Of Mice and Politics

The Schloss-Blog is keeping tabs of former President Trump. Besides trying to block the Jan. 6 committee from gaining access to his papers, and besides trying to dodge bullets in investigations in New York (taxes) and Georgia (election tampering), he's backing 2022 candidates with, shall we say, backgrounds as shady as his own.

Oh, and he's selling that loser of a hotel in D.C. that has drained his finances for years.

Among the candidates he's backing is an all-star team of virtual Trump copycats and definite sycophants.

Eric Greitens is the former governor of Missouri, now running for a U.S. Senate seat there. Donald Trump has endorsed him despite allegations that during an extra-marital affair, to which he has  admitted, he tied up his mistress, who happened to be his stylist, in his house and allegedly tried to blackmail her with naked pictures if she ever spilled the beans. He's also been investigated for shady campaign financing, except, Josh Hawley, then Missouri attorney general, wound up not investigating him. Hmm...

Herschel Walker is a name familiar to everyone. The Heisman Trophy winner and NFL star is running for the Senate in Georgia and is endorsed by ... Trump, even though former senator and #COVIDiot Trumpie David Perdue (who lost in 2020 to political neophyte Jon Ossoff) is itching to run for the same seat held by Democratic Rev. Raphael Warnock.

Trump is backing Walker, who has allegedly threatened his wife's life, with a gun, and is also reportedly not as successful as he claims to be since departing the football field. In other words, like Trump, deceptive.

On the other hand, you're going to love Sean Parnell, running for the Senate in Pennsylvania. He is denying allegations that during divorce proceedings, he committed domestic abuse against his wife and even his kids. A real charmer.

Josh Mandel, meanwhile, an NJB, has remained extremely supportive throughout of Trump's claims of fraud in the 2020 election. He was briefly banned from Twitter though for making what the platform called "harmful comments" against immigrants. He's not the Nice Jewish Boy you want to bring home to meet your mother. But wouldn't you love to have him as your United States Senator?

But the grand-prize winner is Kristina Karamo. The candidate for secretary of state in Michigan, who would get to run state elections if she wins, firmly believes that Trump won the 2020 election and that Antifa is responsible for the Jan. 6 insurrection, posing as stop-the-steal protesters.

Trump has also backed Republican losers Sharon Angle (Nevada) and Christine O'Donnell (Delaware). The latter ran for Vice President Joe Biden's then-vacated Senate seat.

And there's also the redistricted fight shaping up between House Republicans Alex Mooney and Dennis McKinley in West Virginia. Both have been Trump supporters, but Mooney was thumbs down on the Jan. 6 committee while McKinley supported its creation.

Guess which one Trump is backing?

Net/net, if you are a Republican who strayed even slightly from the Trump narrative, he is coming for you.

Coming for you to ruin your reputation. To take your political capital. To downgrade your political influence. Just ask Ted Cruz, a once-proud conservative Republican, who has thrown his wife, his kids, his pride under a bus in the name and service of Trump. 

Y'know,ictoria Secret  it's bad enough that House minority leader Kevin McCarthy is projecting vengeance on his party's behalf for the censure of Paul ("Kill AOC") Gosar, but that McCarthy says that he holds his members to a "high standard."

If murderous videos of other House members is a "high standard," then we've just begun to see the depths to which the Republican Party has sunk. 

It's not that Democrats haven't had their duds (Maxine Waters, Cal Cunningham, Charles Rangel).But the Republican party platform now is 'Hatred." Pure and unadulterated. White supremacy. Racism. Conspiracy theories. Allegations without a trace of evidence.

But believed by millions.

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Looks like you can be 17, walk around with an AR-15, kill two people and seriously wound another, and get away with it. At least in Wisconsin.

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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, Mrs. Robinson.

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