Rob Portman Out!

Rob Portman is bowing out.

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The Republicans are going to get a wake up call in 2022 if they don't pull their heads out their asses. They better get use to the new norms.

U.S. senator Rob Portman of Ohio announces he will retire. It sets the stage for a very competitive race in a state that lean more Republican.

One of the moderate Republicans in the U.S. Senate, Portman served the senate seat since 2011. He was then a U.S. lawmaker from Cincinnati and U.S. Trade Representative and White House Budget Director under George W. Bush.

On Monday, Portman announced his decision not to run in 2022 with his wife Jane in tow. 

He made his decision at the Hilton Netherland Plaza in downtown Cincinnati. 

Portman said that the insurrection and the partisan bullshit were factors for his decision to retire from the U.S. Senate.

He said he will serve out his term until January 2023. 

He hopes to be remembered for the legislation he passed and urged his fellow colleagues to work together for the betterment of America.

I'll remember him for being a part of the obstructionists in the Senate. He will be remembered for siding with Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in denying Barack Obama's third nominee Merrick Garland a place on the Supreme Court. I'll remember him voting for Donald J. Trump's third nominee Amy Coney Barrett despite the previous president having the same amount of time to replace a judicial nominee.

Mitch McConnell will now have to fight to return to the majority.

I'll remember Portman for the dirty politics he's been a part of in the state of Ohio.

I'll remember him for not support gun reforms in the wake of the mass shootings in Cincinnati and Dayton. I'll remember him for not taking a stance in the wake of police shootings of people of color. 

I'll remember him for supporting the definition of marriage (the man and woman union) and rejecting same sex marriage while having a son who is openly gay.

I'll remember him for not taking a stance on children being detained in cages and being stripped from their families. 

I'll remember him for supporting the controversial decision to move the American embassy to Israel. Portman doesn't value the human rights of Palestinians and people who worship Islam.

Trump and Portman had a great relationship. He voted for Trump's Supreme Court nominees.

I'll remember him being a "country club Republican." A Republican who lives in the gated community and never once in his life ever visited a neighborhood where a person of color lives.

So he makes his statements on Monday.

"If we just keep pushing out to the right and to the left, there's not oging to be much left in the middle to solve the real problems we face," Portman said.

Over 30 years of public service is enough. He said that incivility in politics and the partisan divide has kept Washington, DC in consistent gridlock.

Portman who is expected to hear the trial of the former president will not commit to an answer whether he convicts or acquit him. He stood with the Republicans in supporting not removing him from office in 2020.

Portman getting sworn in by Biden.

Now who may run for the seat. There's talk that six Republicans and five Democrats are vying for the seat.

Republicans who may jump in include: Lt. Governor Jon Husted, Rep. Bill Johnson (R-OH), Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Rep. Anthony Gonzalez (R-OH), Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose and Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH).

Democrats who may jump in include: Rep. Tim Ryan (R-OH), former Ohio Democratic leader David Pepper, outgoing Dayton mayor Nan Whaley and Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH).

Ohio is likely Republican. 

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) was the only Democrat to win his election in 2018 when the Republicans swept the statehouse, the governor's home and maintained it's Congressional Districts.