Oh Dear – It’s Happening. It’s Getting Worse.
Just when you thought that it can’t possibly get worse, Don Blankenship decides to run in the Republican primary to be the person who faces off against Joe Manchin for the senate in West Virginia.
You’ll recall Blankenship as spending time in a federal prison when one of Massey Energy’s mines (where he was CEO) killed 29 miners. On May 10th he will celebrate the one year anniversary of his release from prison.
It seems like criminal convictions are a requirement to run as a Republican.
You know, I liked English, the language of Shakespeare. I really beginning to miss it.
Pro-Life Candidate
NRA Life Member
Oh, the irony!
1I’m beginning to agree with Terry Pratchett, that politicians should go to prison as soon as they’re elected and just serve their terms there, to save time.
2What tickles me about this situation is that the West Virginia GOP don’t want this guy on the ballot either! They can’t stand him. And if he were on the ticket, he couldn’t win anyway. Game Set. Manchin!
3Well then, we can enjoy the spectacle of him being booted out in the primary.
I vaguely recall obituaries for English being written at least as far back as Eisenhower.
4This guy says he’s a political prisoner. If one more felon compares himself to Nelson Mandela, I may have to get myself an assault rifle.
5His eyes are dead. That tells me all I need to know.
6Zyxomma, yup. Dead shark eyes. No warmth, no life at all.
7https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUuH4TEmgLo
8And this
http://lite.cnn.io/en/article/h_2f5f014adff61fe08acd18da87e6ae08
9If I weren’t completely slack-jawed gobsmacked by this ad, I’d have been laughing my fanny off. Still scratching my head over “China people”.
10He must be tired of destroying West Virginia from underground in his coal mines. Time to wreak havoc from above the surface. Bring some of that Clean Coal expertise to government.
11Was rather creepy seeing Blankenship holding the little girls he rented at the PigglyWiggly kiosk…and even creepier since it triggered memory of those creepy rabid religious parents with their “snowflake babies” manufactured from unclaimed fertilized eggs in GW’s era….At an event, one of the proud parents giggled when his toddler girl gave the middle finger to the cameras snapping pics while GW was glad handing others on the stage. That little girl will be another Tomi Lahren with guns in her yoga pants snarling on FOX network any day now.
12This zombie makes Paul Ryan look positively human.
Whatever ‘charisma’ he might have been born with, he clearly gave away twice that much and was never able to buy any.
13Normally, rethugs who espouse hateful causes are winners in
14Trump country, but this time, the incumbent, Manchin, is a Democrat In Name Only and covers all the bases any rethug might champion: pro fossil fuels, bank deregulation, NRA, anti Occupational Safety, anti-union et al.
Blankenship hasn’t a chance in hell (coal country).
Today Blankenship girded his convicted loins to do a Twitter battle with Don Jr after Jr tweeted out not to vote for him because he’s another Roy Moore hot mess …neither of them were alpha-male impressive.
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