While Pat McCrory’s lawyers and partisans are hunkering down for a long recount of last Tuesday’s election results, the governor himself is hedging his bets. McCrory was in Orlando for the Republican Governor’s Association. So was Mike Pence. Rumor has it that McCrory met with Pence to inquire about a cabinet position. He knows he’ll need a new gig come January.
It’s not a bad bet that the Trump administration can find a place for the governor. McCrory came out strongly for Trump and even called him “the best of America” at a rally in Wilmington. Trump’s a guy who loves adulation and McCrory’s clearly not afraid to hand it out.
McCrory and Trump may seem to be worlds apart but they share certain traits. Donald Trump doesn’t really believe in much besides Donald Trump. He ran as a Republican but shares little in the way of conservative values or beliefs. He was pro-choice until it became a political inconvenience. His hotels employ plenty of immigrants, but Trump railed against them taking American jobs when he realized that position would endear him to the GOP base. His political positions are borne of convenience, not conviction.
McCrory is the same. He was the moderate mayor of Charlotte when he ran for Governor in 2008 and when he won in 2012. He became a culture warrior when he thought that best suited his political future. He easily sold out local governments, signing bills the stripped away local authority despite his roots in municipal government. Unlike Ohio Governor John Kasich, who stood on principle, McCrory embraced the populism of Trump. While McCrory doesn’t share Trump’s political instincts, he does share his lack of core values. He’d fit right in with the Trump administration.
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The answer is NO. We not need another anything of Governor McCrory. He is his own priority.
HUD, Energy or EPA, McCrory would be a great fit if the election fraud here is not reversed.
What fraud? So far, nothing has been shown to be anything except computer glitches which were overcome either by using manual systems (as they were intended for backups) or fixing the glitches. And by the way, which party controls the local election boards? Unless something changed between Nov. 7 and Nov. 8, it was the GOP. The only attempts at “fraud” that I saw were limitations on options for voting early, limited voting places, absurd mailing of junk mail used to throw people off the rolls, and the election laws deemed unconstitutional. Or do you still believe that nonsense about people voting twice, or voting as someone they are not — all repeatedly disproved for decades. The only area of voter fraud that may be occurring is in absentee ballots, and many of those appear to be less fraud than sheer idiocy on the part of voters.
So Ebrun, we await your response with bated breath.
Same day voter is fraudulent on it’s face. There is no way those registrants can be verified as qualified voters. If you think there was no fraudulent voting, you’re either very naive or totally partisan. The only question is whether there were enough fraudulent votes to change the outcome.
I suspect there were not now that all the counties have reported and all the challenges have been denied, except for Bladen County. The only chance McCrory has now is if a major error is found in the tabulation of the vote during the recount.
Ebrun, your statement that “same day voter is fraudulent on it’s face” is not supported by any factual evidence. Nor does it make any sense. It is just as much a statement of belief as if I was to say that Trump is an orange haired nitwit. Partisan I am not when it comes to voting. It is everyone’s right and responsibility. And it should be relatively easy, not a difficult process. It has nothing to do with political preferences. It is a bedrock of a democracy.
Now that’s just dumb, Ebrun. No more vetting is done of a voter whose registration was done months or years before than is done of a same-day registrant. As a matter of fact, since the same day registration is face-to-face, that registration has the potential to be more reliable.
And for the record, it’s “its face,” not “it’s face.”
We, the people, deserve to nominate Pat. I nominate him for “Secretary of Coal Ash'” Or, how about “Secretary of Fracking”? “Secretary of Voter Suppression”? “Secretary of Transgender Phobia”?
The guy has SO MANY talents! How can the transition team possibly ignore him?
“All the best people”–if by “people” you mean weasels and sharks. I hope McCrony takes Trump up on his offer: just don’t let the door to NC hit you in the rear, Pat. Good riddance to bad r(ep)ubbish!
I remember when Trump claimed he’d “get all the best people.” Best at groveling as it turns out.
Good point! Except possibly Bannon.
That’s assuming the Atkinson precedent doesn’t give McCrory another term if the election gets thrown onto the General Assembly.
As for Kasich, while his willingness to buck Trump may be admirable, it’s not about principle, but petulance. His ego still won’t accept that anyone but him should have received the nomination.
So much for the Peter Principle since MCCrory has already risen to his highest level of incompetence.
Makes perfect sense. McCrory took marching orders from the NCGOP and the GOP leaders in the NCGA for 4 years. He never bucked/vetoed a bill (of any consequence) that they sent his way for signature. That’s the sort of obedience and genuflecting that Trump appears to really like.
“Obedience and genuflecting”… is that what they’re calling it these days? I got a rather different image, similar only in the use of the knees.