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Racist ‘Willie Horton’-style fearmongering on crime may win midterms for GOP
inquirer ^ | 10/02/2022 | Will Bunch

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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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; fearmongering; horton; midterms; nevertrump; nevertrumper; nevertrumpers; nevertrumpertrolls; racist; willbunch
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To: dfwgator

Yeah funny how that worked out. My folks voted for him too.


21 posted on 10/06/2022 1:04:19 PM PDT by mware
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To: OrangeHoof

LOL, yep got to stock up on Potassium Iodine.


22 posted on 10/06/2022 1:05:30 PM PDT by mware
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Speaking the truth is ray-ciss.


23 posted on 10/06/2022 1:05:56 PM PDT by dynachrome (“We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the US economy.” Rand Paul)
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To: OrangeHoof

For Wisconsin, we have the Waukesha Christmas parade massacre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waukesha_Christmas_parade_attack#Suspect

Kenosha riots
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenosha_unrest

And LOTS AND LOTS of other things to bring up to make Democrat rule look terrible


24 posted on 10/06/2022 1:06:28 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so stupid people won’t be offended)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
That article is just a string of dopey leftist talking points strung randomly together and masquerading as an article. Comically insipid.


25 posted on 10/06/2022 1:07:23 PM PDT by dead (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_vFiUUcBkc)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I love the sound of lefty commentators howling “whitelash” the day after an election.

It sounds like victory.

;-)


26 posted on 10/06/2022 1:07:40 PM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

All I need to read is the headline. We are living in a psychotic world.


27 posted on 10/06/2022 1:08:07 PM PDT by Shady (The #JihadJunta: "We are now a nation of Men, Not of Laws. You are not as equal as we are...")
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To: Codeflier

Al Gore


28 posted on 10/06/2022 1:09:58 PM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So what?


29 posted on 10/06/2022 1:15:11 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself.)
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To: dfwgator
There is only ONE Willie Horton! (The ballplayer).

Whenever I hear the name "Tony Bobulinski" who was on Tucker the other night, I'm reminded of pitcher who played for the new American League team circa 1962, the Los Angeles Angels, Bo Belinsky.


30 posted on 10/06/2022 1:16:54 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: ChicagoConservative27

There is a malicious wisdom in bringing up such an old complaint. Those not old enough to know what it was about might be fooled into thinking it must have been something bad on the Republican side whatever it was.


31 posted on 10/06/2022 1:19:33 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: No Party Affiliation

Reality is racist!...


32 posted on 10/06/2022 1:20:42 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s Will “Panties-in-a” Bunch. He writes this article every 2-3 years. He just changes the names and dates. Guess what? He will write the same article in 2024.


33 posted on 10/06/2022 1:21:25 PM PDT by Sir_Humphrey ( I wiIl not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own!i)
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To: Signalman

Now there’s a name I haven’t heard in many decades.


34 posted on 10/06/2022 1:25:09 PM PDT by allblues (God is neither a Republican nor a Democrat but Satan is definitely a Democrat)
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To: dfwgator
“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.”

Comment of the day!

35 posted on 10/06/2022 1:27:07 PM PDT by Charlemagne on the Fox
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To: Signalman

You, sir, are much too kind.


36 posted on 10/06/2022 1:31:19 PM PDT by allblues (God is neither a Republican nor a Democrat but Satan is definitely a Democrat)
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To: Signalman

I remember Bo Belinsky. He was almost great but the nightlife got him.


37 posted on 10/06/2022 1:34:36 PM PDT by JonPreston
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To: dfwgator

I remember very well that Algore’s daddy was one of the more vocal leaders of the Democrat’s savage opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and he proudly voted against it. The only reason it passed. giving the racist LBJ a huge political victory, was that the Republican Party put the legislation over the top ... as being a strong bloc for civil rights for all Americans, they should have.


38 posted on 10/06/2022 1:34:47 PM PDT by glennaro (Live life unbullied and unafraid. Choose to ignore or fight the irrationality that surrounds you.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What was racist about the Willie Horton ads? They were the truth! And guess who first mentioned Willie Horton in the 1988 presidential election. It wasn’t anyone in the George H W Bush campaign. It was Al Gore during the Democrat primaries!


39 posted on 10/06/2022 1:55:35 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This is nothing but good, old-fashioned projecting by the left ... as usual. They are the most fear-mongering party on the face of the earth.


40 posted on 10/06/2022 2:06:56 PM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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