Kyrsten Sinema earns kudos for stance

Recall that yesterday morning, Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) drew a formal censure from the Arizona Democratic Party. Why? For “not doing whatever it takes” to facilitate voter fraud “voting rights.” But the last twenty-four hours has clearly brought kudos to her, even in the Twitterverse.

Praise for Kyrsten Sinema – and contempt for her detractors

These snippets of praise for Kyrsten Sinema and her stance came from this story at The Liberty Bugle. Here someone points out that a formal censure means nothing and has no practical effect.

Another tweet asks sarcastically whether the censure would actually change her mind.

This user suggests that Kyrsten Sinema turn Republican.

Would that really be “an easy fix”? Actually, CNAV would urge caution. The Republican Party will look at her full record, not just this small piece of it. But consider this: she has two years left in the Senate before she even must stand for re-election. And though MSNBC insisted that “Democrats are on the ascendancy” they should place little confidence in that assessment. If the Democrats were on the ascendancy, then that was before Joe Biden ruined the chances of every Democrat. That was before the Red Wave and the Glenn Youngkin Virginia Sweep. Yes (sigh), Virginia is not Arizona. But no one expected Virginia to flip, either.

Along that line, this user suggested that if the Democrats keep it up, they’ll push Kysten Sinema and Joe Manchin further to the right than they now are.

Is she a hero? One user suggests she might be.

Toward the end of the day, yet another user suggests Senator Sinema should wear her censure vote “as a badge of honor.”

What else this means

That last user, who spoke of badges of honor, reminds us of something else CNAV said yesterday. To quote that user:

There is no room in the Dem[ocratic] Party for conscience. Do the devil’s bidding or [suffer censure].

Exactly.

And indeed, since Kyrsten Sinema will come up for election in 2024, she ought to consider something else. That will be a Presidential election year, and as such a referendum on Democratic Party control of the White House. If Joe Biden is not President anymore, then Kamala Harris likely will be. Neither of them will have good “coattails” for any Democrat.

So let her ask herself exactly what policies she really would prefer to support, and whose support, as between the Republican or Democratic ticket, would benefit her the more.