Working at a coffee shop. There is a table of 3 guys in maybe their 70s, 2 are Jewish, bitching about Biden and young people and their lack of support for the war. Both are lifelong Republicans. The gentile asks who will they vote for in 2024. They look at him as if he is a moron and say Biden of course and start quoting Trump. “I take Trump at his word” one says. “When he talks about vermin, we are on that list of vermin” says the other. “There is no longer a place in the Republican party for New England Republicans.”
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Makes you yearn for the long gone days when moderate republicans were still powerful in their party.
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Yeah, I’ve thought that one of Biden’s biggest problems is that many of the vermin don’t realize they’re the vermin.
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No one ever thinks the face eating leopards will eat THEIR face.
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This is why Mitt Romney won’t run for anything, even reelection.
Well, he’s also old. If he were 20 years younger I bet he’d run for re-election.
Also his wife has health issues which might (or might not) influence his decision.
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He’s also 76 years old, would be 83 at the end of another Senate term. As Republicans go, he’s definitely one of the better ones but still I don’t need more 70 and 80 somethings running for spots in Congress.
Ann Romney’s health issues made him reluctant to run for President back in 2008. This year, he said if he ran for reelection, he would win. He just doesn’t want it.
I agree that he would at least have a very good chance of winning. I’m less certain that the reason he’s not running is a dearth of moderate Republicans.
Regardless of his reason(s) for not running, it’s too bad for the country’s sake.
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From yesterday’s Iowa town hall on Fox:
I often say Al Capone, he was one of the greatest of all time … if you like criminals. He was a mob boss, the likes of which, Scarface they called him. And he got indicted once. I got indicted 4 times. I wonder what my father and mother would say looking down.
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Cringeworthy but mostly everything he says is of that genre.
People despair of Biden’s slight cognitive challenges but I would vote for someone with his issues over the complete idiot he will likely be running against.
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I read that the Republicans just voted down another bill for Israel aid.
Apparently it’s because they’re pissy about the border, because Caravan Season is ramping up again. I find this to be a spurious argument that’s only priming media hysteria for 2024 elections, but the claims the GOP cares about border control will influence some people.
But a low-information voter could be fed just the first line.
"Ted Cruz voted X times against helping Israel fight Hamas terrorists while Hamas held American citizens hostage. Why is Ted Cruz abandoning Americans to terrorists? As Ted Cruz surrenders our citizens, anti-Semitic hate crimes in Texas are at all-time highs under his control.
Texans aren’t stupid. Senator Cruz is appeasing radical Muslim terrorists and good Americans might die because of him. Ted Cruz - too weak on terror, too weak for Texas."
Ted Cruz - weak on terrorists, wrong for Alabama."
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This is the shame of it. I’d literally vote for an absentee president over Trump. I just don’t see him as ever thinking about what’s best for the US, which is disqualifying. I disagree with Mike Pence on most of the issues but I’d eagerly vote for him against DJT, at least I believe Pence is well intentioned towards the country.
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Now that’s a hell of a “would you rather”.
Rageful, hateful, embarrassing, but mostly ineffective?
Or calm, hateful, statesmanlike, and potentially effective?
The embarrassing one harms our country’s national standing more, such as when the entire UN laughed at him, and will probably try to cancel more of our treaties like before. We saw some of his legacy undone shortly after but the stain lingers.
I wonder if the quieter one would actually advance more anti-LGBTQ legislation, national abortion ban at 16 weeks, etc.
I truly couldn’t pick because Sweaty and Sinister.
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For me the important adjective is just “treasonous (or seditious, if you like)” vs “not treasonous”. If you can’t pass that hurdle you don’t get to play (at least for my vote sadly).
Although he was disqualified in my book when he was attacking McCain’s service record so sadly my red line was before we made it to sedition.
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I’m afraid he wouldn’t be as ineffective his second term as he was his first term.
For example, now he knows that even a lawyer as conservative as bill bar, who believes the president is almost king and our country is in moral decline because we aren’t catholic enough, still has lines he won’t cross, somewhere.
so next time he will be sure to hire lawyers with no lines at all.
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That strategy of never attacking him - and certainly never naming him at all - is really paying off for DeSantis and Haley. Maybe if they ignore him a little harder, it’ll finally pay off with the voters.
Now now. As soon the very intelligent GOP voters realize that 2020 was actually a Trump loss, I’m sure they’ll flock to the other candidates.
MAGA is famously able to consider evidence rationally and change their mind when facts don’t support them.
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Pence is a small and evil man who, when presented with the opportunity to stand up against tyranny, only did so as a last resort.
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