Sinema doesn't have an honest bone in her body since joining the Senate. Completely ludicrous comparison.
Pretty much this. She was banking on the Republican red wave taking over the Senate and she could play bipartisan bridge, (i know, i feel dumb even typing that) and this is uhh... Plan B, i guess. Like I said, goodbye. She could try her spoiler Senate bid but it's real "in a hole, so i keep digging" stuff. Better to trod the lobbyist etc path; her one truly meaningful legislation accomplishment - unilaterally saving the universally reviled carried interest exception for private equity firms from the Inflation Reduction Act - should get her lifetime employment with that crew. Don't cry for Krys-ten Sy-ne-ma! The truth is she ne-ver left us All through her wild days. Her mad existence She kept her promise We kept our distance
related Renegade Republicans are ‘mavericks’ to media, while Kyrsten Sinema is a traitor https://nypost.com/2022/12/09/reneg...s-to-media-while-kyrsten-sinema-is-a-traitor/
Sure...a ring wing pro-life bisexual atheist, there is no such person in the current GOP party. It's a betrayal because she lied about helping the people of Arizona and is there just to line her pockets and sell her vote to the highest corporate bidders.
I do like me some Democracy, you won't hear her calling to terminate the constitution...even taking that L in stride.
Stop with this nonsense. Conservative media calls the Murkowskis and Romneys and McCains of the world traitors all the time. The difference here is Sinema is clearly not motivated by anything but naked corruption, ambition, and greed.
I don't doubt this is part of her calculus - "there will be wacko and me, so the pressure will be on the democrats to drop their own candidate and get behind me!" But, like a lot of her genius plans it's likely going to be the opposite of that, literally everyone dislikes her (except whoever her contacts are at Politico and Axios) and she's gonna be polling at Howard Schultz/Kanye 2020 levels.
As an aside, I see this comparison a lot --- X senator votes 90+% with Y party. It doesn't mean as much about the individual as it does about the leader of the party. With how Congress works, it would be strange to not have anyone that votes 90+% with the party caucus with, especially in the Senate. The leader of the party does not bring a bill up for a vote unless they are pretty sure they have the vote or if it's for political posturing. There have been plenty of centrist Democrats that aren't disliked by their constituents like Sinema. Manchin is a good current example. Like him or not, he did what he thought represented his constituents. He's still fairly popular in WV. Sinema has done the exact opposite. Literally underwater among every group (D, R, I, everything). Examples of why she is extremely unpopular are reports of her holding fundraiser with groups that opposed the bills she ended up voting against (most people hate corrupted individuals). She is also very weird. She disrespected the office when she was presiding over it (some on the Right call her out for this).
If Sinema runs as a D, she loses the primary. If she is unprimaried, she loses the general. If Sinema runs as a R, she loses the primary. If she is unprimaried, she loses the general. If Sinema runs as an I, she loses the general and spoils the D candidate. There is a near zero chance that Sinema gets re-elected.
This is true. I lived in AZ before she was in the Senate. She was a totally different person. At least her public persona was.
