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but yet when he ran for ether govoner or afterwards as congressman ,cant remember it was about 10 years ago ,he ran a tv ad in West Virginia ,of him showing him shooting an AR-15 and telling everyone he was for the 2nd amendment ,Iam from W.Va ,..need i say he is a hypocrite and will say and do anything to get elected ,.oh he and his whole family who are polititions and doctors and lawyers in my area ,are all from my little West Virginia town of 400 , know them well on how they really are , is uncle was secretary of state and State truesurer ,..they impeached him..A.J.Manchin back about 1986 for embezzelment ,if i remember right

He's certainly a thorn in the side of the Demonrat/Commie/pedo Party.

I find it ironic how much support some here are giving him because he's not afraid to hold his own views or cross the aisle. Yet, if he was a Republican doing the same thing, everyone would be screaming "RINO!".

Truth!


And it illustrates what's wrong with our politics.
Both parties have their checklist.
And everyone has to check the right boxes.

F the right boxes.
What s right for America?

What's right for America? Limited government, Bill of Rights, balanced budget. Can't get that from Democrats, only Republicans, and only a small segment of those, so the only chance in the long run is to vote for more of "those."

I wonder how many times someone has tried to bribe him to officially flip to "R".

It all depends on whether you believe the Democrat Party is the very institutionalization of evil. If you do, that attitude makes sense.

Nancy Pelosi, because she controls Chuck Schumer. He can't take a pi$$ without her permission.

Another idiotic post.

Uphiker is right and I believe that such unusual behavior for a democrat of today’s political world stands out like a bright light. He’s a Fuggin political anomaly any way you cut it.

Republicans who “cross the isle “ are generally called rinos here and rightly so when you consider the total democrat agenda.

Jmo.

UP is not even remotely correct.

Read it again.

He’s correct.

Manchin has tried to please both sides since he's been in office. He knows one thing.....if he votes against certain freedoms like guns, his WV constituents will drop him like a used condom. WV is a Red state that votes for some Democrats in Senate elections for whatever crazy reason. A lot of it is family traditions, but the Democrats they vote for know the game, and care more about their seat than Chucky Schumer.

I have no problem with somebody "crossing the aisle" - the problem I have is how much time they spend on the left side of the aisle.

Exactly.

Manchin was humbled his last election. He narrowly won and the republican that ran against him was not popular but we were tired of Joe's business as usual. He learned he wasn't in office no matter how he voted like Jay Rockefeller and Robert C. Byrd.

Joe Manchin sure talks a good game. To listen to the man speak, you’d think he were a Reagan Democrat, or even rarer, an old style Blue Dog Democrat, back when there were Democrats who cared about government spending too much.

In reality, he’s nothing of the sort. Senator Manchin is every bit as leftists as most of the rest of the Democrats in the Senate. He’s just better at hiding it. Actually, he has a reason to hide it, where many of the others do not.

West Virginia is a deep Red state. In 2020, former President Donald Trump carried the state by more than 5 touchdowns and a field goal, and Republicans dominate the state legislature. Manchin is an anomaly, a throwback to when the state was purple when, thanks to goodwill he built up over a long career working his way up elected office to the Governor’s mansion in 2005. They half-jokingly say everyone in the state has his cell number.

Manchin does what Democrats in Red states always do – talk a good game and vote liberal down the line.


https://townhall.com/columnists/der...f7ac823837210e9d3eaf4&recip=27116010

Coming from you, that's a high compliment.

The Democrats attack Joe.

"Manchin's op-ed might as well be titled, 'Why I'll vote to preserve Jim Crow,'" tweeted New York Democratic Rep. Mondaire Jones.

The Atlantic's Jemele Hill tweeted that Manchin is a "cowardly, power-hungry white dude" who is upholding "white supremacy." (Just for good measure, Hill also called Manchin a "clown.")

The Washington Post's Eugene Robinson wrote a column headlined "Joe Manchin retreats to fantasyland and sticks America with the consequences," saying that Manchin's "party and his nation will pay a terrible price for his hallucinations" about being able to work with recalcitrant Republicans.

And so on. Manchin's Democratic colleagues in the Senate are being more diplomatic, in public at least, but they are still terribly upset. "Who isn't frustrated?" one anonymous senator told Politico. "Do you want to see the patches where I pulled my hair out?"

More Here

https://townhall.com/columnists/byr...f7ac823837210e9d3eaf4&recip=27116010

I am afraid that with the breakdown of "bi-partisan" talks on an infrastructure bill, Manchin may have an excuse to vote for elimination of the filibuster rule. I expect there will be a big pay day for him if he does so.