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TexasTowelie

(111,311 posts)
Mon Aug 6, 2018, 09:16 PM Aug 2018

Grimes dismisses GOP complaints about her Rand Paul 'beaten' joke

Democratic Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes said Monday that Kentucky Republicans need to get a tougher hide after some of them criticized one of her jokes about U.S. Sen. Rand Paul leading up to Fancy Farm.

Grimes, who is a rumored gubernatorial candidate in 2019, used the Democrats' annual bean supper in Marshall County on Friday night to make a crack about Kentucky's junior senator being assaulted.

"Many folks say that Rand Paul can’t be beat, they’re worried he might be too well-liked," Grimes said. "I don’t buy that. Just ask his neighbor, he can be beaten.”

Grimes was referring to an incident last year when Rene Boucher, a retired doctor and Paul's neighbor in Bowling Green, tackled the senator while he was mowing his lawn because of a dispute over piles of leaves and sticks on the property line.

Read more: https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2018/08/06/republicans-lash-out-alison-grimes-desperate-joke-rand-paul-assault/912707002/

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Grimes dismisses GOP complaints about her Rand Paul 'beaten' joke (Original Post) TexasTowelie Aug 2018 OP
Good for her. Fuck those snowflakes. marylandblue Aug 2018 #1
Republicans can dish it out, but they can't take it. madaboutharry Aug 2018 #2
Excellent atreides1 Aug 2018 #3
Now that's funny! Ohiogal Aug 2018 #4

madaboutharry

(40,153 posts)
2. Republicans can dish it out, but they can't take it.
Mon Aug 6, 2018, 09:34 PM
Aug 2018

They behave in the most disgraceful manner, scream about locking up Hillary, claim that President Obama was born in Kenya, believe in crazy conspiracy theories, and are anti-American Russia lovers. But if someone ridicules their stupidity or weakness or makes a joke at their expense they turn into crybabies. (No offense to babies.)

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