Posted on 05/12/2022 10:56:26 PM PDT by AmericaFirst101
Surging Pennsylvania GOP Senate candidate Kathy Barnette has a history of anti-Muslim and anti-gay statements. In many tweets, Barnette also spread the false conspiracy theory that former President Barack Obama is a Muslim.
In one speech uploaded to YouTube in 2015, Barnette forcefully argued it was OK to discriminate against Muslims and compared rejecting Islam to "... rejecting Hitler's or Stalin's worldviews." In comments on her radio show, she said accepting homosexuality would lead to the accepting of incest and pedophilia. One post she wrote called a transgender person "deformed" and "demonic."
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"You are not a racist if you reject Islam, or if you reject Muslims, because they are not a race of people. They are a particular view. They are people that have a particular view of the world, and we have a right to discriminate against worldviews," she said. "We discriminated against Hitler's Nazi Germany view of the world, right? That was a worldview. That's how he saw the world around him. And we discriminated against it. We rejected it. We rejected Stalin's view ... of the world, right? Because that's a particular view of the world that we don't agree with."
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Laughable nonsense.
I have to move on to real comments now.
That’s a nice leftist definition you have there.
I’m also bigoted against demons, communists, and parasites by that definition.
Too bad it’s not a proper definition.
If you have a good reason to be opposed to a group it isn’t bigotry.
I know you’ve done a good job pointing out some of this stuff, 98.
Look, there’s no pleasure in pointing this stuff out. But better now than the Dems doing this in the general.
We need to keep the seat. There’s no way we keep the seat if Barnette wins the primary.
I’m ground level here in PA. I know the territory.
Methinks thou protesteth thine own bigotries too much.
She said way back in 2015 that you have a right to reject the Islamic religion, which is exactly right. Look, I was right there during 9/11. I didn't much feel like hugging Islamist's then.
Can we take a look at some of the nasty, vicious anti gay tweets from MSNB's Joy Reid from back then? Which she now claims she “was hacked”?
What a joke.
The gay and Muslim votes are not huge here, I agree.
What is huge here is the Suburb Women vote. And when they get wind of these remarks by Barnette, she’s done. Those suburb moms will get the vapors and swear off Barnette in a second. Can’t seem like you’re embracing someone with those views.
Recall how the suburb moms turned on Trump?
The upshot is this — there are rural people who will be totally fine with what Barnette said. And their votes will be dwarfed by the suburb/city people who will be offended/be told to be offended by what Barnette said.
If this stuff came out like six months ago, Barnette owned it and apologized, all of that, maybe things are different.
It’s too late now.
The Dems and media would love to say “GOP selects _______ candidate in PA primary.” Fill in the blank.
If KFile is talking about this stuff, he has the audio files. They’ll be on a loop in the general, in ads, if she wins the primary.
There’s no way she can win the general.
ok. you’re worried about rigging? in the general? did they outlaw vote by mail, ballot harvesting, machines, and drop boxes in PA yet?
the only true win possible for populist/nationalist Christian conservatives is a win by one of our own. based on her enemies list in conservative inc and the gope playbook being deployed against her (exactly like O’Donnell, Murdock, Akin, Miller, McDaniel, Palin, etc.), she feels like one of our own. that’s good enough for me. frankly, don’t care who in the uniparty (D or R) “wins.” playing D vs. R is a fear based, decades long, losing strategy for America.
I think we all understand that no Republican will ever get the benefit of the doubt that Joy Reid got.
And, to be honest, Joy Reid isn’t running for senate. Or she’d have a lot tougher time with her past stuff.
But she’s kind of owned it. Kind of. Barnette, to this point, hasn’t done any of that.
Look, it’s not fair at all. I know that. But I still want to win the election.
Nobody turned on Trump, that’s a leftist lie.
Trump got more votes the second time than the first, more than any POTUS candidate in history.
Trump only “lost” because of the most massive fraud in history.
Brandon won the fewest counties of any winner in history and the fewest bellwether counties of any winner in history.
Well this is the first I’ve seen of it. You would think that something like this would have been revealed already, if in fact it is all true. I do have issues with the source. Well now that it’s out she’ll have to respond to it. I can’t stand Oz or McCormick, but if true it would definitely make it extremely difficult for her to win the general. I guess when they labeled her ultra MAGA they weren’t kidding lol. She’s starting to out MAGA Trump with this.
Correct on every point.
Oz is in NO WAY keeping that seat red, Oz will be another Romney, I don’t know enough about the other guy HOWEVER he is a NWO guy so what the hell difference does it make just because there is an R next to their name, McConnell stood up there yesterday and actually said that Ukraine was the MOST important thing in this country NOW, 40 Billion going to Ukraine MORE important than what the hell is going wrong in THIS COUNTRY NOW!! Sorry but the candidates in PA. with an R next to their name will be exactly the same as having a Dem. Perhaps we should start focusing on flipping a seat in a different state!!
She never did.
She claimed she was hacked, just like Anthony Wiener claimed he was hacked, which is laughable.
Joy Reid has yet to take ANY responsibility up to today.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/01/business/media/joy-reid-msnbc-apology.html
“Ms. Reid, 49, did not blame or mention hackers this time. In a statement on Friday, Ms. Reid, the “AM Joy” host, said that she had reached out to Ms. McCain, a former on-air colleague, and that she had the “highest respect for Senator McCain.” She said that she had evolved and that “I’m a better person today than I was over a decade ago.”
“There are things I deeply regret and am embarrassed by, things I would have said differently and issues where my position has changed,” Ms. Reid said. “Today I’m sincerely apologizing again.””
She did take responsibility, even if it was a half-hearted fake apology.
I’m betting that’s where Barnette will have to start, too.
Yep
Oz is far from perfect. True.
I wanted Parnell. Really sucked that he had to drop out.
Look at it like this — say Trump wins in 2024 and the senate is 51/49 Dems because we lost this seat.
We can’t get through Trump’s nominees and who knows how things are handled if Trump gets impeached again.
Every seat matters. Maybe Oz is far from what we want, and not really red, but he’s Trump’s guy. He’ll protect Trump.
I’ll take that over a Dem in the seat or a RINO in the seat.
Obama is not a Muslim or a Christian. His only god is himself.
Definitely true
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