Posted on 11/13/2020 7:03:27 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Welcome to another chapter of the dystopian nightmare book: The Never-Ending Election.
Today’s story comes from the great state of Georgia, where, as Tyler wrote yesterday, all eyes have turned:
If Biden wins the presidency — giving Democrats a tie-breaker with Vice President Kamala Harris as the president of the Senate — Republicans just need to hold on to one seat in Georgia’s runoff elections in order to hold the majority.
That, of course, is mathematically true. The thing with thin Republican Senate majorities, however, is that they’re always vulnerable to one turncoat Republican (RIP, John McCain) who is more concerned with getting some kind words from The New York Times than in helping his or her own party. These days, the Senate Republicans’ number one turncoat threat is none other than one Mittens “Impeachment” Romney.
Sure, Romney has stuck with his party through most votes thus far. He obviously relished his backstabber role during impeachment though. Romney, as I’ve been saying for a very long time, is not the “decent” man that even his detractors like to say he is. He’s a straight-up political opportunist and attention you-know-what.
Romney is embracing his role as “the Republican whom Democrats say nice things about.” He made a big deal out of letting the press know that he didn’t vote for President Trump. A “decent” elected Republican official would have avoided the conversation altogether.
There is every reason to believe that Romney is only going to get worse. In the Democratic telling of the fairy tale, Romney is only out of sync with the “Trump Republicans.” The theory is that there will be peace in the valley once Trump is gone and Mitt will then be every Republican’s bestie.
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“Yes, 50% plus 1 vote. BTW, it’s David Perdue, not Sonny. They are cousins. This is Georgia!
I don’t see where he got up to 50%, though. Where did you see that?”
I think you replied to the wrong person. I never wrote that Purdue now has 50%. The last results I saw ( a couple of days ago) had Purdue at 49.7%. Also, on the relationship between Sonny and David Purdue, see my post above, which I sent at about the same time you sent yours.
We had 3 parties in 1856. After the Whig Party folded there was a contest between two new/new-ish parties striving to replace the Whigs as the enduring opposition party to the Democrats. While the Democrats cruised to victory, the vote split between the two new parties was about 60%/40% favoring the Republican party over the American Party. Voters accepted that choice and consolidated their support with the Republican Party.
It is true that our electoral system is not suited for a longer term survival of three major competitive parties.
People forget that we had one Speaker of the House from the American party, as they had some success in congressional elections prior to the pivotal 1856 election.
“Jon Ossoff is the Georgia version of Beto O’Rourke.”
But without Beto’s charm and good looks.
Sass is just a big mouth, but voted trump bills and judges always.
50% +1 vote
True!
Putting Romney in a Harris cabinet would be the dumbest thing the DemoNazis ever did.
If the dems get away with the Fraud in Georgia - they will take both seats.
Well, I won’t be voting, so, yeah.
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