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So, what took so long? Politics, in part, but The Other McCain has some thoughts
Was this protracted battle motivated by personal grievance?
Among the major factors in McCarthy losing more than a dozen speakership ballots, people familiar with the matter say, was the severity of Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz’s enmity toward the Republican leader. Gaetz’s intense and personal distaste for McCarthy has been an open secret in Washington political circles for years, so much so that Gaetz and McCarthy’s colleagues would argue it isn’t even a “secret” at all.
But Gaetz’s hatred curdled into something even more powerful after it was revealed in early 2021 that the MAGA congressman was the target of a federal investigation into the sex trafficking of a minor. (No charges were filed against Gaetz, but his “wingman” Joel Greenberg was sentenced to 11 years in prison.) McCarthy, in Gaetz’s opinion, failed to mount a forceful enough defense on his behalf. According to two sources familiar with the matter, Gaetz has been furious at McCarthy for the perceived lack of support ever since — despite the fact that McCarthy did not strip him of any committee assignments during the probe.
But, of course that does come from a very shaky source, as McCain points out
So says Rolling Stone, anyway, and while I’m skeptical that this left-wing publication has informed sources inside the GOP caucus, at the same time I don’t like Republican sex scandals. Republicans should be the party of boring middle-class married life. Let the Democrats have a monopoly on sex scandals. It’s an American tradition.
I must disagree on this. Ben Franklin was a man who enjoyed female company, and had a reputation, as they say. Not a boring guy in that way, and he was NOT a Democrat. Today, Franklin would be called a Right Winger by our media. And Franklin got laid often apparently, and he is likely wiser than all 535 members of Congress……Give us a Franklin, and we will abide the sex scandals
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