Discussion: Reports: West Virginia Gov. To Switch Parties To GOP At Trump Rally Thursday

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Yes, he thinks you should invest in coal.

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Looks like he ate the missing one…

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I guess West Virginia’s a lagging indicator of the bleedin’ obvious.

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In February 2015, ahead of his campaign for governor, Justice switched his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat.

This guy swaps parties more often than Chiselin’ Trump swaps wives.

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Interesting - like a reverse Brownback?

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Putin has photos of Trump, Trump has photos of this guy, I’ll bet. What comes around, goes around.

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Whoa … a double-transpartisan!

Is there any state that will let this guy use a bathroom?

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Yes! Thanks, we’ve added that.

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WV is one seriously F’ed up state.

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Another fat old white guy in the GOP. They really do have to have a big tent.

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More proof that however he might feel, the camera’s not that into him:

http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/the_slatest/2017/08/03/west_virginia_governor_jim_justice_announcing_republican_party_switch_at/479589104.jpg.CROP.promovar-mediumlarge.jpg

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To me this is the most disturbing development of recent years: with no limits on campaign spending and donations anymore, and little to no regulation on tracing “dark money” donations, the conservative billionaire class can afford to run multiple candidates, both Ds and Rs, in races at every level of government and there is nothing we can do to stop them.

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This guy looks like the inept villains and rubes Slim Pickins used to play late in his acting career.

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The David Byrne suit same color as background might be considered a minus here.

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What will be really funny to watch is the 180-deg about-face that the GOP will take in going from being highly critical of all his policy decisions to bending over backwards to defend every single one of them, now that he has an R by his name.

The politics of spite, writ large.

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he may have consumed the missing Huckabee

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Bad timing, Jim. You just picked the losing side.

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“Not everyone got the memo of Justice’s plans to switch parties, however. Just hours before the Times reported the news, West Virginia’s Republican Party attacked Justice on Twitter…”

WVGOP (11:05 AM):

“@WVGovernor Refuses To Stop Millions Of $$ In Contracts To Companies Who Cheated WV Taxpayers. Sad!”

WVGOP (5:05 PM):

“@WVGovernor Invests Millions Of $$ In Contracts To Job Creators Who Help WV Taxpayers. MAGA!”

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Jared.

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Fox News will discuss this in detail of course.

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