A fourth Texas Republican lawmaker announced he won’t seek another term in 2020, The New York Times was first to report Sunday evening.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1240330
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1240330
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"Do what you want to do
Anything you say is true
Who’s gonna tell you if you’re wrong
Go where you want to go
Any way it’s your show
You’re gonna party
'Til the party’s all gone"
– Randall Bramblett
Party’s all gone, dude. Bye, and good riddance.
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Thoughts and prayers on a wasted career of personal enrichment and avoiding, nay fleeing, from your constitutional duties.
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They would all rather slither out the door than try to speak up and change things within their corrupt party.
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I say again, the internal polling must be f*cking brutal.
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These retirements are not a total blessing for Dems. The RNC and White House will do everything possible to make sure GOP candidates in these races pledge total fealty to Trump, and commit to being more to the right and more rabid in their hatred of everything progressive than those they’re replacing. If anything, House oppostion will take this opportunity to turn the crazy to eleven.
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they must be getting killed in fundraising… or, actually, lack of it…
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overall the majority of the announcements thus far are from GOPers in red districts that voted overwhelmingly for President Trump
Sooo… then we can expect them to be replaced by tRump loyalists… these traitors had to go </snark>
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Well, there’s less ambiguity about this particular seat:
During the 2018 midterms, Marchant reclaimed his seat with just 50.6 percent of the vote.
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Most of it is going to Trump, who will kindly send some to your campaign provided you declare undying fealty.
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Sure, we may win some of these, and that is a good thing. Hence my qualifier “total”. But I do see a lashing out coming, sort of a delayed burst of anger and resentment over the 2018 loss of the majority. The GOP has had time to stew over it all, and as is typical they’ll ascertain if only they had been more publicly vociferous in their hatred of everything to the left of Barry Goldwater they wouldn’t be in the position they’re in. Double down, and double down again.
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Heh, The Failing GOP. Put that on a million bumper stickers. And on blue hats, FUDT.
Our thoughts and prayers, Donald.
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I think you describe their psychology pretty well and I dread to think how much further “the crazy” can go.
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The gopers are already at Max arousal, at this point it’s hard to see what they can do to bring out more of their base (and isn’t that an appropriate double entendre). Yes those who are all in can become more openly violent which is tragic, but it’s not going to win them any more votes; in fact everything they do along that line has an electoral cost associated with it.
Chicago 1968 gave us Nixon and as a lesson the D’s chose Humphrey instead of E. McCarthy because he was safer and “more electable”.
OT: mcconnell breaks shoulder-
#MoscowMitch Karma’s a Bitch
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Of course our resident Eeoyore wouldn’t miss an opportunity to project his Doom and Gloom out to everyone, completely ignoring the fact that this is now 2 Districts in Texas alone that Dems were a cat whiskers away from winning in 2018, that republicans have now retired instead of facing a much harder re-election race in 2020.
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That’s true, and was alluded to above, but as TPM observes:
the majority of the announcements thus far are from GOPers in red districts that voted overwhelmingly for President Trump
Hence @steviedee111’s comments.
If I ever opened a vineyard in Massachusetts - this would be my initial sparkling wine release.
In all seriousness - I totally agree about the polling. How many more before we get a “Republicans in Disarray” headline from TPM. I’m optimistic, I think it will take another half-dozen. AP/NYTimes/WaPo - maybe never.
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This guy and Hurd earlier, both are looking at losing their seats based on what happened to them in 2018, and they way the trending is going in their Districts. They know they are going to lose.
Fundraising is a separate problem for many GOPers this year, but it was no unforeseen. They have 26 Senate seats up for re-election, as well as a Presidential election. Combine that with make donation organs like the NRA collapsing, and you get a pretty ugly picture for down ticket republicans in Districts turning purple.
So, when the money is going to be hard to come by, and the polling trend line indicates you’re underwater, retirement becomes an easy option.
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Quitters never win.
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Don’t forget evil and cowardly. Their refusal to do anything about these mass shootings or climate change is easily both. There’s also stupid, of course. They are the worst of humanity.
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