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Someone should change their name to “None of the above” and get on the Republican primary ballot for 2024.
Because they’d win easy.
Mike Braun
Todd Rokita
Trey Hollingsworth
None Of The Above
Joe, your fellow Democrats have a meeting at 7p to decide which violent criminals they are going to pay bail for and get them back on the street. You better hurry or you’re going to be late!
Yes, I’m the Democrat who voted for Holcomb in 2020 and would in 2024 if he was eligible.
And voted for Mitch twice before that.
And Lugar every chance I got.
Go on and tell me which of those is a good choice to lead Indiana. Two MAGA empty suits and a carpetbagger from Tennessee if you ask me.
Joe, the only thing sadder than the Republican field is that the Democrats literally have no one positioned to run against a carpetbagger or an empty suit.
(Another “Democrat” who voted the same as you for the good Republicans.)
The Marion County Republican Party and Indiana Democratic Party battle to see who will be the most inept.
Then again a lot of voters let the R and D labels carry far too much weight compared to the character and positions of the candidate. I mean, you really think Jonathan Weinzapfel would have been a worse choice than Todd Rokita to be the Attorney General?
The Rokita who as Secretary of Stats once proposed making it a felony for lawmakers to use political data in redistricting is long, long gone.
I have met and worked with Weinzapfel, and I can’t imagine how he possibly could have been worse as AG than the one who beat him.
Chuck, the neo-cons hate populism and conflate it with fascism because it’s an excuse for them not to have to confront the fact that establishment hacks from both the R and D have been washing one another’s hands so much that the two parties are indistinguishable. Don’t get me wrong: the legacy media is there to keep the shroud intact, and some of these people are simply ignorant of news if NYT/WaPo/NPR/Fox/CNN don’t report it. (Note that I include Fox and “non-profit” NPR as part of the hack corporate media.)
It explains in large part why we see so many neo-cons overtly siding with leftists–completely ignoring the massively higher rates of rioting and violence coming from the left, let alone their desire to overturn the republic (federalizing the elections, enabling mail fraud, removing the Electoral College) to preserve the status quo. It’s all part of their desperate attempt to shield themselves with the reality that there IS a Deep State: it may not be conscious in many respects, but what the insiders see as “bipartisanship” is actually just “elitism” to a large and growing wing, mostly (but not entirely) coming from the right. The neo-cons will continue to get thrown out because they’re serving their neo-lib buddies and THEMSELVES over the wishes of their constituents, who they like to paint as radical and beyond the pale simply because they don’t want their country (and the millions of working class jobs they depend upon) getting sold upriver.
Neo-cons like Lugar had a great run and weren’t bad for Indiana in the least. But thankfully for Lugar’s legacy, he was voted out and then died so he couldn’t outlast his sell-by date. We can all imagine that Lugar would have been in the Liz Cheney camp if he had still been alive, suggesting that his principles toward serving an ideology seated in Washington was far more important than his constituents.
Joe Manchin is a more honest politician than most of the neocons. So is Bernie Sanders, for that matter. And in a hypothetical fantasy land, if Mitt Romney or Liz Cheney ran against Sanders, I’d pick the latter. Sanders doesn’t seem to see his constituents as his subjects. He doesn’t hate the riff-raff quite like the neo-cons do. I’m increasingly of the belief that George Dubya Bush’s “lovable doofus” was just schtick.
Lauren, how many neo-cons and D’s have been convicted for the violence of Jan 6th? That piece of violence was solely orchestrated and conducted by your MAGA friends. Are you seriously implying Indiana would have been a better place with Dick Mourdoch in Richard Lugar’s senate seat? I’ll readily admit I would have applauded any Indiana Senator who stood by their convictions and supported Liz Cheney.
Populism is fine, as long as you’re clear you can only have it with the destruction of American democracy. Just be clear you’re after Putin’s Russia or Orban’s Hungary, neither of which is a democracy. Just own who you want to be.
Oh, and there was not fraud in the 2016 or 2020 elections that would have changed the result. You know that, you just can’t admit it. I mean, there were those Trumpers at the Villages … but they caught and prosecuted them.