Posted on 02/14/2019 1:00:18 PM PST by SeekAndFind
A Mary Jane Pipe Dream.
It’s not a dream, it’s a nightmare.Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin slams Green New Deal: It’s not a deal, ‘it’s a dream’
The conjunction of ruling and dreaming generates tyranny. - Michael Joseph Oakeshott
He has two options. Toe the line with the Rats, or change parties like Jim Justice did in WV. If he stays Rat and makes sensible statements, he’ll be annihilated by his cohorts. It must suck to be him right now.If this guy is not careful, he’ll get purged. It’s what socialists do to those in “The Party” that are not ideologically pure enough. Run as centrists... what a heretic. - L,TOWM
Not a whole lot of room for ambiguity about this for him, I’d say.
“Manchin wants to Gov of WV”
Then it might be to his advantage to switch to GOP, as Jim Justice did to win the governorship, per FReeper NorthMountain.
Why can’t people just do the right thing instead of calculating, manipulating, lying, etc.? Politics is so ugly.
Why should he switch? He just beat a Republican for his seat.
“if the Turtle gives Joe chairmanship of the energy committee in exchange for Joe’s flip to ‘R’.”
Interesting plot... Still, Manchin is a weasel.
As senator from West Virginia, a coal state, Manchin even though a Dem has to vote against the Green No Deal or he would be run out of W Virginia. If he were senator from Michigan he would support it. The guy has zero principles other than determining what is best for his political survival.
Joe, you are a traitor to the progressive cause - time for you to switch parties.
Jim Justice switched to DEMOCRAT to get elected. I dont trust him; Manchin is worse.
All these idiots are calling it aspirational.
I thought he had been governor of WVA....
So is Justice a Rat or a GOP now? I guess he’s a touch schizophrenic.
He was GOP up until 2015. He switched to ‘Rat to run for Governor. He got elected in 2016 as a ‘Rat, then switched back to GOP in 2017. He’s a weasel. We had a very good GOP candidate in Bill Cole. I’m not sure what sort of underhanded games Justice was/is up to.
Manchin has already been Gov. Senate is a step up. I still say he will switch eventually. He is not a leftist. He’s out of the coal fields born and raised under the Democrat family tradition. The D’s held the political power in WV for 80 years. The R’s finally got in power and are doing a great job. I’m asked Joe to switch parties several times. I have him under prayer. I believe that his Christian raising will win out.
Apparently Manchin wants to be Gov again.
http://wvmetronews.com/2019/01/11/manchin-considering-running-for-governor-again/
I believe that if Joe got a lot of nice calls from people asking him to seriously consider switching parties, it would help push him to do that. He’s not a weasel. He’s a good man who served his state as a Democrat when it wasn’t a bad word. He has been uncomfortable since he won his Senate seat.
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