Posted on 01/08/2023 12:20:38 PM PST by kiryandil
RIFLE, Colo. (AP) — Debbie Hartman voted for Lauren Boebert for Congress in 2020 and again in 2022, delighted by Boebert’s unequivocal defense of cultural issues that animate the Republican Party’s far right flank. But as Hartman shopped recently at a supermarket in this Rocky Mountain ranching outpost, she had one piece of advice for the Colorado lawmaker.
“Tone down the nasty rhetoric on occasion and just stick with the point at hand,” said Hartman, 65, a veterinary tech assistant.
That sentiment reflects Boebert’s challenge as she begins her second term in the House. In her relatively short time in Washington, she has built a national profile with a combative style embracing everything from gun ownership to apocalyptic religious rhetoric. Constituents such as Hartman in the Republican-leaning 3rd Congressional District laud Boebert for defending their rights, but cringe at her provocations, contributing to an unexpectedly tight race last year that she won by just 546 votes out of more than 300,000 cast.
“She tapped into what Trump was doing, and she maybe took it too far in some instances,” said Alex Mason, 27, adding that Boebert, whom he supports, is still more tactful than former President Donald Trump.
In an interview, Boebert said “this slim victory, it opened my eyes to another chance to do everything that I’ve been promising to do.”
To the congresswoman, that means being “more focused on delivering the policies I ran on than owning the left,” adding she hoped “to bring the temperature down, to bring unity.”
For much of past week, however, the temperature on Capitol Hill was only rising. Boebert was a leading voice among a group of lawmakers who refused to support Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s bid to become House speaker, a historic revolt against a party leader. McCarthy finally won the gavel...
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Did somebody say 'tone down the nasty rhetoric?'
Crenshaw: No, no, it would change. And we all know it wouldn’t change, which is why we can’t give in. And so those of us who are standing against this, we’re standing for principle. They are standing for notoriety. They’re standing for that extra news that because nobody ever cares about them and they’re frustrated by that, and they want that extra news that we know that we can’t give in to this because then they will always run the conference and they’ll just get another scalp and another scalp, whether it’s whether it’s Boehner or Paul Ryan or them McCarthy. Scalise would just be next and we all know it. We just can’t allow that to happen. That’s why those of us are saying like, look, you pushed us into this corner. So now we’re now we’re saying we won’t vote for anyone but McCarthy. That’s why we’re saying it, because we cannot let the terrorists win. That’s basically what’s happening. And I do have to go.
Zackly bump, part deux!
I prefer crossdraw.
Was the Congresswoman ‘too mean’ for you, Debbie? Ye gads...the media can find one whenever they need one, can’t they?
Sadly, a few here too.
She’s got ‘er handled.
Not one example of the nasty rhetoric?
Boebert won by a whisker after the Colorado vote fixers, led by the one and only "Dirty Jena" Griswold, CO Secretary of Soros, got rid of Tina Peters in Mesa County, then proceeded to gleefully rig the county to a fair-thee-well. That one county almost cost Boebert her seat - but not quite.
Another "Dirty Colorado" program note:
Colorado Won’t Name 31,000 Foreign Citizens It Sent Voter Registration Info, So Counties Have No Idea If They Voted
The Federalist ^ | 01-07-2023 | Victoria Marshall
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4121589/posts
Yeah, I hope so... She’s got nice.. err.. uhm.. gotta nice holster ;^)
“The Narrative” don’t need no steenking examples.
Anything looks good on her.
I prefer strong-side at the waist, slightly behind the point of the hip.
The original article is absolute bull@#!+ ... so I’d rather talk about holsters. Or pretty girls. Or armed pretty girls wearing holsters ...
Big deal...she carries a weapon. So do lots of other people. has she introduced any legislation? Sat on any committees? I know alot of women that are awesome with a handgun. Doesn’t make them special or any smarter. I also know several that own multi million dollar business’s so she’s not special in that regard either. Didn’t someone post a while back that her restaurant closed down?
Don’t confuse “style” with substance...something that many people seem to forget.
Yeah ... when you’re kitted out like the dude on the left (not the biker ...) the dropped holster makes sense.
Lauren is 36...’peak woman’, as they say. :-)
Happy 6-week FR anniversary, Retread.
You obviously don’t know what was going on behind the scenes there. McCarthy made sure her opponent was getting the funding. Also, there was trickery in the counting, i.e., fraud, which ALMOST had her losing. They just didn’t cheat hard enough.
Tina Peters in sn CO, and TPTB there are intent on taking out / taking down Tina and all things MAGA.
The title, “Boeber’s backers urge ...” No; they aren’t Boebert’s “backers”. They’re the same elusive folks as “some say”, and “anonymous sources say”, etc. All = made up.
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