[DIRTYSECRET]

A modern day Tobacco Road. Masters needs to catch his own fire. The senate may be too high a target. Egomania perhaps-it's in all of them. Vance has the book which tells you enough about him and his experiences-good for him. 250 pages-short read. Az. is a tossup-can't gamble but all have warts.

[alstewartfan]

I really like the man, but Levin said that he was not a Trump voter in 2016 OR 2020.

[Robert DeLong]

JD Vance

He looks like an old friend of mie.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

How much of a conservative does Vance have to be to be more of a conservative than Rob Portman?

[xenia]

I’ve been let down many times by politicians who know what we want to hear to get elected. Then afterwards they do their own thing....or do nothing.

I voted for Mitch McConell over the years when I lived in Ky and then Portman when I moved to Ohio. Both great disappointments, yet they said all the right words. I campaigned for Mitt Romney. Politicians are power hungry. Do they run for power or to protect our Republic? Been burnt too many times.

So, I am very skeptical.

[keats5]

Portman is NOT running for re-election in 2022. https://dailycaller.com/2021/01/25/rob-portman-not-run-reelection-2022-ohio-senate/

[alternatives?]

Reminds me somewhat of Jeff Flake’s first run. Jeff ran as a tea party “independent thinker” guy.

[Dr. Thorne]

Vance looks like an opportunist who wants to parlay his appearances on Tucker into a Senate seat.

Regardless of "Hillbilly Elegy", this guy comes off as an elitist. We already have plenty of his type in the Senate - preening, smug, self-important Ivy Leaguers. Hard pass.

[Lowell1775]

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Is JD Vance the real deal?
https://nypost.com/2021/07/18/j-d-vance-blake-masters-promise-to-shore-up-us-workers-end-wars/ ^
Posted on 7/19/2021, 11:33:13 AM by DIRTYSECRET

Is he real or rigged?

Will he/can he fight?

Most young men do not know how much they do not know.

He is young.

His “Hillybilly” upbringing was priveledged compared to many but he seems to think it makes him special and different. Snowflakism?

Josh Mandel is abrasive and contentious, but not a pretentious navel gazer...you know what you get.

Ohio needs men that will lead us. Men that we will follow into foul weather and close combat.

Who will fight regardless?
Who will make peace at any price?

Who will it be?

[semimojo]

Pretty typical political approach. Use resentment of "elites" to pick up some MAGA base support.

Cynical manipulation that he doesn't believe, but then, he's a politician.