Democrats thought they had no chance to gain a majority in next years US Senate….
THAT was a while ago…
In the next 30 -45 days several Republican US Senator’s ARE gonna have to decide if they stay with Donald Trump?
Or?
Put space between him and themselves to save their jobs….
Sara Giden Holds Small Lead Over Susan Collins
A new Public Policy Polling survey in Maine finds Sara Gideon leading Sen. Susan Collins in the U.S. Senate race by 4 points, 46% to 42%.
Brutal numbers for the incumbent: Just 36% of voters approving of the job Collins is doing, while 55% disapprove.
In the presidential race, Joe Biden leads Donald Trump, 53% to 42%….
FWIW, an NRSC poll has Collins up by 8.
Over at HHRcommentland, they think Maine is in play, despite Biden being up by 11 in PPP (D). They also think Trump is great shape to win NH and MN.
RCP average for Maine US Senate is Gideon +2.5….
Both polls in the average shown have Gideon UP
She’s gotta be NERVOUS and also McConnell…
Your GOPer’s over HHR are drawing at straws
Susan is a “dead man walking” and that is true on so many levels. Please bookmark these “great shape” comments. Beside the fact that they are Republican wet dreams, they are based on the same old Republican playbook we have seen for years. It won’t work in the virus age.
Just saw Ron DeSantis on television trying to explain why he is killing so many of his fellow citizens. To him, this is much ado. Society can still function, it’s only young people who are getting sick, and they will recover. Seriously, that is what he said. He even stood there are went back an forth on whether he was going to close restaurants. What a dithering incompetent man he is. A perfect Republican. To him, this is the new normal. Wow, just wow.
DeSantis is a POS .
Trumpists saying we can absorb the Coronavirus and need to accept it as normal reminds me of when Obama said we could “absorb” another terrorist attack like 9/11, and Democrats defended him on it.
Disgraceful on both counts
Nice whataboutism Republican
Oh yes, let’s deflect with a deflection about the black guy. That is not only Republican, it’s Trump Republican.
The only deflections are those who only see fault on one partisan side.
And a notorious unrepentant racist like Keith clearly proves this point.
Let’s keep it about the politics ….
We all have different pints of view here.,.
That is what the place is about…
Somewhere Chuck Schumer is smiling…
Greenfield Slightly Ahead In Iowa
A new Greenberg Quinlan Rosner (D) poll in Iowa finds Theresa Greenfield (D) just ahead of Sen. Joni Enrst (R) in the U.S. Senate race, 49% to 47%.
I have to agree with Jack, DeSantis is a piece of shit, a Republican piece of shit.
Tonight Rush said young people should refuse to social distance and wear a mask — freedom? Freedom to die of course, but no freedom for a woman to make her own health care choices. But, Republicans have never been consistent. Especially when they aren’t the one in danger of getting pregnant, or when they will never be able to bag a woman in the first place to face the unfortunate decision of terminating a pregnancy.
Al Sharpton must apologize for being a self aggrandizing big mouth, but Republicans like Rush are over looked when they excuse Trump.
This Republican double speak started years ago with Nixon, but became a polished talking point with Trump. It is always someone else’s fault, usually our first black President, and it is always the black boy who is used in some kind of ridiculous comparison to absolve Trump from whatever evil and foul thing he has done. Obama said this or that. How many times have we read those words?
Today Joni Ernst compared Trump’s response to the virus to Obama’s response to the Ebola crisis. Sound familiar to one of our more prolific posters? Two Americans died of Ebola when Obama was President, and today, under Trump, 130,000 Americans have died with more to come. Is this woman serious, or did she put those Wonder Bread bags over her head instead of her feet and cut that air off so many years ago? What is wrong with these people?
I was called a racist today by our resident Republican apologist. I have been called worse. But the name calling was in response to me telling the truth. The Republican Party is about to pay a huge price f0r rolling over and putting their legs in the air for Trump. No amount of “what about” can change that.
America is at a turning point. They can either reject Trump or go down his Republican racist rabbit hole. Only those who find their way to vote against Trump by voting for Joe Biden can call themselves patriotic Americans. That’s a fact.
But please, remember the fact that “Susan Collins is in great shape” in her re-election campaign. We can all remind her of that next January.
Luckily no one younger than Methusaleh listens to that gasbag Limbaugh.
Guess the asshole wants to take out as many Americans as he can on his way to the grave.
And of course CGs whataboutism regarding some comment Obama made years ago was totally irrelevant to the actions of Republican Governor Ron Desantis whose too quick reopenings in Florida , refusal to close the beaches ( where in several hours on a typical summer day more people are at risk of infection than all the protest marches that have occurred in Florida over the past couple of months, another of his whataboutisms),and absurd explanation of how young people getting infected was no big deal as the virus rages in his state,caused my comment which I reiterate with even more emphasis…
Desantis is a POS.
Good summary Keith….
Is HHR that right wing wacko site? Not surprised they think Trump can win Maine and New Hampshire. Funny because the Trump campaign isn’t even targeting any states that Clinton won in 2016. They are entirely playing defensive.
But that was before Trump went to bat with a more pro-Confederate flag stance than Republicans in Mississippi. I’m sure that will put New England right in play!
I keep repeating….
The GOPer’s are the political Jim Jones group….
You make no sense.
You do understand that Jim Jones followers Really believed in him.So much so, that they committed mass suicide at his urging.
You do understand that you “keep repeating “ that Republicans “really” Don’t believe in Trump.
Indeed,it’s been your mantra here for Years.
Now your new “kick” is that Republicans are like Jim Jones people which implies that they really do believe in Trump and will do anything he says, the position I believe of most people who post here ,except for you and CG.
Of course, looking for anything approaching consistency from the likes of you is roughly equivalent to believing Trump can go an hour or so without telling a lie.
Let the obfuscation begin!(with apologies to Zreebs)
Jack?
Republican ‘SUPPORTERS”…Voters around the country that YOU keep reminding us support the knucklehead by 85-90% don’t care if he was a axe murderer….
But?
More conservatives are drifting away from the guy….
Prime example is the Lincoln Project ads…
The list grows of Republicans in the media putting space between Trump and themselves….
‘Of Course’ U are gonna have ur old ‘kick’ of that lawyer thing where u pick one thing and try to disqualify my Whole idea….
Go for it!….
It doesn’t really work….
There IS a difference between the lawmakers and the Trump troops…
Again?
You KNOW that….
😉
And the obfuscation begins!
Yiheeeee!
Oh and ,as usual, totally unresponsive to the point made.
Find another “kick,”
Let the record reflect that Jim Jones was during his rise to influence, a politically connected liberal.
A record only you care about.
The backgrounds of dangerous people and how they can accumulate influence over others should certainly matter, It helps to protect the vulnerable.
In your world, you only see things in red or blue (besides baseball) and nothing else matters beyond your need to be part of a tribe.
Oh please. It matters not that John Wayne Gacy was a Democrat and Ted Bundy a Republican.
How is pointing out either of those things “protecting the vulnerable”?
No, those cases specifically do not matter, but Jim Jones had a specific ideological appeal and many poor people and minorities in SF gravitated to him. He had close relations with political leaders at this time and was looked upon as someone they considered valuable, despite warning signs.
I have frequently compared Trump to a “cult leader” as well and pointed out how he preys upon peoples vulnerabilities, etc.
Obviously it is also important to study and understand the motives and techniques of people like Gacy and Bundy.
I don’t see political affiliation of religious based cults being all that relevant, be they Jim Jones or David Koresh.
But that’s just me
Political connections was the key point and ideological appeal. At one point, Jim Jones was considered a Civil Rights Leader in his community, despite warning signs.
It’s not about who votes for whom. You care about that more.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones
You and everyone else here.
Good God I had no idea he was that damn desperate .
Very desperate
Maryland Governor and Trump critic Larry Hogan indicated to the NY Times that he is already looking to run for President in 2024.
Wonder if it would be in the GOP primaries or as an Independent.
If he runs as a Republican?
The only question is ,does he make it past New Hampshire?
Yep, Shades of Jon Huntsmen in 2012.
Darling of the media. Got nowhere in the primaries.
Hell, call me a fool, but gosh, damn, well I hereby “predict” that Larry Hogan will not be the Republican nominee in 2024!
I know I’m really out on a limb here ,but sometimes ya just gotta bite the bullet!
I give Tom Cotton, Josh Hawley, Nikki Haley, Mike Pence, DJT Sr, DJT Jr all better odds of being the Republican nominee in 2024 than Larry Hogan.
I don’t know Keith’s biography, but I was living in San Francisco in the awful November of 1978. In that one month, the Bay Area was hit with the People’s Temple, Dan White’s assassination of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, and a Republican backlash against Jimmy Carter (including the anti-tax Jarvis-Gann Proposition 13).
The San Francisco Chronicle would be devoting 16 pages a day (all eagerly sought and read) to one of these; then it would dwindle to 8 (as everyone’s emotions began to calm down) only to be swamped by 16 pages (equally wanted by readers) on the next tragedy.
Anyway, I learned a lot about the People’s Temple and Jim Jones in those days. He was a political chameleon. When his group was starting in the Gold Country north of Sacramento, he and his followers adapted to and professed the John Birch-style conservative Republicanism of the local establishment. When, however, his cult moved to San Francisco and recruited among ethnic minorities and local progressives, he did, as CG said, profess a very liberal (or left-radical) ideology to match the leadership and electorate of the Bay Area.
So, CG isn’t wrong about Jim Jones’ leftism before and during Jonestown but he is, however, giving an incomplete picture.
Heaven knows that CG’s and Kyle Rice’s hero Mitt Romney is about as far as one could imagine from Jim Jones, but Gov. Mitt Romney (R) of Massachusetts, U.S. Presidential candidate Mitt Romney (R) and Sen. Mitt Romney (R) of Utah have promoted rather different world-views and policies, although they’re not opportunistic and not crazy.
I am simply pointing out things I have seen from Jones from documentaries (CNN and MSNBC) and from his Wikipedia page.
Not sure I understand the point about Romney.
I know a *lot* about Keith’s bio but am not allowed to discuss it here…. i think…
i see nothing from Jim Jones bio I linked to suggesting he was ever an adherent of the John Birch Society or rightist causes.
He was involved in the Communist Party as a young man and continued to be associated with those causes. Even before he moved to SF, he was considered very active on integration, etc
Guys?
I only mentioned Jim Jones to highlight the blind allegiance to him I see in most Trump supporters…
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) has voted for 95% of President Trump’s federal judicial nominees, according to a National Journal analysis of Senate records.
“She voted against 10 nominees, including McConnell’s prioritized judges on powerful appellate courts, because of their lack of professional experience or because of their views on the Affordable Care Act, LGBTQ rights, or abortion rights. All 10 were nonetheless confirmed, and she didn’t oppose any nominees in the first two years of the Trump administration when Republicans controlled the Senate by a narrower margin.”
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