Posted on 02/05/2021 2:42:06 PM PST by RandFan
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Richard C. Shelby of Alabama, the Senate’s fourth most senior member, has told confidantes that he does not intend to run for reelection next year — prompting some Republicans to urge the powerful, establishment politician to reconsider, even as potential replacements prepare to run for his seat.
The senator in recent weeks told one close Alabama ally that he was not planning on running in 2022 for what would be his seventh term, according to the ally, who was not authorized to discuss the matter and spoke with The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. The person said some in the state were still trying to get Shelby to change his mind out of concern about losing clout and worries that the senator might be replaced by a fringe candidate who would not be as effective.
A titan of Alabama politics, the 86-year-old politician has spent 42 years in Washington, serving first in the House and the Senate. His stepping down would leave a power void for the region. It would also set off a free-for-all primary in a national party deeply divided between traditional Republicans like Shelby and those who model themselves on former President Donald Trump.
Shelby will announce his decision “in the next few weeks,” spokeswoman Blair Taylor said earlier this week.
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Sure wish you were still here to chime in...
Here comes Jeff
Shelby is a complete POS. Good riddance!
Campaignpete D-AL? WTH? Explain yourself!! 😝
bauer. DUH. He is a tad senile.
Way too many losses. I believe we only picked up the one seat (open, of course) in MO with Kit Bond. A seat Gene McNary should’ve won in 1980 against Tom Eagleton.
Other “failed to capture” seats were CA (Ed Zschau against a past-his-prime Alan Cranston) by 1.5%, CO (Gary Hart’s open), which was also lost by the same amount, and LA (Russell Long’s open seat which Henson Moore should’ve won against John Breaux).
Losing AL (Denton), FL (Paula Hawkins), GA (Mack Mattingly), NC (Jim Broyhill), ND (Mark Andrews), SD (Abdnor) and WA (Gorton) was really a stroke of bad luck. Add to that, losing the open seat of Paul Laxalt in NV (which he should not have retired from) to Dingy Harry, was rotten. We also lost the MD open seat of Mathias, but he was already so far on the left that had he run again, he’d probably have switched parties.
Probably the most galling wasn’t a seat we lost, but held. Had Goldwater done the right thing and retired in 1980, we might’ve had someone like Eldon Rudd succeed him. Instead, we ended up with the treasonous warmongering Derp State scum McQueeg inheriting the seat in ‘86. How much better off we’d have been had he never darkened the doorstep of Congress.
You’re gonna pay for that.
Chief Justice Moore was far from a nut. One of the most courageous jurists in America, bar none. He really should’ve been on SCOTUS, however. The Senate was beneath his abilities.
The age issue is the main problem for Mo Brooks (hard to acquire the necessary seniority when you’re going to be almost 70 starting off — although a Demonrat did when he entered the Senate at 69, and left almost a quarter century later at 93, Theodore Green of RI).
Bob Aderholt will have been in the House for 26 years in 2022, it would be absurd for him to chuck out that seniority to be a junior freshman Senator.
Bradley Byrne is another establishment type who has already lost statewide primaries (Governor and Senate). We don’t need another Derper occupying a high office.
Will Ainsworth is the Lieutenant Governor. I expect there may be a large battle between the lower statewide officeholders to succeed Kay Ivey.
Mo Brooks will likely run...hope so. He was my choice for Sessions seat but got beat in the primary due to Mcconnel supporting Strange.
I just realized I quit that NYC gig in Dec ‘85 so I only had the beginning of Shelby 86.
The whole Sandinista, Col. North story in Dec ‘86 solidified me as a true Reaganite.
Chris Dodd-CT and the Dems in those hearings made me sick.
Connecticut was a dreadful place to be as a right-winger ‘87 to ‘97 ...
Campaign-Pete R-CT, former D-CT
You’re in good company, DJ was a Jr. dem IIRC until he came to his senses, though he didn’t work for them.
I of course am pure as the driven snow which is AGAIN falling in bleak and FROZEN Chi. My mom got “Human Events”, “National Review”, “The Washington Times”, “The Weekly Standard”, “The American Spectator” ect when I was a kid and I read them all.
Ironically some of those became Bolshevik rags.
You knew I was on the dark side.
I rode the Peace Train with Linda Ronstadt and Tom Hayden from Boston to Nashua NH in Jan ‘80. To campaign for Moonbeam.
I met Miss Lillian and snuck over to Reagan headquarters to make calls.
I remember Bangor ‘80 caucus ... some loud guy roaming and ranting “are you ready for Teddy?”. Not many were.
Part of that was trying to appease my moonbat grandmother. She had me so misled that I thought Reagan would lose in a landslide in 1984. When he didn’t, it began to cause me to reevaluate reality. I wouldn’t “officially” become a Republican until 1986. Of course, I’ve been an independent Constitutional Conservative since 1998 (I won’t vote GOP if the candidate is clearly sabotaging the Conservative cause). ;-)
I was in Bangor the night of the ‘94 GOP “Revolution.” Didn’t have anyone to celebrate with in my motel room. :-(
My bet is that the two faced lying snake clyde chambliss will run.
“He should resign and let the guv appoint his replacement.”
Let governor memaw appoint his replacement? Are you kidding? That old hag barely knows what day of the week it is.
“Nick Saban wouldn’t take the pay cut.
Even Janet Yellen or the Big Guy don’t make Nick Saban money.”
Word on the street says that Gus Malzahn is available. 🤣
I’m amazed that Gus hasn’t been hired. I guess he can sit back and count his money right now. He’s a pretty good coach.
Is Roy Moore still around?
I had forgotten that story about ready for Teddy, lol.
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