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re: Mccain pushing for his wife to replace him in the senate ?
Posted on 5/6/18 at 10:11 am to Dawgfanman
Posted on 5/6/18 at 10:11 am to Dawgfanman
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Sheriff Joe
How this gets upvotes tells you all you need to know about why the Republican party base is a shite show.
I end up voting for Republican candidates almost exclusively, and always at the national level, but I would never vote for or support criminal, narcissistic trash like Joe Arpaio, Michael Grimm, Don Blankenship and Roy Moore.
If this type of refuse is presented to me as the Republican alternative, then I simply won't vote for them. And when people like me won't vote for them, then Democrats win general elections.
Simply sticking a "R" behind someones name isn't enough. Simply not being a Democrat isn't enough.
Scared white Republicans need to decide if they want to evolve with the country's viewpoints and demographics and remain relevant or continue with the crazy and unsuccessful attempt to "go back" to a charming, safe and better time that never actually existed. Choosing the latter means Republicans will continue to foolishly cede elections and thus control of the country to Democrats.
Posted on 5/6/18 at 10:22 am to DallasTiger
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Sheriff Joe
How this gets upvotes tells you all you need to know about why the Republican party base is a shite show.
Agreed, Joe Arpio has done nothing that shows he'd be a good Senator. Simply having an R behind his name doesn't cut it.
Posted on 5/6/18 at 10:26 am to Lsujacket66
He’s just awful - I see him whining in his stupid book about Trump not wanting to take in 200,000 Muslim “refugees” per year.
I hope his death is painful
I hope his death is painful
This post was edited on 5/6/18 at 10:30 am
Posted on 5/6/18 at 10:31 am to SirWinston
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This post was edited on 5/27/23 at 9:46 am
Posted on 5/6/18 at 11:13 am to DallasTiger
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I end up voting for Republican candidates almost exclusively, and always at the national level, but I would never vote for or support criminal, narcissistic trash like Joe Arpaio, Michael Grimm, Don Blankenship and Roy Moore.
Would you vote for John McCain?
Posted on 5/6/18 at 11:18 am to Lsujacket66
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She has zero qualifications other than being born into money
Funny. Those were my exact thoughts about Trump becoming president. Glad you agree with me.
Posted on 5/6/18 at 11:20 am to Bench McElroy
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Those were my exact thoughts about Trump becoming president.
And those were my exact thoughts about Obama being qualified to be president. Glad you agree with me.
Posted on 5/6/18 at 11:27 am to Lsujacket66
His goal is to safely engineer a plan to deliver that seat, which he believes he owns, to The Democrats. It will be his last act of revenge against the people he loathes the most- rank and file Conservatives.
Posted on 5/6/18 at 11:31 am to Lsujacket66
They have been hinting about Cindy McCain for awhile now
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A morbid conversation has been playing out in public for the better part of a year: What happens if John McCain’s deteriorating health forces him to leave the U.S. Senate? Given the Arizona Republican’s advanced age, the aggressive form of brain cancer he has been diagnosed with, and the reality that he is currently only about 15 months into his latest six-year term, that question could sadly but reasonably be restated as when, not if. Increasingly, the GOP has been willing to acknowledge that.
The Washington Post reports this week that the uncertainty around McCain, who has been absent from the Senate since December, has “set off a flurry of hushed conversations and concerns” inside the Republican Party, particularly about whom Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey should appoint as McCain’s successor if the need arises. “The problem,” as one unnamed Republican put it, is that there is no “logical” or “obvious” choice among the party’s rank-and-file. Ducey is up for re-election himself, and if he is looking only for an interim replacement, two relatively safe names jump out: McCain’s wife, Cindy, and former U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl. But neither is seen as an ideal candidate to hold the seat long-term.
The bigger question, then, is not whom Ducey would appoint to fill McCain’s seat, but instead whom voters would select if they have the chance. And that’s where things get complicated—not just in a still-hypothetical special election but also in the heavily watched regular Senate election in November.
Under the most common reading of the state’s election laws, if McCain leaves the Senate before May 30, the ensuing special election would follow the same schedule as a regular midterm one: Party primaries would be held in August, and then the race would be decided on Nov. 6. But if McCain were to leave after May 30, his appointed successor would most likely get a free ride until 2020. Given the way the current political winds are blowing, both nationally and in Arizona, the two parties’ electoral preferences are clear even if neither will say them aloud for obvious reasons: Republicans would rather defend the seat in 2020; Democrats would prefer to expand the battleground map this fall.
The 2018 special election would significantly shake up the current battle for the Senate. Democrats need to pick up just two seats in November to gain control of the upper chamber next year but, as things stand now, there are only three GOP seats that are realistically in reach: one each in Nevada, Tennessee, and Arizona. A special election to replace McCain this fall, though, would almost certainly expand that list to four.
Under this scenario, Arizona would become the third state with both of its U.S. Senate seats on the ballot in November, joining Mississippi and Minnesota. But unlike in those states, where a non-appointed incumbent is the clear favorite for re-election in one of the two contests, both of Arizona’s two Senate races would be relatively wide open.
At the risk of going too far down this particular rabbit hole, a Senate special election running parallel to the regularly scheduled one in Arizona has the potential to get particularly messy. Consider the current crop of Republicans running to replace retiring GOP Sen. Jeff Flake, which includes establishment favorite Rep. Martha McSally and two hard-liners in former state Sen. Kelli Ward and disgraced former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Presented with the opportunity, Ward, Arpaio, or even McSally could decide to jump from their current primary into the special one before the filing deadline in hopes of finding an easier path to the nomination. We’ve seen this play out on a small scale already this year in Mississippi, where GOP gadfly Chris McDaniel dropped his primary challenge to Sen. Roger Wicker to instead run for the seat formerly held by Thad Cochran, who recently retired due to his own deteriorating health.
Posted on 5/6/18 at 11:33 am to Lsupimp
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But if McCain were to leave after May 30, his appointed successor would most likely get a free ride until 2020.
Posted on 5/6/18 at 11:37 am to Lsujacket66
He should give it to his first wife. You know, the one that patiently waited on him while he was captured that McCain dropped like a sack of rocks for a richer, more youthful wife.
Posted on 5/6/18 at 11:45 am to JudgeHolden
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That’s traditional.
So is the monarchy in England.
Posted on 5/6/18 at 11:45 am to JudgeHolden
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That’s traditional.
So is the monarchy in England.
I think we decided a long arse time ago that we don't want any part of that.
Posted on 5/6/18 at 11:49 am to Lsujacket66
What would happen when his wife is on her deathbed? Can she push to have her daughter replace her?
Posted on 5/6/18 at 1:24 pm to Lsujacket66
Don't libs always govern from the grave? I know they vote from there. He must think he will continue to control his wife.
Posted on 5/6/18 at 1:26 pm to RentSeekAndDestroy
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He should give it to his first wife
He gave it to her the first time so yea he could give it to her again.
Posted on 5/6/18 at 1:36 pm to gthog61
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would be interesting to see what people born with the family wealth that Trump's family had did with it
I would do what Billy Madison was doing....getting phucked up by the pool all day and chasing imaginary penguins around on my golf cart
Posted on 5/6/18 at 1:38 pm to NIH
Better than her. You know plenty of people voted against her
Posted on 5/6/18 at 1:46 pm to Lsujacket66
The libs would celebrate.
Posted on 5/6/18 at 2:24 pm to Lsujacket66
Nope nope nope nope nope nope nope.
The tradition of appointing wives and children to take the seats when their relative dies or takes another office has a poor history.
Of the top of my head we have Lincoln Chafee (took seat when dad died) and Lisa Murkowski (took seat when dad became governor).
Both were establishment to the core and said “frick you” to voters.
Chafee took potshots at all the Republicans who were forced to support him then said he would have flipped parties if he had actually won in 2004.
Murkowski lost her primary but retained her seat thanks to a write in effort because the name Murkowski means “good old boy system” up in Alaska.
Cindy McCain taking over for John McCain would pretty much be trading one sack of shite who hates the voters for another.
The tradition of appointing wives and children to take the seats when their relative dies or takes another office has a poor history.
Of the top of my head we have Lincoln Chafee (took seat when dad died) and Lisa Murkowski (took seat when dad became governor).
Both were establishment to the core and said “frick you” to voters.
Chafee took potshots at all the Republicans who were forced to support him then said he would have flipped parties if he had actually won in 2004.
Murkowski lost her primary but retained her seat thanks to a write in effort because the name Murkowski means “good old boy system” up in Alaska.
Cindy McCain taking over for John McCain would pretty much be trading one sack of shite who hates the voters for another.
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