This is my last threadjack post here. Sarah Huckabee Sanders governor of Arkansas was quoted on some local media that she wishes that children could have the same sort of Arkansas that she had when she was growing up. She forgot that the governor for the first 10 years of her life was Clinton.
Yeah...but she was really pining for someone like Gov Faubus back in '57. Ps....as for...."This is my last threadjack post here."
I have to add, how many Republican governors have we heard hyped up only to fail and I mean fail? Jeb "Please Clap" Bush? Walker? Perry? Christie? And DeSantis is that, boring. That voice of his isn't going to do him any favors at all. He has no personal skills to speak of, and as I mentioned before: when he's around people with actual strength he shrinks.
Miller has a theory on this - basically the GOP base don't like traditional republicans. The Jeb / Youngkin type can win governorships because they can carry the independent/moderate type voters who don't like the cray cray But they can't win a GOP primary so easily since Trump - base voters realised they don't have to have Mittens+Ryan
That'd make sense but the GOP is losing races and the crazy candidates have pretty much taken over. See Blake Masters, Kari Lake, I mean Boebert almost lost and her district is red as it gets. Did you see the Michigan GOP's candidate? Her view on abortion was things like no exceptions even in rape (And she said having the rapist's child would be healing for the mother). They don't have the veneer of seriousness anymore, and Youngkin only worked because VA's Dem candidate was just bad. And now, they're trying things like cutting social programs, as if they forgot what happens when they try it.
Someone can check this but I think that Youngkin didn't have to win a primary but ended up winning a caucus in VA that the establishment Republicans controlled. Also the gubernatorial race in VA is in an off-year when there are no US rep, senate or presidential elections to drive interest.
The state GOP decided to not hold a primary and chose their candidate at a convention. They definitely did not trust the base pick the candidate. And the fact that it was an "off-year" election really helped Youngkin. He won a very close race.
The DeSantis Era on the Ground - TPM – Talking Points Memo "But he really is methodically laying out what amounts to the Viktor Orban platform for the United States."
It's remarkable how much the state GOP here refuses to learn. I live in a Democratic-leaning suburban county, and one reason the Democrats have taken control over the entire county government is that the local GOP keeps nominating extreme right-wingers and bomb-throwers over very electable moderates. The current head of the Board of County Supervisors is a frankly kinda mediocre Democrat. She beat an absolute raving loony who's never held office. She got to run against him because in the primary, local Republicans picked him over a longtime supervisor from a Republican-leaning district with a long history of public service, good relations with other supervisors and County government officials, and who was generally liked even by Democrats. He had a real shot at winning even though this county is trending Blue. But they nominated an angry Trumper over the fundamentally decent sane guy, and the Democratic candidate cleaned his clock even though she was pretty much an unknown, and the office had been safely GOP for a couple of decades or more.
Tweet apologies but given that there are photos of a 23 year old DeSantis at high school parties, this just makes things amusing. Plus, I laughed. 1623062974599426050 is not a valid tweet id
The Michigan elections should be an obvious sign that they shouldn't run on crazy. They pretty much gifted MI Dems a trifecta and areas that were usually red went blue. Including Peter Meijer's district. Tudor Dixon's (The MI GOP gov candidate) view on abortion alone was enough to leave a local conservative pundit taken aback. And to give you an idea of just how crazy the MI GOP is, Mike Shirkey, the departing majority leader in the MI Senate, gave a farewell speech where he discussed sticking his hand into a toilet seat. And it wasn't even the weirdest thing he said in that speech!
I will have popcorn ready. If Charlie Crist, a man whose general demeanor is FL Country Club guy can rattle him, Trump will be a different story.
Ron DeSanctimonious doesn't quite work though, too cumbersome. The orange clown is off his game on this one.
Yup, no primary was allowed. He was just named the candidate and then they put him in a sweater vest and told him to deny everything. At work cuz it was fresh at the Biden and it was before everybody had caught on to the new Republican angle of CRT and woke fighting.