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What a beautiful family!
KT2000
(20,624 posts)Karadeniz
(22,639 posts)LAS14
(13,801 posts).. plain old ego.
hlthe2b
(102,672 posts)delisen
(6,059 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,271 posts)Markey is 73. Massachusetts has a Republican governor. Should Markey pass away or retire before the end of his term, the governor would choose a Republican replacement. Should Elizabeth Warren get elected President, she would also be replaced, at least temporarily, by a Republican. So Joe may have thought the time was right to give it a shot.
Just speculation ....
broiles
(1,371 posts)I'm halfway across the country and usually don't give to faraway candidates but Markley has done a good job and should not have been primaried by one of our own.
JGug1
(320 posts)That IS a beautiful family. I just hope that he learned from the mistakes his father and uncles made and from the example that Barack Obama made regarding family.
OBVIOUSLY, he will be thinking of the White House at some point. It is interesting that he is going slowly. It is also wise for him to go slowly, although it is possible that a Democratic President will be followed by her/his Vice President having a leg up. I have seen some references to this guy being the VP nominee but not too much.
PatrickforO
(14,618 posts)His daddy wouldn't be able to deny him, that's for sure.
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