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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]
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. [/quote]

Reagan Republican back.

No, Hogan cannot buck the MAGA's.  That's a sure-fire way to be the most ineffective Senator to ever get elected.  If he bucks the MAGAs he will be even more outcast than George Santos in the House.  He will have any appointments taken away.  He will be a Senator for voting only with no other voice in the Senate.  He will have problems come reelection time because he will have nothing, no successes, no actions, no bills, no positive work to bank on for reelection.  And Marylanders are politically savvy, they will see that he wasn't just not effective, but was actually a boat anchor for MD.  His only chance to be effective enough in the Senate to actually stand a chance at reelection or to launch a presidential campaign based on his work in the Senate is to go along with the MAGA and actually have some political ribbons to pin a reelection campaign on.[/quote]
I don’t agree with this at all. Maryland will not back a MAGA. Remember the Dems openly assisting Dan Cox be the GOP candidate for governor because they knew he could never get elected in a state-wide race? A sure fire way for Hogan to ensure he serves only 1 term in the Senate is to turn MAGA, his coalition of voters will not support that. I also think there’s more room to maneuver for a non-MAGA Republican in the Senate than in the House, particularly if Biden is re-elected. [/quote]

He doesn't need to "turn MAGA". He is a Republican. The Republican Party is now the MAGA Party. No matter how much he might want to be a non-MAGA Republican, you can't be something that doesn't exist anymore.[/quote]

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