Two more special election wins by republicans tonight. The dems were hopeful. But it makes me wonder two things:
A few points to make here -
This is an area that has gone Republican for about 40 years. A few years back folks would have thought you were talking out of your behind if you'd told them that a Democrat close to half the age of a Republican would be neck and neck.
The Dem candidate is a kid in comparison to the Republican. The Rep, Karen Handel, is 25 years older than her opponent. 25 years. 25 years more experience than the Dem, Jon Ossoff. This wasn't was all down to Dem. vs. Rep. Some folks actually do think about things such as qualifications instead of their feelings, or their party.
I'm a Republican from Georgia and have mixed feelings about this one. On the one hand I want the party to succeed, on the other I want them to do so with integrity. I see that lacking. No, I don't care about what the Dems have said or done, that's on them. I want the party I'm a registered part of to clean up its act. The Republicans spent plenty on this campaign, and they used straight-up dishonesty as a part of it. They made this ad using a voiceover of Obama that was ripped way out of context, it came from an audiobook he'd made and was a story from the 80s or so. The Republicans twisted it all around. That disgusted me.
1) When will the dems realize they can't just throw money at something and make it work? instead of calling us racist, maybe talk to us. Try to understand us.
Well, again, I'm a Republican. I don't have your complaint. Maybe because I actually talk to Dems with respect. I listen to them. I don't go out there and gloat in their face. I don't make it all personal, and get personally offended when somebody criticizes Trump or Republicans. I don't make everything about party. I look at the facts of it.
As for the racism, I fully understand why folks think that, because there's a lot of truth to it unfortunately. For one not enough of them repudiate Trump's racism. More than that, far too insist he's not & defend him, when he's acted indefensibly.
And 2 it's just a sad fact that a lot of Republicans ARE racist. I grew up in an area where there were racist signs out in public "joking" about the black man in the White House. Edit, I don't even want to go into all of what was said about Obama.
2) People are still in support of Trump. Polling is way off and regularly wrong. When Karen Handel mentioned Trump tonight, they were screaming with delight and chanted his name. They cheered louder for Trump than for her!
This wasn't about Trump. Now I know he will make it all about Trump because the man makes everything about himself. But no duh, people are still in support of Trump. A lot of folks have made this so personal that cheering for him, that's basically cheering for themselves. You've got folks who are full-on apologists for the man, who do not care what he's done that's unbiblical, unethical, flat-out stupid, he's their man, will defend him to the ends of the earth. There's been plenty of horrible politicians in history who've managed to keep their loyal following.
