A teapot tempest over MANCHIN
Joe MANCHIN surfaced on the Sunday yak shows to minorly irritate me - minorly for popping in after a spell of not popping in, as opposed to the major pain in the neck he has been for years, and I was enticed to post a snarky pic of him stoking his potential candidature that might add just one more possibility of making Drumpf squat in the WH again.
There was a pic of him from today making a goofy face trying to act ingratiating to convince anybody to vote him 3rd party, but I had qualms - that the post might break the rule of "Support Dems" - but his inflicting the pain in the neck for years, besides busting the Dem Admin agenda and going on about maybe switching parties and on and on has made some/many of us wonder whether he really *is* a Dem (to support) despite CARVILLE and others saying they know him to be an authentic Dem and held a seat otherwise lost to us.
Then the problem of the source for a link about all this, danger/not a wingnut source, so this one "TheMessenger" claimed to be not one thing or the other, but who knows, I know I don't. But there was an available salad of items there with MANCHIN's various stances - that he "loves the country too much to vote for" Drumpf (good), but that he demands his stuff from BIDEN (bad), that he's keeping on flirting with the "no labels" aholes (bad) and more and more.
*** My head was spinning about whether to effect my pseudo-borderline post, which was going to be the goofy pic and captioning it something like, "He wants to know whether voters want to spend 4-8 years with this face" or something like that.
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The No Labels third party movement is providing 'venue' for frustrated conservatives and liberals, the senator argued amid growing speculation about his plans
https://themessenger.com/politics/manchin-says-he-could-not-vote-for-donald-trump-in-2024-wants-changes-from-biden
'I'm not sure if the Democratic Party thinks I'm part of them anyway,' the senator said about possibly leaving his party
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