Posted on 05/22/2024 3:33:35 PM PDT by rdl6989
Other contenders for the role include Senate Minority Whip John Thune, R-S.D., and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, the former whip
Sen. Rick Scott of Florida announced Wednesday that he is jumping into the race to succeed Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell after he leaves the post later this year.
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I only have one issue with him. His constant desire to talk about getting rid of social security. Yes it’s an issue in 2036, but does he have to mention it every election? He’s quiet until the election year and then yells it from the rooftop.
So if he becomes the Trump VP nominee then will the Left counter with another black person, because few black people identify with the part-black Kamala Harris?
The family bought and sold enslaved black people kidnapped by tribes, Arabs and Europeans in Africa. Transactions and money paid are listed on records.
Reflections of a Jamaican Father
By
Donald J. Harris
....My roots go back, within my lifetime, to my paternal grandmother Miss Chrishy (née Christiana Brown, descendant of Hamilton Brown who is on record as plantation and slave owner and founder of Brown’s Town) and to my maternal grandmother Miss Iris from Aenon Town and Inverness, ancestry unknown to me).
The Harris name comes from my paternal grandfather Joseph Alexander Harris, land-owner and agricultural ‘produce’ exporter who died in 1939 one year after I was born and is buried in the church yard of the magnificent Anglican Church which Hamilton Brown built in Brown’s Town.
He would be a pragmatic / non-RINO choice.
Yea that is going to be a non-starter.
It was a good idea back in the 50’s but that ship has sailed.
CORNYN and THUNE are RINOS Rick Scott is good came out of business world with those walk in medical clinic was gov before di santis and moved on to senate he’s solid conservative!!
people will probably confuse him with Tim Scott a conservative black dude
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Stupid issue. This country is not France. Macron had to act like a dictator to get a pension reform passed. We can't do that sort of thing here in the States (yet).
Some one needs to replace that loser.
The vote is amongst 49 republicans. We’re not in that club. Cornyn’s a joke.
Cornyn should be thinking more about retiring than his future in the Senate. Neither he nor Thune should the leadership position.
No way cornyn or thune, wussis both.
“So if he becomes the Trump VP nominee then will the Left counter with another black person....”
The person who’s been mentioned as a possible Trump running mate is Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC). This thread is about Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL).
Tim is black. Rick is white.
Rick would be a terrible choice for VP. Before he was elected, he was implicated in significant Medicare fraud.
Oops.
Thanks for bringing me to reality.
I could live with Scott. He’s a smart guy.
I know this will be an unpopular opinion because well - I’ll just say it, I think people are irrational about Mitch McConnell based on nothing more than silly, meaningless rhetoric* - but I’m pragmatic and much as my heart says Thune, my head knows he’d run into choppy waters.
Scott has the street cred because he challenged Mitch for leadership. He’s always said the smart MAGA things - like I said, I think he’s a smart guy.
My hope would be that he recognizes leading the GOP is *not* a matter of being the loudest or most ostentatious voice, but it’s about arm-twisting, caucus cohesiveness, and ultimately - getting the votes and increasing the numbers.
*This isn’t the place for it, I know, but it really bothers me how much so-called “conservatives” have turned on Mitch. I’ve read a lot of threads ‘lauding’ Nancy Pelosi in the same manner the Brits and Montgomery lauded Rommel as the ‘desert fox’ in WW2. The fact is - without an operator as skilled as Mitch, the stalwart north star of conservatism on SCOTUS (Scalia) gets replaced a leftist and the bizarro of Scalia (RBG) gets replaced by something even worse.
Almost entirely thanks to McConnell - we got the opposite. His only failing was vote-counting and arm-twisting on the Obamacare repeal. Other than that? He’s been the best you could hope for.
It saddens me that Mitch will exit so hated by people with - sorry, but I’ll say it - attention spans of gnats. Overturning Roe was a 50 year effort and nobody deserves more credit for it than Mitch. SCOTUS - and the Dobbs decision - looks a lot different with someone who spouts rhetoric gnats like to hear, but lacks the skills to keep his eyes on the prize(s).
But - like I said. I’m pragmatic. I’m also an optimist, so Scott might be the best choice. I just hope - whatever he says publicly - he’s smart enough to recognize the things Mitch accomplished and more importantly, learn *how* he did so.
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