May 4, 2012
Pathetic: Tomblin, Manchin
Two of West Virginia's top Democratic Party figures -- U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin and Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin -- won't say whether they support Democratic President Barack Obama for re-election this year.
What a pathetic abdication of leadership. Tomblin and Manchin are turning their backs on the party that put them in office -- the party that aids America's average working families instead of the elite 1 percent at the top.
We assume that the governor and senator are pandering to thousands of West Virginia DINOs (Democrats in name only) who voted for the Republican Bush-Cheney ticket in 2000 and 2004, plus the GOP McCain-Palin ticket in 2008.
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Frankly James, you think too much as Obama is one of the worst Presidents in the history of this great nation.
I love though how you've turned on two individuals with whom you've so recently endorsed for the offices they now hold.
Wake up to what is happening to WV and quit endorsing someone just because of their party. Obama has been the worst thing to ever happen to this country !! He has done more to divide us on race and economic issues than any President in history. He and the democrats forced health care reform down our throat and paid, and continue to pay the price with heavy losses in the House, Senate and hopefully the Presidency this year !!!
Survey our state and your readers, I would guess most agree with me and not that horrible editorial you published !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If I wanted to label myself as a far-left toady, this is what I would say.
"Frankly, we think Obama is a great president. His intellect is awesome, perhaps the finest since President Thomas Jefferson. He has fought for human rights and American betterment. His crusade for universal health insurance fits the great Democratic Party tradition of helping families through Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, equality laws and the rest of the progressive agenda."
Will Rogers once said "I don't belong to a political party. I'm a
Democrat." In his day a large percentage were DINOS, as the Gazette sneeringly coins them and most WV Democrats were DINOS.
Obviously, the Democratic Party in his day was much different than the Gazette unfailingly tries to convince people it is today.
The Gazette has no convincing explanation why WV voters consistently vote for Republican presidential candidates.
Me? I'm an Independent and proud of it. I just can't agree with the extreme positions extreme left or extreme right wingers take but the latter have fewer. I suppose this puts me in the group of voters called "right of center" where most Americans are reportedly in tod
They are the type our state will have in the interim as it is transitioning into a solid republican state. West Virginia voters are evolving but its hard to shake their old misplaced loyalty in the democrat party that has betrayed and abandoned them. It may take another generation to clean house in Charleston. But one can only ignore reality for so long and even the most ignorant dolt among us (except gazette writers) knows that liberal democrats are destroying our nation and state.
Right now we have the most divisive president that we have had in my lifetime. President Obama, who has declared that he wants to "fundamentally transform America", has killed the economy with his policies. His war on energy is apparent throughout the entire country. Real unemployment is close to 20% with fewer and fewer people looking for the less and less jobs avaialable. Unemployment among young blacks is upwards of 50%.
I applaud your governor and senator for their stands. Both realize the key to success of any economy is jobs, jobs, and jobs. Everywhere the dependence is on government - to the extent advocated by this administration - the economies have failed.
You sir, are an idiot! Pure and simple ... no other word for it.
As a former journalist, I am ashamed that some believe this rag is an example of a newspaper. You are a shameless hack -- and a not-to-bright one on top of that -- hiding behind the facade of a newspaper.
It is my sincerest hope that you have finally gone too far with this editorial, accusing the people of West Virginia of being ignorant, racist rednecks. Perhaps your newspaper's constant loss of readership has made you bitter and possibly a bit psychotic. I suggest counseling as soon as possible.
One does not need to be a college grad to come to these conclusions, Mr. Left Wing Elitist.
By running a DINO and friend of Joe in WV-01 in 2010, we are now saddled with McKinley, another friend of coal/oil/gas, but certainly no friend to the people.
Let's hope that during this election that Democrats take a real stand and prove to everyone that the WV Democratic Party did not die with Robert Byrd.
Sad but TRUE!
Very good comments. Keep up the good work.
Sadly, many West Virginians still hold the foolish belief that the Democrat party stands for the common man; the same party that is working to co-opt all power--not to the people--but into the hands of the few.
WV is a conservative state. Her voters have wisdom. They are right to turn away dangerous liberal leaders. And no amount of race-baiting, class warfare and browbeating by the Pravda-on-the-Kanawha is going to change that, fortunately.
Like Byrd before him (and unlike New York Senator Rockefeller), Manchin has his finger on the pulse of the WV voter. As voters, we have the right to expect that from the people we elect.
Maybe, just maybe this is because so many of those who post here from WV are just as you describe, "ignorant, racist, rednecks." On the grand stage, neither Manchin nor Tomblin are of much consequence beyond the hills. North of the Mason-Dixon, and west of the Ohio River, who knows them and who cares what they say, think, or feel. The greatest resonance either can get outside of the Mountain State is south of Bluefield, or in the "land of cotton where old times there are not forgotten."