The most incorrect statement in the Herald-Leader endorsement of Greg Fischer over Bruce Lunsford in the Democrat Senate primary is this one, “Each of these two men would be a worthy candidate for the Democratic Party. And either would be a preferable alternative to McConnell, who has spent 24 years in the Senate serving his rich friends and campaign contributors far more ably than he has served Kentucky.”

That is just the typical mumbo-jumbo that’s required in liberal newspaper endorsements.

However, much of the other stuff that was written was right. In fact, it’s similar to what I wrote last weekend.

H-L feels that Greg Fischer is the fresh voice in the Senate race, and that he brings less negative political baggage to the race. That is undoubtedly true. Fischer should be preferable to Kentuckians of all races, sexes, sexual orientations, abilities, political persuasions, and every other measure of division you can think of over the incredibly undesirable Lunsford. Many of the Democratic Party elites, though, want Lunsford to be their nominee because once he is there is going to be a ton of money to go around.

There will be no unemployed Democrat operatives in Kentucky from June to November 2008. Sometimes, that matters more than the values and ideas of the person for whom everyone is working - not to mention the possibility that the nominee will actually win.

Regardless of how fresh and clean Greg Fischer is, though, he and Lunsford both are in the unfortunate political situation of being wrong on nearly every single issue that matters to Kentuckians. In this respect, Senator Mitch McConnell is the undisputed champion of the Kentucky people, and that is why he will dominate whoever emerges as the Democrat nominee.

The Courier-Journal is just being itself by choosing Lunsford. Their overwhelming desire to win plagues their decision-making so thoroughly that they have put their far left liberal values on the back burner for now and decided to help the man who they think has a slim chance of successfully buying the election with money he earned through the same sort of corporate irresponsibility they have attributed to “Bush’s Enron cronies” over these last six years or so.

Some have even speculated that Lunsford’s entire candidacy is a McConnell scheme in and of itself. That theory is that McConnell figured Lunsford could win the Democratic primary if he entered it, so McConnell approached Lunsford about running for his seat knowing that Lunsford was the weakest possible Democrat candidate. While crazy theories like this sound pretty much like the X-Files, Lunsford’s long and storied history of giving to Republican candidates, along with his infamous endorsement of former Governor Ernie Fletcher, does lend some sense of believability to the theory.

McConnell’s political savvy has caused some to be quite paranoid, overanalyzing his every move. However, Lunsford has had some success making movies lately. Is it possible that he now acting in one? Is it possible that McConnell has tricked the vast majority of Democrat bloggers, activists, and elected leaders into nominating the worst possible candidate for their far left cause?

Regardless, the simple truth is that the C-J editorial board really needs to get out of their echo chamber of a board room and onto the streets of Kentucky before choosing their next losing candidate.

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