Barnette Fades as Erratic Record Comes Under Fire

Newsmax ^ | May 13, 2022 | Newsmax staff

[AmericaFirst101]

Though she got high marks as a pro-life advocate, political newcomer Kathy Barnette has seen her support dwindle as conservatives scrutinize her record.

Questions surrounding Barnette's credibility for Pennsylvania GOP Senate nomination, with the primary election set for next Tuesday, have risen sharply after she seemed to be leapfrogging in polls.

Barnette's comments in recent years have included claiming unrest in the "Black community" was due to "white racism."

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Surprisingly, Barnette also has criticized the nation’s first president, saying she "heard white people talking about the high and mightiness of George Washington, a former slave owner."

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Barnette, who resides in the Philadelphia suburb of Huntingdon Valley, ran for Congress in 2020 and lost to Democrat Madeleine Dean for Pennsylvania’s 4th Congressional District by 19 percentage points.

[stars & stripes forever]

It won’t take much for America to become a Dhimmi nation.

[Nateman]

CNN has a hit piece on her. It had some of her anti Islamic and anti gay tweets. I really liked what she tweeted! Since they were made before she made herself a public figure that is a good indicator of how she truly feels. Thanks for vetting CNN!

[Kinzua]

Fettermen voters will not crossover to any candidate that I could support. The days of picking a RINO hoping that they will have some appeal to the idiots are over for me. The lines have been drawn. Let each side openly fly their colors. The Mitt Romneys of the spectrum are obsolete.

[Moorings]

If she did produce that 214 paper, they would have claimed that she did not get a Purple Heart.

How long did that Oz guy serve in the US military?

[Carriage Hill]

Her DD214 was posted online, but I can’t remember which site I saw it on, to retrieve it. Hard to read, though, as the image was so small.

[Savage Rider]

She addressed the DD-214 issue by sending a copy to Jack Posobiec, saying she believed he could better read the form than some random reporter. Jack told what the DD-214 said on Steve Bannon’s Warroom.

[Lurkinanloomin]

She’s right.

[AmericaFirst101]

You might be right. But Fetterman may not play fully in the Philly burbs. I do think he’ll play in the Pittsburgh burbs. That (Philly burbs) is the kind of place where Oprah-buddy Oz could snag some votes.

It’s going to be tough, for any Republican.

[Roccus]

Yup!
Not picking a side in the Barnette battle, but NewsMax is most definitely a leader in Yellow Journalism. I caught on to their schtick about 20 years ago.

[rockabyebaby]

I was in the Marines 1965-1968 and left as an E4. I wasn't unhappy with that.

Thank you for your service rexthecat and welcome home!

[Carriage Hill]

This isn't the one I saw, but it's all I could find.

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1524505404797079554

[rockabyebaby]

November 22, 1965 - November 1, 1967 for me, E-4 January of 1967, E-5 if I would reup, October 1967. Co. A 144th Signal Battalion. Goppingen, West Germany.

Thank you for your service Capt_Hank and welcome home!

[Colo9250]

OMG! We just cannot have a young Black Female Republican Senator busting up the good old boys club now can we?

I noticed you reference a CNN article calling her a bigot as one of your reasons for not liking her, really terrible things like comparing islam and muslims to Hitler and Stalin, a comparison that a lot of people would say is accurate including myself. The rest of the CNN hit piece on her indicated that she was just being truthful.

Yet you are a rabid Oz supporter that chooses to ignore the facts about Dr. Oz. He is a muslim with a duo citizenship, he is pro abortion and supports the transgender movement along with the queer gang and other things that most republicans don’t want.

I guess we will see next Tuesday if your strategy works, I really hope not.

[Bratch]

This article has its own thread but it provides context for this one.

 

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Pennsylvania GOP Primary Brings Out All The Club Moves

May 12, 2022 | Sundance | 427 Comments

Perhaps you’ve noticed. For the past two nights Fox News and a host of corporate allies have been doing a full-frontal attack against Pennsylvania Senate Candidate Kathy Barnette.

The club reaction appears to have been triggered by a GOP Trafalgar poll showing Kathy Barnette in a close second place (23.2%), surging ahead of David McCormick (21.6%) and right on the heels of Mehmet Oz (24.5%).  [Bartos 7.2%, Sands 6.5%]

In this outline I will explain the easily visible GOPe club moves without trying to support any particular candidate, that’s for Pennsylvania voters to decide.  However, once you understand the background play, it might help clarify what the Keystone state voters are witnessing.

BACKGROUND.  President Trump has endorsed Mehmet Oz.  However, many people in the MAGA base are stuggling with that endorsement because they just don’t like the guy and question the bonafides of his sudden, seemingly convenient, MAGA-mindedness.

Meanwhile, David McCormick is the GOPe candidate from the mold of the typically Wall Street Mitch McConnell tribe.

McCormick is the quintessential corporate republican, or what might be described as the ‘establishment’ party choice.  I would call McCormick the club candidate.

Kathy Barnette is the alternative favorite in the race for the MAGA base who just cannot bring themselves to support Oz.  Barnette is the outsider and carries a fierce independent streak that appeals to frustrated voters who have had enough of the nonsense.

As a result, the top three in the race break down into McCormick as the Club candidate, while Barnette and Oz are splitting the MAGA vote.  By my estimation the MAGA support looks like 60%(ish) Barnette and 40%(ish) Oz.  What is happening now in this race is very Karl Rove-ian.

The Club for Growth (CfG) is seemingly more aligned with David McCormick and needs to split the MAGA base, so they funnel money toward Barnette in order to disrupt and diminish the professional MAGA endorsements of Team Trump.

Seeing Mehmet Oz struggling to get support, and seeing a rise in the polling for Kathy Barnette, Fox News Sean Hannity started to attack Barnette on Wednesday with a full-throated ridiculing of her campaign.

Hannity labels Barnette as an ‘unelectable extremist’ with a history of controversial statements, positions and tweets.  After a 10-minute nasty attack segment, Sean Hannity then invites the previously scheduled Mehmet Oz to pile on.  The total Wednesday attack program lasted almost 30-minutes on prime-time television.

Then Thursday (6pm), corporate Fox News Shannon Bream announces David McCormick will appear tomorrow (Friday) on Special Reports segment for a promotional interview.   This makes sense because McCormick would be the corporate Fox News favorite republican in the mold of Marco Rubio.

During the 8pm hour (Tucker Carlson show) Fox News Corp then runs a promotional segment for Sean Hannity who says, “tune in at 9pm when we will go deeper into the controversial past of Kathy Barnette and expose her radical positions.”

As promoted at 9pm Hannity leads with another 15-minute attack against Barnette and then opens the floor to two other PA candidates, Jeff Bartos and Carla Sands, to continue the onslaught.

Destroying Barnette works for the agenda of Hannity (promoting Oz) and for the agenda of Corporate Fox News (promoting McCormick).

As a result, Kathy Barnette is taking fire from the GOPe Club, Corporate Fox News and the entirety of the Trump endorsement team which includes Sean Hannity and Ric Grennell.  Trump Inc supporting Oz, while Fox Inc is supporting McCormick.  This forms the gauntlet of the attack.

The beneficiary of this Rovian strategy is David McCormick.

Team McCormick is likely hopeful this onslaught will bring the destabilized Barnette wing of the MAGA base into his team; because the Barnette wing of the MAGA base will not support Mehmet Oz.

Both Oz and McCormick are sketchy to the ultra-MAGA base, but with McCormick the club alignment is what Mitch McConnell would call a “more approved” fit.

For the ultra-MAGA voter, with McCormick you get the openly Jeb Bush republican (Decepticon).

For the ultra-MAGA voter, with Mehmet Oz you get the closeted Mitt Romney democrat (RINO).

That’s why the majority of the ultra-MAGA voters were supporting Kathy Barnette in the first place, as an alternative to Oz.  That’s why Donald Trump endorsing Mehmet Oz was received with such disdain by the base.

The Republican Club (McCormick) and the Trump Club (Dr. Oz) are both trying to bring down Kathy Barnette and saying she can never win the general election in Pennsylvania.

Are they correct?  Well, that’s up to Pennsylvania voters to decide.  The pundits will all tell you the suburban women’s vote is the deciding factor in Pennsylvania politics.  Supposedly Dr Oz is more liked by that group of voters.  I have no idea.

This type of battle is what primary voting contests are all about.

My only purpose in this outline is to explain why McCormick wants to split MAGA (the move by Rove), and why Trump is trying to avoid a split MAGA vote (to avoid McCormick).

For those still torn over what to do, my own advice is:

♦ Vote your heart in the primary contest.

♦ Vote pragmatically in the general election contest.

Bottom line, VOTE!

[Toughluck_freeper]

Islam was our first foreign enemy after independence. The Navy was created specifically to fight it in the Mediterranean and recover our captives and enslaved merchant sailors. The marines were created in order to fight on land in North Africa.

While European countries pursued a policy of accommodation and encouragement to ship hijacking and enslavement of crews by paying ransom, we made a deal with an enemy of the Berber king, attacked its capital, killed the king, installed another and from then on our ships were ‘off limits’ while the European countries kept loosing their ships and paying ransom.
So yes: “Islam has always been a part of America’s story.”

[AmericaFirst101]

For me, it’s not about race or age.

For example, if Winsome Sears were running for senate here I’d be out with a campaign sign every day on my local highway. I LOVE that woman.

Barnette isn’t Sears.

Individual, not member of a group. That’s my motto.

[joe fonebone]

I was an e-5 at one point... Left as an e-3...
Why does this bother you?
Is her service to this country somehow degraded?
What was your rank?

[Capt_Hank]

Why, pray tell, is the image small. I have my original, along with 10 copies, behind my discharge mounted on the wall in my office.

I was told during separating, the DD214 was a very valuable document, don’t misplace it.

[Nateman]

In the beginning I was for Cruz. If it were to happen again I’d vote for Trump. He proved himself, over and over again.He has known Dr. Oz for years so I trust his judgement. Otherwise I would happily vote against Oz because he is Islamic. As for the general election politics is a likeability game. It is also a name recognition game. Oz has already won that game on the open market.

[Carriage Hill]

Whomever posted the image, just used a standard < /IMG> tag, but didn’t use “height” and width” tags, to properly size it.