TFG has one big advantage over any other "main-stream challenger: He does not care if he burns it all down. He will just found a new "party" as his personal cash cow with one or two "loyal" donors. Given that perspective, he can say and do whatever he wants, knowing that he will draw 25-30% of the potential "R" voting base. Alone, that would not be enough to win, but enough to deny any "R" candidate the Oval Office, thus ending that person's political aspirations for the foreseeable future.
Perhaps that will convince what remains of the GOP that it was not wise to clutch an asp (I won't use the correct last letter for decorum reasons) to your breast, believing it to be a wonder-weapon.
Rand Paul somehow manages to once again prove he is the dumbest man in the Senate, having learned absolutely fracking nothing from 2016. I shouldn't be surprised, but I somehow am.
Loving the newsletter, Joe. You are doing the best Hill coverage in digital media form because you both a.) gain actual and important information from Congresspeople themselves; AND b.) never forget that this isn't just a big fun game in "this town", but the fight over the potential future of liberal democracy.
Bolton? Really? What planet is he on that makes him think he should be running for President... or that he would get more than 1% of a GoP primary vote (if that).
Romney seems to understand what a good Republican presidential candidate should strive to be while basically acknowledging that such a person is unlikely to win.
Sigh…must be so disheartening for a principled person like him to come to grips with what the Republican Party has become.
Is it assumed that Trump’s shocking style of campaigning brought out a lot of non-voters, especially in the Midwest and South? If so, are those voters now permanently politically active, or will they fade away without Trump?
That phenomenon occurred following Obama’s presidency, with Black voters, if my memory serves. They did not show up for Hillary, after the enthusiasm bulge with Obama.
If yes, then Republicans should be worried, because I think they lost a lot of their sane historical base, because of Trump’s despicable behavior. Hopefully it’s a lose/lose for the future of the GOP. They richly deserve obscurity.
For Rubio to say that Trump "served" as president is a gross misuse of the word. Now if he had characterized Trump's defiling of the Oval Office as a 4-year anal rape of America, that I could get "behind."
"I pledge never to take a dime of corporate PAC money, and will fight tirelessly to fight the corporate control of Congress. I support efforts to ban Congress people from trading stocks. No one in Congress should be able to use information received as part of their office to enrich themselves. I also support other solutions like a ban on Congress people becoming lobbyists after they leave office, overturning Citizens United, getting money out of politics, and more."
Why, really, do a bunch of non-entities run for president? What's the real reason? And who wastes time and money on these campaigns? I'm asking sincerely.
Sununu and Hogan lost me when they said they would vote for Trump if he was the nominee. So far, there's not one GOP for whom I would vote.
TFG has one big advantage over any other "main-stream challenger: He does not care if he burns it all down. He will just found a new "party" as his personal cash cow with one or two "loyal" donors. Given that perspective, he can say and do whatever he wants, knowing that he will draw 25-30% of the potential "R" voting base. Alone, that would not be enough to win, but enough to deny any "R" candidate the Oval Office, thus ending that person's political aspirations for the foreseeable future.
Perhaps that will convince what remains of the GOP that it was not wise to clutch an asp (I won't use the correct last letter for decorum reasons) to your breast, believing it to be a wonder-weapon.
Rand Paul somehow manages to once again prove he is the dumbest man in the Senate, having learned absolutely fracking nothing from 2016. I shouldn't be surprised, but I somehow am.
Loving the newsletter, Joe. You are doing the best Hill coverage in digital media form because you both a.) gain actual and important information from Congresspeople themselves; AND b.) never forget that this isn't just a big fun game in "this town", but the fight over the potential future of liberal democracy.
Bolton? Really? What planet is he on that makes him think he should be running for President... or that he would get more than 1% of a GoP primary vote (if that).
Romney seems to understand what a good Republican presidential candidate should strive to be while basically acknowledging that such a person is unlikely to win.
Sigh…must be so disheartening for a principled person like him to come to grips with what the Republican Party has become.
"All of these candidates are doing their own thing—and all are studiously trying to avoid uttering the T-word."
Whatever happened to that "Say His Name" thing at a Republican get-together in Las Vegas late last year?
“South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott is gearing up for what the Wall Street Journal described as a “unity and optimism” campaign.”
Yeah, that’ll sell to people that want all grievance, all the time. Scott better find a way to work in the carnage.
Is it assumed that Trump’s shocking style of campaigning brought out a lot of non-voters, especially in the Midwest and South? If so, are those voters now permanently politically active, or will they fade away without Trump?
That phenomenon occurred following Obama’s presidency, with Black voters, if my memory serves. They did not show up for Hillary, after the enthusiasm bulge with Obama.
If yes, then Republicans should be worried, because I think they lost a lot of their sane historical base, because of Trump’s despicable behavior. Hopefully it’s a lose/lose for the future of the GOP. They richly deserve obscurity.
For Rubio to say that Trump "served" as president is a gross misuse of the word. Now if he had characterized Trump's defiling of the Oval Office as a 4-year anal rape of America, that I could get "behind."
Just a word, apparently Desantis has vowed no Advanced placement classes in FL. Evidently like t**** he loves the uneducated. Small wonder
They're all jokes, but Haley is too broad to be funny. As if the scrotum-tanning beards are going to vote for an Indian woman.
Thanedar's campaign site, https://shriforcongress.com/government-reform/. has:
"I pledge never to take a dime of corporate PAC money, and will fight tirelessly to fight the corporate control of Congress. I support efforts to ban Congress people from trading stocks. No one in Congress should be able to use information received as part of their office to enrich themselves. I also support other solutions like a ban on Congress people becoming lobbyists after they leave office, overturning Citizens United, getting money out of politics, and more."
Only DeSantis has the will and the public record to outdo Trump in cruelty and bigotry, the two biggest values of the Republican Party.
Could they be waiting for indictments? Then they gasp and clutch their pearls and say "if I had known that I wouldn't have kissed his @#$!
Why, really, do a bunch of non-entities run for president? What's the real reason? And who wastes time and money on these campaigns? I'm asking sincerely.