I was just talking to my aunt about Red State politics. Working people in West Virginia should shun Blankenship, but they won’t. Their willingness to support some rich guy who has a history of hurting working men and women for a profit is pathetic and a big part of why red states are generally poor and provide lousy services.
So, with Former Sheriff Arpaio, and Blankenship, and Micheal Grimm in New York all seeking elected offices we can start to call the GOP “The Party with the Strongest Convictions”?
(I thought felony convictions rendered one ineligible to vote, and therefore ineligible to run for office.)
If the punishment fit the crime, he would have been sentenced to a coal mine, not a prison.
I think that only applies if you are a democrat
They don’t even pretend to hide their criminality, do they?
I have no hope for WV, KY, TN, AL, MS, ID, IN. They are inhabited by folks who just aren’t that bright but they have “common sense” and Jeebus.
Could be a passing mood but I’m starting to have a diminished capacity to be surprised by this stuff. If Satan went for the Senate in Mississippi on the “At Least I’m Not a Democrat” platform it would be a thing we’ve seen often already. 
Ya Blankenship
Good guy, one of us
He only killed a few miners for profit
Barrel meet Bottom
Blankenship wants to go from the slammer to the Senate? Dude, you’re doing it backwards.
Nope, no surprises anymore. Anything goes apparently. In which case, let’s start talking about secession. I’d think the party of Trump would be happy not to be associated with New York or California, right? They don’t need those kale-tainted dollars now, do they?
I dunno. I expect that would cause a lot of confusion. I’m pretty sure they believe that Sata runs the Democratic Party, so if he were to claim he weren’t a Democrat they’d suspect he was lying.
On the other hand, I, myself, see little difference between Roy Moore and Satan, and clearly the GOP in Alabama has embraced him on precisely those same grounds.
They think they support us. Maybe they could secede in a dream-sequence, “It’s a Wonderful Life” kind of way. Might be a valuable lesson to them.
I have hope for KY. We really were a sane state until two years ago. We just sent our crazy to DC.
I wish this cloud of fossil-fuel flatulence would win the nomination, because Manchin would clobber him (yeah, yeah: I thought Trumped couldn’t win either). Blankenship is most brazen mining-industry bully this side of “There Will Be Blood” (except for all the rest of them).
But I have a feeling that — when given a choice in the primary between a fat-cat convict, and an incompetent, corrupt state attorney general who backs his campaign contributors as they pump opioids into his constituents’ communities — West Virginia Republicans will pick the latter.
Oh, No. Not this guy again. Rolling Stone did a few articles about him. He was a hometown boy. Prolly still is. Very creepy guy. The link is to the article I found most instructive and most fascinating. Joseph Conrad wrote of “the fascination of the abomination.” Well, here it is: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-dark-lord-of-coal-country-20101129
He’s an unrepentant sociopath who has no qualms about killing people to make money for himself and other fellow oligarchs.
He should fit very nicely in the Republican Senate.
Actually GOP= Government of Prisoners . . . . .or in consideration of Roy Moore, GOP= Government of Perverts
From sexual harassers and pedophiles to murderers. Way to go!
Blankenship was convicted of a misdemeanor and sentenced to one year.
Pedophiles and criminals - that’s what you call a big tent.