'Do you really want to take that on?' Manchin freezes governor's primary

[TexasTowelie]

West Virginia’s senior senator continues to flirt with the concept of leaving Congress to run for governor, leaving a race frozen and onlookers scratching their heads.

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., won reelection and a six-year term in November. By January, he began teasing the notion of challenging incumbent Gov. Jim Justice in 2020. He elucidated those remarks this week in a radio interview with WV MetroNews.

“By this fall, with all of my family involved, I should be able to make a decision,” he said.

State Democrats, meanwhile, can’t make heads or tails of Manchin’s waffling. Some say he’s just saving space for a surrogate candidate; some take him at his word that he’s weighing a run in earnest; most all agree that he’s boxed out any newcomers to race, for fear of going toe-to-toe with one of the most formidable political brands in West Virginia.

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[hlthe2b]

1. Manchin... Just another self-serving Rod Rosenstein type, it would seem. sigh...

making himself sufficiently vital to Dems in Senate, that he gets a pass for some of the most damaging statements and actions, yet has not one iota of loyalty to the Democrats in WV who sent him to DC, nor the party who helped him do so.

And, yeah, I know Rosenstein is a Republican, but the self-serving aspect applies nonetheless given his loyalty was supposed to be to the law and the constitution and truth.

[montanacowboy]

2. We also have "Rats" in the Democratic Party

and Manchin is one of them. I want to see the day his sorry ass gets kicked out of politics completely. He has never done our party any good and certainly not the people of WVA.

[marble falls]

3. "Ahh ... Joe Manchin ... bless his heart, he don't mean no harm ..."

What my grand mother might have have said.

[msongs]

4. he could help himself by helping dems win the senate nt