Posted on 12/06/2013 5:51:19 PM PST by LonelyCon
Republican politicians have tried to pay homage on Facebook to the late Nelson Mandela since his death on Thursday, but many of their conservative supporters want to hear none of it.
Peruse through comment sections of the GOP's Facebook tributes to Mandela, and there's a good chance you'll find plenty of vitriol for the former South African president and for the politicians who praised him.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) wrote that Mandela "will live in history as an inspiration for defenders of liberty around the globe." One commenter took a different view of the anti-apartheid leader's legacy, urging "all you Mandela lovers head on over to South Africa and see what's going on now that 'Mandela's people' have control of the nation."
As Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) sees it, Mandela "showed South Africans and the entire world what the power of forgiveness truly means and can accomplish." It's unclear if some of Rubio's disappointed supporters will be similarly forgiving of the senator.
One woman found it "sad" that Rubio, a son of Cuban immigrants, showed such reverence given that the GOP senator's family "fled the very things that mandela (sic) stood for." After seeing the tribute, another woman said Rubio had lost her vote.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) wrote that the "world has lost an exceptional leader who made the world a better place." But some commenters cried foul at the "revisionist history" of Mandela. Another expressed relief that "Mass Murderer Mandela is finally dead."
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The problem is that our educational system and media have basically made a “Saint” out of Mandela. And as a result, saying anything negative about Mandela would be tantamount to political suicide.
I don’t like it at all, but there it is.
Exactly.
I’m not a liberal and not launching a jihad over a harmless comment that I don’t agree with. Outrage for the sake of outrage serves no purpose.
Is Cruz off the A list now?
/sarc (kind of)
Hufpoo called, they’re missing an idiot.
So the RINOs think. But the 2010 shellacking still happened for a reason.
Nailed it in a big way!
Seems it infested (infected?) some Freepers here too....
“It’s a small thing. I prefer them to stand up on issues that really matter. Nelson Mandella doesn’t.”
I agree. What I get from this article is that the writer can’t fathom the idea of a political party where not every member marches in lock-step, where individual opinions can be freely voiced and disagreements allowed to stand.
I’ll proudly take these sorts of disagreements over the unison-voting-block collective drone mentality of the Left any day of the week.
It would have been better if Cruz had not said anything...but it didn’t seem pandering to me.
Never did I think I would see our nation go along with the world in the near worship of this man, but we live in the age where the truth has become a lie and the lie has become the truth.
I will never vote for anyone that has anything good to say about the commie!
Mandela has been turned into the international version of MLK Jr. It’s taboo to criticize either one.
Wouldn't it make a lot more sense to train Democrats to think like Republicans??
What harm do a few gracious words cause? There is time for that and time for fighting. And things worth fighting for.
The next GOP President should open the US and grant asylum for all white and or Christians who are being persecuted.
‘Amen, amen.
I would’ve preferred that my Sen Cruz had kept quiet on Mandela’s passing....like Sarah has.’
CORRECT JANEY...DONT THESE BIRDS SEE THAT THIS STUFF PLAYS RIGHT INTO THE LIB’S HANDS? ...THEY HAND THE LIB’S HAMMERS TO BEAT THEMSELVES WITH....IT NEVER OCCURED TO THEM THAT THIS STUFF WOULD ALIENATE THE BASE?....PSSSST NEXT TIME SEND A SYMPATHY CARD OR SOME TELEFLORA CREATION YOU DOLTS!....JEEEESH.
Yup. That’s the picture I always remember when I think of the guy.
Joe Slovo, the idiot trash standing next to him, repaid his non-native nation (he was a refugee from Lithuania) by becoming one of the most vicious Communists in Africa and working relentlessly to destroy the place.
Real gratitude that.
No point in trashing Winnie. Everyone knows about her...and even he had to walk away from that.
Mandela. Sniveling commie to the nth degree. World needs none of that.
Better to keep one’s mouth shut than praise evil.
Mandela was evil.
MLK was just corrupt.
With you on that. On another thread someone was bitching
about GWB chiming in on Mandela’s death. Big deal. Bush
could have just been playing defense and wants to be
left alone by an MSM that hated and still hates him.
Had he stayed quiet some libtardnewsturd would probably
call him on it sooner or later.
exactly. their evil far outweighs any secular, relativistic ‘good’ they may be credited with.
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