Senator Joe Manchin
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And the reason I'm telling you, yeah, maybe we'd get one good term where you'd have the courage to do the conviction with the oath you took to defend and protect the constitution, do the job, put country before party, quit playing this game, quit worrying about getting reelected.
And it's gotten to the point now, public service,
Truly, when he said, John Kennedy says, most noblest of all profession, public service, that's gone.
It's fame and fortune now.
I get in there, I can keep churning it and churning it and churning it.
And I've just said that basically the Senate, two six-year terms is enough.
12 years is enough.
I was thinking about that because if I was you, I would have been asking the same question.
I can name six or seven on both sides.
Oh, please.
Yeah, let's take that.
Yeah, let's go.
And when I'm saying that, people that I've worked with, I know their DNA, okay?
Yeah.
First of all, I'm going to always be, always be deferential to former governors.
A governor can't afford to be a governor of one side.
And I'll give you the most perfect, simplest answer to that is, that pothole that busted my tire and basically bent my rim and messed my car did not have a Democrat or Republican name on it.
But I was responsible for making sure the repairs on the roads didn't do that, okay?
So you're like Senator King, Angus King from Maine, former governor.
You have Mark Warner.