You should never kick someone when they are down. It's a lot more fun to trip them as they're sauntering by.
There's a lot of celebrating in places that aren't in eastern Kentucky over the last week. Blue's a good color on a lot of folk. But, somehow the idea has caught on that maybe the Democratic Party has pulled up stakes east of Campton.
Wonder where that idea came from?
The true blue Kentuckians west of Slade deny any knowledge of abandonment reminding us that they truly love eastern Kentucky and their yearly pilgrimage to Red River Gorge to get lost is proud proof. Their regional office is at EKU, after all! Of course the Democratic party is doing all it can to represent the unrepresented in the hills.
Except trying to get one of them elected to represent the hills.
Let's put it this way, if a third party rose up in Pike, Letcher and Floyd counties and started getting candidates elected across the 5th district, east Kentucky would still be operating in a two party system. Yes, there are still registered Democrats in Pike County but if they've got no one to vote for in the primary, does it really count?
Bull Moose in '28!
So right about now (as I write, not as you read), Satan and his minions are getting fitted for new footwear. It's the kind of footwear that has a blade attached to the sole and required equipment for that truly exotic sport known as ice hockey.
Because what just happened in Mississippi is a sign hell has truly frozen over. That state has not elected a Democrat to the senate since 1982, avowed white segregationist John Stennis. It just elected a black Democrat to the senate. No African American of any party has ever been popularly elected to the senate there.
If that's not a sign somebody's knitting scarfs down below, I don't know what is. Heck, it's leaking up. I bet you're bundled up today, too (as you read, not as I write).
You know, Kentuckians have always loved Mississippi. It's the one state you could count on to fall below us on whatever embarrassing scale states are being measured on. In other words, as long as there's Mississippi, we'll never be last.
But there they are splashing in the azure pools of sanity soaked like so many Americans united while we're dry, parched and beet red like a sunburn. Who the heck gets sunburned in November?
We do. We'll probably continue to until an organized party decides to stand up in the mountains. The blue one won't. They're working on a social media campaign to explain it's us, not them.
But if the state of Mississippi can elect a black Democrat to the senate, there is hope for someone that isn't in the party of Trump to get elected in Pike county. Come on, the devil is ice dancing on the former lakes of fire as we speak.
You should never kick someone when they're down. That doesn't stop me from waiting for old lucifer to smack the ice. I owe him one.