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[–] 41 points 5 days ago (12 children)

I don't see any way this is a politically coherent move for her. She just burnt her bridges with Leftist Democrats and corporate Democrats. She doesn't have the look to be a talking head on conservative media. Michigan has early voting and many have already voted. It's not like Republicans will respect her, but they use her for the moment.

I've seen some mentions of her Republican fiance effecting her, but she is a congressmen and has agency and ownership of her own endorsements. I am wondering if her mental stability is all there because I'm confused by her lack of coherency.

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  • [–] 27 points 5 days ago

    Agreed.

    Tactically, if she wanted him to lose she should've just stuck to what she was doing, which was supporting him in words while undermining and maintaining plausible deniability. Then if he loses, you can lament that there was just no saving a flawed candidate.

    Now if he wins, she's a loser twice over, and if he loses it's a phyric victory: she's the villain who lost Democrats the seat, and instead of proving his politics can't win in a swing state, the story is just that he got stabbed in the back by an ally.

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  • [–] 14 points 5 days ago

    I don’t see any way this is a politically coherent move for her.

    By choosing to run for Senate, she isn't running for re-election in the House. So she's out in January either way. She's taking the AIPAC money she's been getting for years already, and almost surely a lobbying position in exchange for trying to sabotage El-Sayed.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 days ago

    I don’t see any way this is a politically coherent move for her.

    The writing is on the wall. AIPAC is forever toxic for anyone with even a tiny amount of critical thinking skills. That only leaves the GOP and Zionist owned cable news shows as viable paid options.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 days ago (6 children)

    Not corporate Dems. They will swing towards the money any which way it comes.

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  • [–] 15 points 5 days ago (5 children)

    Schumer already said it was despicable. He is about as corporate dem as it gets. I would definitely say she burned those bridges.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    He will bend back the AIPAC direction the moment people stop looking. Haley will be welcomed back as prodigal daughter the moment she is endorsed by them.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 days ago

    Nah, she is now too visisble a liability and would be a bigger problem than any benefit.

    AIPAC will happily compensate her for her service, but will move on to less obviously controversial folks. They have no shortage of "cleaner" options, so they don't have to be especially loyal to any particular Congress figure. She can be an example of being treated well on the way out.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 days ago

    I don't trust corporate dems anymore. They will literally give a peer permission to tank mildly progressive efforts and then performatively pretend to be upset by it.

    They are better than the fucking Nazis on the other side of the aisle but the Democratic leadership are showing themselves to be just as disingenuous.

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