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(9,810 posts)Anybody who ends up caretaking is ruined. I want Hatch in part because I want him ruined, and Hatch means Pence and Ryan are rocking their new orange duds, and Hatch keeps Tillerson out. After Tillerson is Mnuchin, then Mattis, who is my next okay, this isn't immediately lethal. But after Mattis, there's a whole line of crooks, liars, thieves and dolts, until we get to Rick Perry, who is all of the above. Yeah.
So I despise and loathe Orrin Hatch, but he's the least awful in the upper 1/3 of the succession list. He doesn't wank to Altas Shrugged or Deuteronomy, he's been in elected government for more than a hot minute, and he has beliefs and morals. I may disagree with them, but this is my Hamiltonian endorsement of Jefferson over Burr - I disagree with everything he stands for, but he stands for something.