{"id":29675,"date":"2018-05-09T03:45:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T03:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29675"},"modified":"2018-05-09T03:45:42","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T03:45:42","slug":"w-va-republicans-come-to-their-senses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29675","title":{"rendered":"W. Va. Republicans come to their senses"},"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_-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29676\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/static.politico.com_-1-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/static.politico.com_-1-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/static.politico.com_-1-768x416.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/static.politico.com_-1-1024x555.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/static.politico.com_-1.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Good news, if you&#8217;re a Republican who was worried about the West Virginia GOP primary.<\/p>\n<p>Don Blankenship will not be your party&#8217;s nominee for the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n<p>This is the former owner of the coal mine that blew up, killing 29 miners. He served prison time as a result.<\/p>\n<p>So he thought he would take his plunge into politics by running for the Senate. Blankenship was, shall we say, a terrible candidate. He called Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell &#8220;cocaine Mitch,&#8221; and used a stupidly ignorant term to refer McConnell&#8217;s Asian heritage, calling Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao a &#8220;Chinaperson.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The GOP nominee who&#8217;ll face U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin is West Virginia Attorney General Pat Morrisey, who is a far more serious individual than Blankenship.<\/p>\n<p>My hat is now tipped to the West Virginia GOP voters. You have demonstrated a level of wisdom that got lost in 2016 on a <em>national<\/em> electorate that placed Donald Trump in the White House.<\/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>Good news, if you&#8217;re a Republican who was worried about the West Virginia GOP primary. Don Blankenship will not be your party&#8217;s nominee for the U.S. Senate. This is the former owner of the coal mine that blew up, killing 29 miners. He served prison time as a result. So he thought he would take &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29675\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">W. Va. 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