Asa Hutchinson out of the race
“Asa Hutchinson Calls It Quits”.
I had forgotten he was in the race.
Vivek, on the other hand, was definitely a presence, and his dropping out is more newsworthy. I think he’s eager for a Cabinet post if Trump is elected.
I too had forgotten Hutchinson was still in the race. As far as Vivek is concerned he’s a great fit for a Trump administration. I immediately liked him recognizing that the GOP needs someone who relates to the younger generation of voters and who can offer a vision of coalescing around what it means to be an American. He also has some great ideas. Plus he seems to like and appreciate Trump.
In 1976, Jimmy Carter “won” the 1976 Iowa caucus(es) with 27.57 percent of the (Democrat) vote. I have “won” in quotes because actually, Uncommitted came in first with 37.16 percent. But the heretofore unknown Carter “won”, many headlines blared.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Iowa_Democratic_presidential_caucuses
And with this paltry “victory” under his belt, “Jimmy Who?” (as he got referred to for a while back then) was off and running.
A lesser one of Carter’s unfortunate legacies is the notion that this “Asa Who” and hosts of other such “Who”s now get it into their narcissistic skulls that lightning just might strike again, erstwhile lightning that many relatively unknown “Who”s then hope might catapult them into the presidential limelight. BAH, sez mee.
Asa had disqualified himself some time ago
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2024/01/16/new-911-call-from-defense-secretarys-residence-shows-intent-to-keep-hospitalization-a-secret-n2168806
Vivek would be an interesting press secretary/communications director.
Some have suggested that Ramaswamy is angling for the vice presidency.
Too bad about Asa. He had a real chance… as a Democrat!
I maintain Slo Joe will be switched out, likely for Newsom. But…maybe for Asa. Democrats would love him, I’m sure.
He should have stayed in at least two more rounds. At the worst, he would have made a good veep contender. Now it seems he’s cut the chance of that considerably. Even bringing in 7-10% of the vote is not trivial for a veep choice.
Plus — I am going to say this now, and I will say it over and over again — the way this sh** works, there is just flat out way too much variability at this point. People who are in the lead or obvious front runners, “shit happens” so fast in this game.
Trump has a stroke, and what then? Haley tanks, suddenly, because of a remark made at the wrong time and the wrong place and she blows out of the race as a result.
1988, Gary Hart. Front runner. OOPS. Who?
2004, Howard Dean, initial surge, OOPS. Who?
This sh** happens all the time — someone does well at first and then cocks it up totally.
Never quit until the 3rd set of primaries, if you’re above 5%.
Vivek for Sec of Ed!
It’d be fun watching him dismantle that pimple on the ass of America. It’s the epicenter of the concept of mediocrity as a positive – the participation trophy cabinet position.
Unfortunately, fat chance.
Asa who?
Vivek for press secretary, although his talents would be wasted there.
My recollection is that Hutchinson caved in to some Chamber of Commerce blarneymeisters and executed some betrayal of Republican voters at their behest, making himself sound stupid in the process. This has happened enough times here there and the next place that I cannot recall what the precise issue was, bar that it involved mutilating surgery and poisoning people with hormones.
Great name, though. Good role for Gabby Hayes or Walter Brennan: Asa Hutchinson, the toothless Ol’ Prospector lost up in the Superstition Mountains for years.
A Biblical name.
(I was going to say, “An old Biblical name” but caught myself just in time…; I say this, of course, “asajew”…)
Anyway, file under: “Jedidiah Smith, Zebulon Pike and Asa Hutchinson walk into a bar…”
He didnt want to go broke i cant blame him
A stroke doesnt seem to stop the dems from doing what they want in fact sanity is a high bar for them
Gary hart got his hand in his zipper, we dodged a bullet hes the same kind of idiot he would have surrendered to the soviets
Or some of the characters from centennia
L they were settlers as much as the sabras were in jaffa and hebron
They dont want their power dismantled they want more power over what you eat what you drive how or if you heat your home what you think
Why do they twist every law mutilate every institution poison every mind with their crime think
Dean may have been easier to beat then kerry but his gang took over the dnc and enabled obama and the rest is history
How proper the iraq war but it really served the dems organizing purposes didnt it with their outrages that ultimately gave us islamic state
Then they covered it up with their jv talk which proved bitter at bataclan charlie hebdo pulse et al
miguel, regarding Dean – it’s ironic because he seems like one of those “15 minutes of fame” guys who gets a brief buzz early in the cycle and then he’s gone. But that was almost exactly when I ditched the Dems for good, and one of the reasons was that even though Dean quickly imploded, it became clear his leftism was the destiny of the Democrat party as the other candidates scrambled to win over his voters. The eventual beneficiary was Obama but the die was cast before he emerged.