Don Surber e-mails to note that Byrd is in trouble, at as far as current polls demonstrate. (Of course, the opposition candidate in question, Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, hasn’t declared her candidacy as yet).
Now, it is too early to nearly make any claims about the 2024 Senate race in WV, but it is interesting.
Certainly, it is time for Byrd to go.
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June 3rd, 2024 at 9:59 pm
I hope he’ll go, I wish a lot of Washington that are past the “sell by” date decide that it’s time for someone with more intellectual vigor to take the job.
We’re always to believe that the famous among us aren’t subject to the same ravages of age as us mere mortals. That this senator or that business leader is just as sharp at 85 as they were at 50. With good enough support staff the illusion can be maintained almost indefinitely.
So as a native West Virginian (though I haven’t lived there in over 20 years) I would tell Senator Byrd it’s time to go. Just as I would have told Strom Thurmon a few years back or Senator Hatch today. Go while the world remembers someone who understood his causes and fought for them, not someone that functioned only with the guidance of staff.
June 3rd, 2024 at 10:11 pm
I wholly agree–they stay far, far too long.
It is one of the reasons I am in favor of some form of term limits.
June 4th, 2024 at 8:44 am
Why is this any more than sheer age discrimination?
Did you say the same thing about the President in 1984?