Tim Scott is out of the race

November 12, 2023, 08:46 PM

egregore

Well, he was never really in it, so …

I have nothing against him personally, but the only realistic and viable Republican candidate is
Donald Trump.

November 12, 2023, 09:02 PM

cas

Is that who that was?

When I watched the clip of the debate the other night, I saw him and was thinking "I have no idea who that guy is? He doesn't even look slightly familiar to me?"

I guess that's part of why it wasn't going so well. So did he think he had a chance, was it a VP bid or just a cash grab?

November 12, 2023, 09:07 PM

smschulz

Chris Christie: "So there's a chance?".

November 12, 2023, 09:11 PM

parabellum

Senator Scott is one of the good guys.

He says he's not going to endorse any other candidate and is not interested in the Vice Presidency.

November 12, 2023, 09:25 PM

ZSMICHAEL

Scott has future opportunites. He is intelligent and well spoken. He has an even temperament which for me is a tremendous asset. I think it helps to alter the wider perception that Blacks always vote Republican.

November 12, 2023, 10:56 PM

EZ_B

quote:
Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
I think it helps to alter the wider perception that Blacks always vote Republican.

Typo (emphasis mine)?

November 12, 2023, 11:02 PM

PR64

He’s a good man but…

He needs more than just his cotton fields to the halls of congress story.

They all need to get out of the race because none of them will beat President Trump and they will have a zero chance of winning POTUS.

November 13, 2023, 10:47 AM

ChicagoSigMan

Curious what was going on in his brain. He never had a shot at the nomination. The only reason for him to get in the race was to audition for the VP spot. They all say they're not interested in the job, but I wonder if he really is angling for it behind the scenes. Otherwise, he perhaps boosted his conservative cred which could make his senate fundraising a little easier.

November 13, 2023, 11:01 AM

chellim1

quote:
Originally posted by ChicagoSigMan:
The only reason for him to get in the race was to audition for the VP spot. They all say they're not interested in the job, but I wonder if he really is angling for it behind the scenes. Otherwise, he perhaps boosted his conservative cred which could make his senate fundraising a little easier.

They all have different reasons... and it usually doesn't hurt them to raise their national profile as they are henceforth known as a "former Presidential candidate".

quote:
They all need to get out of the race because none of them will beat President Trump and they will have a zero chance of winning POTUS.

Yeah... it's annoying and tiresome for the rest of us, but for the candidates, who have to make that decision... see above.

"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible."
-- Justice Janice Rogers Brown

"The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth."
-rduckwor

November 13, 2023, 11:07 AM

sig2392

I think he was in for future positioning and to start building a base.

I don't think he thought he had a chance unless something happened to Trump and it became a horse race.

November 13, 2023, 12:02 PM

Rey HRH

I like Tim Scott and have nothing bad to say against him except maybe he's too nice, especially for the VP slot.

If I was picking a VP candidate to go up against the Democrat's diversity strategy, I would pick Byron Donalds, except you do end up with Trump and Donalds being both from Florida but I still like that combination.

"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.

November 13, 2023, 12:46 PM

pbslinger

Tim dropping out reminds of the Austin Powers movie when Micheal Caine tells the henchman to just fall over. "You don't even have a badge!"

November 13, 2023, 01:25 PM

ZSMICHAEL

quote:
I like Tim Scott and have nothing bad to say against him except maybe he's too nice, especially for the VP slot.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I live in the South where most people are "nice". Those folks can be very intimidating and ruthless behind the scenes. He is also OPTIMISTIC which I do not see in any of the candidates. It was nice to see.

November 13, 2023, 02:44 PM

abnmacv

I'd like to see him as a VP. Has many good ideas and having a Black man would draw votes.

November 14, 2023, 01:19 PM

Nickelsig229

I feel like he is too intelligent and too well behaved to be cutthroat enough to move passed the senate.

It's a shame because people like him could fix problems in DC but they go unnoticed by the masses.

November 14, 2023, 03:28 PM

Blume9mm

I know he said no but I think he should run for Vice President with Nikki Haley in the head position.

November 14, 2023, 03:45 PM

oddball

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November 14, 2023, 03:54 PM

parabellum

quote:
Originally posted by Blume9mm:
I know he said no but I think he should run for Vice President with Nikki Haley in the head position.

Leave it to you.

Here ya go, genius:

https://twitter.com/EndWokenes.../1724532130900848728