{"id":1790788,"date":"2022-12-30T12:03:16","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T17:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1790788"},"modified":"2022-12-30T12:03:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T17:03:32","slug":"2022-man-of-the-year-jim-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/2022-man-of-the-year-jim-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 Man of The Year: Jim Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F2022-man-of-the-year-jim-justice%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1790788&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Anyone looking to replace West Virginia&#8217;s Democrat-turned-Republican governor Jim Justice will have big shoes to fill.<\/p>\n<p>The 368-pound governor was once <a href=\"https:\/\/wvmetronews.com\/2017\/02\/24\/governor-justice-calls-himself-a-grizzly-and-senate-majority-leader-a-poodle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">compared<\/a> Like a grizzly bear, he menaces enemies of freedom with a flair for effrontery that few other than the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> You can admire.<\/p>\n<p>He will be retiring in 2016. <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/4886765\/west-virginia-rally-jim-justice-republican-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pulled one over<\/a> You can run as a liberal pundit and listen to them &#8220;moderate Democrat,&#8221; Only to lose his party affiliation on the stage with Donald Trump just a few weeks later. Justice then served the lawmakers with a 2017 budget proposal. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-fix\/wp\/2017\/04\/14\/the-governor-of-west-virginia-brought-a-plate-of-b-s-to-the-statehouse-literally\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tray of literal bullshit<\/a> at the state Capitol. Is Justice not over there? Fat chance. He was reelected in 2020 as a Republican by over 30 points. He&#8217;s unstoppable.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1140696990843572225\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Big Jim<\/a>&#8220;It is a man fully.<\/p>\n<p>This year Bette Midler used Twitter to ridicule West Virginians who had worked hard this past year.<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/roll-coal-critics-pile-on-bette-midler-after-singer-mocks-west-virginians-as-poor-illiterate-and-strung-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poor, illiterate, and strung out<\/a>,&#8221; the governor dealt the geriatric actress a heavy blow\u2014with a little help from Babydog, his pet bulldog.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They told every bad joke in the world about us,&#8221; Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/pucker-up-bette-midler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Among his liberal critics during his January State of the State address. &#8220;So from that standpoint, Babydog tells Bette Midler and all those out there, kiss her heinie.&#8221; Justice stood up and held Babydog high so the entire world could see his heinie.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s how you throw your weight around\u2014and how you stick around\u2014in American politics. So we were not surprised when Justice was mentioned. &#8220;seriously considering&#8221; Two years of challenge to Senator Joe Manchin (D.W.Va.), <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/men-of-the-year\/2021-man-of-the-year-joe-manchin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2021 <em>Free Beacon<\/em> Man of the Year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We stated last year that we reserve the right to remove Manchin&#8217;s Man Of The Year status if he compromises on any future left-wing legislation. He did. Congratulations Governor Justice! You could become West Virginia&#8217;s next senator but, for now, you are the only one. <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> Mountain State Man of the Year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone looking to replace West Virginia&#8217;s Democrat-turned-Republican governor Jim Justice will have big shoes to fill.<br \/>\nThe post 2022 Man of the Year: Jim Justice appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":1251150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[3990,4092,6239,4901,5734],"class_list":["post-1790788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-3990","tag-beacon","tag-jim","tag-justice","tag-year"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1790788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1251150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1790788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1790788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1790788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}