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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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KEYWORDS: dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; fearmongering; horton; midterms; nevertrump; nevertrumper; nevertrumpers; nevertrumpertrolls; racist; willbunch
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Will Bunch = Self loathing Jew


41 posted on 10/06/2022 2:19:31 PM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci: You had one job and you failed!)
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To: OrangeHoof
As George H.W. Bush said at the time, “What in the ad was factually wrong?

George H.W. Bush was nearly 65 at inauguration. He had a backbone in '88. He got old in '92. "Read my lips, no new taxes" - that costed him the election right there.

42 posted on 10/06/2022 2:22:42 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

41 was nearly 70 in ‘92 and he did not have the energy he once had four years earlier.


43 posted on 10/06/2022 2:24:11 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Being against violent crime does not mean that a person is racist.


44 posted on 10/06/2022 2:44:23 PM PDT by grundle
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To: OrangeHoof

The ad did not show a picture of the convicted murderer who committed committed assault, armed robbery, and rape while on a Dukakis furlough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZToNflF1z8


45 posted on 10/06/2022 3:08:16 PM PDT by Catholic and Conservative
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If this doesn’t work for the rats, then they will have to break out the Hitler comparisons. Democrats have about five or six tactics that they rotate through. Even people who rode the short bus are catching on.


46 posted on 10/06/2022 3:16:28 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA ( Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Black crime is reality and the biggest cause of the so-called “racism” the author allegedly decries (check his own privilege)

BTW Will looks rather effeminate

Accept it, Will 100-1 you live in a “non ‘diverse’” hood and are the first one outta there when you know who starts

Black crime, Will . . . deal with it It’s your political albatross . . along with AIDS


47 posted on 10/06/2022 3:17:55 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ( Liberty Valance Time. The point of a gun is the only law the left understands)
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To: MinorityRepublican
George H.W. Bush was nearly 65 at inauguration. He had a backbone in '88. He got old in '92. "Read my lips, no new taxes" - that costed him the election right there.

It cost him my vote. Bush should have stayed true to his word, especially for a promise that he had so frequently repeated.

48 posted on 10/06/2022 3:18:08 PM PDT by Catholic and Conservative
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Racist, climate denier, abortion, no ideas. The rallying cry of the media against any and all Republican candidates.


49 posted on 10/06/2022 3:22:55 PM PDT by chuckee
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To: Catholic and Conservative

That was his mistake. Republicans have learned from him. You do not see Republicans supporting a tax increase except maybe for Mitt Romney.


50 posted on 10/06/2022 3:24:09 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Racist ‘Willie Horton’-style fearmongering on crime may win midterms for GOP

Because black people would never want to feel safe… 🙄

51 posted on 10/06/2022 3:25:15 PM PDT by Magnatron
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To: God luvs America

Well...it is not a new idea! Neither is using TP after you take a dump.


52 posted on 10/06/2022 3:33:05 PM PDT by gr8eman (Abortion! It's just a murderous ghoul thing!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Ditto! How about riots and murders from BLM and progressive cities?


53 posted on 10/06/2022 3:46:30 PM PDT by keving (We the government )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Half of the author’s audience wasn’t born yet. All 12 of them.


54 posted on 10/06/2022 3:53:09 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Crime is real and the racism charge is a damn lie. But they do it every election year.


55 posted on 10/06/2022 4:04:41 PM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
"just know how the inertia of American white supremacy generally flows.🤣
56 posted on 10/06/2022 4:06:03 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Breaking freeper norms I read (more like skimmed) the article. Had to share this gem (the last paragraph)...

It’s a racist, immoral strategy — that, tragically but inevitably, is working all too well with an election little more than one month away. The frustrating part is we know that a majority of Americans want a nation that is welcoming to refugees and knows how to reduce crime without locking up entire neighborhoods. What we won’t know until Nov. 8 is whether these good hearts can outvote a nation’s overheated lizard brains.

You're welcome

57 posted on 10/06/2022 4:33:54 PM PDT by goo goo g'joob
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s not just the “inquirer”, it’s the Killadelphia Inquirer.


58 posted on 10/06/2022 4:46:46 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Fox News is CNN-Lite.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
"young, gifted, and Black Democratic opponent, Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes"


WuT?
😆😂🤣
59 posted on 10/06/2022 4:47:24 PM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: JonPreston

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

I think Bo Belinsky holds the MLB record for most times traded.


60 posted on 10/06/2022 7:19:21 PM PDT by rxh4n1
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