Letters to the editor on 6th District congressional race

Know-it-all jock

Good for Amy McGrath; she played soccer goalie. Big deal — my granddaughter played ice hockey. Every ad showing a jet or a flight suit/jacket reminds me of Annapolis and two things: Jimmy Carter, considered one of the least effective presidents; and Sen. John McCain, an American hero but co-sponsor (with Sen. Ted Kennedy, that lousy American driver) of the immigration bill which did little to solve our mess.

I worked with know-it-all fighter jocks for my entire Air Force career.

Don’t go to Washington to “fix” the system. Too many in Washington are focused on redoing the sausage factory rather than getting the sausage made. The process is messed up, but use it to get pressing needs (try opiate addiction) fixed.

If it’s beyond her hot-shot fighter-pilot personality to get it done, drop out. She could spend her time as an activist fixing problems. Quit whining.

High ground campaign

I thank Amy McGrath for being willing to run for the office of U.S. representative for Kentucky’s 6th District.

I am sure that as a retired lieutenant colonel and a mother of three, McGrath could have opted to make a contribution to our country as a private citizen in a much less stressful way. She chose to accept the abuse and the labor that running for an elected office necessitates.

She has shown herself to be highly qualified both intellectually and emotionally. I have been struck by the high-ground approach of her media ads and the honesty and lack of pandering that she shows when confronted on issues.

McGrath has my support. And I don’t think that being accused of being liberal is a turnoff — look up what it stands for.

Liberals gone wild

A headline in the Oct. 13 Herald-Leader reads: “Biden in KY: ‘American values are under assault.’ ”

Boy, is he ever right. The left-wing liberals are trying to destroy the American value system as most decent Americans know it. One sees and hears wild-eyed mobs screaming and using the “F” word every other word.

Such anger and hatred expressed by them is sickening to normal, God-fearing, American-loving people. The left-wing libs detest law and order. They are anti-Christian, anti-military and anti-First and Second Amendments.

They support antifa, killing babies and they are racist and socialist. There is no more innocent until proven guilty. The list could go on and on with their anti-American beliefs.

Sixth District congressional candidate Amy McGrath could have done better by getting Mickey Mouse instead of Vice President Joe Biden. Take a knee, libs.

God bless America. Semper Fi.

Seeking solutions

Are you afraid of Amy McGrath? Ads supporting Congressman Andy Barr want you to be. I have met McGrath and she is not frightening. She is intelligent, hardworking, caring, well-informed, independent and committed to public service. Her record is impeccable.

Labeling people is a very destructive process because it builds walls, creates false impressions and divides. The Barr campaign is one of labeling, darkness, ugliness and fear. To demonize the “other” does not inform the electorate.

Barr and McGrath see the world from different perspectives.

McGrath has said she wants to go to Washington to tackle some of the serious issues we face: racism, access to health care, the opioid crisis, natural disasters — and that she will work with anyone who wants to solve problems. Barr hasn’t done that.

I want to live in the world McGrath envisions.

Hiding on abortion

Amy McGrath, 6th District congressional candidate, has avoided answering questions regarding her views on abortion by responding that she respects "a woman's right to choose." That deceptive language is used by liberal feminists to hide the fact that if the choice is made to have an abortion, the result is the death of a baby.

Dr. Bernard Nathanson, a medical doctor and abortionist, realized he had been deceived once he saw an abortion on a newly developed ultrasound. He had worked to legalize abortion but sought to correct his mistake by filming an abortion in progress, entitled, “The Silent Scream,” to persuade others of the terrible wrong.

It is way past time to call out the liberal feminists who continue the deception that it is "a woman's choice." Millions of babies have suffered and died in abortion since 1973. Nice-sounding phrases feminists hide behind must be replaced with the truth.

We’re not stupid

This Republican isn’t taken in by Congressman Andy Barr’s “comparison” ads. That he uses “comparison” instead of “attack” illustrates how dumb he thinks his constituency is. He takes a yellow banana, paints it brown and says it’s rotten. If you peel it, it’s still good inside. If Barr was as nice as he’d have us think, he wouldn’t stoop to such tactics.

The coal miner in his ad has an artfully smudged face, while the rest of him is clean. Barr’s pro-wall ad shows it being scaled. Who writes the scripts?

There is no middle-class tax cut. Barr voted for a tax cut for corporations, with a bait-and-switch sop for the masses. His health insurance plan includes the option of buying junk plans that don’t cover office visits, expensive medicines or rehab.

Barr’s ads say much about his lack of integrity and character. He should be ashamed. This Republican is disgusted.

No foe of coal

Contrary to what you see in Congressman Andy Barr’s TV commercial, Amy McGrath is not proposing anything that would damage Kentucky’s coal jobs. McGrath promises to build on the success of existing programs and start new ones.

Yes, many large utilities are shifting away from coal, and nothing President Donald Trump or Barr are doing will change that. McGrath wants to cooperate with Toyota and Panasonic and install charging stations that use local coal-generated electricity to fuel electric vehicles. McGrath also wants to extract rare earth elements from coal, building on research already underway at the University of Kentucky. She has progressive ideas about re-purposing coal lands.

McGrath had nothing to do with anti-coal comments made by Hillary Clinton three years ago. She doesn’t believe in radical or dangerous environmental regulations, and she has a solid plan to improve the quality of lives in the coal fields.

Vote out lapdogs

Tapes of President Donald Trump very casually taking the Lord’s name in vain provide proof that to Trump, the Ten Commandments are just scripts from the past that are not really relevant today. Additionally, money is Trump’s god and adultery is OK.

How can Congressman Andy Barr, Sen. Mitch McConnell or any other supporter of Trump say with a straight face that the president is a good Christian leader?

MAGA (Make America Great Again) is also the Spanish word for magician (maga). Magicians lead people to believe a false “reality” based on illusion, conjuring, dishonesty, immorality and deception. This is Trump to a T. The only way we can steer America back toward true Christian values is to vote in November for someone other than the White House MAGA’s immorally complicit lapdogs currently in Congress. WWJD?

McGrath honorable

Much of the complimentary bipartisan talk following Sen. John McCain’s passing was of his honest and ethical presidential campaign and the example he set which unfortunately has not been followed often since. It’s interesting that it has taken Amy McGrath, another Navy grad (in your district), to show voters where the all-too-rare high road is. The honorable campaigns are run by the honorable candidates and in your case it’s McGrath. I coached McGrath at the U.S. Naval Academy in the late 1990s and was a peer of hers when she returned. We spent long hours discussing issues and politics.

While her opponent throws stones at her in the form of dishonorable attack ads, McGrath will continue to do the right thing now and as she would do as a member of Congress.

I haven’t been solicited to write this. I’m a Republican who would vote for the honorable candidate, McGrath.

What ‘liberal’ means

I have watched with mild amusement Congressman Andy Barr’s explosion of TV ads proclaiming that Amy McGrath is “too liberal for Kentucky.” It caused me to think.

If you like clean air and water instead of pollution by super-rich companies, you are a liberal.

If you believe separating parents from their children at borders is inhumane, you are a liberal.

If you adhere to our Declaration of Independence that all persons are created equal and should not be subject to discrimination, you are a liberal.

If you think middle-class Americans like teachers, police officers and firemen should be better compensated instead of giving enormous tax credits to banks and corporations, you are a liberal.

Of course, labels don’t mean much, so I will support McGrath, who like Sen. John McCain, graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and flew jets in combat and is not a career politician.