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Online Luis Gonzalez

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The GOP Needs Kentucky to Step Up
« on: January 16, 2026, 10:57:36 am »
The GOP Needs Kentucky to Step Up
Two senators, decades of influence, almost no results. The Bluegrass State must deliver real Republican victories.

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Kentucky sends two Republicans to the United States Senate. One performs resistance. The other performs control. Neither delivers outcomes. One sells liberty as a brand while federal power expands unchecked. The other manages decline with procedural precision while conservative priorities stall. The result is a state with enormous political leverage and almost no practical influence on Republican governance.

Rand Paul has built a career on ideological consistency. He speaks fluently about civil liberties, limited government, and fiscal restraint. His objections are principled. His rhetoric is polished. His visibility is constant. What is missing is results. After fifteen years in the Senate, Paul’s legislative record remains thin. One meaningful law stands to his name, the FDA Modernization Act 2.0 passed in 2022. Whatever its merits, a single legislative success over a decade and a half does not constitute effective representation.

Paul’s broader body of work consists largely of bills that sound correct but go nowhere.

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Re: The GOP Needs Kentucky to Step Up
« Reply #1 on: Today at 12:02:02 pm »
Speaking of Kentucky, look for Andy Beshear to be the Democrat candidate in 2028 (unless the leftist wackos mess it up for them).  And he will win.
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Re: The GOP Needs Kentucky to Step Up
« Reply #2 on: Today at 12:07:20 pm »
Hence my tagline. The GOP right now only seems to want to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
The Republic is lost.

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Re: The GOP Needs Kentucky to Step Up
« Reply #3 on: Today at 12:15:02 pm »
Hence my tagline. The GOP right now only seems to want to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

Only because they're good at it.
If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.     -Dwight Eisenhower-

"The [U.S.] Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals ... it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government ... it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection against the government."     -Ayn Rand-