Posted on 05/15/2018 12:47:10 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
FENTON, Mo. — As GOP Rep. Ann Wagner prepared to introduce candidates in a Republican Senate debate here Friday, she took a pointed jab at one contender who didn’t make it — front-runner Josh Hawley.
“I try not to tell candidates how to run their races. I don’t know where some of the other candidates are,” she told POLITICO before taking the stage in a high school auditorium, referring specifically to Hawley. “Perhaps they have conflicts. But you gotta show up to win. And I’m going to tell that to the crowd tonight.”
Moments later, Wagner followed through, declaring to the raucous applause of Republican voters on hand that “showing up matters.”
The scene encapsulated widespread concerns about Hawley. Star-struck Senate Republican leaders anointed the 38-year-old, Stanford- and Yale- educated state attorney general as their top recruit of 2018 — a squeaky-clean figure they saw as the future of the party and an ideal opponent to take on the endangered Democratic incumbent, Sen. Claire McCaskill.
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One Choke Artist comes to mind is a kid from high school named Tommy. That guy was so fast on his feet that he might have ended up as an Olympic runner. He was that good. However, his big problem is that he was a Choke Artist. No matter how many body lengths he was ahead of the competition (and he was ALWAYS ahead near the end) he also ALWAYS choked. Something inside him prohibited him from winning any race although he could have easily won all of them. It was actually amazing to see how much Tommy slowed down in the final yards. The guy changed from a wing-footed Mercury to an arthritic turtle.
It made no difference how long the race was. Tommy ALWAYS managed to lose. Something inside his Choke Artist soul prohibited him from winning. Is Josh Hawley also a Choke Artist?
Hawley probably choked the primary when he went after Greitens. He thought Eric to be weak and unpopular, and his mentor, John Danforth, likely convinced him that he’d make points with independents and women. Meat puppet.
We’ll see for sure, but if he is indeed a choke artist, one has to wonder.. what kind of spell does McCaskill cast on GOP challengers that causes them to crash their candidacies?
I believe Hawley is a putz. A punk. A feckless twerp. I noticed this when he came out against our Governor, with the worst possible timing. He piled in blindly while a super-corrupt afro-racist prosecutor in sick corrupt St. Louis was building a completely false case against the Governor. (She had to drop the case yesterday).
I emailed the MO GOP today, asking if they learned anything at all from 2016.
Morons.
If you want to know how stupid Hawley is, look at the coverage KMOX, no conservative bastion, has given the corrupt Greitens prosecution. A liberal named Charlie Brennan has been on this for months, and he made a great case against the corrupt prosecutor.
Hawley has proven what a stupid preppie he is. Wagner should get in the race.
Please, Missouri Republicans, don’t blow another opportunity to let Claire McCaskill spend more time with here family. And we definitely need as many senate pickups as possible.
Choke Artists gotta choke. At the other end of the spectrum from a Choke Artist is Trump. Nobody ever campaigned harder than he did in 2016. Even after the final full day of campaigning on 11/07/16, he flew in to Michigan to do a post midnight rally there on Election Day.
Hawley's run for the AG office was the only election he's ever been in. Running for senate is a lot different from running as a state Attorney General and it's questionable if Hawley has the heart or the desire or the flat out ability to go through a major campaign. As the article points out he's not impressing people with his performance in his current job and he doesn't seem to care enough about the Senate to put in the work needed. McCaskill is not an opponent to be taken lightly. She will use every tool, fair or unfair, at her disposal to win reelection. If Hawley doesn't get his act together he's going to wind up as a footnote in McCaskill's senate career.
She doesn't need any mojo. Never underestimate the Missouri GOP's ability to screw things up.
And I give the McCaskill campaign about a week before starting the whispering campaign that Hawley forced her to drop the case because Greitens is a fellow Republican. Might help with the women's vote.
Hawley had nothing to do with the case being dropped. It was based on lies, crimes (on the prosecuting side) and a sneaky $100,000 cash admitted to be from Soros! The prosecutor became a witness! who would have been shredded. Only then did she drop the case.
Hawley (MO AG wannabe senator) said the governor should resign and hemmed and hawed about his own prosecution of Greitens - just as it was becoming abundantly clear how bogus the St. Louis prosecution of the governor was.
Greitens is an ivy-league warrior. Hawley is just an ivy-league child.
And by the way, how does anyone know there’s nothing in Hawley’s closet? Just because he looks like a pusillanimous 22 year old punk doesn’t mean there’s nothing there.
Greitens has fought so far and I don’t think he will quit. Hawley is good luck for McRascal and bad luck for MO and the nation.
Rep. Ann Wagner should have run and I still hope she will.
You know that. And I know that. But there are a fair number of women in the state who might be influenced by the suggestion that Hawley robbed some poor woman of justice. Many not be many who will fall for that line, but McCaskill needs every vote she can get.
Wagner and no other Republican can run, as the filing period closed at the end of March.
What you said!
I look at that little twerp and I despair that we will have another six years of McCaskill.
Tony Monetti is a candidate. He looks interesting. 54 and a former B2 pilot.
I’m going to apologize here to Hawley for my name-calling.
He’s a million times better than McCaskill.
Was just very irritated when he piled on Greitens.
But Greitens brought it on himself - in part.
Vote for Hawley.
Saying he didn’t really want to run is hardly what would kill his chances. He could turn it around and say, “Yes, that’s true. I didn’t. But I was called to run.”
Of course, if Hawley continues to act criminally disinterested in the job, maybe he should drop out (or at least let him win the nomination and then be substituted - which is the only way Wagner or someone else of stature could get the nomination).
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