[vundy33]

But Vundy, you are a republican, and voted for the "big spender", over the "conservative" in this case. Beshear has been a great leader, he has saved KY tons of money by cutting spending, and supporting KY's biggest industry, coal. He even cut his own salary, and his staff 10%.

Didn't know some of that. I really don't like how bad our state is doing though, I know that it's not all his fault by far, but he's our leader, has to take some responsibility. I voted on that, and just the really weird feeling he gave me.

I thought about not voting because I really hadn't had much time to research all the candidates that I got to vote for because of our workup to deployment, and I was new, spent alotof time feeling out the place. But, when I thought about it, I thought that it'd be better to vote based on the knowledge I did have, instead of not voting at all and feeling bad about it. I'm a firm believer that if I don't vote, and I am able too, that I don't have the right to bitch.

You are definitely right about Beshear being pretty conservative...I'm in agreement with that. Just couldn't shake the feeling I got from him. Got the same feeling from Vice President Biden. Hopefully, he gets Kentucky close to where we used to be. I do appreciate his stance on coal and he sent me a letter, it was a Kentucky day for coal miners or something, and talked about how they were going to honor him and other miners that have died on the job. I really liked that he took the time to actually write it out, when my dad had died two years prior...I know he was busy. Gov Fletcher sent me a letter typed up and mentioned dad, I really appreciated that too, it just meant a lot to me that the Governor took time out of his schedule to write me a letter and tell me to give him my address for care packages when I deploy. Thought that was nice, apparently he and his family do that for alot of troops, so I'm going to send him my address this time around.

I wanted to vote for him based on that, but I wanted to follow what my gut told me. I'm sure the Governor is a great guy, and the fact that he wrote the letter instead of just signing them really showed that. My feeling I got from him was that he wasn't really genuine when it came to politics, like trying to distance himself from President Obama.

I hate when people dump all the blame on a single person, like alot do to Pres Obama and acted like Pres Bush lied about Iraq. I'm definitely not singling Gov Beshear out. Like I said, hopefully he can bring even more businesses to our state and work on our unemployment. He's done a good job at bringing business to our state, and to towns that really need it.