Why Does Loeffler Even Want To Be A Senator?

[Me.]

So far she's been a terrible, not at home one. Is it simply the corrupt opportunities that are the lure?

[stillcool]

1. stock tips?

I think I read she and her husband just became billionaires.

[SoonerPride]

2. Power is better than money.

She has lots of the latter and wants more of the former.

[Me.]

12. This Is A Fab Answer

and I think it's something the Menace began to realize as the years wore on. Yes money is HUGE with him, but being king of the world, as he saw it, where everyone did what he wanted became the aphrodisiac of his dreams.

[PatSeg]

21. Yeah, I think once you get a taste of it,

it becomes very addictive. We've seen senators who had everything they could possibly want, yet they held onto their seats until they died.

[Me.]

23. Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely

[kimbutgar]

3. $$$$$$$$$$$$

Insider knowledge to make more $$$$$$!

[avebury]

4. Exactly! Nt

[tikka]

32. Not only insider knowledge, but a position to affect legislation on financial markets.

[misanthrope]

5. You answered your own question

For too many folks, money is a carcinogen. It causes a voracious cancer called greed.

[Irish_Dem]

6. Power to make money, like most of the GOP. nt

[jalan48]

7. Status. nt

[Lochloosa]

10. This. Especially in GA.

[zentrum]

8. Power and being

…..perceived as powerful. It's a high, a drug.

[CanonRay]

9. It's done wonders for her portfolio

[struggle4progress]

29. +

[pecosbob]

11. We paid for her jet...

[Mike 03]

13. I don't understand people like her either, but there sure are a lot of them.

People who have enough money to live comfortably, or much more than just enough to live comfortably, who constantly need and want more--I've never understood it. Instead of just enjoying their good fortune and comfort in life, and maybe doing some good for others, they actually expend a ton of energy generating hatred and anxiety in other people, just to acquire more and more.

Some of those people have a "grand vision" of how they want the country or the planet to be that they are trying to implement (like the Christian Nationalists/Accelerationists/Racists), but Loeffler doesn't strike me as a "visionary."

[smirkymonkey]

27. This is something I will never understand.

Unless your goal is to make the world a better place, I cannot understand the desire to go into politics, especially when you have the means to have a comfortable life outside of that role and can support others who will do your bidding for you. It's not like any of these people appear to be addicted to work of any kind.

It has to be a drive for power. That is the only thing I can think of. I don't get it, as I have never been ambitious or had such a desire, but I suppose it is the allure for some of these psychos.

She is absolutely loathsome. I hope she gets trounced today.

[IcyPeas]

14. they have no children either (as far as I know)

so .... no heirs.

[localroger]

28. They still need an 8,000 sqft house

...for the gun and Faberge egg collection, dontcha know.

[beachbumbob]

15. to make more money as that is her nature

[spanone]

16. Same reason Bill Frist did....watch out for the family fortune.

[walkingman]

17. Never underestimate nasty Anglo people. She loves being nasty....it's in her DNA.

[BlueNProud]

18. So she can wear that stupid "country girl" checkered shirt everywhere

[apnu]

19. The same reason Gollum wants the One Ring

She thinks it belongs to her.

[Bettie]

20. Because she can get inside information

give it to her hubby and then, they grow exponentially richer while also supporting legislation that will help destroy people who have less money than she does.

For someone like her (Republican) that's what you call a win/win.

[ProfessorGAC]

22. That's What I Think Too

Even non-classified info would hit senators before the general public.
Good investment analysts would love those nuggets of early information.
Her husband would now continue to get them.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

24. Casue she feels entitled to it, just because she married a man of enormous wealth!!

can't see another reason, it is not because she wants to help ALL the people. she only like her kind of people.

[GoCubsGo]

25. To further enrich herself and her husband.

People like them can never have enough money. They want it all.

[TeamPooka]

26. Power, profits, power, ego, power. nt

[pfitz59]

30. Closest thing to Aristocracy in America

"Congressmen for Life". The game is rigged for incumbents. Some get rich. Most just like the perks and the bribes and the never-ending line of sycophants... Even when they leave office they carry the title "Senator" and the like.

[jcgoldie]

31. Seems to have been especially lucrative for her

Rich people want to get richer just like the rest of us.

[COLGATE4]

33. Because it's the only thing she can't buy

[Dem4Life1102]

34. Vanity

[sarcasmo]

35. Being in the Senate makes insider trading easier.