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How Rick Scott Crashed and Burned Twice in One Year
AEI ^ | November 18, 2022 | By Marc A. Thiessen

Posted on 11/21/2022 6:32:49 PM PST by lasereye

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I'm old enough to remember when the Republicans were the party that knew what it was doing at the organizational side of elections (as opposed to messaging). They've never been good at messaging (with some big exceptions). Now they're an organizational mess too.
1 posted on 11/21/2022 6:32:49 PM PST by lasereye
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This article doesn’t even mention Scott’s proposal to sunset Social Security. I’ll bet that helped GOP senate candidates a lot


2 posted on 11/21/2022 6:37:08 PM PST by NeverCheney
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To: lasereye

It is starting to look like there are as many real crooks in the Republican party as in their sister party. Maybe more.
Maybe a public merger is in order.
The Republicrat Uniparty.
.... .. ... .... and the horse they rode in on


3 posted on 11/21/2022 6:40:11 PM PST by Tupelo (A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand)
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To: NeverCheney

[This article doesn’t even mention Scott’s proposal to sunset Social Security. I’ll bet that helped GOP senate candidates a lot]


Lindsey Graham’s mention of a Federal abortion ban weeks before the election was probably no less important. Graham is proof positive that having a brain isn’t necessary to keep breathing.


4 posted on 11/21/2022 6:44:50 PM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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To: NeverCheney

“This article doesn’t even mention Scott’s proposal to sunset Social Security.”

His plan did not specifically call out SS.


5 posted on 11/21/2022 6:45:35 PM PST by TexasGator (!!!)
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To: lasereye

Lots of blame to go around on our side. They’re spines are mostly linguini. Except 45, DeSantis, Lake MTG, Boebert and a very few others.


6 posted on 11/21/2022 6:46:11 PM PST by toddausauras (Trump Lake 2024....Go down swinging!)
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To: Tupelo

[It is starting to look like there are as many real crooks in the Republican party as in their sister party. Maybe more.
Maybe a public merger is in order.
The Republicrat Uniparty.
.... .. ... .... and the horse they rode in on]


Not crooks. Morons. Democrat brains go into government. GOP brains go into the private sector. So we’re stuck with retards representing us, and the Dems get brilliant connivers like Schumer, who got a perfect SAT score.


7 posted on 11/21/2022 6:47:24 PM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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To: lasereye

Rick Scott looks like an alien or Voldemort from Harry Potter. I have no idea why anyone would vote for him, much less put him in charge of Republican campaigns.

It’s nice that he’s anti-McConnell, but that’s a very low bar. Scott’s incompetence is what enabled McConnell to buy these new Republicans’ loyalty. They had no choice but to rely on him since Scott failed.


8 posted on 11/21/2022 6:50:32 PM PST by GulliverSwift
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To: NeverCheney

Yep. Rick Scott and his”tax the poor” proposal together with Graham’s “national ban on abortions’ tell you all you need to know about why the senate was not won.


9 posted on 11/21/2022 7:00:03 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative )
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To: Zhang Fei

Not morons. Sabotage. There are quite a few RINOs in the Republican party who will deep six any candidate to the right of Gorge H. W. and George W. Bush. To be complete, there are also Republicans who badmouth some of our left-wing Republicans in districts and states where the incumbents or candidates feel that principled stands won’t win.

Any Republicans in the South running on an anti-slavery platform in 1956-1860 weren’t afraid of losing an election.


10 posted on 11/21/2022 7:01:28 PM PST by bIlluminati (Demonetize the Left. Buy nothing from them. Sell nothing to them. Shun them.)
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To: lasereye

Warrior Warren knows how to shake the wampum tree.

Whenever I visited her website, it asked for a handout.


11 posted on 11/21/2022 7:03:50 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: lasereye

Mitch has one great aspect, he tries hard to be majority leader.


12 posted on 11/21/2022 7:08:00 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: NeverCheney

As bad as Scott’s SS tactical blunder was the GOP biggest weakness is their blindness to the wrecked voting integrity. Half of these fools don’t believe the cheating is real and the other half is ok with it.


13 posted on 11/21/2022 7:09:58 PM PST by gibsonguy
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Marc Thiessen is a Bush Republican. He hates Trump. It would have been better if Scott defeated McConnell.


14 posted on 11/21/2022 7:11:51 PM PST by TakebackGOP
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To: lasereye

Okay, let me see if I can bring everyone back into reality.

The senior elected official in the republican party in the Senate... is a traitor... relax... he has been a traitor for a long time.

Mitch McConnel is not the head honcho, but he is close.

The Bush family... is working for... wait for it...

The CCP

Don’t believe me... read Chaos Under Heaven by Josh Rogan.


15 posted on 11/21/2022 7:12:50 PM PST by WinstonSmith1984
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To: NeverCheney

As bad as Scott’s SS tactical blunder was the GOP biggest weakness is their blindness to the wrecked voting integrity. Half of these fools don’t believe the cheating is real and the other half is ok with it.


16 posted on 11/21/2022 7:25:28 PM PST by gibsonguy
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“ Lindsey Graham’s mention of a Federal abortion ban weeks before the election was probably no less important. Graham is proof positive that having a brain isn’t necessary to keep breathing.”

You’re implying that Graham isn’t smart enough to know his abortion proposal would hurt GOP chances of taking the Senate. I give him more credit for intelligence. I believe he announced the proposal precisely to stop the GOP from taking the Senate. He answers to folks who wanted the party’s prospects to be sabotaged. And he dutifully obliged.


17 posted on 11/21/2022 8:09:28 PM PST by NeverCheney
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To: NeverCheney

Probably correct


18 posted on 11/21/2022 8:21:44 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: lasereye

There is more than enough blame to share over the Republican failures in the midterms. Still having worked as a middle manager during the senator’s reign with HCA, I can attest that Scott’s number one mission is to promote Rick Scott at the expense of others.


19 posted on 11/21/2022 8:21:54 PM PST by buckalfa (Kilroy was there, but who was he?)
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To: GulliverSwift

He completely creeps me out.


20 posted on 11/21/2022 10:39:20 PM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
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