Hit the Road, Jack
October 18, 2011 - 10:19am / leanna.cannafaxKentucky Educational Television (KET) hosted the candidates for attorney general on Monday evening's episode of Kentucky Tonight. Incumbent Jack Conway has flip-flopped his position on issues important to the Commonwealth like mountain top removal and cap-and-trade.
When low approval ratings for the president rolled around, so did Jack's new take on the issues.
Who will fight back against the EPA? Who will fight back against Obamacare? Mr. Conway won't do jack.
In a state where Barack Obama carried only eight out of 120 counties in 2008, Republican nominee Todd P'Pool is not the first to label Conway a supporter of the Obama agenda. Conway, a name on the statewide election ballot three times in the last four years, was close to becoming the Democratic Party's version of Marco Rubio had he not lost his bid for the United State Senate to Rand Paul. Conway would have been a liberal superstar. Covering ground from solutions to prescription drug abuse to Conway's record cracking down on child pornography, the candidates sparred over federally mandated healthcare litigation within the first 10 minutes of airtime.
"I'm not going to take some of the valuable resources of the office of the attorney general and put 'em on a lawsuit on health care when that's an issue that's going to get decided anyway."
Conway supported the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and said when healthcare reform passed it was time for Democrats to stand up and be Democrats, whatever that means. However, during last night's televised KET debate, Mr. Conway assumed a far less aggressive stance on the fundamentally reconstructive piece of legislation. In fact, he followed one apathetic statement with another towards the will of his constituency.
"Now a bunch of AG's have sued to stop the healthcare reform. Some other AG's have sued to support it. I didn't join them either... This is an issue that's going to get decided anyway."
That's the problem, Jack. Kentucky needs a fighter.
"All it takes for Kentucky to join this historic fight," Todd said "is this pen."
College Republicans rally outside KET Studios in Lexington.
You can catch the rest of the KET debate online here.
