Sunday Show Republicans Monday-Morning Quarterbacking Being LOSERS
Cassidy was asked whether he'd support Trump if he were the GOP nominee in 2024.
TODD: Can you imagine having to support Donald Trump again if he's the nominee of your party?
CASSIDY: Our party should be about the future. I think our next candidate will be looking to the future, not to the past, and I think our next candidate will win. And so I anticipate supporting a candidate who's looking to the future.
TODD: And if that candidate's Donald Trump, do you plan on supporting that candidate?
CASSIDY: You're giving me a theoretical, which actually I don't think will come to transpire because we have to be looking to the future. And so you can give me a theoretical after a theoretical. I will say we should be a party of ideas and principles. I welcome that. I've tried to live my life that way. And I think our next candidate will similarly embody that perspective.
Cassidy's refusal to commit to not support Trump in the future tells you all you need to know about his and his party's lack of courage.
Tom Cotton Is No 'Nature Boy'
GOP Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas was on CBS's "Face The Nation" to (chicken)hawk a new book. After making excuses for the GOP's colossal midterms fumble, Cotton was asked whether Mitch McConnell should be their minority leader again. Cotton invoked a very famous pro-wrestler who is the total opposite of Mitch McConnell.
COTTON: You know, the great wrestling champion Ric Flair used to say: "to be the man, you got to beat the man." And, so far, no one's had the nerve to step forward and challenge Senator McConnell. So, I support Senator McConnell.
Somewhere out there is a "stylin’, profilin’, limousine-riding, jet-flying, kiss-stealing, wheelin’ 'n’ dealin’ son of a gun" feeling a disturbance by being compared to an uncharismatic chump named Mitch McConnell. While this sentence might be the coolest reference Tom Cotton will ever make, it was also made in an effort to say they should just hurry up so they can focus on the Georgia runoff election. Because as even Dave Chappelle said in this weekend's "Saturday Night Live" monologue, Herschel Walker is not exactly the strongest candidate.
The GOP has taken something else from pro-wrestling to assist Walker's inability to sound like he'd pass NFL concussion protocols: heel managers.
Much like Andre the Giant had Bobby "The Brain" Heenan or Brock Lesnar had Paul Heyman or Yokozuna had Jim Cornette, Herschel Walker has Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz and many more. And like in pro-wrestling, they serve the same purpose: to talk on behalf of an intimidating physical force that's unable to string multiple words together or too uncharismatic to charm and inspire. They need this because Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock is effective, charming and has a previous record of making the GOP lose in a runoff. That's why Tom Cotton is so OK with Mitch McConnell dragging his jowls back to Senate leadership.
Their focus is Georgia, by any means necessary.
Let's enjoy our midterm victory now, but make sure the final celebration is re-electing Raphael Warnock.
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Let's Enjoy Rick Scott's Incompetence One More Time Before The Midterms
After numerous and terrible appearances on the Sunday shows this election cycle, Rick Scott was apparently counting on Chuck Todd's usual lazy questions without follow-up. So Scott didn't seem to be expecting this question:
TODD: Let's assume you've got the majority. I'm going to take you at your word. You're going to get the House, you're going to get the Senate. What's the first bill a Republican Congress sends to the president's desk that you actually think he would sign?
Scott answered by spewing a lot of words, but none of them were an actual policy or bill. It was all talking points and complaints with no answer on how precisely they plan to tackle any of the issues Scott brought up. Todd tried to at least get Scott to answer how they would tackle one of Scott's pet issues. Scott, again, gave no real solution.
TODD: Well, let me ask you, inflation, you saw that's the biggest – that’s the number one issue people are dissatisfied with this economy. What's the first bill you guys can pass that you think can impact inflation?
SCOTT: I think the thing we have to work on – on inflation, it's all tied to reckless government spending. We've got to get our budget in control, we've got to figure out how we're going to balance the budget. So that's the first thing we have to do. We have to get –
TODD: It doesn't really sound like — I don't mean to –
SCOTT: We have to get our spending under control.
Like a non-playable character in an RPG (role playing game), Scott is apparently only programed with a few phrases like "cut spending" or "secure the border" or "not woke."
You have to be really bad at this to let Chuck Todd dunk on you.
Sununu Got Journalismed Too?!
On CBS's "Face The Nation," New Hampshire GOP Governor Chris Sununu tried that bad faith tactic where any critique of any part of Republican Party is an attack on all of them. However, host Margaret Brennan took Sununu's tactic at face value and the resulting backpedal was hilarious.
BRENNAN: Do you agree that parts of your party are emboldening violence and posing a threat to democracy?
SUNUNU: Look, what is shocking to me about all of this is you have the Democrat Party, which is now using the president of the United States, not as leader of our country, but leader of their party as a political tool. Right before the election, to drive in, effectively tell half of America that they're too extreme for America. It makes absolutely no sense and to say--
BRENNAN: You think the MAGA element of the Republican party is half of America? Because I wouldn't necessarily put you in that half.
SUNUNU: No. Well, definitely not. But again, to say that that extremism belongs in one party, and it doesn't appear in the Democrat Party is- is nonsensical. Nobody buys that--
BRENNAN: You're saying the party is all one now?
SUNUNU: --because we see it on both sides.
BRENNAN: Unified? That extreme MAGA is part of the Republican Party's ideology?
SUNUNU: No, no, absolutely not. [...] Absolutely not. No. They're in the absolute minority. But what I'm saying is extreme--
BRENNAN: But it seemed like that's what you're implying--
SUNUNU: No, no, no, no, definitely not. Extremism is on both sides.
This should be eye-opening for Democrats. Make the GOP accountable for its extremism, especially when Republicans try to make attacking extremists and bigots like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz or Josh Hawley into an attack on the whole party. Make sure they can't distance themselves when those same people stand with white nationalists or incite insurrections.
They can't have it both ways, and there are no "Good Republicans."
Now got vote and let's hope for a good midterm election!
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