McConnell spoke to Hillbilly Elegy author about Senate bid: report

[brooklynite]

Source: The Hill

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has reportedly talked with J.D. Vance, the author of the bestseller “Hillbilly Elegy,” about possibly running for Senate in Ohio.

Politico reported on Monday that the Senate Majority Leader has said he will make the Ohio race a priority should Vance launch a bid.

The news comes after Ohio state Treasurer Josh Mandel (R) announced last week that he would end his bid for the seat currently filled by Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio). Mandel will continue to serve out his term as treasurer but ended the Senate campaign to focus on his wife’s health.

...snipe...

Some have used Vance’s book about his life growing up in the Rust Belt as a means to understand the rise of President Trump and the plights of the white working class.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/368051-mcconnell-spoke-to-hillbilly-elegy-author-about-senate-bid-report

[bullwinkle428]

1. So Vance is now exploring the idea of representing a party that has

demonstrably not done JACK SHIT for the "white working class" once you get beyond the Eisenhower years?

[SharonAnn]

17. That party CAUSED all the situations that were so detrimental

[hatrack]

2. "I'm one of you, I understand, and I care. I really do . . .

" . . . and that's why I'll run as a candidate of the party that's been fucking you and your families for the past century. God bless America!"

[llmart]

3. The GOP can't find a decent candidate any longer.

What does this guy have to offer anyone other than the fact that he wrote a book about his extremely dysfunctional family? Zero experience like Trump and we've seen how that worked out for the US.
Our country is in deep doo doo not only because of Trump and his ilk but because there are decent, experienced, altruistic people out there that will never be allowed to serve because the populace loves the cult of celebrity and has decided that's more important than qualified representation.

Ugh.

[brooklynite]

7. Speaking of which, Joe Arpaio just got into the AZ-Senate race...

[not fooled]

11. Error-Zona

strikes again. Although we can hope that they reject the racist asshole's candidacy.

[Freethinker65]

4. Just finished reading the book and was not terribly moved nor impressed

Very repetitive and all over the place.

Biggest take away was without support, consumer smarts, and networking made possible from attending an elite (law) school, those born into the ”Hillbilly” culture are doomed.

[Freedomofspeech]

5. I hated that book.

[llmart]

9. I agree with your statement...

"all over the place". By the time I got through reading the book I had no idea where he stood on anything. First he makes the point that some help from the government helps on some level and then he goes on to act like you should just pull yourself up by your bootstrings. Illogical and hypocritical thinking.

[Retrograde]

15. I only made it halfway through

before I decided I didn't want to spend any more time with that bunch of whiners - especially the so, so special author.

[GusBob]

6. If you took out the words "I" "me" "my" and "mamaw" from that book

It would be about half as short, and still be too long.


Once upon a time
Some loser from a loser family got an education, and nobody else in Appalacia did or does cause they are poor folk that nobody else with half a brain would live like nor understand.

The end

[llmart]

8. LOL

"Look at me and how wonderful I am that I was able to rise above my hillbilly relations with the help of handouts from the government but my politics are such that I despise help from the government for other people" sums it up. Typical Repuke philosophy.

[More_Cowbell]

10. The author spoke at my company's function last year

and it was pretty obvious that he had plans for a future in politics.

[not fooled]

12. Plus

who thinks mcturdle isn't interested in this guy because he likes puke neophytes to elected office--easier to control and manipulate.

[hibbing]

13. Read Linda Tirado instead n/t

[Stand and Fight]

14. I remember many liberals on here and in my social media feed praising that book.

Honestly, I thought it was utter rubbish from beginning to end. Just an excuse for people who refuse to adapt.

[SharonAnn]

16. I thought it was a good description of the dysfunctional family types

that I see in my local area, East TN. Generations of substance abuse, domestic violence, low education, codependent relationships. It is wound through and through these families and I honestly don't know how anyone gets out.

The biggest problem I had with the book was how, absent the extraordinary help the author had, how do we change that environment? No answer, no suggestions, and it left me thinking "So?".

[Stand and Fight]

18. How do they get out? They take responsibility for themselves and do it.

I did it as a matter of choice. Allow myself to be trapped as a prisoner of circumstance or find a way to overcome circumstances and chart a new course? The latter was clearly the only answer. It was that or make excuses.

[ehrnst]

19. FFS....

I grew up in rural white America (southern Indiana) and this is the most spot on review of the book I've read:

Link to tweet

[irisblue]

20. local Columbus political reporters said this was unlikely last week, BUT

things do change. The other possible rep candidates

Rep. Jim Renacci (R-Ohio) will run for Ohio’s Senate seat in 2018 with encouragement from President Trump’s political team, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported Wednesday....Renacci, who was running for Ohio governor, will end that campaign and instead turn his attention to the race to unseat Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio).

Renacci is expected to make an announcement about a Senate bid Thursday morning.

The Enquirer reported that White House officials met with Renacci on Wednesday and see him as an ally given his support for Trump’s agenda.
this guy is a very hard right guy.
I don't want to use the Washington examiner, but there is this....Snip "Tressel, the president of Youngstown State University, near Cleveland, has become a top GOP recruit. So has author and venture capitalist J.D. Vance, as dissatisfaction with Republican Senate candidate Mike Gibbons, a wealthy investment banker, lingers after Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel's unexpected withdrawal from the race.

"Jim Tressel is welcome pretty much wherever he goes in Ohio," said Rep. Dave Joyce, R-Ohio.

"Obviously, he's had the opportunity now to run some universities, so he's certainly got football team management and now university management under his belt. He's obviously a great campaigner because you've got to work hard to recruit young talent against everybody else," Joyce said. "Tressel's certainly an interesting idea.".