Posted on 02/08/2021 7:54:18 AM PST by Onthebrink
Didn’t Testicle say that he wasn’t running again?
Manchin’s daughter RAN the company. She sold it and they are closing up operations here in Morgantown WV. 1500 people out of work.
Since there’s ‘no difference between the parties’ (according to MANY people here), what’s to get upset about?
Your GOP scare tactics don’t work. We need new party now. The GOP must die. Yes it will be painful and the sooner you Republican die-hards give up and join us the better.
And we are depending on Manchin to save us from radical Democrat policies?
Pictures of your wife, sons, and daughters naked and about to be raped and murdered would cause anyone to make a vote change...
Bow down... Obey... Snitch...
OR
Die...
OK, thanks.
The state GOP can’t seem to find a decent candidate to run against Manchin. The last one Morrissey had won state wide office twice - AG. Superficially he looked like a good choice. However he had some huge chinks in his armour vis-a-vis Manchin. He tried to be the non-professional politician candidate, except its clear he came to WV to have a political career. (He ran for Congress in either Maryland or NJ before coming to WV. I forget which !) He and his wife were both drug industry lobbyists (Wife still is!). At that time the drug industry was not popular because of rising prices and rightly or wrongly blamed for the opioid epidemic. (Still isn’t popular!) Morrissey as AG got two successful prosecutions of drug distributers but people didn’t like the punishment, felt it was too lenient. Rightly or wrongly they blamed the soft punishment on Morrissey’s drug industry ties. Then there’s the fact he’s an out-of-stater. Manchin played the native son card hard ! Manchin played football at WVU. Manchin got WVU sport legends like Jerry West & Don Nehlen to cut commercials. Manchin’s entire campaign was “I was born & raised here And you weren’t !”. The other problem - Morrissey is boring as a speaker & comes across that way on TV.!
Thanks for good info. But certainly there has to be more than one conservative in WVA who could successfully run against Manchin
This.
Pull your heads out of your butts WV
The “better choice” to run against Manchin got appointed to fill a state supreme court vacancy. Right now the only other possible choice is the governor - Justice. Whose only merit over Manchin is, he’s not Manchin.
Manchin is 74, won re-election in 2018. He’ll be 80 in 2024. Will he run again? If he can’t finagle his way to be Harris’s VP if Biden collapses within the next two years. He’ll have to decide if he wants to be the next Byrd and just be a money sigot to WV or hang it up.
They were “for it before they were against it”.
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