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Manchin: 'I Don't Give a (bleep) About Re-election, OK?
Townhall ^ | August 8, 2017 | Leah Barkoukis

Posted on 08/08/2017 5:11:38 AM PDT by Zakeet

In no uncertain terms, Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin said he isn't going to toe the party line on every policy issue, just because he's up for re-election.

"I don't give a sh*t, you understand? I just don't give a sh*t," he told the Charleston Gazette-Mail Sunday. "Don't care if I get elected, don't care if I get defeated, how about that. If they think because I'm up for election, that I can be wrangled into voting for sh*t that I don't like and can't explain, they're all crazy."

He continued: "I'm not scared of an election, let's put it that way. Elections do not bother me or scare me. I'm going to continue to do the same thing I’ve always done, extremely independent."

Manchin made the comments in response to pushback he received for not signing on to a letter establishing the Democratic Party's three main policy positions tax reform.

(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: democrats; manchin; politics; reelection
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For what's it's worth, Joe's trying to become a non-Democrat Democrat ... because he really does care about re-election.

1 posted on 08/08/2017 5:11:38 AM PDT by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

Then vote like an American not like a Democrat.


2 posted on 08/08/2017 5:14:35 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Zakeet

Like his states governor it would do him well to bolt the democrat party.

I would also suggest McCain/Graham and a few others bolt from their party too.


3 posted on 08/08/2017 5:15:46 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Zakeet

” I can be wrangled into voting for sh*t that I don’t like and can’t explain, they’re all crazy.”

It’s all about you Joe.


4 posted on 08/08/2017 5:16:05 AM PDT by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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To: Zakeet

All talk, no action Manchin. He voted with his Dem overlords NOT to repeal Barrycare. Not impressed by his recent bluster unless he starts in with real action to match. Otherwise meh Joe.


5 posted on 08/08/2017 5:16:15 AM PDT by tflabo
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To: Zakeet

When considering the two party principles, is he more a Democrat or Republican? It sounds like he is more on the right side of the dividing line and should switch.


6 posted on 08/08/2017 5:21:16 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: Zakeet

Trump goes to a rally in West Virginia and voila!


7 posted on 08/08/2017 5:21:39 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (Enforce the Law. Build the Wall.)
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To: Vaquero

“I would also suggest McCain/Graham and a few others bolt from their party too.”

I will never, never, be able to grasp such asinine thinking. If the Republicans lose the majority in the Senate, who do you think the democrats will seat as Supreme Court justices for the next forty years?


8 posted on 08/08/2017 5:24:14 AM PDT by odawg
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To: Zakeet

I don’t remember him voting with republicans on anything of consequence....hid under his desk on repealing OCare!!!


9 posted on 08/08/2017 5:26:51 AM PDT by ontap
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To: Zakeet

Exactly, if he wanted to prove that he should have voted to repeal Obamacare instead of doing what the Dem mis-leadership directed.


10 posted on 08/08/2017 5:26:54 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Trump the anti politician. About time!)
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To: elpadre

Sounds some what Conservative, votes Liberal...He’d fit right in today’s Republican party.


11 posted on 08/08/2017 5:28:53 AM PDT by Rational Thought
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To: Zakeet
Manchin made the comments in response to pushback he received for not signing on to a letter establishing the Democratic Party's three main policy positions tax reform.

Good for you, Joe!

12 posted on 08/08/2017 5:29:37 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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I admire him. I wish more republicans felt that way and didn’t renege on their promise to repeal Obamacare.


13 posted on 08/08/2017 5:30:00 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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Notice that McConnell could not turn even ONE Dem Senator to vote for the Ocare repeal, even though 23 of them are up for re-election.

Had McConnell turned Manchin, McCain’s treasonous vote would not have mattered.

More proof the whole GOP Senate is useless and anti-Trump.

But they all run in front of the TV cameras and Sunday shows to remind us how hard they are fighting for us!

Manchin is just blowing smoke now for the folks back home—he KNOWS his election is around the corner timewise, and wants to pull a McCain on everyone—go back home and fool the folks, then get back to DC to do Schumer’s bidding.

A pox on all of them!


14 posted on 08/08/2017 5:31:08 AM PDT by exit82 (The opposition has already been Trumped!)
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To: Zakeet

When did a rat tell the truth?


15 posted on 08/08/2017 5:31:41 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unar)
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To: odawg

The republicans obviously, currently don’t have, in fact, a majority now do they?

If they bolt.....the next time they run...those who vote the straight Republican Party line will vote them out. The attempts at primarying some of these clowns like McCain and Linda Graham hasn’t worked.

This is a marathon. It will produce fruit in the future (no....not talking about Graham).

But the point is moot. Those two enjoy being a burr under the GOP saddle.


16 posted on 08/08/2017 5:33:09 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Zakeet

Looks like Joe is joining his fellow Dems in thinking that swearing is going to appeal to those rural hick white voters.


17 posted on 08/08/2017 5:36:51 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Zakeet

Lying POS!


18 posted on 08/08/2017 5:37:44 AM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.6l)
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To: Zakeet

He’s no hero, that’s for sure.


19 posted on 08/08/2017 5:40:45 AM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is Mine)
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No doubt lol. Manchin is was and will always be a career politician. What a maroon.


20 posted on 08/08/2017 5:42:12 AM PDT by momincombatboots (White Stetsons up.. let's save our country!)
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