- His disclosures, both from his final year in Congress and his time as Minnesota governor, also show no mutual funds, bonds, private equities, or other securities.
- No book deals or speaking fees or crypto or racehorse interests.
- Not even real estate. The couple sold their Mankato, Minnesota, home after moving into the governor’s mansion, for below the $315k asking price).
I figured so when they lost in 2008, but they doubled (quadrupled) down on the party shit and stuff in 2016 and won.
I have absolutely no expectations they’ll start getting introspective and sane.
Which is a shame, having a sane, working-in-good-faith opposition party is - generally - a very good thing.
2008 they ran their most honest, honorable, and classy candidate in modern history. And he lost.
So they stopped trying to be honest, honorable, and classy.
He lost partly because they added the stupid tea party candidate to the ticket.
Plus Obama was a goddamn phenomenon at the time.
You’re right, but still.
Oh yeah. Between Bush fatigue and Obama there was no Republican who could have win that election.
Part of me is sad we never had a McCain presidency. I didn’t love his politics, but if he’d beaten Bush in the 2000 primaries I think we’d be living in a much better world.
Yeah, I didn’t agree with McCain on a lot but I at least RESPECTED the guy. He seemed to genuinely want to do the right thing. And behaved like, you know, a grown-up.
I will always respect him for saving the ACA. He fought tooth and nail to keep it from being passed, but when he saw the damage that killing it would do he stood up against Trump and the rest of the party and cast the deciding vote to prevent its repeal.
In 8 years Trump will be physically unable to run. He’s already mentally incapable. But there’s a decent chance he won’t even survive another 8 years.
I don’t know if there is any requirement to be alive in order to be elected…
People don’t generally do well in prison.