CNN: 'Kevin McCarthy Does Damage Control After Questioning Donald Trump’s Political Strength'

Source:CNN- left to right: Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy & former President Donald J. Trump. 

"Speaker Kevin McCarthy has scrambled to contain the fallout after he questioned whether former President Donald Trump is the strongest candidate in the 2024 presidential race – comments that outraged Trump allies." 

From CNN

I guess there are two Kevin McCarthy's. One of them sort of sounds like he's on truth serum and the next time he ever lies, he'll go to prison for the rest of his life. Perhaps he just graduated from Liars Anonymous. Which is an organization that might be able to do Donald Trump some good. And the other Kevin McCarthy, sounds like he gets in line to pay Donald Trump a 1000 bucks everyday (money that Trump might actually need) to get on his feet and kiss The Donald's feet (to be clean) everyday and wouldn't do anything that perhaps would even risk offending Donald Trump.

The real Kevin McCarthy, is a guy who has a tendency to shoot his mouth off. And in Washington speak, that means speaking the truth, or at least being honest. The bad Kevin McCarthy, is a guy that would deny that it's hot in Arizona on a July day in Phoenix, if he thought it would help him politically. He would claim that he could jump into a lake and not get wet, if he thought he needed to that to help him politically. He would claim that Donald Trump is actually Jesus Christ, if he thought he needed to do that to save him politically. 

The real Kevin McCarthy, did a solid impersonation of Captain Obvious yesterday. He was asked by NBC News whether Donald Trump, after the indictment and the new tape that was released about him, where Trump admits that he has illegally obtained classified information in his private possession, if Donald Trump based on all of that, is still the strongest Republican presidential candidate in a general election in 2024. And Speaker McCarthy said perhaps not. 

McCarthy didn't tell NBC News that Donald Trump is definitely not the best Republican presidential candidate, or of course not, don't be silly, etc, of course Trump would lose to Joe Biden. He just said that Trump might not be the strongest Republican candidate in a general election right now. Which is what got him into trouble with the Far-Right of his own party yesterday. 

Bad Kevin McCarthy, at around 4PM yesterday, told Breitbart News (which is basically the state newspaper of MAGA) did a clean up on isle seven (and in Washington speak, that means taking back any negative facts and candor that you might have been caught expressing) basically said that of course Donald Trump is the best Republican presidential candidate right now.

Part of me understands Kevin McCarthy's dilemma right now. He isn't just Speaker of the 435 member House of Representatives, but leader of a 222 member Republican conference, where maybe half of those members aren't real Republicans anyway, at least not ideologically. But instead members of a national political cult known as MAGA, who are all looking to be the next Donald Trump, the next great, authoritarian leader of the West. 

But the other part of me, the more direct, honest, and candid, a lot less diplomatic, part says that no one kidnapped Kevin McCarthy (that anyone knows about) and forced McCarthy to first become House Minority Leader in 2019 and then Speaker of the House 4 years later. McCarthy isn't as braindead as he might appear. He knows exactly the people that he has to try to lead and knows that maybe 1/2 of them don't belong in government at all, expect that they were elected to the House of Representatives, because they won right-wing gerrymandered House districts. 

McCarthy could always go home and get a real job in Washington and make a lot more money actually working for a living and not feel the need to sell his credibility, legacy, and sole to the Devil (also known as Donald Trump) every time that he speaks about the former President. 

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