Posted on 08/18/2023 3:21:37 PM PDT by aculeus
Yes, the consultants get paid regardless of whether the candidate wins or not. That’s also true with the candidates. Most aren’t trying to win, just trying to get famous and grift donors.
You’re also right about saying no to Casey. Rhonda changed how he pronounced his own last name because she told him to. You can’t get more henpecked than this.
I forgot about that!
When we got stationed in VA in 1992 there were three large areas that voted Democrat. The state had been Democrat since the reconstruction but flipped.
I always noticed that Fairfax County and the areas around Richmond and some in the Norfolk area always waited until very late on election days to submit their totals (especially Fairfax County). We always knew they were waiting to add the needed ballots to turn the election to the Dems unless it was a landslide.
Once the Clinton's started the huge influx of immigration as well as illegals and implemented the Motor Voter law, the counties of Loudoun, Fauquier, Prince William, and also Stafford were overrun with foreigners and illegals who could vote. This was the intentional doings of the Dems and the Leftists in the Republican parties and VA turned to purple and blue.
Governors in Virginia are not allowed two successive terms. He is a one-and-done Governor and is also a milquetoast. He would be a worthless President as he will fiddle around the edges and cave when he gets any real push-back. His advisors are the go along to get along gang of squish Republicans.
Republicans can be so gullible...
It reminds me of the time that Judd Gregg (R-NH)accepted Obama's nomination to be his Secretary of Commerce in 2009. After the 2008 election, Democrats gained eight seats in the Senate and were one seat shy of a super-majority (57-41-2).
New Hampshire had a Democrat governor who would replace Gregg with a Democrat, giving the Democrats cloture-proof control of the Senate.
Republicans were confounded about why Gregg would do this. Gregg believed he would have control of the 2010 Census, since it was managed by the Commerce Department. However, after nominating Gregg, Obama decided to move the Census Bureau under direct White House Control, allegedly in response to minority group complaints about Gregg.
Gregg then withdrew his name from consideration, accepted the blame for his decision to accept a position in the Obama nomination (potentially giving Harry Reid absolute control), and then declined to run again in the 2010 Senate election.
Now we have reports of DeSantis, and then Youngkin, being whispered to about giving up their power bases in their states to run for President? The conspiracy theorist in me suspects this was a plot to weaken the Republican bench, not strengthen it.
-PJ
Hope so. Those were the ones I heard on the radio defying the Governor.
I'd take Youngkin over Trump in a heartbeat.
How about Jeb! ?
Pence over Trump.
Christie over Trump.
Hallie over Trump.
I guess any old GOP hack will do, over Trump.
There's a sickness in this land.
Knock Jeb all you want. He'd be enjoying his second term right now. The Senate would be in Republican hands. Thomas and Alito would be retiring.
Yeah, it would kinda suck having another Bush in office but Jeb would be an order of magnitude better than Biden which is who Trump left us with.
“Knock Jeb all you want. He’d be enjoying his second term right now. “
The self-disclosure of the GOPe.
This is who wants DeSantis rather than Trump !
Jeb! was even more unpopular than Hillary. She would be in her second term now.
And even if Traitor Jeb! had won, those millions of illegals crossing the border, they plus millions more would be Amnestied, and already voting.
Brilliant !
Trump's "build the wall" bill that he wanted so badly to sign included amnesty for 1.8 million "dreamers." DeSantis voted against it for this reason.
He would have a better chance of surviving the coronavirus pandemic. Trump has no empathy. One of his flaws.
If we had a President who wasn't Trump, he would just have to brace the initial onslaught. Let Dr. Fauci do his thing. Then he'll be pushed out of government. Dr. Fauci is retired. He'll probably still be working at NIH if it wasn't for his treasonous actions during the pandemic.
The Wall was needed to keep even more millions from invading, like they do right now.
Paul Ryan and his @sshole cronies in the Congress (like you know who) sabotaged Wall funding, including a prohibition on buying construction materials that could be used for a Wall.
Multiple GOPe reetards who think Jeb! would be better than Trump.
This is DeSantis base !
Is that all you got?
It is more than enough to show who the deSantis supporters are really all about.
Youngkin should run against that Idiot Kaine for the Senate.
Virginia is looking for a strong name...possibly he could be the one.
To be fair, if we had any other president than Trump, Covid would've been a paragraph on page 36 of the New York Times, "Medical experts concerned over deadly flu season. The elderly and obese most affected." and this would've been the end of it.
I don't subscribe to many conspiracy theories but I truly do believe the overreaction to Covid was an effort to drive Trump from office. He'd have coasted easily to re-election on the booming economy.
And Trump stumbled right into their trap.
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