Posted on 05/15/2022 6:23:22 AM PDT by cotton1706
As the May 17 Pennsylvania party primaries approach, it’s clear that Trumpism has reduced what was once a powerful and moderate state Republican Party to a rotten receptacle filled with candidates fashioning themselves in his image. Many of them lack much if any previous political ties to the state, or to politics at all.
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So, and not surprisingly, most of the Trump-adoring candidates in the current GOP Senate primary have few or no real political roots in the state they claim to want to represent. Dr. Mehmet Oz got his medical degree at Penn, but is really from Turkey, New York, New Jersey – and, like Trump, is really from the State of TV Fame. Hedge-fund wizard David McCormick is a western Pennsylvania native, but made his bones in D.C., his fortune in New York, and was living in Connecticut before realizing how much he cared about his roots. Carla Sands, Trump’s ambassador to Denmark, was an actress who married a wealthy California developer and spent most of her adult life there. And comes now the suddenly famous and fast-rising Kathy Barnette, who arrives in my home state from an Alabama pig farm by way of Virginia. Three days before the primary, Trump endorsed for governor Doug Mastriano, an Army vet, ultra-MAGA zealot and New Jersey native who served most of his career overseas before landing at the Army War College in Carlisle, PA.
These are essentially out-of-state, would-be franchisees bidding for a license to represent not PA but the Trump brand. How much they even know about Pennsylvania is open to question.
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It’s a challenge to and mockery of “representative” government.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Barack Obama - born in Hawaii (supposedly) but moved to Illinois and represented the state in both the state senate and US senate.
Mitt Romney - born in Michigan, was governor of Massachusetts and is now Senator from Utah
Hillary Clinton - born in Illinois, lived in Arkansas and was wife of the governor of Arkansas, then represented New York in the US senate
Nancy Pelosi - Born in Maryland, her father was a Maryland congressman, she interned for a Maryland US senator, then moved to California and now represents California
The point is, people move and settle in different places, and then choose to represent them. Nothing unusual in American history.
But to Fineman, HIS Pennsylvania is being destroyed by evil, hard-line conservatives, pushing out the old moderate-liberals.
Why didn’t Fineman use the word, “carpetbagger,” in his article?
His buddy, Mitt? Hillary?
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Apparently Fineman thinks we unwashed should be satisfied with the Republican party of Arlen Specter.
No sale Howard.
The mann is apparently just fine with Philadelphia wreaking havoc on our Democracy for decades if not centuries.
Yea, Howard doesn’t get it. This cesspool of corruption needs an outsider. Contrast the success of Trump with that of King Mega Brandon.
Also Bobby Kennedy the Carpetbagger.
Trump derangement syndrome + lefturd loonism
You mean Arlen Sphincter? God, I hated that guy.
No problem with the out of state Mules crossing state and county lines to dump in illegal ballots ay Howie? We’re not taking advice from leftards and RINO’s for ‘real’ and ‘clear’ outcomes. Look at the mess the ‘experienced’ pols have made of this nation.
An article by a DC wonk (former HuffPo and now MSNBC ‘analyst’) decrying the interference of ‘outsiders’ in PA politics. How droll.....
Fineman. Hadn’t thought of that coprolite for years.
Socialist agitprop.
States would have more lifetime residents if our economy was stable and we did not export our manufacturing to other nations.
Touche. Howard Fineman sounds like an a**.
As if Leftists like him give a crap about "representative" government.
To Leftist turds like him, "representative" government only works when it represents their wants and needs.
My immigrants good, yours bad.
Hi.
As you know there are many democrats who are/were carpetbaggers, and a number of Republicans and Librarians.
So what’s his point?
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The only litmus test should be: Will you prosecute to the fullest extent of the law, those who planned and carried out the stolen election?
That is the only relevant issue on the table because we cannot move forward without a Day of Reckoning.
Trump filled his pockets before he came to office not during. Trump wants to make America Great again while democrats, deep state and rhinos want to destroy our heritage and dictate over us. What trump does is in the open not in secret societies and private meetings. Deep stat operatives train by the world economic forum.
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