Anonymous wrote:"Hogan has been a moderate and reasonable"

Why do people believe this? He killed the red line proposal, he made the purple line less effective, he decreased education funding to the parts of the state that didn't vote for him, he forced the bizarre school calendar on us.

Is not being a crazy now our standard? What good has he done, seriously?

+1 I am not a liberal and only lived in MD for 5 years. I honestly don't know what Hogan's done that's been good for MD. No one seems to be able to detail his accomplishments.

"Hogan has been a moderate and reasonable"

Why do people believe this? He killed the red line proposal, he made the purple line less effective, he decreased education funding to the parts of the state that didn't vote for him, he forced the bizarre school calendar on us.

Is not being a crazy now our standard? What good has he done, seriously?

Anonymous wrote:I'm very much a democrat, but I'll vote for Hogan. He is a good governor. We all benefit when both parties are sane, and Hogan is the kind of republican the USA needs more of.

I'm very much a republican, but I'll vote against Hogan. His campaigning for Gillespie, a very flawed candidate, showed his true colors. That is not who republicans are - Hogan should have stayed in his lane. And, I agree with PP who said MoCo hates him - you can't win Md w/o MoCo. He's finished.

I'm very much a democrat, but I'll vote for Hogan. He is a good governor. We all benefit when both parties are sane, and Hogan is the kind of republican the USA needs more of.

Anonymous wrote:It may end up like Connie Morella. A generally popular R congresswoman, who actually voted against her own party on the Iraq War because she knew her MoCo constituents were virulently opposed to it, and who was voted out anyway because of the R after her name in the 2006 backlash against Bush. Hogan has an advantage over some moderate R pols because he leads a state where he doesn't have to play to Trump since 61% voted against DJT, but he shouldn't rest on his laurels.

Not quite.

Morello was moderate for a time, but she turned more conservative toward the end of her career. That's when her more liberal constituents---and women in particular---pulled their support.

Re: Hogan - He has support of many moderate liberals. My friends who lobby in Annapolis actually think he's done a great job as a manager (and my friends are quite liberal). But at the end of the day, Hogan is a republican...and that does impact his leadership. Plus, he hates Montgomery County. I don't understand how anyone from MoCo can support him.

He can’t take it for granted but I think there are still a good number of moderate Ds in Md that like having a check on the legislature. He has been pretty moderate and reasonable so far too which helps.

It may end up like Connie Morella. A generally popular R congresswoman, who actually voted against her own party on the Iraq War because she knew her MoCo constituents were virulently opposed to it, and who was voted out anyway because of the R after her name in the 2006 backlash against Bush. Hogan has an advantage over some moderate R pols because he leads a state where he doesn't have to play to Trump since 61% voted against DJT, but he shouldn't rest on his laurels.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought all the Dems here were professing their love and bipartisanship for Hogan?

I guess that was just words.

Yes, just pleasantries. If you have an "R" after your name and are in office, we're coming for you.

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn’t be so sure about Hogan. If he can keep his moderate views, I predict he will have a tight race but emerge victorious. If he allows Rs to dictate a divisive campaign, he’s toast.

It depends on how much he can make the transvaginal ultrasound and get brown people out wings of his party go away. He's actually done fairly good so far.

Hogan has to be pro abortion with all the social welfare problems in Maryland.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought all the Dems here were professing their love and bipartisanship for Hogan?

I guess that was just words.

Yes, just pleasantries. If you have an "R" after your name and are in office, we're coming for you.

The Tea Party taught us that total opposition works just fine.

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn’t be so sure about Hogan. If he can keep his moderate views, I predict he will have a tight race but emerge victorious. If he allows Rs to dictate a divisive campaign, he’s toast.

It depends on how much he can make the transvaginal ultrasound and get brown people out wings of his party go away. He's actually done fairly good so far.

Hogan lost my vote when he refused to repudiate Trump's Muslim ban. I'll vote for any Democrat who runs against him.

I'm a liberal D who actually didn't mind Hogan but the school start thing has really pissed me off. I thought Republicans were supposed to be about small government, and yet here the R governor is interfering with local control of school calendars and imposing policies that fly in the face of all research about summer learning loss. The harping on taking away professional days, like there are even any left, every time MCPS tries to get some calendar flexibility reeks of an agenda against MCEA instead of sound policy.

Anonymous wrote:I thought all the Dems here were professing their love and bipartisanship for Hogan?

I guess that was just words.

Who did that? I hadn't noticed anything of the sort.

Anonymous wrote:I thought all the Dems here were professing their love and bipartisanship for Hogan?

I guess that was just words.

Yes, just pleasantries. If you have an "R" after your name and are in office, we're coming for you.