Joe is a country boy who is basically conservative because he was raised that way. Problem with Joe in D.C. is he is naive. It’s not hard for the slick democRATs to bamboozle him. He understood politics WV style and he could honestly say he was pro-life, pro-second, anti-tax, conservative and get elected as a D. WV democrats are usually not your liberal types. The party got a foothold 100 years ago, along with the unions and they have intrenched in Charleston to the exclusion of the rest of WV. They control the money and the unions control them. It’s been a relationship that has produced the same kind of followers that the national party has: welfare takers and union thugs. The good people are on their own trying to work hard, be honest and love God.
Thank you for the insight. Here in Texas, we used to have a lot of Democrats like that also, just without the union influence. But in the past 20 years or so, most have them have become Republicans.