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I don’t plan to vote for him in November
Ya know, a plan does not mean a commitment…
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Good observation but I think what matters here is that he’s publicly emphasis on the publicly disavowing his party’s presumptive nominee. (See, Donald? That verb can take an object.) I’ll give him credit for integrity and give him the benefit of the doubt too. Why would he say that and then pull Trump’s lever in the booth? Wouldn’t make much sense.
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This may just be a drip, but it’s an unprecedented drip. The Onion wouldn’t have written these headlines a year ago.
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I’ll be surprised if Baker sticks to his guns. He’s always been an empty suit with very few convictions of his own – more proof Martha Coakley should never campaign for anything ever again!
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Only these weasley word guys know what they do in the privacy of a polling booth or with the absentee ballot in front of them at the kitchen table.
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No argument but I have to think all these #NeverTrumps are looking at poll numbers and playing the odds. Maybe they’ll cave if Trump becomes popular enough that he’s not a liability to their own electoral chances, which heaven forfend, but if not I assume they’ll keep trying to get out from under and keep their careers if they can.
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The 2008 Dem primaries were pretty hard fought with a lot of acrimony but I don’t remember any officials vowing not to vote for the eventual nominee. Rank and file yes, but no Democrat elected to any kind of significant position.
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Word.
Geez, @littlegirlblue you make it sound so tawdry. lol
Definitely. This guy doesn’t want to be Romney 2.0, a one term MA governor who spends the rest of his life trying and failing to get elected to something. Even though he’s got two years before he’s up for reelection, the Trump stain is likely to be permanent. These Republicans in blue and purple states were already in trouble. They’d be in trouble with Jeb* or Kasich at the top of the ticket, but at least they’d stand a fighting chance. But what’s Ayotte going to do? How is she going to make her case for reelection? “Never mind my racist, misogynistic, homophobic, islamaphobic friend over there, vote for me because all I’ve done for the past 6 years is be a thorn in the ass of the guy you enthusiastically voted for twice”.
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shorter Baker: “I have re-election to consider.”
Dems aren’t going to nominate Coakley a 3rd time, so he will have a real race upon his hands. Especially first mid term of a trump presidency.
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hope for a cabinet position as she will be unemployed.
Not living in MA or the NE, I just don’t understand, Coakley notwithstanding, what MA voters saw or see in this guy. Someone else mentioned empty suit. But to me he’s like Kasich: a person, who, when they walk into a room, it’s like someone just left.
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Do you have that one on copyright?
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I’ve always thought of Massachusett as being as reliably blue as my state of California, so his election was puzzling, but Googling around I find this from the Boston Globe and the speculation of who will be running in 2018.
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It’s even more remarkable when you consider that Trump just won The Mass Primary with 49.3% of the GOP primary votes.
What in the world is Baker’s plan, losing a primary?
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No, no, no, too much tawdry for one day.
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@littlegirlblue
Only these weasley word guys know what they do in the privacy of a polling booth or with the absentee ballot in front of them at the kitchen table.
Geez, @littlegirlblue you make it sound so tawdry. lol
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No. My recollection is that there’s a Yiddish word that means this, but I can’t rememer the word.
Edit: " Nebbish ", maybe.
Would he vote for Romney? It’d be one down, several dozen million to go for Mittens!
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Expect a lot more of this. And it will happen with a significant enough of disaffected GOP voters, and not just “establishment” pols, that it will make a GOP very, very hard for them. Even harder than it otherwise would be.
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