While not so much a contender for the nomination, Tim Scott is anchored somewhere between three and five percent in most presidential primary polls; Scott’s favorability has been above those with significantly more polling support, at least until Wednesday night.
I did not watch the debate; I don’t watch debates, but I listen and read after the fact. Tim Scott went all-in on supporting Ukraine in the latest Debate circus, which, I have to think, could put a dent in his favorability and his polling.
“90% of the resources that we send over to Ukraine is guaranteed, it’s a loan,” Scott said. “90% of the money that we send over there is loaned. Well, we could talk about this. But at the end of the day, 90% of the money that we send over there is actually in the form of a loan.”
“It’s not actually being paid by Ukraine, It’s paid by the NATO, our NATO allies,” he said. “I will say, let’s debate, the fact that our national vital interest is in degrading the Russian military. By degrading the Russian military, we actually keep our homeland safer, we keep our troops at home. And we all understand Article 5 of NATO.”
“So at the end of the day, when you think about the fact, if you want to keep American troops at home, an attack on NATO territory, would bring us and our troops in,” he continued. “By degrading the Russian military, we reduce if not eliminate, an attack on NATO territory.”
Is Tim Scott just prepping the narrative battlefield? We all know that in the unlikely event of a Republican victory in 2024, Ukraine will be like The Vaccine™. When Trump was president, Democrats swore they’d never get that ‘cuz Trump. The moment Biden won office, they were ready to deny other people their natural rights if they refused it. Ukraine, under a Republican president, will transition to a quagmire, A waste of valuable resources putting our children and their children’s children into generational debt.
At present, the money pit known as Ukraine is the righteous war against tyranny, as if selling our progeny’s labors before they are born is not a form of slavery. From neocons to progressive swamp rats, they can’t say enough good things about it. And here is Tim Scott telling us we are investing in a proxy war with Russia, and the return will be great.
My opinion of the man has waned a bit.
Is he leveraging his favorability to try and peel a few voters his way from Neocon RINOs like Christie, Haley, and Pence?
He’s not talking to Trump supporters, and Ramaswamy isn’t exactly a fan of the Ukraine entanglement. Vivek’s plan is to “let Russia keep what it seized in Ukraine and restore economic relations with the West in exchange for some other “major concessions.” Those include an end to Moscow’s partnership with Beijing, the removal of nuclear weapons from Kaliningrad, and the return to compliance with the New START treaty on nuclear weapons.”
I’m too tired to believe the billions passed through Congress and Biden’s Oval Office are on loan. The only way we see any “Ukraine money” returned is if it is extracted from the bank accounts of the Biden Crime Family.
It is also unconvincing that what is going on there should be sustained to deplete the Russian Military. If it comes to that, what’s to stop Putin from lobbing a few nukes around to deplete the rest of us of everything on or off the battlefield? The threat of retaliation? If his military is finished, what’s he got to lose – just Russia? His head is too big to let that happen. He’ll never be the guy who lost the mother country without taking the rest of us with it.
And yeah, it was his invasion. There should be a price, but not one paid by our grandchildren in continued debt service to a defaulted and unimpressive America.
Perhaps Tim Scott made other points that could help him shine, but defending the bottomless money pit in Ukraine won’t get him out of the top of the bottom.
But it might push him down to the bottom of the bottom.
As I write this, there’s no new polling out, so we’ll have to wait and see.
