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Are You Ready For Senator Caitlyn Jenner?
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| 07/17/2017
| AllahPundit
Posted on 07/17/2017 9:29:43 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
You scoff now, but you’ll feel differently in 2019 when Trump and McConnell enact sweeping entitlement reform with the barest majority. Deciding votes: Senator Jenner of California and Senator Rock of Michigan.
I can’t decide if Jenner would be better off running for the House than for Senate or if a statewide run is realistically her only play. Fun fact: In the past 25 years, only one Republican has topped so much as 43 percent in a Senate race in California. That was Arianna Huffington’s husband, Michael, who in 1994 spent the most money on a non-presidential race in American history (to that point) in challenging Dianne Feinstein. He finished just shy of … 45 percent. The state has grown even bluer in the decades since, to the point where last year’s race for Barbara Boxer’s open seat produced a general election between Democrat Kamala Harris and, er, Democrat Loretta Sanchez. Thanks to California’s jungle primary, a Republican didn’t even make the top two. In fact, the largest share captured by a Republican in last year’s jungle primary was a measly 7.8 percent. Combined, the 11 Republican candidates on the ballot captured 27.9 percent, more than 10 points behind the 39.9 percent captured by Harris, the eventual winner.
Could Caitlyn Jenner even crack the final two of a primary with Dianne Feinstein in the race and/or other ambitious Democrats, like Eric Garcetti and Antonio Villaraigosa, eyeing their opportunity for higher office? Jenner’s big advantage over most other Republicans would be name recognition, of course. Her big disadvantage is that California’s conservative Republican minority might not cotton to a trans celebrity the way they would a more traditional GOPer. Jenner could be left without a constituency, too Republican for most of the state’s Democratic electorate and too personally unorthodox for the rump Republicans. That’s why I’m torn on whether House or Senate would be a smarter play. She may have an easier time running statewide as a centrist Republican than trying to get elected in one of California’s conservative red districts. Besides, why would a national celebrity want to fart around in the House for two years? The reason people like her and Kid Rock focus on the Senate is because that role would give them something of a national profile, which is what they’re used to. Getting elected to the House and becoming a face in the crowd in the lower chamber would feel like a step backward for them fame-wise.
The key bit comes at 5:45 of the clip. Exit question: Jenner’s only flirting with this idea because she has a book to sell, right? If there’s one thing Kardashians know how to do, it’s promote.
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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2018midterms; brucejenner; ca2018; caitlynjenner; elections; gopprimary; jenner2018; senate
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To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
07/17/2017 9:31:11 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: SeekAndFind
He’ll have the eunuch vote.
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posted on
07/17/2017 9:31:26 AM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Army Air Corps
More conservative than Boxhead
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posted on
07/17/2017 9:32:01 AM PDT
by
RatRipper
(Unindicted co-conspirators: the Mainstream Media and the Democratic Party)
To: SeekAndFind
I’d vote for it over John McCain...
To: SeekAndFind
He’s one of a big bunch of jackasses who I wish would just go away. It just pisses me off that the TV news people, even on FOX, still refer to him as a her.
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posted on
07/17/2017 9:33:17 AM PDT
by
laweeks
To: RatRipper
Trotsky is more conservative than Boxer.
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posted on
07/17/2017 9:33:58 AM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: SeekAndFind
Caitlyn Jenner Conquers Her Fear of Swimsuits: See Her White-Hot Style
UsWeekly ^ | August 10, 2015 | Rachel Torgerson - Celebrity Style
White-hot! After admitting her insecurities about wearing a bathing suit, Caitlyn Jenner conquered her fear and rocked a sexy one-piece on the Aug. 9 episode of her E! reality series, I Am Cait.
For her swimsuit debut, Jenner opted for a white, one-shouldered monokini with intricate ties at the back. The former Olympian, 65, kept her hair in her blown-out, straight style and topped off the entire beachy look with a lace sarong and golden hoop earrings.
Rocking a swimsuit was a tall order for Jenner, who had only recently explained that swimwear makes her feel too "exposed." "Putting on a bathing suit represents a lot to me," she said in the most recent episode. "I'm about as nervous as can possibly be right now."
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posted on
07/17/2017 9:34:30 AM PDT
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, the REAL Russia-US scandal (UraniumOne Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes) See my home page)
To: SeekAndFind
Get him the fu** OUT of the Republican Party (if he really is a member) and our of the public eye. He has normalized sexual communism and ruined a generation. Before him, trannies were seen for the freaks they are. Then he came along.
To: Buckeye McFrog
For all 9f McCain’s cuckoldry, hes not the physical embodiment of liberal faggotry like Bruce is.
To: ETL
It’s a form of mental illness.
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posted on
07/17/2017 9:36:10 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: SeekAndFind
I really don’t get it.
Maybe I am just not open-minded about some things, but this seems to be a complete non-starter.
He has NO main constituency. None.
Who in the world, are going to be his voters?
Who?
I mean I wish him all the best, but I just don’t see him winning a lot of elections.
Are democrats going to be electing him? I don’t think so.
Are Republicans going to be electing him?
I doubt it.
I really don’t see who his voters, are going to be.
Maybe I just don’t get something.
But I don’t see it.
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posted on
07/17/2017 9:37:18 AM PDT
by
cba123
( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
To: SeekAndFind
Sure. Give the freak all the attention he wants.
To: Buckeye McFrog
Agree and l think most of us would. Shows what a worthless POS traitor McCain is when a centrist trany is preferable over him.
To: SeekAndFind
You scoff now, but youll feel differently in 2019 when Trump and McConnell enact sweeping entitlement reform with the barest majority. Deciding votes: Senator Jenner of California and Senator Rock of Michigan. My prediction is we will see neither Senator Jenner OR Senator Rock.
To: 1Old Pro
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posted on
07/17/2017 9:40:36 AM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: SeekAndFind
I’m tellin ya, if that woman comes around me, I’ll kick her right in the balls! So help me Frank, right in the balls.
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posted on
07/17/2017 9:43:50 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Vaquero
The media will be all excited with “the first transgender senator.” I would never vote for a dickchopper.
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posted on
07/17/2017 9:44:16 AM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(Acting consistently in contradiction with one's human nature is de facto evidence of insanity.)
To: SeekAndFind
I never in a million years would have believed that our military would have allowed all manner of perversion and political correctness to corrupt its ranks, so nothing is out of the question at this point.
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posted on
07/17/2017 9:44:40 AM PDT
by
MichaelCorleone
(Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
To: SeekAndFind
In some ways, yes.
If Dems keep electing ‘token’ candidates they will never get anything done.
Other than that ... nauseating.
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posted on
07/17/2017 9:44:45 AM PDT
by
Lorianne
(NO)
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