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https://politicalwire.com/2018/03/20/gop-fears-another-candidate-problem-in-west-virginia/"SNIP.......
National Republicans on the heels of the Roy Moore and Rick Saccone debacles worry theyre staring down their latest potential midterm election fiasco: coal baron and recent federal prisoner Don Blankenship, Politico reports.
With Blankenship skyrocketing in the West Virginia Republican Senate primary and blanketing the airwaves with ads assailing his fractured field of rivals as career politicians, senior party officials are wrestling with how, or even whether, to intervene. Many of them are convinced that Blankenship, who served a one-year sentence after the deadly 2010 explosion at his Upper Big Branch Mine, would be a surefire loser against Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin and potentially become a national stain for the party.
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elleng
(130,895 posts)tazkcmo
(7,300 posts)The GOPee's clothing has so many "national stains" they're paisley.
madinmaryland
(64,931 posts)tazkcmo
(7,300 posts)Bit isn't GOPee Latin for "shitstain"?
madinmaryland
(64,931 posts)was a picture of the GOPee Elephant.
angrychair
(8,698 posts)Why get morals now? They supported a pedophile, why does a felon give them heartburn? That he cannot actually vote for himself on Election Day got them nervous?
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)The GOP could field some actual candidates instead of these retreads, reprobates, and recidivists. But as long as their political platform caters to the likes of Moore, Saccone, and Blankenship, they'll have to keep running these dumbass motherfuckers. It's up to you, O party of personal responsibility.
madinmaryland
(64,931 posts)Orange Free State
(611 posts)instead of Club Fed.
We need his mugshot and inmate number!
DFW
(54,370 posts)What kind of people are voting in these Republican primaries that they prefer candidates like Roy Moore and Don Blankenship over sane, credible candidates who could represent the interests of the people of their state in the Senate instead of the interests of five rich guys in Kansas, Las Vegas and Texas.
I'll bet not only the Shadow knows--so do we: the human bots of Fox Noise. If Sean Insanity were to declare that God had told him that two plus two makes five, hordes of Bible-waving Republicans would be screaming at the entrance to the HQ of Texas Instruments demanding that they correct their erroneous calculators.
old guy
(3,283 posts)The party is itself a national stain.