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Manchin has not said he'd switch parties, but he also hasn't done anything to put a stop to the Washington rumor mill
Darren Samuelsohn ^ | Dec 4 2020 | Darren Samuelsohn, Business Insider

Posted on 12/04/2020 9:38:30 PM PST by rintintin

Darren Samuelsohn @dsamuelsohn

Manchin has not said he'd switch parties, but he also hasn't done anything to put a stop to the Washington rumor mill. When Insider asked him about that prospect, he stopped short of saying he'd ever abandon the Democratic Party.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections; US: West Virginia
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1 posted on 12/04/2020 9:38:30 PM PST by rintintin
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To: rintintin

This is the stupidest of all the fake news.
Well, maybe the most typical.


2 posted on 12/04/2020 9:42:42 PM PST by mrsmith (US MEDIA: " Every 'White' cop is a criminal! And all the 'non-white' criminals saints!")
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To: rintintin

Manchin won’t switch, he just likes the attention that people give him thinking he might.


3 posted on 12/04/2020 9:45:13 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: rintintin

I doubt he will switch party’s. He loves the attention.


4 posted on 12/04/2020 9:45:48 PM PST by teletech (you)
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To: rintintin

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5 posted on 12/04/2020 9:49:27 PM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: rintintin

Why would the GOP want another Mitt Romney?


6 posted on 12/04/2020 9:51:55 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: rintintin

He’s supposed to represent the people of WV, not Schmuck Schumer.
If a gun control bill comes up, he’ll either see the light or feel the heat.


7 posted on 12/04/2020 9:56:05 PM PST by rfp1234 (Caveat Emperor)
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To: teletech
He's the Senate's Kardashian
8 posted on 12/04/2020 9:58:39 PM PST by CaptainK ("If life's really hard, at least its short")
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To: CaptainK
He's the Senate's Kardashian

Yep

9 posted on 12/04/2020 10:02:28 PM PST by teletech (you)
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To: rintintin

Great just what the GOP needs another RINO.


10 posted on 12/04/2020 10:07:50 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Speaking of Mitt, can we trade him for two 2028 wild cards?

I know it would be hard to do without him, but I think we
could suffer through it.


11 posted on 12/04/2020 10:08:12 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I'm calling for terrorist and criminal reform. Defund them now.)
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To: rintintin

See’s the future either way GA turns out and positioning himself within the critical path for influential monies on either side - GFYJM


12 posted on 12/04/2020 10:15:34 PM PST by capydick (“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Maybe he’s had a talk with the Lord and realizes He’s in charge of his next breath . . . and there won’t be any explaining at the Judgment (for that matter any of us).


13 posted on 12/04/2020 10:16:28 PM PST by Maudeen (If you were to die in the next few minutes, where will you spend Eternity? Worth thinking about.)
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To: mrsmith

“This is the stupidest of all the fake news.
Well, maybe the most typical.”
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Yes...it’s fake WITH A PURPOSE. The leftist Business Insider is trying to put into the heads of the USEFUL IDIOTS and Low IQ’ers amongst us the notion “See, it won’t matter if the two Republican candidates in Georgia lose their Senate races... Manchin will come through”.

And many of our resident IDIOTS will fall for it.


14 posted on 12/04/2020 10:17:45 PM PST by House Atreides
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To: DoughtyOne

“Speaking of Mitt, can we trade him for two 2028 wild cards?”

I’d trade him for a old single shot shotgun and a blind bird dog.

Dump all three in the same hole.


15 posted on 12/04/2020 10:24:42 PM PST by Beagle8U ("Chris Wallace comes from the shallow end of the press pool.")
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To: teletech

John McCain was the same way. He played both sides as it suited his immediate personal goals, nothing more.


16 posted on 12/04/2020 10:28:00 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Beagle8U

I hear ya...


17 posted on 12/04/2020 10:49:12 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I'm calling for terrorist and criminal reform. Defund them now.)
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To: rintintin

It’s a pipe dream for him to switch parties. First, he wouldn’t be trusted or sought out as a newly minted republican, so he’d have to get all of his leverage up front, and leverage only gets you to the next election, and I don’t think hedt be up for reelection until 2024, so any currency he had would be exhausted by then. In two years, if the Republicans held onto control, he’d be back to the end of the line. Second, he’s in a good spot with the democrat leadership, they know they can count on him when they need him and they give him some leeway elsewhere. All this crossing the aisle stuff is theater. Last, he clearly wants to be seen as this sort of moderating negotiator figure who gets courted for big votes. If he switched parties, he would become a lightning rod for Democrat hatred, especially if his defection would shift the control of the senate.


18 posted on 12/04/2020 11:01:35 PM PST by jz638
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To: rintintin

He may be our only hope to stop adding states, eliminating the filibuster or packing the courts.


19 posted on 12/04/2020 11:21:37 PM PST by JoSixChip (mcconnell is an evil bastard, and his little dog linda too)
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To: rintintin

This clown voted to impeach President Trump. He knows his days as a West Virgina Senator are numbered as a Democrat. A solid conservative will beat him in 2024, thus I expect him to make the switch to GOP after the 2022 midterm.


20 posted on 12/04/2020 11:42:13 PM PST by Mozzafiato
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