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Manchin: The Last Twitch of a Dead Party
Townhall. com ^ | December 24, 2021 | Will Alexander

Posted on 12/24/2021 12:14:01 PM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 12/24/2021 12:14:01 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Wishful thinking. They have the House, Senate and the WH. Don’t deceive yourselves. It may be by a thread but they stick together Mancin not withstanding. Then there’s the Testers who vote left but talk moderate. Oz may be one that’s good at that game but his direction unknown.


2 posted on 12/24/2021 12:23:00 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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Sorry, but I don’t think the Democrat party is dying; it’s getting stronger, more communist, more totalitarian.


3 posted on 12/24/2021 12:23:52 PM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: Kaslin

Cheery and uplifting for Christmas Eve!


4 posted on 12/24/2021 12:31:28 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Kaslin

Democrat leaders have long pulled the plug on the old party, die hard rats of yesteryear just cant give them up


5 posted on 12/24/2021 12:32:11 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: Kaslin

At the very end there’s an erection and the bowels cut loose. Make of it what you will.


6 posted on 12/24/2021 12:34:56 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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“I have no clue how a man like Manchin can stay in such a brain dead party.”

Because he doesn’t agree with the author of this piece. Nor in truth, do I. Oh I think he gets the premises correct. Just not the conclusions.

Yeah. The ‘rat party has been taken over by the loons. And? I was saying that right here on this forum 10 plus years ago. So what? The question is what to do. And now that conservatives have unwisely tied their fates to the corrupt and useless gop, we’re pretty well screwed. We will never retake the leftist cesspits of the east and west coast. It’s over. What we can do, though, is learn from our mistakes and ensure that a conservative CULTURE prevails. And we can get our own people away from the cesspits while they still can.


7 posted on 12/24/2021 12:35:06 PM PST by RKBA Democrat (Cultural separation and divorce. Not partisan politics.)
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To: Kaslin

Article isn’t useful. A party is not a person so it’s not productive to compare them.

That “terminal lucidity” is fascinating. Wonder if it can ever be expanded or improved upon by medical science someday.

After declining and being close to death with almost no recognition of relatives, the person does things like talking about the children and grandchildren, advising on settlement of the estate, giving instructions about returning borrowed items and talking about their actual condition. Then after some hours or sometimes days or weeks, they die. Varies.

Mysterious.


8 posted on 12/24/2021 12:37:37 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Kaslin

I think it depends on whether or not we can muster up enough poll watchers in 2022 to ensure legitimate elections. I’m quite certain they have been using voter fraud to get their fellow communists elected since at least 1982. That’s 40 years of fraudulent elections. It has reached critical mass and it’s about what we do, not what they do.


9 posted on 12/24/2021 12:44:52 PM PST by gspurlock (http://www.backyardfence.wordpress.com)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Schumer still is majority leader and is controlling the floor agenda. Manchin still allows this to happen. He is the reason a bill like this could even be talked about. If he truly wanted to stop this sort of thing from happening, he could de-caucus from the Dems even if he doesn’t want to join the Republicans.


10 posted on 12/24/2021 12:51:17 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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“I have no clue how a man like Manchin can stay in such a brain dead party.”

Manchin is an opportunist. If the Repub’s take control next year I bet Manchin will come knocking asking to switch parties. He will then be another unreliable “swing vote” to the party, along with Murkowski, Collins and Romney. He would be out there on the news circuit grandstanding whenever a critical vote is coming up, and holding out to the highest bidder.


11 posted on 12/24/2021 12:59:19 PM PST by throwthebumsout
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You’re giving Manchin too much credit. In the end, he’ll cave in along with a few assistant democrats.


12 posted on 12/24/2021 12:59:44 PM PST by abbastanza
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So you can call it what you want but the Democrat party, today, is America’s Socialist Party.

And the GOP is still willing to cut deals with these scumbags, so that tells you all you need to know about the GOP.

13 posted on 12/24/2021 1:20:12 PM PST by Major Matt Mason (It's becoming more difficult to tell the difference between a RINO and a Marxist.)
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To: gspurlock

My parents were Republican poll watchers in the 1960’s. Some precincts were rife with fraud then. Where we live there were virtually no Republicans at that time so the Democrats cheated against each other.


14 posted on 12/24/2021 1:33:48 PM PST by packagingguy
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I’m of the opinion that they’re lacking more than 1 or 2 votes. Because it would be easy enough to buy off persuade one or two assistant ‘rats to “reach across the aisle.” That this hasn’t already happened leads me to think that they’re actually down 3-8 votes. So Manchin is just playing his part in the kabuki theater. He looks good back at home and provides cover for the rest of the ‘rats. They’re going to get the bulk of this garbage by breaking it into pieces anyway. And the gop will happily go along.
15 posted on 12/24/2021 2:03:24 PM PST by RKBA Democrat (Cultural separation and divorce. Not partisan politics.)
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The “dying” party didn’t do too bad with getting both houses of Congress and the WH. All with the cooperation of RINO-controlled state legislatures.


16 posted on 12/24/2021 2:17:04 PM PST by HandBasketHell
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I have no clue how a man like Manchin can stay in such a brain dead party.

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Manchin is a political chameleon. He has no real principles and only takes positions of convenience that keep him in his seat. He will never leave the Democrat Party.

And don't be deceived by the Democrat Party. Its got wacky ideas and may be having some internal conflicts right now but by and large they are are a more determined and savvy lot than the hapless Republicans. The Democrats stay on offense and fight for what they want. The GOP only plays defense and has no idea where its going or what its doing.

17 posted on 12/24/2021 2:25:46 PM PST by Starboard
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To: libertylover

Agree. Its rallying around the socialist/communist ideals that it believes in.


18 posted on 12/24/2021 2:26:30 PM PST by Starboard
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To: Republican Wildcat

Schumer still is majority leader and is controlling the floor agenda.

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And he will still be the de facto leader if the Repukes regain control of the senate. They are weak and will dance to his tune. The Dems run the show whether they are in the majority or not. Because Republicans let them.


19 posted on 12/24/2021 2:29:23 PM PST by Starboard
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To: Kaslin

Lazarus reflex. When my father was in the nursing home I saw people who would raise their arms to shoulder height while asleep in their wheelchairs.


20 posted on 12/24/2021 5:20:26 PM PST by brianr10
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