“I certainly don’t want to see Roy Moore win. That means, obviously, that I would be supporting the alternative,” Baker said, according to WBUR.
Just can’t say the word. I’ll pass on any congratulations.
This is why Charlie Baker is the only elected Republican I like right now, and folks like him are the path forward for the party once it emerges from the current rubble. He is an overwhelmingly popular GOP governor in a state with no Republican reps at the federal level. That says a lot. He is such a contrast to the grandstanding, hypocritical Susan Collins in Maine.
I’m fascinated by the Republicans who aim to survive the Trump experiment and be standing when it all collapses. They remind me of a football-player acquaintance in college who knew a bit about bar fighting and told me his pro tips were to “know where the door is, and always have a plan.”
To be fair, as much as I’d like to see him kicked to the curb by another competent Dem like Patrick was, he’s a MA Republican, which puts him in the same sort of place on the spectrum as Manchin. Add in that the Dem legislature effectively neuters any real GOP leanings and he ends up having to behave in a half-competent manner.
We wouldn’t have him if the Dem machine hadn’t tried to stuff that imbecile Coakley down our throats.
If it’s so obvious, will you please just say it? Say “I support the Democrat, Doug Jones”.
Are they so afraid of getting sound-bite’d by a primary opponent? Are they actually unwilling to have the words on tape, even though they’re making it abundantly clear what their position is? I mean this as an honest question.
“I certainly don’t want to see Roy Moore win. That means, obviously, that I would be supporting the alternative,” Baker said, according to WBUR.”
And this is why PP is president and why Moore may still win. So called “reasonable Republicans” can’t just say, “vote for (the Democrat).” They have to go through all these linguistical gyrations before essentially endorsing any Democrat, and then they wonder how in the world some awful Republican got elected. Prime example, Michael Steele was asked if he’d voted for PP. His response was a simple, “no”. When asked if he’d voted for Clinton, his response was, “Oh, hell, no!” People like Steele and this clown are why we are governed by these monsters. When your partisanship is so petty and extreme that you are unable to just say the Democrats name and endorse them, you are every bit a part of the problem as Steve Bannon.
Absolutely. Hell, there was a guy running for state senate in my area, nice-looking young guy, and the other side pulled a frame out of a video where he had a momentary unpleasant expression and used it in an ad. For their own audiences, cheap shots like that work fine. No honor at all.
But it was her turn. HER TURN!
Sad! (but really.)
Make no mistake. Governor Baker is a true Republican. Were he to pull an Angus King and become an independent, he could be governor of Massachusetts for life. (No term limits here.) But he knows that one in three Massachusetts voters supported Trump and he will try hard to avoid alienating them. He will regularly support GOP candidates at every level (including the ones who parrot the pro-Trump line); he will raise money for the national GOP; and he will continue to embrace the same party and the same warped ideology that have given us: a corrosively plutocratic tax bill (that is tremendously damaging to his own state); catastrophic environmental and foreign policies;, an abject retreat from public education and basic research; and much, much more. So when he says he disagrees with this or that specific GOP policy or candidate. do not be deceived. He remains an enabler and supporter of Trump’s GOP. Like Bob Corker, or Jeff Flake, or Susan Collins, he will express occasional dismay at the GOP’s embrace of bullying, dishonesty and extremism. He just won’t do anything about it.
Exactly, even in a solid blue state like Mass. he can’t bring himself to straight out say he would vote for Jones over the pederast Moore. No, he has to play cute with the phrasing, because… Republican.
Of course, you would Charlie…and you don’t ‘support’ Trump either, right? It is AMAZING how many ‘principled’ Republicans just don’t ‘believe’ in screwing the middle class and don’t support Trump and didn’t vote for him and don’t like predators and YET…crappy legislation gets passed, Trump was elected and creepy predators have a good chance of going to Washington.
Knowing the good Governor, he will never vote for a Democrat no matter how qualified and no matter how smart. This is true for most of America and especially Alabama…watch Roy Moore win and make it clear to the world that we prefer Republican right wing pedophiles over a highly qualified and proven public servants from the Democratic Party.
What is behind all of this: The US is the most right wing nation in the world and with a 2 party system and with right wingers totally unwilling to compromise on anything, the US will find itself in a very bloody and very long civil war within the decade!
Countries around the world would be very smart to separate from the US and create as much space from their country and the US as possible…the US is on a path to self destruction! You can smell it.
A real “Profile in Courage” there.
Good luck getting rid of the stench.
Sen. Shelby is the prime example that is relevant to the Jones-Moore election. He said “I couldn’t vote for Roy Moore. I didn’t vote for Roy Moore,” but he didn’t vote for Jones either. He opted for a Republican write-in, the functional equivalent of staying home and not voting which is only effective if the election is extremely close and an inordinate number of voters sit on the sidelines.
He has his eyes on 2020… Not in the Republican Primary, as he would go nowhere, but I’m sure he fancies himself a good VP pick to balance out the crazy that makes it out of the primary.
I hope Shelby has company in this.
A day late (literally) and a dollar short, Charlie.
Like all the late-to-the-game Repubs saying such things…
Now that it looks like Moore will win (and the vote for the Tax bill that comes out of conference committee secured) they want to be able to say they were against Moore.
Standard Republican Operating Procedure.