“Sarah McBride to Primary Tom Carper” Part 1
That is a headline I expect to read in about a year. Provided Carper doesn’t croak in the meantime.
Why do I think Mcbride and not Blunt Rochester is going to take out the shambling corpse? Well, I’ll tell you.
But first, someone check my math. Carper’s current term (the 116th Congress) started in January 2019, and runs to January 2025. Carper has said he is running again for another term so he’d be facing a primary opponent in 2024, or about 20 months from now. At that point, Carper will be 77 years old. Granted that’s young for a Democratic Senator, but it is plenty old enough to beg for a strong challenger. (Bill Roth was 78 when Carper announced that he was going to “sadly” retire the great man. Store that “sadly” in you memory banks. It comes back around. That’s foreshadowing.)
If my math checks out, I’ll post “Part 2” of this 30 part series tomorrow. Probably. Maybe.
all in all, we just need another head on the wall:)
“You can’t always get what you want.”
“But if you try sometimes, well you might find you get what you need”
Bet you knew that was coming! 🙂
I set ’em up, you knock ’em down…
Symmetry indeed. Things I vividly remember about Roth’s last stand: he passed out in front of the Hotel Du Pont; he pointedly refused to shake Carper’s hand after a Channel 12 debate. More recently, things I’ve observed about Tom Carper: over the last 10+++ years, whenever I’ve actually seen him in the flesh, he looks like the Walking Dead; he makes very little sense when he speaks.
He was in the Navy, you know.
I was in the Navy too and I’m 2 1/2 months older than the senator. I hope that most of my observations on this site make at least a little sense.
Carper now strongly resembles that Chrylser minivan he used for more than 500,000 miles. Time for a trade-in. Need a more contemporary model.
Damn, I LOVE having so many commenters with journalism backgrounds here!
BTW – If anyone wants to help crowd source parts 2-30, feel free to post why you like McBride or why you dislike Carper here.
Sarah says, “How are you today?”
Carper says, “How is Steve today?”
Always found that strange.
Also “Part 2” has been delayed due to supply chain issues. Look for it Monday.
I think this is actually how the state GOP will get their first win in awhile. It’s gonna be a reverse Roth. Carper is too old and out of touch, the Dems won’t primary such a pillar of dem politics so the GOP somehow finds someone that appeals to enough people below the canal (Simpler, Hensley, ect) and with enough votes from southern NCC, they win a senate seat. Politics is a pendulum
There’s no there, there. I can’t hardly think of a single local conservative with the ability to draw free thinking citizens to their agenda on a statewide level for a congressional seat. Maybe Simpler.
The GOP DE went the way of the Tea Party and never looked back. Follow the money – https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/2010/0919/Who-s-picking-up-the-tab-for-the-tea-party
Party leader Jane fucking Brady loaded up the Ginny T. buses with bodies for that little old 2020 election overthrow experiment. Cults only look good from the inside out.
The problem with A’s thinking is the belief that Republicans would somehow do the smart thing and nominate a moderate. Check their primary results — the wingnut has defeated the moderate every time they’ve faced off since the Castle/O’Donnell fiasco.
Take Nancy’s advice and follow the money — you’ll find there is none, unless a Witzke type pulls it in from out of state.
Simpler is no moderate. Also he lost badly (as an incumbent) to the electoral powerhouse, Colleen Davis.
And let’s say they somehow find a moderate…how doe s that moderate run away from a party platform that denies climate change and takes away women’s rights to privacy while protecting the paternity rights of rapists?
Nope. The Democratic primary is the election.