Posted on 09/16/2018 9:58:05 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway's husband, George Conway, took aim at the president on Twitter Friday over President Trump's criticism of his predecessor, former President Obama.
In a tweet, George Conway, a conservative lawyer, criticized Trump for mocking Obama for a 2008 gaffe in which he mistakenly said he visited "57 states" during his first presidential run.
"When President Obama said that he has been to '57 States,' very little mention in Fake News Media. Can you imagine if I said that...story of the year!" Trump had written in his tweet.
Conway responded on Twitter, saying that there is a "huge difference" between Obama's mistake and Trump's "witless prevarication on virtually all topics, large and small."
"Needless to say, there’s a huge difference between an isolated slip of the tongue and ceaseless, shameless, and witless prevarication on virtually all topics, large and small," Conway responded.
Conway has frequently criticized Trump on social media, despite his wife's position at the White House.
Earlier this month, Conway retweeted a controversial anonymous New York Times op-ed warning that Trump is a dangerous and amoral leader.
Both Conways were the subjects of an interview in The Washington Post last month in which Kellyanne Conway stated that "part" of her husband "thinks I chose Donald Trump over him."
In the same interview, Kellyanne Conway called her husband's criticism of the president "disrespectful" to her.
“I think it’s disrespectful,” she said. “I think it disrespects his wife.”
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George very well could be the leaker. Kellyanne should feed him some bs and see how fast it becomes headlines.
At the same time, much of the publicity such comments generates come from bloggers and web forums.
The major media clearly wanted to push the "Dan Quayle is an idiot message," but much of the message reached people through word of mouth and late night comedians, even in those days when the Internet was barely a thing.
On the other hand, if a Republican candidate had made the "57 states" comment it would be recognized on conservative websites that it was just a slip of the tongue, not an indication that a Republican didn't know how many states there were because he was a foreigner or an idiot.
It wouldn't be taken as some nefarious signal to his supporters and wouldn't be repeated all the time.
Trump is very different from other politicians and candidates.
The others are very well scripted and directed, and what they say has been gone over by aides and consultants so as not to cause controversy.
Therefore, when they go off-script and say something wrong or controversial, critics pounce, and partisans collect the gaffes and misstatements for eternal recycling.
By contrast, President Trump tweets a lot of things off the cuff that haven't been vetted by his staff.
What he says may be substantially true, but he gives the media much to pounce on, and in quantity his controversial statements add up to more than the verbal blunders of other politicians.
So you may be able to understand where Conway is coming from, though you might wonder why he's taking on his wife like this.
Jealousy?
“..That wasn’t a slip of the tongue. That was an admission of Obama being a muslim.”
Yep. Just like:
“..MY Muslim faith...”
ummm, you mean your CHRISTIAN faith, Mr. President...
“..ummm, errr, yes, uhhh, thats what I said, George... edit that later..”
“What is it with these conservative women?”
I suspect that when they were younger, they married a bit for money.
If you want a comfortable lifestyle, you marry a democrat lawyer/politician.
George obviously has no respect for her. No NORMAL, decent husband does that to his wife.
They take lessons from Carville and Matalin.
Isolate? Really? What about:
When Obama told a large crowd in Austria "I don't speak Austrian" when there's no such language
Or when Obama lost the Kentucky Dem primary to Hillary in 2008, and he said it was because 'Hillary's Arkansas borders on Kentucky and his Illinois doesn't" when it's the opposite
George hates POTUS MORE than he loves KellyAnne.
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Appears that way, doesn’t it?
Kellyanne needs to take George to see that priest.
He has some issues that need assistance.
Conway responded on Twitter, saying that there is a “huge difference” between Obama’s mistake and Trump’s “witless prevarication on virtually all topics, large and small.”
And yet everything he has said and done makes your defense of leftist Obama reveal that you are about as conservative as Michael Moore-on. Your just jealous that your wife is more successful than your fat bloated ass ever will be George! Trump live rent free in your head.....only there’s a lot of echo.
This was no “gaffe”.
Something like this could not be said, unless the Obamanation was either clueless, or he was referring to a group of Muslim nation’s.
The “corps-men” gaffe, seems to be inline with someone who is simply not aware of American culture, as well.
One of the most stupid episodes in US dilomacy and American History, was Obama talking right through “God Save The Queen”, during the state dinner, at I believe Buckingham Palace.
The phallus-inhalers never criticized bammy for this deliberate signal to the arab states. It was not a “gaffe.” But they criticize Trump for pointing it out.
Even a bad husband knows not to publicly slap down a wealthy wife. And this creep claims to be a lawyer of all people. If he causes her to lose her job, he’s on the hook for more alimony. What an idiot.
What in the world is happening? I have never seen anything like this. A new enemy reveals himself every five minutes.
I wonder whether they will continue to do so. When she leaves the White House and has time to think her personal life through, will they patch this up, or will she wash her hands of a man who was disloyal? Or is this all part of an act?
Exactly , Trump tolerating this transparent tag teaming of both sides of the aisle makes him look weak. Both Kellyanne and her husband are swamp creatures who have glommed onto Trump for name recognition and the post admin status and jobs that it brings. Unfortunately for them Trump is a businessmen and doesn't care about staff or their futures once they are no longer useful to him.
Trump should kick Kellyanne to the street like he got rid of other distractions like Bannon and Pruit so he can focus on MAGA.
He could shut his mouth, but from the looks of him it appears to always be open accepting another bit of food.
He didn’t simply say 57 states. He made a whole story around it, with none of the numbers adding up in a way that suggests it was a ‘slip of the tongue’, but rather a slip of the brain.
That sack of crap called George Conway has been posting these anti-Trump tweets for a while.
If Kellyanne can’t reign in her worthless ahole of a husband, the president should fire her.
Kellyanne is privy to some sensitive information and she’s sleeping with the enemy.
Obama was, and still is, a figurehead.
He was useful.
A brilliant, very wise, elderly man said to me, immediately after Obama's first election to the Presidency, that Obama was a figurehead backed by a cabal that wants to seize the power of the USA is a coup d'état. He did not know who was in the cabal, but he knew it existed.
He was right.
We now know the names of the cabal. There may be more.
There is probably a deeper level of power-hungry, ambitions people behind those whose names we know.
The magnitude of power concentrated in Washington--and, at last! the real possibility of seizing it--is irresistible to these people.
America has never been is this much danger.
This is a quotation from 1984 by George Orwell:
"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power."No one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?"
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