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I'm not a Tucker Carlson guy. He's a big government protectionist, I'm a small government free trader. That said, it strikes me that he repudiated the comments of his former writer.
He won one election with all of 8400 votes despite the entirety of the GOP, including Reagan and Bush, supporting his opponent and repudiating him.uhmmm...you do remember, David Duke never actually won an election until he became a Republican, right?
tulc(just thought that should be pointed out)
...which would seem to indicate that while the leadership of the Republican party doesn't like racist candidates, there seems to be a portion of the rank and file Republican Party that doesn't seem to have much problem with voting for them.He won one election with all of 8400 votes despite the entirety of the GOP, including Reagan and Bush, supporting his opponent and repudiating him.
...which would seem to indicate that while the leadership of the Republican party doesn't like racist candidates, there seems to be a portion of the rank and file Republican Party that doesn't seem to have much problem with voting for them.
One district in Louisiana 30 years ago, totalling 8500 votes is not indicative of the state of the GOP anymore than a 50 year Senator and Klansman in the form of Sen. Robert Byrd, elected by well more than 8500 people by an entire state, represents the Democratic Party....which would seem to indicate that while the leadership of the Republican party doesn't like racist candidates, there seems to be a portion of the rank and file Republican Party that doesn't seem to have much problem with voting for them.
tulc(just thought that should be pointed out)
One district in Louisiana 30 years ago, totalling 8500 votes is not indicative of the state of the GOP anymore than a 50 year Senator and Klansman in the form of Sen. Robert Byrd, elected by well more than 8500 people by an entire state, represents the Democratic Party.
well...this is from 2018:One district in Louisiana 30 years ago, totalling 8500 votes is not indicative of the state of the GOP anymore than a 50 year Senator and Klansman in the form of Sen. Robert Byrd, elected by well more than 8500 people by an entire state, represents the Democratic Party.
This is from this year:In at least five state and national races across the country, the Republican Party is dealing with an uncomfortable problem. Their party’s candidates are either a card-carrying Nazi, a Holocaust denier, a proud white supremacist, or all of the above.
tulc(will just leave these here)The House’s highest-ranking Republicans are racing to distance themselves from a leading GOP congressional candidate in Georgia after POLITICO uncovered hours of Facebook videos in which she expresses racist, Islamophobic and anti-Semitic views.
Thousands of Republican candidates and you come up with 5 nutjobs from districts that the Republicans are never going to win and thus aren't paying attention to. The Vox article is nothing but a smear job. We could do the same to the Democrats I'm sure. We could come up with communists and antisemites running for office and claim the entire party is full of communists.well...this is from 2018:
Self-described Nazis and white supremacists are running as Republicans across the country. The GOP is terrified.
This is from this year:
House Republican leaders condemn GOP candidate who made racist videos
tulc(will just leave these here)
Actually, what I'd do is ask you to provide evidence to support that claim. If you couldn't I'd tell you you were wrong about that.
See above.
Did you provide evidence in the article? Links and such (kind of like how they did in the OP)? Because here on CF we tend to be interested in people providing proof for things...kind of like how they did in the OP.
Not a problem, I've been used as a bad example pretty much all my life!
tulc(and rarely as politely as Arc F1 just did!)
...I thought the point I was addressing was "David Duke was a one off candidate from 30 years ago!" and I was pointing out that there are several people just like Mr Duke that the Republican Party has dealt with just in the last couple of years.Thousands of Republican candidates and you come up with 5 nutjobs from districts that the Republicans are never going to win and thus aren't paying attention to. The Vox article is nothing but a smear job. We could do the same to the Democrats I'm sure. We could come up with communists and antisemites running for office and claim the entire party is full of communists.
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