Perhaps purely coincidentally, this exact statement shows up in a lot of bios for right-wing accounts on Twitter. |
I’m 7:53 and, like I said, I’m voting for the best candidate I believe for Maryland. As for right wingers writing that on Twitter, I will say that a broken clock is right twice a day. |
The most important vote a senator casts is for majority leader. Most people realize that now |
The best candidate for Maryland is someone who doesn't vote for the Republican for Senate majority leader. |
I’m not debating what you believe versus what I believe because when has arguing with an Internet stranger ever changed anybody’s mind? If Trone wins, I was planning on voting for him, but I will be casting my vote for Hogan. |
Ummm ok, I will. |
Exactly. |
Then why do you think Hogan is a better candidate, knowing the full scope of how he may vote along with a Republican senate? Trone is no leftist and if all things are equal there isn’t too much ideological distance between the two on fiscal policy. So it really does come down to the party alignment. My sense is if you are a Democrat crossing lines to vote for Hogan and tip the Senate in favor of the Republicans, if you find the fact that he lowered your taxes that one time more favorable than not having someone rubber stamp a bunch of far-right federal judges, then you are probably a Republican. There is nothing ad-hominem or close-minded about me saying that. It’s an obvious observation that if something walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it’s probably a duck. |
I like Hogan (voted for him both times for governor) but I'll vote for Trone. I think it would be to the detriment of myself, my family, Maryland, and the entire country to have a Republican Senate, especially with the potential for another Trump term, and will do what I can to prevent that. |
That is the dumbest thing that I've ever read. You should be voting for policies, not people or party. |
If our nationally political landscape hadn't become so toxic, multi-term state governors like Hogan and several current Dem governors would be running for president like they did when we had a more healthy political system 30 years ago. Instead, we'll choose between two people that may or may not be mentally fit for the duration of another 4 year term. Yay. |
Exactly. Still, it’s great news! |
By this logic why do you think Trone won’t vote with the leftists in his party? |
I am a former Reagan Republican who has been abandoned by the current MAGA Republican party. I was a Republican who voted for Trump and Hogan in their first elections. I was an independent who voted for Biden and Hogan the second time Trump and Hogan ran for their offices. I like Hogan, I absolutely abhor Trone as a raging hypocrite who only goes with liberal policies because they are politically expediant.
All that said, I cannot vote for Hogan, for a Congressional seat in either chamber of Congress because of current national politics. The current MAGA party is dangerous for our nation and I will do what I can to avoid giving them control of either chamber. So I will vote Democratic for any candidate going to Congress. While I respect a lot of Hogan's positions (and frankly, he pretty accurately represents many of my own personal political mores), I have no faith that he will be able to stand up to the political machinery and he will become a rank and file member of his party should he be elected. There is no bucking the Republican party in Congress. Not safely. It's political suicide. |
I would say that NOT bucking the MAGAs in the Senate would be political suicide for Hogan in Maryland. Part of his appeal to moderate Dems and Republicans and independents is that he is not MAGA. It’s not like he’s a Republican running in a crazy @ss state like Alabama where he has to join the crazy to win and stay in office, he’s running in a traditionally Democratic state. If he goes to the Senate and all of a sudden turns MAGA, he’s a one and done. He’s also politically savvy enough to know this. |