Posted on 07/23/2018 6:13:01 AM PDT by Liberty7732
The deteriorating state of the American left and the Democratic Party was on vivid display again in a recent, ugly controversy in Florida that Democrats initiated, then tried to shrug off and finally back-tracked on after media coverage exposed it.
A Democrat running for local government office posted on Facebook about an issue facing voters in November. Joe Gruters, the chairman of the Republican Party of Sarasota, a state representative and the co-chairman of Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign in Florida, responded to the issue. One of the first responses to his comment was this:
“..you never did answer my question about when and where I can grab your wife by her pu**y. Get back to me on this.”
Obviously this vile piece of nastiness was a reference to Trump’s old statement from the Access Live video several years ago, which Trump apologized for and for which he rightly received considerable condemnation from Republicans at the time.
Alone, it was just a one-off from a nasty individual. But this repugnant comment was “liked” many times, including by a local Democratic candidate running for the School Board. This candidate was subsequently forced to apologize when the local ABC affiliate did a story on it — which came only after the Republican Party of Sarasota put out a statement condemning the comment, the “like” by the School Board candidate and the willingness of the original Democratic author of the post to keep it up. The statement called on the Democratic Party to disavow the statement and its candidates’ involvement in it.
The Democratic Party did neither. But after the media exposure and public fallout became clear, the vile comment was taken down the next day. Of course, that could have happened immediately. It could have happened after Gruters brought it to the attention of the initial Democrats’ posting. It could have happened when the Republican Party issued its statement. But it did not happen until it was exposed in the media and the Democratic Party measured the response in this red part of Florida.
As bad as all of that was, the really telling part is that the Sarasota County Democratic Party issued an official statement saying that while the comment was inappropriate…“make no mistake that this fake outrage by the Republican Party of Sarasota about a ‘like’ of a comment on a Facebook page is a clear attempt to distract the voters and to score political points.”
Fake outrage?
It seems pretty likely that if anyone suggested they wanted to know when they could grab the private female parts of one of the Democrats’ wives or daughters or mothers, their outrage would be most sincere. Too many Democrats have learned nothing from the lessons of the 2016 election. Instead of understanding how they disconnected from so many Americans, the lesson they took is that because Trump said something vile, they can therefor say anything with impunity. Wrong lesson — for them and the country.
It’s also clear that if Republicans had not highlighted the nastiness to the local media, the Democrats were fine with leaving the comment and its supporting approvals up. Most people recognized that the outrage over this was real and legitimate, particularly for candidates asking voters to put them in office.
Perhaps Democrats need to step back and rethink spending the past 18 months in a daily cyclone of ginned up, hate-based outrage over every act of the Trump administration. It has impaired their ability to distill genuine outrage from the fake.
And its impaired the ability of the nation to participate in any sort of issues-based, civil debate.
I cannot be civil with these cretins. Can not and will not.
Ask your Dem buddies like Weinstein, they actually do it. And not to women that let them.
I agree. Note Hillary’s 2016 campaign. What were her 3 major policy ideas to improve the country? (Waiting … crickets chirping.)
No, her campaign issue was “don’t vote for Trump, you deplorables! … he’s a bad man!” Not much there and the DNC hasn’t improved it’s message much beyond “give us free stuff.”
:: because Trump said something vile, they can therefor say anything with impunity ::
“Shit-hole” comes to mind.
He should have asked him if he was a billionaire celebrity. Because that is the prerequisite Trump said made women happily accommodate being grabbed.
I remember all the outrage over Mr. Trump’s recorded statement from 2005.
The tape was released as an October Surprise by the Media in... Well, October of 2016.
But Mr. Trump very much did apologize. I, like many, had forgotten about the apology and it’s substantial remarks and depth.
So here is an actual story on Mr. Trump’s apology:
Mr. Trump’s apology sounds sincere. Note that unlike many of the accused in the #MeToo movement, the issue was words said between Mr. Trump and a young Billy Bush, who would go on to become an NBC Reporter. And in the article posted above, even he apologizes for the secret recording (unknown to Mr. Trump) and leading him on in the conversation.
So Mr. Trump said what some call very inappropriate words, but did not actually say he did or does these things (grab someone’s private area); only that he could, because he was rich and famous. Frankly, this is locker room talk a lot of males will say between each other. Wrong? Yes. Uncommon. Not necessarily.
But the important thing is Mr. Trump very much did apologize for those words. Since they were NOT actions, what else does anyone want to see happen due to them? In the rough and tumble world of politics, of course Mr. Trump’s political foes used these words against him. However, he still won the election, and obviously his many supporters accepted his apology, even if the democrats and media do not.
When media types, Deranged Left wing tweeters, Liberal Facebook posters, democrats and socialists in general bring the comments from the video again, post this link back to them.
I’m sure they’ll scorn it, but I think it’s important to his defense that still needs to be part of the entire conversation.
Statement so vile that thousands of women started wearing ‘puzzzy pink hats’ in public.
Also, where is John Goodman(??) and the tape he claimed to have which was going to prove that PDT actually said all this. At first he was going to’release’ it prior the election, then prior inauguration, the at an ‘appropriate time’...
Didn’t have a change of heart as he made some mind numbing anti PDT statement couple of weeks ago.
Stuff getting like the ‘new breed’ politicking...
Just before the debate, the candidate stood up and shook the opponents hand and said
“We have signed a pact that during this campaign there will be NO personal attacks, NO attacks on family members, no foul language etc just going to stick to the issues.
IF we didn’t have this pact, I would be telling you about his wife who has layed up with every bum in the district, his pot smoking kids and his child abuse and forcing his parents out of their house into the street. Good thing we have this pact as I will not be mentioning any of that”
I'd like to see Louder with Crowder do an on-the-street and ask some libs what they think of the Republican who said that. Then let them know who really did and who "liked" it.
Response should have been something like, “when you are ready to die” and then allude to the fact that concealed weapons permits are abundant in FL.
When and where I can grab your wife by her pu**y. Get back to me on this.
Another classy democrat they fail to understand speech is a picture of the mind.
Bill Clinton asks what mean that.
“Any time you’re feeling frosty...”
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