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.
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I could not have guessed that by this he meant Philadelphia, the land of Rizzo and his thuggish police.
It's best symbol is a cracked liberty bell, which kind of sums up the democratic view of our constitutional republic.
LOL.
I have no excuse except spell check.
5.56mm
Thanks for the morning chuckle :-)
Whaa wha wha.
Here is a kleenex. Dry those tears little fella.
Heaven forbid that a CITIZEN, not a professional career politician, would run for office. Horrors!
He was Keith Olbermann’s special correspondent, so there’s no reason to ever pay attention to anything he has to say.
It seems to me that the ‘birthplace’ of which he speaks is more now more correctly called the ‘scene [womb] of an abortion’ of our Constitutional principles given the left’s penchant for Constitution and baby-hating. His story basis just shows the duplicitous deviousness of leftists, IMO.
Blame Trump blame Trump, never yourselves
Yep....a worthless leftist with the power of keyboard and microphone.
“””what was once a powerful and moderate state Republican Party””””
Fineman confirms for us that the ‘powerful and moderate Republican Party’ controlled what happened in Pennsylvania.
One thing this ‘powerful and moderate’ GOP did was to pass Act 77 which allowed PA to illegally and unconstitutionally send out mail-in ballots.
He says this as if they're bad things!
Judging from the author’s historical positions on candidates, he despises anyone who isn’t popular with the mainstream media at the moment he writes his opinion.
Fineman, who cares less about the health of the Republican Party than I do about Pelosi’s hairdo, lets several cats out of the bag.
1) Dems rely on Republican politicians remaining a club of insiders who know how to “get along”.
2) Dems bray about threats to Democracy. Evidently Democracy does not include the People electing representatives of their choice who aren’t Dem-friendly insiders. To Dems, the People’s role is to obey the established political gangs.
3) Dems fear that outsider Republicans have a good chance of being elected. The Gang is not pleased.
Fineman actually has a point about Senators. Senators are meant to be a conservative brake on radical change, representing their States, but with a statesmanly eye on national interests. Thus Senators are best when they have deep experience and connections with their State governments and economies, some exposure to national government, and at least a pretense of education, integrity, gravitas, and intellect. Lightweight celebrities, football coaches, athletes, politician’s widows, etc., are ill-equipped to perform the job as the Constitutional envisioned and needs. (This is not to say that electing idiots and rogues is new). Popular election of Senators is a failure.
Jay Rockefeller From NYC to W.Va. as Governor & Senator.
And here I thought Americans have a Constitutional right to travel, relocate, and run for office.
Trump officially moved to Florida. Guess he’s not a “real” Florida citizen?
Thank you for your commonsense post.
Howard Fineman, a liberal from extinct outlets that couldn’t make payroll because their products sucked, excuse my vernacular, “were found lacking” amongst readers.
So now he’s found a shell to hide under in RealMuddyPolitics.spam.
Why would anyone post such crud when there is Revolver, Epoch Times, Western Journal, and so many others that actually do deep verifiable investigative journalism?
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