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Fire-breathing Trumpist and all-purpose right winger Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is an ambitious politician who craves attention. This could have been her year. With no incumbent governor running and a largely untested Democrat who barely won last time running for reelection to the Senate, she could have had her pick. She probably wouldn't have cleared the field in either primary, since she definitely has a candidate quality problem in statewide elections, but what's a good fight between friends? So, what is she doing? She is staying put in the House.
She didn't actually explain why she turned down two obvious opportunities for advancement. Maybe she is worried that as governor she would actually have to, well, govern. Incendiary tweets do not, as it turns out, get the potholes fixed. It could be that she doesn't really want to have the responsibility of getting things done. It is also the case that Georgia is much closer to the equator than Washington is. Depending on orbital trajectory, the Jewish space lasers might have a much cleaner shot if she takes up full-time residence in Georgia.
The Senate is different. Senators don't necessarily have to do anything except vote when it is time to do so. The rest of the time they can seek publicity and pontificate on anything they want to. She would make a fine senator, in the style of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) or Rand Paul (R-KY). The fact that she passed on the race suggests to us that she did some polling of how she would match up against Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) and discovered that independents don't like her at all and she would lose. We can't think of any other reasons she would turn down two wonderful opportunities to move up. (V)