GOP gives Fletcher cool reception

FRANKFORT -- With his first chance to fire up the Republican faithful for his re-election bid, Gov. Ernie Fletcher and his remarks outlining his accomplishments drew little more than polite applause from GOP officials and supporters yesterday.

That lack of energy -- coupled with comments from GOP activists hesitant to throw their support behind Fletcher in the party's primary -- underscored an atmosphere of awkwardness and uncertainty within the Kentucky GOP.

The Republicans, who had been out of the governor's mansion for 32 years before Fletcher's win in 2003, finally have an incumbent to rally around. But so far the party has failed to embrace Fletcher.

Fletcher said he plans to build his re-election bid around touting his policy accomplishments, as he did to the GOP central committee members at Frankfort's Best Western yesterday.

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Please don't primary him. We need to boot his ass out to make up for the likely loss of Kathleen Blanco in LA.

in the primaries and defeat him.