This is a blog post someone wrote. It sums things up nicely.
Manchin changes his tune ...
as soon as someone calls him out on it.
What this shows is a man lacking in any leadership ability whatsoever. He strong arms and panders his way through life thinking only about what is best for Joe Manchin. He uses the fear, ignorance and racism of his constituents to promote an agenda that is all about Joe Manchin. His real base is the extraction industries and other corporate entities that have sucked the life out of WV for over 100 years. He has done absolutely nothing as governor or senator to dispel the fear and ignorance that keeps WV last in just about everything that matters, but instead keeps it stirred up and panders to it. This guy is a disgrace to the Democratic Party, the State of WV and the late Senator Byrd.
After his "Democrats for Underwood" campaign he should have been run out of the Democratic Party and never permitted to show his face again.
We, as WV Democrats, have done a piss-poor job of dispeling the misconceptions, half-truths and outright lies that Manchin has promoted about the health care bill, contraception and environmental protections? Why are we allowing Joe Manchin to continue to divide this state on life and death issues that should be important to ALL of us. Every time we take this clown at his word and allow him to lie to us some more we are enabling his behavior. Have you forgotten that Manchin is the ONLY Democratic Senator who is an ALEC member and that he has taken campaign cash from the Koch brothers. We rail against others for doing this, but somehow find it acceptable from Joe Manchin. We should be ashamed.
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