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Showing Original Post only (View all)Rejoice--Kyrsten Sinema's Political Career is Already Over [View all]
Last edited Sat Jan 22, 2022, 12:26 AM - Edit history (1)

By Josh Marshall
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January 21, 2022 12:16 p.m
Amidst all the disappointment and tribulation of recent days please join me in taking a moment to step back, in a posture of mindful gratitude, to contemplate the fact that Kyrsten Sinemas career in electoral politics is already over. Yes, the damage shes already done will be difficult to remedy. She still has three solid years to do yet more damage. And she probably will. But none of that damage, none of the hijinks and characteristic game-playing to come, will or can change her electoral fate. In political terms, shes already dead senator walking. And the most perplexing but paradoxically delightful part of it is that she doesnt even seem to realize it yet.
How can I be so sure shes a goner in such an uncertain time and in a reelection campaign almost three years away? Its not just the increasingly likely primary challenge, which could end her Senate career on its own. Her problem runs much deeper. She has already made herself essentially unelectable, whether her quest for reelection ends in a primary or the general election.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/rejoice-kyrsten-sinemas-political-career-is-already-over
I know Josh Marshall added the cartoon metaphor about a person jumping off a building....
but I think I will add this....
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maybe she won't serve her term, maybe AZ will remove her. Is that possible?
Trueblue1968
Jan 2022
#53
He must not have watched her speech, in which she put on that middle school
Carlitos Brigante
Jan 2022
#3
LOL, just squeezing in some Senate business during a break in Pirates of Penzance rehearsals.
tanyev
Jan 2022
#54
It doesn't matter where she ends up at this point. Somewhere a fascist is already making a deal
Budi
Jan 2022
#55
Given the regional environment, I suspect she'd siphon off as many GOP votes
Torchlight
Jan 2022
#19
But Sinema will have choose, she can't run in primary, lose, then run in general. Nt
Fiendish Thingy
Jan 2022
#63
There's no amount of shadenfreude sufficient to compensate for the end of democracy
Silent3
Jan 2022
#18
She will leave office a millionaire. I think that was her only goal, to enrich herself.
CrispyQ
Jan 2022
#23
She's still in office & will scorch the Earth until her term is up, so I don't feel celebratory.
themaguffin
Jan 2022
#34
i must inform you- Wile E. Coyote is an outstanding comedian..Kyrsten Sinema is not outstanding..
Stuart G
Jan 2022
#39
It would not surprise me if she changed parties when it becomes apparent to her
Bristlecone
Jan 2022
#47
How long until Krusty The Trojan Horse completely flips to the GOP? nt
Progressive Jones
Jan 2022
#48
She kind of reminds me of the plain middle school girl whose mother took her for a makeover.
halfulglas
Jan 2022
#65