Well, it appears that Steve Beshear has won the governor's election in Kentucky handily. He is the Democrat. I have to say that the Democrats planned perfectly for this. It's just too bad that Ben Chandler, who was running for governor when Patton did his totally disgusting crying confession about his indiscretions with a West Kentucky political floozy. It ruined Chandler's chance to be governor at that time, and opened the door for Fletcher.

But Fletcher was over aggressive in putting his cronies in, and the Dems were waiting for him. It was easy pickins. You would think that a guy who got himself into the governor's office would have been more careful.

But Fletcher wasn't. He got himself into trouble. He opened the door for a grand jury, indictments of him and a bunch of his aides for violating state hiring laws, and then pardoned them all, including himself, before there was even a trial. It was a bad strategy.

So here we come to the campaign. This is where things get weird. Beshear basically comes out in favor of amending the Kentucky constitution to allow casino gambling. Fletcher, who up till then, had been in favor of a referendum on gambling, suddenly came out against it totally.

It's really sad when a campaign comes down to something like this. It's true that neighboring states like Illinois and Indiana are getting revenue from gambling, and that a significant amount of Kentucky money is going there. But gambling isn't any kind of long term fix to any economic problems.

Beshear campaigned on coal. He says "clean coal." But he doesn't have a clue. He says mountain top removal coal mining is OK as long as it's done right. How do you remove the top of a mountain correctly?

We'll see where Beshear takes Kentucky. I don't believe it will be that different than the republicans. But I think it does show that a lot of democrats that went republican in the past are fed up with the republicans. After hearing the pundits, and Ms. Luallen's victory speech, I think Mitch McConnell better worry. The ol' hound dogs are gonna be after him.