So when Republican Governors advance the Democrat agenda, the expected thing happens - Granite Grok

So when Republican Governors advance the Democrat agenda, the expected thing happens

“I’m so angry that he put us in this situation. I’m in no mood to help him right now.”

Governor Rick ScottThis still applies when Republican elected officials do things contrary to what their conservative bases believe in, especially if they were the edge that put their butts into said electoral seats in the first place. Yet, in effect, they make the political calculus that in the long run, it won’t hurt them and rely on that hackneyed phrase to get them through:

Where else are they going to go?

And then smirk.  Problem is, it doesn’t seem to be working for Florida Governor Rick Scott as he’s now vying to become a US Senator (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Scott’s approval rating topples after signing gun control bills

Gov. [Rick] Scott saw a sharp drop in approval in the second quarter of 2018, the latest Morning Consult poll shows, a plummet that political analysts are attributing to his decision earlier this year to tighten the state’s gun laws. …

Scott was spotlighted in Morning Consult’s latest rundown of governor rankings thanks to the distinction of having the most dramatic quarterly drop in net approval rating since the company started ranking governors by popularity in 2016. …Scott, who last quarter was one of the most popular governors in the country, is now one of the least. The new poll shows him dropping from the list of top 10 most liked governors and falling to just three spots away from the 10 least popular state executives.

The governor had a 65 percent approval rating after the first quarter of the year, putting him close to popular blue-state Republican Govs. Charlie Baker of Massachusetts and Larry Hogan of Maryland. That figure dropped to 47 percent by the end of May, and his disapproval also surged during that time, rising from 21 percent in a poll completed in March to 42 percent in the latest poll. The governor signed new gun control bills into law on April 11.

In this election year where the Democrats are still hoping for a Blue Wave, Republican candidates CANNOT take anything for granted.  Yet, like Gov. Chris Sununu here in NH, it seems that Scott deliberately double-crossed his base.  What’s worse, gun owners are MUCH more prickly about their rights and anyone, from either party, that starts to push them down that slippery slide.

If Scott thought that he could skate on this simply because PARKLAND, he may have made the absolutely wrong decision based that the fault was all on Government, at all levels in Florida, made dozens of mistakes, some accidentally but a whole bunch willfully in letting that kid murderer (no, I’m done using this name) go after his classmates in their high school. His base sees that, fumes, and now he’s reaping the reward of trying to surf that wave even if it was the tail end of it.

Why do they do this – poke the most ardent of voters in the eye and go “yeah, so?”

(H/T: The Truth About Guns)

 

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