy Farm is a monstrous mistake. One political maxim states that if you are not on the offensive you are on the defensive. And Fletcher has been on the defensive the last year. The raucous environment of Fancy Farm is the perfect opportunity for Fletcher to take the offensive. Here is roughly the speech I would give if I were in his shoes.
Hello, how is everyone doing today?
At this point the raucous heckling would begin. Even though the Democrats are not very creative, I am sure they will have something lame to chant. At this point I would look over at the partisan hacks and say
Well it sounds like the writers for the Courier Journal and Lexington Herald are here today.
But you all go ahead drown me out. Continue to shout epithets at me. Because I know you are afraid that others might actually hear the truth about the state of things in our great commonwealth. You guys are just another attempt by the party of Nancy Pelosi, Ted Kennedy, and Howard Dean to cover up the successes of this administration.
In our first 3 years we have done much good for all Kentuckians. We have reworked the state cabinets to more efficiently run government. We have reformed the tax code to better meet the demands of the day. We have taken a large deficit and turned it into a multi-million dollar surplus....
I would continue to cite other victories of the administration and then turn back to the crowd - gains in education, job growth, UPS expansion, etc
But no these partisans here, hurling insults, are trying to drown me out because they don't want you to here these simple truths. But I can't blame them. They are only taking there cues from the Courier Journal and Lexington Herald.
These two papers have written four times more stories about the attacks from Stumbo than any previous Democratic governor scandal. This imbalance makes it obvious that these efforts to vociferously denounce me at every turn is nothing more than an attempt to drown out the accomplishments of this administration.
They are taking their cues from the Attorney General. Stumbo wants everyone to believe that he is just doing his job. But what he really is doing is deflecting from the incompetence of his tenure. He is just creating a smoke screen to hid the fact that he illegally created the KBI. That he lost a $1.4 million-a-year arrangement with the Health and Family Services Cabinet to investigate welfare fraud. That he has wasted millions of tax payer dollars and countless resources trying to run me out of office.
Yes they have all put up a thick smoke screen. Hoping and praying that the average Kentuckian won't really see what is happening in this state. But it ain't going to work.
No, today, the winds of change are beginning to blow. Moving forward I am going to travel around the state and start to tell everyday Kentuckians like you out in this crowd the truth that is being hidden by the scurrilous media. We are going to go out and let people know our accomplishments. For our ideas, Republican ideas, has turned this state around. We as a state are heading in a positive direction and our brightest days are ahead of us.
And once that wind blows through and the smoke screen clears, everyone will see accomplishments that this state has achieved. And on this day of reckoning, it will be the emperor's in the media and Democratic party who will be shown to have no clothes.
God bless you, and God bless America.
It is just ashamed he isn't going to Fancy Farm to give it. This was a golden opportunity to go on the offensive for a change and he let it slip through his fingers. He had a chance to change the dynamics of the current political reality and he wasted it. What a shame.
