Posted on 07/26/2021 8:48:21 AM PDT by conservative98
Hogan says he won’t enter the race if he doesn’t see a credible path to victory: “I’m not going to go on some suicide mission.” He felt the same way while deciding whether to run for governor. “When we were having our discussions in 2010, we had a list of 15 different things, that ‘if this happened, this happened, this, this, we could be governor,’ ” one of his advisers says. “I think it’s the same thing [now].” In this case, Republican voters would have to reprioritize conservative principles over MAGA personalities. The field would need to shape up in such a way that a more traditional conservative candidate could gain traction. Most important, Hogan would have to remain popular in Maryland for the remainder of his term.
“Like I tell him,” the adviser says, “you’ve got to take care of your [back] yard first.”
Maybe it’s worth recalling, though, that Hogan was also a long shot before his first gubernatorial bid. He was little known in the state, he’d never held elected office before, and the Democratic front-runner, Anthony Brown, outspent him by a factor of three. As Hogan tells it in his book, all of his friends were warning him not to run.
“Nobody thought I had any chance whatsoever, but I really believed that somebody needed to do something about where we were,” he tells me. “So I’m not saying running for President would be a walk in the park, but it certainly is not as far-fetched as me getting elected twice in Maryland as governor.”
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If Hogan were to run, he would get less votes than Owe'Malley - another Maryland loser.
Sorry, Larry - the only way you're going to the White House is by invitation.
Delusional?
Not as much as LUKE MULLINS who wrote this garbage, but even moreso, Mullins’ editor for even allowing it to get printed.
C-L-U-E-L-E-S-S, all.
Especially those of us here in Maryland!
How about retirement?
F$%K. THIS. DUDE. NEVER VOTING FOR HIM. EVER.
He is the ultimate image of a ‘pig’ in power.
Like fat slob Christie, it takes some cahonies to continually scrape the bottom of the barrel.
The eGOP and complicit media strikes again.
Why settle for a Larry Hogan when you can have the real thing ......Jeb Bush for endless wars...
never happen...Hogan too damn ugly....
Gentlemen-I’d send him $50 if he ran for the SENATE. As for the WH I’m with you. Maryland is deep blue-we take whatever we can get.
I doubt he picks a fight with Van Hollen in ‘22 when there’s more kudos going against MAGA. Cardin would have to call it a career in ‘24. Not worth contemplating his future unless he cares about my $50.
Barf-o-rama! Confirmed NeverTrumper. Ewww,
Was his father a mailman?
Preach it, Merlin sister!
And when he went there soon after Trump was inaugurated to one of Melania's meticulously planned Governor's Dinners, he was a jackass about it afterward.
No, thanks.
I don’t want that lardball RINO for nothing.
🤍
How are you, GF?
You win the thread today!
This RINO has NO path to victory..
He’s another flaming RINO !!!
Get rid of him !!!!!
Great joke !!!
His father was Larry Hogan Sr., a Republican member of
Congress representing Prince Georges County, Maryland
and other parts of Maryland -- when Prince Georges
county was nearly all white, somewhat conservative and Republican.
I was in high school in PG Co. at that time. Larry Hogan
Sr. was one of the Republican representatives that voted
voted to recommend the impeachment of Richard Nixon.
I could never respect that man again. Outright betrayal.
He allowed himself to be bullied by the Dems and
their mouth organ the Wash. Post.
Larry Hogan Sr. passed away a few years ago.
Not bad for an old gal. What’s the use of complaining, right?
You?
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