Posted on 08/12/2019 12:16:23 PM PDT by Kaslin
It's"deplorables" all over again, but even worse. Remember, Hillary Clinton only smeared half of Trump supporters are irredeemably bigoted. O'Rourke appears to slime all Trump voters here, stating that it's "really hard" to see a 2020 Trump vote as anything other than a racist act. CNN's Jake Tapper poses the question -- which strikes me as a natural one, given Beto's nonstop racial rhetoric -- and after pausing for a beat or two, the candidate launches headlong into a vast slander:
"President Trump won your home state of Texas by nine points," host Jake Tapper said. "Almost 63 million Americans voted for him. Do you think it is racist to vote for President Trump in 2020?" There was a long pause from O'Rourke before he said, "I think it's really hard...I think it's really hard after everything that we've seen from his time as a candidate in 2016 to his repeated warnings of invasions to his repeated calls to send them back," O'Rourke said. "Sending back people who are U.S. citizens, sending back people who were born in this country."
Democrats are eyeing Texas as a true battleground in 2020 -- with Trump's support habitually lukewarm in the state, and lots of white suburbanites who typically vote Republican considering defecting. It's therefore probably quite unwise for prominent members of the party to insult all Trump backers like this. It's also probably unwise for them to nominate someone with far-left views, like taxpayer-funded healthcare for illegal immigrants, but what do I know? Allahpundit also makes a point that immediately occurred to me, too:
What’s also weird about this is that it obviously doesn’t help him in Texas if he decides to bail out of the presidential race and run for Senate there https://t.co/JUHghS62M3— Allahpundit (@allahpundit) August 11, 2019
Beto is almost certainly going to fail in his pursuit of the nomination, even if exploiting tragedy with hyper-charged racial rhetoric has reinvigorated his campaign for the time being. He'll then return to Texas, where his gallop to the left as a presidential candidate will put him farther out of that center-right state's mainstream. Remember, he ran for Senate as an upbeat, hopeful, sunny uniter. His national campaign has been much darker and more aggressively leftist, and now he's effectively indicted the majority of Texas voters as bigots. Bold strategy. Meanwhile, as we discussed in depth last week, another Texas Democrat has also tried to shame Trump backers as fuelers of "hate" by publishing a harassment hit list. His ugly tactic has yielded predictable, and I believe intended, results (content warning):
Mission accomplished, Joaquin pic.twitter.com/OFv7SjBfMH— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) August 11, 2019
With some critics of Castro's move calling for an ethics investigation, his office is striking a defiant tone amid the backlash:
"Their letter is a disingenuous attempt by pro-dark money, far-right legislators to limit Americans’ ability to track money in politics. They would prefer large contributions to be kept secret so that there’s no meaningful transparency in political giving,” said Schneider. “We look forward to hearing from the Committee if the request is considered.” But Castro’s public naming of his own constituents, some of whom are older and retired or describe themselves as homemakers, was met with backlash from Trump, his campaign, Republican leaders, and even some on the left, who warned that the Texas Democrat was using his platform as a powerful lawmaker to target private citizens at a combustible moment in U.S. politics.
I cannot imagine anyone making a more compelling case in favor of "dark money" forces than Joaquin Castro, who has weaponized donor transparency as a means of siccing the mob on donors to the opposing party. As I said in my previous post on this shameful episode, the purpose of transparency laws is for citizens to hold elected officials accountable, and to prevent corruption. It's an abuse of the system for a powerful official to wield that information as a hammer against private citizens. I'll leave you with this
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Before ratcheting up the political rhetoric, consider: 18% of Democrats & 13% of Republicans say "violence would be justified" if the opposing party wins the 2020 presidential election.
We are in dangerous territory. Don’t fuel the fire.https://t.co/iy7SpFYs1u— Nick Troiano (@NickTroiano) August 11, 2019
According to this data, in spite of all the media handwriting about the president's rhetoric, Democrats' anger appears to have been stoked to more dangerous levels than Republicans'. Beto and Castro are tossing logs onto that rage-filled fire.
[ Rodney Dangerfield: I mean this guy was so obnoxious Dale Carnegie once punched him in the mouth. ]
LOL
[The word racist has lost all meaning when ANYTHING you say or do is deemed racist.]
Das raciss! /Democrat Default 101
Beto
Brush your teeth.
I’d like to egg Beto.
Beto and eggs sounds like a nice dish.
Man, he’s too much of a puss to punch.
If Trump wins then the country is racist and that’s that.
Spaniards would call him a gilipollas, which is a vulgar way of calling someone a moron when he does something stupid. Perhaps Beta would consider European Spanish to be “fake” Spanish? The word seems to fit him well...
“Democrats are eyeing Texas as a true battleground in 2020 “
Well that’s BS. 2024 maybe, the invasion continues for another 4 years and
Texas May well be a swing sate.
It is even more difficult to imagine liberals to be anything other than uneducated tyrants.
It is going to backfire on him and the Dems.
seems to me that Campaigning 101 teaches that you’re supposed to offer free shite to voters rather than attacking them because voters who are attacked by the candidate aren’t going to vote for that candidate ...
it further seems to me that ANY of the Dem primary candidates who attack the voters are eliminating themselves at a reasonable chance for a VP slot because it would hurt the chances of the presidential candidate ...
therefore it seems to me that either beto has given up at having any chance of a VP berth, or he’s a total moron or both ...
Of course it’s really hard for you, Beto, because you have sh!t for brains. Also, you personify a poem by WB Yeats
The Leaders of the Crowd
THEY must to keep their certainty accuse
All that are different of a base intent;
Pull down established honour; hawk for news
Whatever their loose fantasy invent
And murmur it with bated breath, as though
The abounding gutter had been Helicon
Or calumny a song. How can they know
Truth flourishes where the student’s lamp has shone,
And there alone, that have no Solitude?
So the crowd come they care not what may come.
They have loud music, hope every day renewed
And heartier loves; that lamp is from the tomb.
Except for one thing, Billy Frank. You’re not a leader, you’re a follower.
Beto is unthinkingly ignoring that by supporting PDJT, patriots are retaliating for eight years of oppression under lawless Obama and a worthless, post-17th Amendment ratification Congress.
Remember in November 2020!
MAGA! Now KAG! (Keep America Great!)
Let’s face it, Bob-O,...
YOU’RE TOAST!
Says the idiot consciously using a fake Hispanic name to pander to an ethnic group.
This white supremacist BS name calling is getting completely out of hand.
Every idiot talking head on the TV is spouting it while Antifa gets a pass.
Its being used to tar everybody.
Veto the Beto.
It’s really not very hard to see which party are the real racists ... they see racism in everything.
Forgive my rambling here, but...
1. Life consists of making distinctions. Black/white, good/evil, male/female....so calling everyone racists make no one a racist, as the term no longer holds any meaning.
2. I no longer entertain the word “racist” in any conversation. BROAD BRUSH ALERT!!!! If you use the word “racist” you are a fool.
3. The high-falutin’ phrase, “people of color”. I have yet to see the NAACP change their name to the NAAPOC, so if it’s good enough for this august organization then it’s good enough for me. “Colored people” it is!! SSZ Leave my English language alone!!!
I’m fine with that.
IF they consider us racists, it means the Democrats have run out rational arguments and they’re down to name calling.
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