Posted on 06/07/2021 5:44:14 PM PDT by outofsalt
-PJ
Joe Manchin might be able to win the general election but he has to survive the Democratic Primary first. This isn’t 1992. The Democratic Party is now radical Left.
Manchin is a weathervane who typically takes a strong stance in the beginning, and then folds when Democrats pressure him. He has done this repeatedly throughout his Senate career. Will he do it this time? It remains to be seen.
Repub Gov now so if Manchin has an “accident”, although the Gov has to appoint a person from the same party, I’m sure he could find a verrrry conservative Democrat to serve the remainder of his term.
Note to Manchin: Stay out of small planes
Looks pretty glorious to me.
Georgia GOP is being taken over by grassroots populists. Vernon Jones will kick Brian Kemp’s butt in primary. There will be forensic audits in GA. And Marjorie Taylor Greene is the future of the GOP.
Good riddance to Loeffler and Perdue. They’d be as silent and ineffective as 98% of GOP is.
Trump gave the American people a taste of something different. I’m fine with the American people suffering for the next 2 years, so they’ll appreciate the difference, while the GOP is remade in Trump’s image.
idiotic. but at least you’re being honest about it.
With his record? But hey it worked for Romney.
The Governors election and his US Senate seat is up in 2024. If Trump runs he’s doomed. He barely won in 2018.
You're delusional.
Nope. Let’s review.
Your first claim: “He'd be gone in two years because he would never survive the primary challenge. As a Democrat he's survived, albiet narrowly in the last race, and remained in office.”
When you wrote this, just like when you made absurd claims about Pennsylvania’s Congressional districts, you had no idea that Manchin cruised against a left wing challenger in his primary. Think about basic English and writing. Sentence one, “he’d never survive the PRIMARY.” Sentence two, “As a Democrat, he’s survived, albiet [sic] narrowly in the last race.” Sentence two immediately follows sentence one, and following basic English writing rules (albeit your bad use of albeit) requires one to refer back to the immediate sentence that precedes. You were referring to the Democrat primary in the manner in which you wrote that sentence. I pointed out that he cruised.
But here is what is amazing, you boxed yourself in such a corner with your know-it-all-ism that your secondary claim is also false.
Your second claim: “Manchin could never win a GOP primary.”
Unlike you, I pointed to another example that we have in West Virginia. Jim Justice won election in 2016 as a Democrat, albeit narrowly. He switched parties in 2017, became a Republican and then won a primary challenge and general election, as a Republican, with nearly 63% and 64% of the vote.
Your Democrat party is nearly dead in West Virginia. Manchin’s chances of pulling off another statewide win in West Virginia as a Democrat are waning by the day. State legislators and local officials are jumping off the ship on a consistent basis.
Finally, I note that you ignored the question again regarding assault weapon bans. We both know why you ignored it, because you’ve been suspended from posting here for arguing that such bans were constitutional. Your mask is long lifted, we know who and what you are. Your Soros daddy needs to make a new account for you, because this one is comprised.
“I bet there are a least a handful of other Dem Senators calling both Manchin and Sinema at night thanking them all the while condemning them to the cameras each day.”
I agree. There are dems(Im as certain as I can be) that hate what is going on and want a way out.
Why back to gov? Well, if other avenues are less interesting and/or available.
It’s not fun being in the Senate especially in the minority. Things move glacially or as we see now, insanely with Leftist partisanship.
Maybe the abuse Manchin will receive will make him decide to be out of DC. The Leftists are going nuts.
Yesterday, I called Manchin’s office and thanked him for standing for the country.
An odd situation that merits the phone call.
The big issue here is if Biden cannot artificially keep the economy going with massive government spending, the economy and markets will crash in 2022.
That’s on the table.
“Manchin is term-limited out of the governor office.
-PJ”
Did not know that. Thank you.
You’re the idiot. You prove it quite often.
I’m not the one that gave the senate away because I was having a temper tantrum — and was proud of it after my foolishness was exposed.
what do you do for an encore? impeach SCOTUS justices because you’re angry?
Maybe Machin has been doing secret polling and realizing that West Virginia is turning Republican.
But, you know Nancy Pelosi would slap his hand and send him to his room.
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