They threw race in because Bundy was winning the PR battle with We the People.
Bundy threw race into it. The Democrats could not have done a better job if they tried. Democrats are so dang lucky. They have things fall in their laps. We work so hard to be moral folks and get screwed by big mouths. Why do you think we lost 2012...because of big mouth idiots who could not keep their mouth shut. There was no reason for this goon to say anything he did. He was winning. All he had to do was go back to getting his cows fed. No he thought he would be a superstar.....he failed badly and hurt the conservatives in the process.
He didn’t say anything that wasn’t true—as far as “morality”-he condemned abortion, crime resulting in wasting one’s life in jail, destroyed families etc.
The people who hated him before in a knee jerk fashion wouldn’t have changed their minds about him no matter what. Where’s the loss? There are a lot of folks who do agree with the basic theme of his statement. Even if you don’t, most adults should be able to separate his views on that subject, agree or disagree, from the BLM issue.
Norm, you speak the truth—but I can’t help but wonder if there wasn’t a black bodyguard speaking up, would you be on Bundy’s side? Sounds like a good guy (the bodyguard) but why do we have to have that? I for one don’t have to desperately seek validation from a black person to form an opinion—that’s part of the problem these days.