Posted on 02/08/2023 4:12:52 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
MT-Tester has stated he is "undecided" on whether to seek re-election. OH.-Sherrod Brown is running for a fourth term.[32] WV-Joe Manchin has received cross-party endorsements from fellow senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK).
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Then there’s the 2nd tier races. You know the blue states where we can only hope for a rino to run and win.
VT. that fella’s been there long enough. Sanders is gone.
NH. Sununu is a slime ball but so what?
MD-that hunk Gov. just might appeal to the ladies-lol.
Va.-The gov. will be 3 years into his term limited 4 years. Senate’s not good enough? He has a POTUS resume on par with the Kenyan.
Mass.-Pocahauntas-Baker is chicken.
Az.-Sienma’s party issues are an opening. Never mind our 2 senate wannabes.
People we need butts in the seats. I don’t see any team players or anyone out there taking one for the team and thereby losing. Sad state of affairs. I’ll keep my money.
WVa looks good. Manchin screwed the pooch with his inflation sellout.. Ohio is not that easy. Brown is a weaselly nobody who keeps a low profile and just keeps getting re-elected for no discernible reason. It will take a strong candidate to unseat him. Michigan just seems to like to elect useless females, so if Stabenow doesn’t run, whoever the rats do put up there will be a Stabenow/whitmer look-alike. Dingell rings the bell too. Might be the year for John James to break out into the Senate. Other states, idk.
That should be the kiss of death.
As long as Manchin brings home the pork, they’ll vote for him. Most voters aren’t ideological.
Like I said let’s cut the crap. James is a 2 time loser. Stay in a safe(er) house seat-incumbency. Pay’s the same.
Sherrod Brown- a ‘strong’ candidate to defeat him? Will a strong candidate step up? Let’s cit the crap again.
Our ‘leaders are’ coming up short. Pardon me if I don’t follow.
Ohio is becoming redder yet the useless turd Sherrod Brown continues to get re-elected. Time to upset that apple cart.
With respect, I disagree on Manchin. Despite the Inflation Bill, he brings home federal dollars and the WV GOP is bereft of a bench. I lived in WV for 15 years, Manchin's family name overrides party.
Started a Prayer offensive on this. James Craig is the man in MI.
Manchin didn’t get 50% of the vote in 2018. If Mooney runs, Manchin will lose handily (he’ll also be 77).
James had his Senate race stolen twice in a corrupt state.
Post #10. He’s toast.
Pork Uber Alles!
As I’ve said, many of these “R” Governors simply don’t want to run for the Senate for a number of reasons. Chief among them ? They’re RINOs who want nothing to do with improving GOP fortunes in the Senate. It’s why Hogan in MD didn’t and won’t run, Baker in MA, Sununu in NH (he wants to be President !), Pig Vomit in OH, and Scott in VT (who promised to appoint a Demonrat had Leaky Leahy dropped dead last year).
Youngkin could bite the bullet in VA and run, he has nothing to lose in doing so. If he wins, Winsome Sears moves up to Governor a year early and becomes the first Black female Governor of any state (to the media’s horror).
Gianforte I can’t see running for MT Senator over a guaranteed 2nd term as Governor, especially given that one or both of the House members are likely to run against the ultra-leftist Tester. Zinke should’ve been the nominee in 2018, but Trump picked him for Interior instead, a baffling move and bad choice. Matt Rosendale just came up short, but he should be able to pull it off this time, so long as he doesn’t have an ugly primary if Zinke goes all in. Tester only benefits from an ugly GOP primary. I’m for Rosendale.
Very good. I never could figure it out. There was Nichols in Mt. way back. Tommy Thompson in Wisconsin. Senate was not good enough but POTUS was. Then there’s Jeb who left the governors mansion in ‘06. There were others. Engler(Mich), Pie eater in N.J., Arnold, Sandoval, Martinez(NM). It’s all about them.
*James had his Senate race stolen twice in a corrupt state.*
Fool me twice shame on me.
I certainly hope Masters or Lake do not run in Az. Both have lost already. Doesn’t matter how. Go for Ducey if there’s an opening over Sienma’s problems with the left.
I think you mean Marc Racicot in MT, a mega-RINO Bushie. I think he had Presidential aspirations, too. Senate is beneath these people. It’s one thing to be Chief Exec and top dog in your state and quite another to become 1 of 2 out of 100 members.
Tommy Thompson waited a ludicrously long time before deciding to run. He should’ve run against Kohl in 1994 or Feingold in 1998. Waited until he was almost 80 and with predictable results. Engler not running in MI was also baffling, he could’ve taken out the execrable Carl Lenin(sic) way back in 2002. Stay Puft in NJ was too scared to run against Booger Farticus. Why he was similarly scared of Menendez, who everybody knows likes to fly to the Dominican Republic to screw 13 or 14 year olds defies the imagination. Maybe Stay Puft has some skeletons of his own in his massive wardrobe.
Ah-nold the Austrian Socialist was too approving of the twin bitches in Cullyforneeah to run against either, he was a worse Governor than Off-White Davis who was recalled for him. Sandoval in Nevada was similarly useless in refusing to run against Dingy Harry.
The big reason why NM’s Susana Martinez didn’t run for any office at the end of her two terms was due to the fact that she had rather high disapproval ratings based on some penny ante scandal that the Demonrats were crowing about. I think she was burned out and I don’t begrudge her that.
It’s the ones with high approval ratings who refuse to run against Demonrat Senators that are the most galling. The party needs to play hardball with these guys telling them if they don’t run (absent a viable excuse), they will never be supported for any office again or any other plum post-office sinecures in the private or public sector.
As an example in my state of TN, we needed Lamar! to run for the Senate way back in 1984 when Howard Baker stupidly retired (he thought he was going to be President, too, in 1988). Lamar! didn’t want to give up his last 2 years to run against Manbearpig when he was absolutely needed. Instead, we had a second-tier Bushie get crushed as Reagan romped, and within 2 years, our state GOP was dead, taking some time to recover. Ah, but Lamar! decided to finally run 18 years later when the base didn’t want him - we had Congressman Ed Bryant ready to go, but Bryant didn’t have deep Derp State pockets and connections, so Lamar! bought said seat away from Bryant with Demonrat help and were stuck with that garbage for 18 additional years until he was nearly 81. What a treat. But in this case, it was all about him, too. He lied to TN when he said he’d never run for office again after running for President and once more when he said nobody needed to serve more than two terms (he ran for a third, and would’ve run for a fourth in 2020 had it not been for the fact he was going to get primaried out as he almost was in 2014 with an underfunded Conservative).
Ex-Gov. Ducey is a loser and very unpopular with the base. He had ample opportunity to run in the past and passed on doing so (stupidly appointing/supporting RINO Martha McQueeg twice). Both Lake, Masters and the state GOP ticket were victims of massive concentrated voter fraud in Maricopa County. Governor Lake, and I do call her that, if not seated following litigation, as she should, is going to be the odds-on choice of the base to run against Sinema and the regular Demonrat (Stalinazi Ruben Gallego) in a three-way race that would be difficult for the GOP nominee to lose.
fieldmarshall-I can see you’re on top of things. What gets me is who wouldn’t want to be in the world’s greatest deliberative body? Democrats have no problem with it. They’d prefer it to sex-that’s how sick they are. For our leaders to not confront it speaks of cowardice. Lawyers will take a case if they can 1) get in and out quickly and 2) win. At least that ‘sick SOB!’ Beto was a team player.
You’d be surprised as to those who don’t want to serve. 6 years is a long commitment to make to a single term, especially in a body that requires multiple terms to acquire power and influence. Add in having to fundraise, too, which you have to constantly be doing (if you go into a reelection without a minimum of $5-$10 million, you’re seen as vulnerable. In big states, you’ll need far more than that. Simple House races are needing that aforementioned amount in competitive seats, and it keeps going higher with each election). If you have to commute via airplane to your state and you have a family, unless you move them to the DC area, you’ll rarely get to see them (getting elected to Congress is often destructive to marriages, and it’s no wonder so many end up boffing their staffers or lobbyists, because they see them more often than their spouses).
Even some Demonrat Governors can be reticent, because you’re more likely to make beaucoup $$ in lobbying or big law firms. Demonrats, though, are more likely to run if only because they live and breathe politics. Republicans simply don’t, for the most part. That’s why they’re seen as the government vs. anti-government parties.
The Senate, of course, was never supposed to operate as it does now. The Founding Fathers intended them to be elected by state legislatures and represent their interests for a time until a new majority was elected, and then they were supposed to resign to allow a new Senator(s) to represent the will of that group. Once Senators discovered they weren’t legally bound to resign, they would hold on to their seats hoping their allies would regain control by the time they were up again in 6 years. And then Senators by the end of the 19th century became either puppetmasters (paying off a necessary number of legislators to elect them) or becoming willing puppets of certain special interests (i.e. railroads, mining, etc.). The corruption was so breathtaking that it led the public to demanding direct elections and the 17th Amendment.
Is it better today ? It’s simply different. Dems are overrepresented in the body and have been for some time (although as I pointed out in a post months ago, when the GOP had but a declining number of legislatures from the 1950s to the 1980s, there would’ve been 70+ Dem Senators under Reagan, enough that he could’ve been potentially impeached. Popular elections prevented that from happening). But with the GOP having a majority of legislatures now, they could have around 60 seats — BUT - the people that would be elected would likely be very nearly all RINOs or worse. Fiscal leftists that would see to it they get as much $$ as possible for their states. Fiscal Conservatives would not get elected, and if they did by accident, would be thrown out at the next election. Take a look at some of the House Speaker races in many states, in Conservative states some are electing RINOs or even Demonrat-controlled puppets (Alaska, Georgia, Texas and Ohio, as examples). They would handily reelect Demonrat leftists to the Senate with RINO help over sending Conservatives.
Perhaps it’s unfortunate the Founding Fathers didn’t stipulate a way for Senators to be elected that featured a simple way to recall them (same goes for House members). Maybe we should even shrink the (Senate) terms to 3 years each with a two term maximum. Give interest to a odd off-year races, where turnout would tend to be the lowest, but for more passionate voters. 5th, 6th and 7th year elections could be a real fiasco for the administration in power (if they make it that long). A 7th year would especially be a strong indicator for the next Presidential year.
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