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Top quotes from this weekend's Fancy Farm

Scott Wartman
swartman@nky.com
(From left:) U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, former U.S. Secretary of Labor (and McConnell's wife) Elaine Chao, U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, Rep. Ed Whitfield and Kentucky Department of Agriculture James Comer listen to Gov. Steve Beshear speak during the 134th Fancy Farm Picnic on Saturday.

In addition to the 20,000 pounds of barbecue mutton, those who go to Fancy Farm savor the one-liners politicians zing at each other in old-fashioned style stump speeches.

Here's a sampling of some of the best from this weekend's Fancy Farm:

"I had to get one last photo of the Senator before Kentucky voters retire him." -- Gov. Steve Beshear after he took a selfie of him and McConnell on stage

"How about our good buddy (Speaker of the House) Greg Stumbo? He's an easy target lately. I heard the other day he may be a candidate for governor. But that's a Democratic primary, and as his relatives in Floyd County would say, I don't have a chicken in that fight." -- Agriculture commissioner Jamie Comer, Republican.

"I'm not buying what they're selling. It's pretty clear that in Mitch McConnell, we've got a guy who thinks he was born in a log cabin, and it's pretty clear in Rand Paul we've got a candidate who believes he was born in a manger." -- Auditor Adam Edelen, Democrat.

"There once was a woman from Kentucky who thought in politics she'd be lucky/ So she flew to L.A. for a Hollywood bash/ She came home in a flash with buckets of cash/ To liberals she whispers, 'Coal makes you sick'/In Kentucky she claims coal makes us tick/To the liberals she sells her soul/the same ones who hate Kentucky coal/ One thing that we know is true, one thing we know is guaranteed/ She cast her first vote for Harry Reid/Grimes' real pledge is to Obama, her first vote is to Reid/As to Kentucky if that happens, it's too bad indeed." -- Limerick read by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.

"Barack Obama only needs one thing to keep his grip on power. He needs to keep the U.S. Senate. That's why all these people from the New York Times are out here in Western Kentucky. For Obama and his liberal buddies in the media, coming to Kentucky is like foreign travel. They can't tell the difference between a coal miner and a European male model" -- Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., referencing the ads for Democratic candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes that featured a European male model posing as a coal miner.

"When you finally see Sen. McConnell and I on the same stage, you realize only one of us believes women deserve equal pay for equal work. If Mitch McConnell were a TV show, he'd be "Mad Men," treating women unfairly, stuck in 1968 and ending this season." -- Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, Democrat