We were hoping Cooper would run. And we know there are no sane Republicans in NC. If Trump continues with his BBB, no amount of partisan cleverness will work to elect him. But they will try.
I just had to pull out this one observation because it’s so true: “Political hacks often make poor or difficult candidates. They don’t understand their new role on the campaign and tend to fall back into the role of strategist, just without the necessary objectivity.” With the disarray in MAGA Land, a temperamental Trump needing constant affirmation, and voters who increasingly hate politics, Whatley will inevitably feel he needs to be the shot caller in his own campaign. What could possibly go wrong?
"Yesterday, National Republican Party Chairman Michael Whatley jumped into the race with the full backing of the Epstein machine."
Wait. The EPSTEIN machine? THAT Epstein? Or are due talking about some other Epstein. Because I can't think of anybody I'd want backing my campaign LESS than someone associated with THAT Epstein. But hey, as Napoleon famously advised, "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake".
Obviously a lot can change over the next (counts on fingers...) 15 months, but I suspect if the election were held today, Cooper would mop the floor with his guy. And he still could if the state party can get out of its own way and start hanging Trump around Whatley's neck, and the pain that about 10% of the state is going to start feeling any day now around Trump's. The NCGOP and everybody it backs needs to be getting hammered with the message that "Republicans -- including those from NC -- took food and medicine away from the poorest people in the state to make the richest white men in the world a little bit richer. Not because those rich white men needed to get richer -- they probably don't even notice the additional income-- but because they COULD. No other reason. On the state level, they left the survivors of Hurricane Helene to twist in the wind with a "relief bill" that did NOTHING to aid the people of Western NC, and there was no intent to help them The intent was to help state Republicans consolidate more political power, and other that end they attached a "relief package" to a power grab, and used their supermajority to ramrod it through a veto override. The NCGOP -- and the Republican Party more broadly -- is a criminal enterprise that SHOULD be facing RICO charges, but the DOJ is run by Trump lackeys that will never let that happen. So it's up to us -- all of us -- to hold them to account. They need to be fired. All of them. At every level of government. From (perhaps especially) the city councils and county commissions all the way to the White House.
It's time to clean house, while we still have a house left to clean.
Removing the felons, domestic abusers, con artists, Epstein-affiliated individuals, and the chronically incompetent would be an excellent place to start.
Thomas (and everyone else) remember Whatley's buddies in the NC General Assembly took the power to appoint both NC State Board of Elections and County Board of Elections members away from the governor after 101 years. With republicans now controlling the election machinery what could go wrong? Democrats MUST get out the vote and overwhelm Auditor Dave Bolick who now controls the process
Currently Cooper is leading his GOP opponent by six points. We should thank Tillis for handing Governor Cooper an excellent opportunity. His absence from the lives of North Carolinian s has created a vacuum of leadership that Cooper is now poised to fill. For a decade in the Senate, Tillis has never held a single in-person town hall, leaving constituents to deal with canned responses and bureaucratic brush-offs. The frustration boiled over into symbolic protests like the “empty chair town hall,” where citizens aired their grievances to a seat left vacant by their senator. Somewhere along the way, Tom forgot why he was elected—and who he was supposed to serve.
We were hoping Cooper would run. And we know there are no sane Republicans in NC. If Trump continues with his BBB, no amount of partisan cleverness will work to elect him. But they will try.
I just had to pull out this one observation because it’s so true: “Political hacks often make poor or difficult candidates. They don’t understand their new role on the campaign and tend to fall back into the role of strategist, just without the necessary objectivity.” With the disarray in MAGA Land, a temperamental Trump needing constant affirmation, and voters who increasingly hate politics, Whatley will inevitably feel he needs to be the shot caller in his own campaign. What could possibly go wrong?
"Yesterday, National Republican Party Chairman Michael Whatley jumped into the race with the full backing of the Epstein machine."
Wait. The EPSTEIN machine? THAT Epstein? Or are due talking about some other Epstein. Because I can't think of anybody I'd want backing my campaign LESS than someone associated with THAT Epstein. But hey, as Napoleon famously advised, "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake".
Obviously a lot can change over the next (counts on fingers...) 15 months, but I suspect if the election were held today, Cooper would mop the floor with his guy. And he still could if the state party can get out of its own way and start hanging Trump around Whatley's neck, and the pain that about 10% of the state is going to start feeling any day now around Trump's. The NCGOP and everybody it backs needs to be getting hammered with the message that "Republicans -- including those from NC -- took food and medicine away from the poorest people in the state to make the richest white men in the world a little bit richer. Not because those rich white men needed to get richer -- they probably don't even notice the additional income-- but because they COULD. No other reason. On the state level, they left the survivors of Hurricane Helene to twist in the wind with a "relief bill" that did NOTHING to aid the people of Western NC, and there was no intent to help them The intent was to help state Republicans consolidate more political power, and other that end they attached a "relief package" to a power grab, and used their supermajority to ramrod it through a veto override. The NCGOP -- and the Republican Party more broadly -- is a criminal enterprise that SHOULD be facing RICO charges, but the DOJ is run by Trump lackeys that will never let that happen. So it's up to us -- all of us -- to hold them to account. They need to be fired. All of them. At every level of government. From (perhaps especially) the city councils and county commissions all the way to the White House.
It's time to clean house, while we still have a house left to clean.
Removing the felons, domestic abusers, con artists, Epstein-affiliated individuals, and the chronically incompetent would be an excellent place to start.
Thomas (and everyone else) remember Whatley's buddies in the NC General Assembly took the power to appoint both NC State Board of Elections and County Board of Elections members away from the governor after 101 years. With republicans now controlling the election machinery what could go wrong? Democrats MUST get out the vote and overwhelm Auditor Dave Bolick who now controls the process
Thanks for your writing!
Currently Cooper is leading his GOP opponent by six points. We should thank Tillis for handing Governor Cooper an excellent opportunity. His absence from the lives of North Carolinian s has created a vacuum of leadership that Cooper is now poised to fill. For a decade in the Senate, Tillis has never held a single in-person town hall, leaving constituents to deal with canned responses and bureaucratic brush-offs. The frustration boiled over into symbolic protests like the “empty chair town hall,” where citizens aired their grievances to a seat left vacant by their senator. Somewhere along the way, Tom forgot why he was elected—and who he was supposed to serve.
I feel bad for Wiley, but, hey, Ted Budd's up next!
Thanks for the article. Here's to the hope that we can do our part to save our nation with the election of the honorable Roy Cooper to the US Senate.