{"id":29617,"date":"2018-05-07T02:06:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T02:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29617"},"modified":"2018-05-07T02:06:51","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T02:06:51","slug":"gop-might-produce-another-election-year-goofball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29617","title":{"rendered":"GOP might produce another election-year goofball"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/static.politico.com_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29618\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/static.politico.com_-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/static.politico.com_-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/static.politico.com_-768x416.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/static.politico.com_-1024x555.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/static.politico.com_.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Don Blankenship well might become the new Roy Moore.<\/p>\n<p>It must be &#8220;fun&#8221; to be a Republican these days. Alabama Republicans nominated Moore, an alleged pedophile, in 2017 as their party&#8217;s candidate for the U.S. Senate. Moore ended up losing a special election to Democratic Sen. Doug Jones &#8212; and the Republican Party nationally breathed a sigh of relief.<\/p>\n<p>Ahh, but the fun may be starting all over again, <em>in West Virginia<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Don Blankenship, who served time in prison after a mine he owns exploded and killed 29 mine workers, is reportedly surging just ahead of the GOP Senate primary that occurs on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Mainstream Republicans in West Virginia are concerned that a Blankenship primary victory will guarantee the re-election of Democratic U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, it gets better. Blankenship is not standing still letting the GOP attacks on him go unanswered. He has referred to &#8220;Cocaine Mitch&#8221; McConnell in describing the Senate majority leader.<\/p>\n<p>Or, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2018\/05\/05\/blankenship-polls-west-virginia-senate-primary-570752\">Politico reports<\/a>: <em>This week, Blankenship began airing a TV commercial labeling McConnell \u201cCocaine Mitch,\u201d an apparent reference to a 2014 report that drugs were once found aboard a shipping vessel owned by the family of McConnell\u2019s wife, Taiwan-born Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao. Then, a few days later, Blankenship began airing another spot declaring that McConnell\u2019s \u201cChina family has given him tens of millions of dollars.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yep! That&#8217;s the guy who West Virginia Republicans just might nominate to run for the U.S. Senate this fall.<\/p>\n<p>Ain&#8217;t this just a blast?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don Blankenship well might become the new Roy Moore. It must be &#8220;fun&#8221; to be a Republican these days. Alabama Republicans nominated Moore, an alleged pedophile, in 2017 as their party&#8217;s candidate for the U.S. Senate. Moore ended up losing a special election to Democratic Sen. Doug Jones &#8212; and the Republican Party nationally breathed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29617\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GOP might produce another election-year goofball<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1941,3099,4037],"class_list":["post-29617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news","tag-gop","tag-mitch-mcconnell","tag-roy-moore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29619,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29617\/revisions\/29619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}