Your Anti-Establishment Democratic Senate Candidates

Yes, children, there are actual liberals running for ol' Non Compos Mentis Bunning's Senate seat in Kentucky. Of the five declared candidates for the Democratic nomination on May 18th, Dan Mongiardo is a repug-cock-sucking Blue Dog, Jack Conway is a coward afraid of Big Coal and freakazoids, and James Buckminster is an actual anti-abortion freakazoid.

But Darlene Price and Maurice Sweeney are proud liberals who deserve your consideration.

The Herald, which gave each front-runner a profile of his own, offers a three-candidate mash-up of the options:

They might barely register in the polls. They don't get big campaign donations — except from themselves — and their TV time is mainly courtesy of YouTube.

They don't care.

The three lesser-known Democratic candidates — James Buckmaster, Darlene Price and Maurice Sweeney — in the U.S. Senate primary all show boundless optimism.

It's not a question of whether they get through the May 18 primary. It's a question of how they run their campaign leading up to November after they score a surprise knockout of Lt. Gov. Daniel Mongiardo and Attorney General Jack Conway, who have statewide name recognition and huge war chests.

"Once we get past May, we will at that point have the attention of the nation," says Sweeney. "... When I go across the state, there's a lot of indecision about whom people are going to support."

If Sweeney, Price or Buckmaster are to catch fire at the polls, they'll need to do it soon.

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