WV-SEN 2018: Haunted Manchin

[Heisenberg]

Manchin flirted with dropping out, citing annoyance with the Senate and Democratic disrespect for moderates, but is running for reelection.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/us/politics/manchin-reelection-this-place-sucks.html

Manchin isn't moderate he's a conservative party line liberal.

Fixed that for you.

[Holmes]

Manchin flirted with dropping out, citing annoyance with the Senate and Democratic disrespect for moderates, but is running for reelection.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/us/politics/manchin-reelection-this-place-sucks.html

Manchin isn't moderate he's a conservative party line liberal.

Fixed that for you.

Oh yikes, imagine actually believing this?

[Dr. MB]

I don't agree with all of his policies but I also like Joe Manchin more than the average senator – he isn't afraid to vote against the party, and I give him respect for that.

[ProgressiveCanadian]

Manchin flirted with dropping out, citing annoyance with the Senate and Democratic disrespect for moderates, but is running for reelection.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/us/politics/manchin-reelection-this-place-sucks.html

Manchin isn't moderate he's a conservative party line liberal.

Fixed that for you.

Wrong again, like usual.

[Doimper]

Manchin flirted with dropping out, citing annoyance with the Senate and Democratic disrespect for moderates, but is running for reelection.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/us/politics/manchin-reelection-this-place-sucks.html

Wow, I hadn't realized he didn't file for re-election. Close one.

[KingSweden]

Manchin flirted with dropping out, citing annoyance with the Senate and Democratic disrespect for moderates, but is running for reelection.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/us/politics/manchin-reelection-this-place-sucks.html

Wow, I hadn't realized he didn't file for re-election. Close one.

Yep.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Manchin flirted with dropping out, citing annoyance with the Senate and Democratic disrespect for moderates, but is running for reelection.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/us/politics/manchin-reelection-this-place-sucks.html

Wow, I hadn't realized he didn't file for re-election. Close one.

Yep.

That is part of the plan to appeal to the "bubba vote". Don't take everything from a politician literally. Trying to portray himself as one of them with his background, talking about dropping out because of lack of progress, throwing around smack like not giving a bleep about reelection, this is all calculated, trust me. Joe Manchin could not have survived this long by being a dummy. He is a brilliant and very strategic politician, truly the last of his kind in WV. Try and name me at least one other living democrat from the state today that could win it statewide on a federal level in a normal election. Barring Ojeda and maybe, just maybe Perdue.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

He also released a wonderful new ad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5Yq2FK9NBw

[TheSaint250]

Manchin flirted with dropping out, citing annoyance with the Senate and Democratic disrespect for moderates, but is running for reelection.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/us/politics/manchin-reelection-this-place-sucks.html

Manchin isn't moderate he's a conservative party line liberal.

Fixed that for you.

Wrong again, like usual.

This is the most ironic thing I've seen in awhile.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Manchin also has gobs of money, and WV is a less expensive state for campaigning.

[ProgressiveCanadian]

Manchin also has gobs of money, and WV is a less expensive state for campaigning.

Where do you think he raised that money, working hard at the soup kitchen feeding the homeless? No, raising millions of dollars from his donors and lobbyists who represent wall street and oil and gas companies.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Manchin also has gobs of money, and WV is a less expensive state for campaigning.

Where do you think he raised that money, working hard at the soup kitchen feeding the homeless? No, raising millions of dollars from his donors and lobbyists who represent wall street and oil and gas companies.

I guess Jenkins or Morrissey would be better senators right?

[mcmikk]

Manchin also has gobs of money, and WV is a less expensive state for campaigning.

Where do you think he raised that money, working hard at the soup kitchen feeding the homeless? No, raising millions of dollars from his donors and lobbyists who represent wall street and oil and gas companies.

I guess Jenkins or Morrissey would be better senators right?

[Greedo punched first]

Manchin also has gobs of money, and WV is a less expensive state for campaigning.

Where do you think he raised that money, working hard at the soup kitchen feeding the homeless? No, raising millions of dollars from his donors and lobbyists who represent wall street and oil and gas companies.

I guess Jenkins or Morrissey would be better senators right?

A Justice Democrat would even get clobbered by Don Blankenship or John Raese.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Manchin also has gobs of money, and WV is a less expensive state for campaigning.

Where do you think he raised that money, working hard at the soup kitchen feeding the homeless? No, raising millions of dollars from his donors and lobbyists who represent wall street and oil and gas companies.

I guess Jenkins or Morrissey would be better senators right?

A Justice Democrat would even get clobbered by Don Blankenship or John Raese.

[Stranger in a strange land]

I had a dream last night that I was watching Manchin and Morrissey debate. The first question was, “what do the letters DT stand for to you?” Morrissey said Donald Trump, Manchin said “dat thing” and then started breakdancing as the audience cheered.

In summation, this race is safe D.

Are these dreams normal for you?

I usually have weird dreams, but not about Joe Manchin if that's what you're asking.

I occasionally have weird political dreams but never quite this odd, and never about Joe Manchin: I recently had a dream where Lord Trump’s government fell as a result of a Vote of No Confidence due to the shutdown, prompting His Excellency The First Citizen to call for a new election. This was probably the result of watching The Crown mashed up with my regular diet of news watching and reading.

[Greedo punched first]

Who wins the GOP primary, Morrisey, Jenkins, Blankenship, or someone else?

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Who wins the GOP primary, Morrisey, Jenkins, Blankenship, or someone else?

My guess is Morrisey, the people who show up in WV GOP primaries, tend to favor these kinds of candidates. Stale, boring, lazy, establishment, bleh. They don't like firebrands and populists like Jenkins as much, despite how it would be better for their electoral chances. The areas where most of the votes in these GOP primaries in the state comes from traditionally GOP areas in Northern West Virginia, some coal miners, but a lot less.

[Don Vito Corleone]

Is it just me,  or is Morrisey one of the dullest speakers to ever exist?

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Is it just me,  or is Morrisey one of the dullest speakers to ever exist?

Not just you.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Pence just went to WV and slammed Joe Manchin today. Manchin just hit him back hard. He is one who strongly stands against releasing the Nunes memo, and has just slammed Pence hard. Good look getting Morrissey or Jenkins to do that.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Pence will never be a millionth of the man that Manchin is, go to h*** Pence, Manchin is gonna win again, and you can suck Satan's blank in ****. DEAL WITH IT!

[Doimper]

Take this with a huge grain of salt, obviously:

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I will laugh and laugh and laugh if Blankenship ends up getting the nomination.

[KingSweden]

Take this with a huge grain of salt, obviously:

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I will laugh and laugh and laugh if Blankenship ends up getting the nomination.

Oh man... I don’t think Blankenship wins, but how hilarious would it be if the GOP pissed their chance away because of him?

[Doimper]

Republican Senate primaries are the gift that keeps on giving

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