Posted on 10/06/2022 12:53:01 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
When the midterm election winds shifted direction this summer toward Democrats, powered by a gust of anger among young women voters over the Supreme Court and abortion rights, no incumbent GOP U.S. senator looked in worse shape than Wisconsin’s Ron Johnson.
Johnson had already broken a promise to retire in 2022 — which would have spared him from defending a cargo hold full of political baggage from dumb climate denial to his seeming love for Mother Russia — even before his name got dragged into the probe of the Jan. 6 insurrection. As the fall campaign loomed in a state that President Joe Biden won, albeit narrowly, in 2020, polls showed Johnson running several points behind his young, gifted, and Black Democratic opponent, Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes.
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As George H.W. Bush said at the time, “What in the ad was factually wrong?
I’m guessing that website never considered for even a moment that Pedo Joe has been “fear-mongering” with his bizarre “extremist” America speeches.
No fear mongering necessary. Just check the crime stats.
It was Algore that originally brought up Willie Horton against Dukakis during the Primaries.
Another “Inconvenient Truth” the Press leaves out.
“Devoid of actual ideas, the GOP has ripped a racist page from a 1980s playbook to scare voters around crime. The polls suggest it’s working.”
Hmmm.....maybe trying to put a stop to crime is an idea people are interested in.
If I recall, wasn’t it a Democrat during the primaries that first used the Willie Horton issue against Dukakis? Then the Bush team decided to use it as well during the general election.
“young, gifted, and Black Democratic opponent, Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes.”
Versus
Cisgender, patriarchical, ultra MAGA white male extremist
BARF
When they are "too close to call," the accusations of "appeals to racism" and "extremism" are soon heard throughout the land.
Forty years ago, it was "get the money out of politics," but that refrain hasn't been heard in some time.
In essence, the media screamed it was racist to show a picture of a mean, murdering M-F’er and portray him as a mean, murdering M-F’er that Michael Dukakis released from prison.
Yea...i read about a guy who rung up his 42nd assault arrest in NYC last year.... these events are all figments of our imagination
But NY Congressmen telling New Yorkers they lost their right to an abortion is not fear mongering? Why, because it’s false?
plus al gore created the ad for the dem primaries
Actually I’m waiting on the 1964 Johnson ad, with a thermonuclear explosion while a little girl picks a daisy apart.(and yeah I’m that old)
“I was told if I voted for Goldwater, we’d have riots in the streets and get into a long unwinnable war. Well I voted for Goldwater, and darn if they weren’t right.”
but the little girl counting down in Russian is a nice touch...
“Johnson ...dumb climate denial to his seeming love for Mother Russia ... the Jan. 6 insurrection.. his young, gifted, and Black Democratic opponent, Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes.
Nope, no bias here.
I can sum up this overly long article: A pile of leftist crap.
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