I’ll start with this. I literally cannot tolerate Moscow Mitch McConnell. A soulless, craven, cowardly, power hungry ideologue, he has repeatedly defiled the oath he took to protect and defend the Constitution, and rained nothing but disdain on the chamber he claims to revere. The only three words that immediately come to mind are Piece. Of. Sh*t.
That being said, McConnell didn’t get to where he is by being stupid. For more than 20 years now, whether in the majority or minority, Bitch McConnell has been the Kingmaker of the Senate GOP. Presidents have sought his advice for what is or is not legislatively possible, and McConnell isn’t shy about giving them advice.
With his longevity and persona in the Senate, McConnell is a prolific fundraiser. He even has his own Leadership PAC, well funded, with which he can seed money to his favorite pets in the senate. And whether in the majority or the minority, as Senate Leader, the job falls to McConnell to recruit the top local talent each cycle to run for open or Democratic held Senate seats, especially in vulnerable states for Democrats.
And he has been successful. Mainly for the same two reasons, his power in the Senate, and his money. If an officeholder or GOP official with statewide name recognition gets a call from McConnell, with an offer to run for the Senate in that state, he’s On Golden Pond. He has McConnell’s personal blessing, which means that he’ll have proper foundational and structural support from the party. And if he needs a little infusion of cash, well, that’s not out of the question either.
Life was good for McConnell. At least until the arrival of one Donald John Trump. That proposed a problem for McConnell, especially in filling open Senate slots. Mainly because everybody, including McConnell thought that Trump was a joke in bad taste, but once he became the presumptive nominee, McConnell was stuck with him.
But that didn’t mean that everybody else had to be stuck with the oafish poltroon. When McConnell came a-calling on his A-list talent to recruit them, anybody with statewide name recognition and a promising career politely turned him down. Even young up-and-comers with promising futures declined to run. Hell, they had youth on their side, they could afford to sit this one out and wait their turn under better circumstances. And it showed in the third rate talent McConnell finally had to settle on to run.
And after Trump’s surprise victory it only got worse. Pretty much anybody who didn’t need braille to read could see the huge blue tsunami coming in 2017. McConnell was lucky to get Willy the mail boy from the state GOP party office to run for Senate. People wouldn’t get on the GOP ticket for the Senate if it came with a full and complete pardon for all crimes committed in the United States. 2020 was even worse, with a Trump on the ballot that the vast majority of Americans were ready to see in the rear view mirror for the last time.
And then came McConnell’s Senate leadership waterloo. A vengeful Trump, furious at being ousted, blamed McConnell for the piss poor quality of Senate candidates that weighed him down in 2020. And he started hand picking his own personal favorites for critical Senate seats if the GOP was to retain control. Let’s not forget that it was Trump personally who backed pedophile former Chief Justice Roy Moore in Alabama, making it possible for Democrat Doug Jones to flip an unwinnable Senate seat in Alabama.
There was just one problem with Trump’s dream team. None of them actually lived in the state that Trump wanted them to run in. This is not a good thing. But what did Trump care, he liked these guys. He conned
- UAG and former NFL football has been Herschel Walker to move back from Texas to Georgia to regain a critical Senate seat, depending on his immense popularity in Georgia. Until the sticky habits of his personal life started leaking out into the media
- He got celebrity cruise ship doctor Mehmet Oz to abandon his palace in New Jersey to return to his past home state of Pennsylvania to run against popular Democrat John Fetterman. Oz immediately did his best Harvey Korman impersonation by stomping all over the peasants ala History of the World Part I
- Trump talked Hillbilly Imbecile J.D. Vance, with luxury palaces on both the east coast and the west coast to come to Ohio to run. And while Vance actually won that seat, against an underfunded opponent who could have made it close with proper support, then RNSC Rick Scott had to spend so much money propping up the deadbeat billionaire that he didn’t have any money left to fund other, more competitive races.
Which brings us to the title. They have a word for *ssholes like that. Carpetbaggers. In the years of The Reconstruction, northern con men and scamsters flocked to the deep south to siphon some of that reconstruction money to their own pockets, without doing a damn thing to help to reconstruct the south. They were called Carpetbaggers because they carried oversized doctors satchels covered in fabric that looked like it had been cut from a carpet.
And the Democrats knew it, and they put it to good use. In every race, the Democratic candidates and incumbents constantly referred to their GOP opponents as Carpetbaggers, which was an especially powerful insult in deep south Georgia. And now, in 2024, the GOP is at it again, and so are the Democrats;
- In battleground Wisconsin, Democratic allegedly vulnerable incumbent Tammy Baldwin is up against some GOP mogul by the name of Hovde. Baldwin is currently kicking his ass by the margin of 50-42
- And in my adopted home state of Nevada, another allegedly vulnerable Democratic Senator named Jacky Rosen is up against some walking diaper stain named Sam Scam Brown, who was imported from Texas to run. At the moment, Rosen is plastering this moron by 50-41
This isn’t just a history lesson my friends, it’s current and relevant. This is a sign of just how far the once proud GOP has sunk. With Traitor Tot at the helm of the party, they can’t even convince quality talent to run for Senate in their own states! And the Democrats are gleefully using this fact by turning Independents and soft undecided voters against craven opportunists from suckling up to the federal teat at their expense. What a way to run a railroad.
I thank you for the privilege of your time.
Tester is facing a carpetbagger in Montana. However it’s a tough race because at least Tester’s opponent is a former SEAL which will go over well there. Still, Tester is authentic and in campaign ads that show him at work fixing farm equipment or working in the fields or even hunting all Montanan’s know where that’s concerned he’s the real deal and ALWAYS has been. AND that he’s Montana born and bred and the state really and truly is his home. Will it be enough? It remains to be seen on how well Tester can hang the carpetbagger label on his opponent, as well as paint him as a rich guy out of touch with ordinary folks. Tester has done okay for himself but I’m sure while his net worth is something I can only dream of it’s peanuts compared to his opponents.
It really is a shame Democrats didn’t put some real resources into beating Vance in Ohio. With Peter Theil backing him financially Vance was always going to have many times the money our guy did. But Sherrod Brown has proven in the past money ain’t everything in a statewide OH race. Still, it takes resources to mount a campaign and just as importantly a GOTV operation and our guy didn’t get it so Vance won.
I’m trying to rationalize it as working out okay in the long-term because if ole J.D. (Justa Dumbass) wasn’t Senator Vance he wouldn’t be the GOP’s Veep nominee and pissing in the punchbowl of Trump’s campaign.
shitty sheehy, former seal, should not go over well in this state. He wants to fuck veterans out of their healthcare (total privatization of healthcare), he want to sell ALL public lands to private interests-that right there OUGHT to be a death knell for anyone’s campaign, he purchased land, real good hunting land, and closed off access to public lands all while renting out his purchased place for wealthy out-of-staters to hunt on, he is an out-of-state wealthy (or so he says) p.o.s. who purchased places in big sky, flathead valley (and the other hunting lodge) thereby raising everyone else’s property taxes BUT, due to jersey gianforte, HE got his property taxes lowered BIG TIME.
All this stuff should have killed his election chances by now–it hasn’t. I’ve said it before and I’ll continue saying it until I’m tits up: montanans are some of the stupidest mother-f*ckers on the planet. They’ve already turned western mt into a polluted shit-hole (the air quality in the flathead due to traffic and industry is off the charts bad) and eastern mt into a oil spill shit hole. Not content with that they’ll kill all their veterans, and there are a LOT of them here, and make it so no one can hunt, fish, hike, camp, etc. any more and pay higher property taxes for nothing (oh, the public schools here are mediocre and failing fast and the private (read religious) are much, much worse).
I don’t know if the DNC and the rest of the democrat machine are doing anything for Jon (one of the very few senators who actually works for his, now wait for it, CONSTITUENTS) but they ought to be pouring boo-coo bucks into this race. They have a chance to keep the senate but this is a critical win they need and I’m not seeing the ads that will be necessary to win it. If they do to Jon what they did in Ohio, or rather didn’t do thereby giving that seat to hillbilly boy, they might as well just give the whole shebang to the magats–it’ll end up there if they fuck this up.
I really hope that Montanans recognize what a good guy and advocate they have in Jon Tester. He’s such a down to earth, REAL human being (and a real farmer!), and I would think that would serve him well. Of course, the Magats only have one point of interest, worship of the pond scum (apologies to pond scum) tRump. They don’t care about anything else, economics, housing, veterans, nothing but blind allegiance. It’s going to be close, and though I’m in Oregon, I’m sending him a little money each month. It’s important to try to keep Tester, Brown, Rosen, Baldwin et al in office. It shouldn’t be this close, but for some reason it is (billionaire donors?). It would be devastating to lose the Senate and not regain the House this time out. We need both to do something about the Supreme Court, the electoral college, and the filibuster, among other things. GOTV, talk to friends/family, and donate where you can.
One of my favorite movie scenes is in The Outlaw Josey Wales with Clint Eastwood. He on the run with Sam Bottoms, having been betrayed by Yankee soliders during a surrender. They reach the Missouri River, and use the only way to get across the fast moving current, is a raft ferry that has to be hand pulled by rope. The redlegs pursuing them are murderous mercenaries. They get across along with a carpetbagger in a white suit. On the other side Josey waits for the pursuers to load on the raft with their horses. The carpetbagger smugly says: you think you can kill all those men Mr Wales? Around here we have something called the law. Clint spits tobbaco juice on the carpetbagger’s lapel as he sights his rifle. He says sarcastically: Mr carpetbagger, around here, we have something called the Missouri boat ride, and severs the rope with an expert shot. The raft is now loose and floating downstream as the horses and men panic. Too bad we can’t seem to do the same to the turtle and his nazi party. We need to find a way to cut these phucking nazis loose and watch them disappear into oblivion.