When Alabama Senator Richard Shelby announced earlier today that he would not seek reelection, he quoted scripture, “For everything there is a season.” It looks like we’re now in the season of rising Trumpism in the State of Arkansas as one of Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ primary competitors announced he was dropping out of the three-way race. CNN:
On Tuesday, Arkansas Republican Lt. Gov. Tim Griffin abruptly ended his run to be the Natural State’s next governor — choosing instead to run for attorney general in the state next November. […]
The reality Griffin bowed to on Monday is this: Sanders is close to unbeatable in a Republican primary in a state as strongly pro-Trump as Arkansas. (Trump won the state by almost 28 points in 2020.)
And there’s no question where Trump’s loyalties lie. He officially endorsed Sanders’ gubernatorial campaign late last month in a press release that touted her as a “warrior who will always fight for the people of Arkansas and do what is right, not what is politically correct.”
While Griffin saw the writing on the wall, Attorney General Leslie Rutledge remains in the race against Sanders. But it’s hard to see how her chances are much better than Griffin’s against Sanders. Which is to say, her chances are not good.
What the moves in Arkansas make clear is that even as Republicans in Washington debate what role — if any — Trump should have in the party going forward, that conversation in Republican states is already mostly over.
This is probably not an overstatement. It was shocking a few days ago when the Wyoming GOP voted to censure Liz Cheney. They are whole hog on Trump, still.
This is flabbergasting to think that Sanders could actually become the governor of a state but it seems like that’s going on. At least she’ll win the Republican primary and be the candidate. To me, she is a corn pone encrusted religious hypocrite and facile mega liar and her “politician” father before her is one of the biggest con artists in the country. But if that’s what plays in Arkansas, so be it. Thank God I don’t live there. My condolences to any Arkansans on this site who do. (Yes, bfitz, I’m thinking of you.)
Another unbelievable day in America. Trump may be out of power, but as long as Trumpism lives, we are still courting disaster in this country. Mitt Romney’s campaign manager Stuart Stevens gave a perfect description of Trumpism: “Trumpism takes that moment of road rage you feel when a car cuts you off and tells you that’s your best self.”
That’s what we’re fighting. Not principles, not policies, but prepubescent rage wearing an insane cloak of “pat
There are a substantial number of unpatriotic, unAmerican citizens who want nothing more than to eventually install a dictator in the office of the presidency. Nearly all of them are Republicans. They had hoped that dictator would be Trump, but they aren’t particular.
To what purpose? That’s what I don’t get. Deeper suppression of blacks, Native Americans, LGBTQI? What? They too will be suppressed with a dictator but they’re too stupid to get it.
For generations Alabama and Mississippi have been at or near the bottom of just about every objective measure of things that matter when it comes to quality of life and providing a chance of even a halfway decent chance of achieving even a modest level of what passes for a halfway decent life. The running joke in both states has always been “thank God for” the other of those two states. The theory behind ripping on the other state was “we might be almost at the bottom but THEY are actually at the bottom!
Arkansas hardly has any room to talk trash about either AL or MS but if as seems increasingly likely Huckster Boo-Boo becomes Governor of Arkansas I can see Alabama and Mississippi burying the hatchet with each other. And in unison changing the old joke to “Thank God for Arkansas!”
Well said, Denis, neighborhood differences are the REALLY important things out there, especially when your state is so close to the other side of the county lines the gun tooters are so proud of …
Actually, if the Universities and colleges keep producing winning sports teams in these, “So far down there, snakes and no-see-ums thrive, states”, they CAN be a success story, but I don’t recall them being political giants …
My how things have changed. Hard to believe that’s the same state that elected Bill Clinton as governor – five terms.
Well I am thinking that right about summertime that the forces be will contract on trumpism. I’m no soothsayer but the writings on the wall. Even if the impeachment doesn’t stick they will have a nice file to hand off to the appropriate police agency. Contrary to popular belief inciting a riot is against the law. And since these fine politicians have gone and dug up a timeline that goes back at least to the election and they should have at the very least one other person involved in this crap that would make this conspiracy to commit a seditious act. Bye bye trumpet.
I wouldn’t say she’s corn pone. Corn pone is delicious. It’s like a bacon flavored tamale. Abraham Lincoln loved corn pone…Abraham Lincoln would not love Sarah Huckabee Sanders, case closed.
I’m going to suggest that SHS’s odds,of being America’s next indicted governor is like a half a percent less than her odds of being Arkansas’s next Governor.
Well, I hope the voters of Arkansas pay attention to Sanders’ “career” to date and how well she’s done with it. What DOES she actually do right now?
She helped run her father’s FAILED presidential campaigns (both of them–in 2008 and 2016) and worked with Tim Pawlenty on HIS failed 2012 presidential campaign. She got the role of “Deputy Press Secretary” after Trump’s inauguration before getting bumped up to full “Press Secretary” and all she did was LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE and then LIE some more (in both jobs) and she actually did less work than any of her predecessors (I don’t really think it would be wrong to suggest she spent more time off in her two years on the job than all her predecessors did put together). Then, barely two months after leaving the White House, she was hired by Fox News as a “contributor” (and how much has she “contributed” to the network in the past 18 or so months).
Hell, the woman would hardly spend any time talking to the press (which was her job). And we’re supposed to think she’s going to do any campaigning to be Governor (maybe folks in Arkansas will realize she’s basically running solely on her name and ties to Trump in order to AVOID any actual campaigning and rallies) and, if elected, she’s going to talk to the people and the legislature?
Where’s the last part of the final quote?
Where’s the last part of the final quote?