Posted on 02/18/2022 9:55:34 AM PST by RandFan
He called Black Lives Matter activists “thugs.” He called “the transgender movement” “insane.” He called Covid-19 “a bioweapon manufactured by the Chinese Communist Party” to defeat Donald Trump. He talked about the “seep” of “illegals” at the border, describing the emigration of Haitians, Hondurans, Mexicans and Guatemalans as an “invasion” “funded” by George Soros, “orchestrated” by Barack Obama and “enabled” by Joe Biden. He said he didn’t believe in the separation of church and state because “there’s no such thing.” And he suggested he didn’t need or even want traditional GOP support. He made a fist and patted his chest at his heart.
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Mandel is 44 years old, still baby-faced, and yet he’s been a ubiquitous presence in politics in Ohio since he was in college. He’s been a relentless climber, a tireless networker, note-writer and door-knocker, an obvious striver who stair-stepped at least at the start in a methodical, traditional and even admirable way. According to interviews with more than 75 people — who have worked for him or against him or both, who like him or don’t like him or used to — Mandel has been nothing if not an eager reader and rider of political currents. And that, they say, has made Mandel a singularly vivid lens through which to chart the deep, rattling changes in politics, in Ohio, on the right and overall, over the course of this last quarter-century.
He doesn’t act the way he used to act, say so many Democrats and Republicans alike. And they’re right. He used to present as more moderate, used to preach bipartisanship and diversity and civility, and no longer does. Perhaps most importantly, he once was conspicuously unsupportive of Trump, and now he has publicly pivoted to full-fledged MAGA.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
He's a career politician who should be rejected outright.
I urge those who will vote to look at Mike Gibbons closely as an option....
How come his pivot is believed but not Vance’s?
He’s saying the right things. Pro-trump, anti-illegal, recognition of the Soros destruction of America, etc . He deserves a close look.
I only really liked Vance because he was an outsider and a fresh face.
Mandel has been in office in some form since 2007 !
Anyway, Rand has endorsed Gibbons. I think he’s the sensible choice...
Not sure we can trust any of them.
I thought Rand Paul was on our side until he backed importing more replacements for Americans.
He believes that he deserves it, and that he should be wealthy. Now quit bothering your betters.
Vance could be a Manchurian Republican but I’d give him 6 years. Same with Masters in Az. If they get 6 then 12 is automatic and they become stale. It’s vigilance. I can’t see Vance believing in the welfare state as a solver of problems-not after reading his book and seeing the flick.
Josh is a RINO otherwise the Ohio GOPe would not allow him to run. He is from the same mold as Dewine, and Voinovich - more democrat than republican.
In the 30 years I’ve lived here Ken Blackwell was the only decent republican politician. This state is doomed.
Please clarify exactly what you are saying that Rand Paul supports.
Replacements from where?
By what mechanism?
What do you think of Gibbons?
It comes across as overdone theater.
So, Politico doesn’t like him. At least he’s got that going for him. Bonus points.
He’s backing a plan to provide more visas for foreigners to come and replace Americans.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4038528/posts
Rand recently came out in support of more foreign worker visas. He apparently thinks there aren’t enough Indians in IT in the USA.
That is unfortunate.
Rand Paul is great on many things and I appreciate him in regards to all of those.
American jobs should be for Americans First though.
I hope he reverses that position because he is so great on so many other things.
Well, no one is perfect. Rand has more pluses than minuses IMHO.
Mandel is DeWine is Mitch McConnell. He is text book Rino. Still a damn sight better than Democrat Tim Ryan who has a shot if the Republicans cannot unite.
Well, no one is perfect. Rand has more pluses than minuses IMHO.
If he had called for a recess President Trump could have made hundreds of recess appointments. It only takes one.
That really is all that anyone should take away from the article. It is clearly a hit piece published because he scares the liberals at Politico. Whether or not there is anything factual in the article is impossible to say.
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