A Republican who backs Kemp because Kemp resists Trump?
I happen to really like Brad Kemp, and it has nothing to do with his relationship with Trump. He’s probably my second favorite current governor, behind Youngkin.
And one of the things that first impressed me about him was the spine he showed during the left’s epic meltdown over Georgia’s election bill — which was a good bill that was so incredibly distorted and miscast that MLB refused to have the All-Star Game there. He even had Coca-Cola running for the hills on it. Biden called it “Jim Eagle.” Kemp didn’t bat an eye.
It all had to do with the Shelby Co. decision re: the Voting Rights Act and pre-clearance. By the reaction to it, you’d think they were bringing back poll taxes and literacy tests. But the bill was fine, and Kemp impressively stood his ground.
Trump has ideas about how the country should be. . Let’s focus on those.
At the end of the day, this is the primary reason why I’m not voting for him. I can deal with how he is - obviously, I’ve voted for him before.
But I think his actions after the last election were utterly craven and egregious. They also have a lot to do with my vote. He crossed lines that should never be crossed. And I can’t just ignore that.
It has little to do with the charges brought against him - some of which are total bullshit and blatantly politically motivated. If anything, that stuff just puts me more against his enemies — as I put that more in a league with what he did after the 2020 election. Trying to bankrupt him with garbage about valuations that nobody else would get charged with? That’s as indefensible as anything he did.
But, then, I also think he should’ve just sent the documents back and he egged on that situation on his own. That may have been blown out of proportion, but it was on him not the DOJ. It didn’t need to happen. NARA tried to work with him, and he acted like an entitled, childish asshole.
Through it all, though, it’s still the policies that most turn me off. But the headaches that come with him certainly add to it.
I’m past ready to move on from him. It’s a helluva shame the Democrats are the way they are. So I can’t vote for them, either. Unfortunately one of them has to win. But they won’t be doing it with my vote.
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