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Republican silence speaks volumes.
When people with opinions similar to King’s open their mouths, they damage not only the Republican Party and the conservative brand but also our nation as a whole. They want to be treated with fairness for some perceived slights but refuse to return the favor to those on the other side.
Some in our party wonder why Republicans are constantly accused of racism — it is because of our silence when things like this are said. Immigration is the perfect example, in which somehow our affection for the rule of law has become conflated with a perceived racism against brown and black people.
Republicans will have stop being the party of voter suppression to e taken seriously
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Wow
The National Review is telling the Republicans to dump Steve King
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/01/steve-king-white-supremacy-comments-odious/
by rmrd0000 on Fri, 01/11/2019 - 2:58pm
A few more Republicans turn on King
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2019/01/11/daily-202-the-last-election-was-a-wake-up-call-why-gop-leaders-are-turning-on-steve-king/5c381f651b326b66fc5a1c11/?utm_term=.11576dfc1f8b
by rmrd0000 on Fri, 01/11/2019 - 3:29pm
A sampling of more commentary I've seen:
by artappraiser on Fri, 01/11/2019 - 9:29pm
This is why Black Republicans lose respect. At te end of the day, they will run from a challenge.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/tim-scott-steve-king-offensive
by rmrd0000 on Fri, 01/11/2019 - 9:36pm
More @ The Bulwark: The Purge We Need: It’s past time for the GOP to expel the mouth-breathers and bigots who are ruining the party.
by artappraiser on Fri, 01/11/2019 - 10:50pm
The junior Republican U.S. Senator from Iowa says:
and the senior Senator concurs:
by artappraiser on Sat, 01/12/2019 - 3:16pm
The point: Nobody's going to buy the narrative that the entire GOP is like Steve King. You can try, but you are only going to look like you yourself are stereotyping and intent on dividing into stereotyped tribes. Because others will decry him, it's not that hard because it's clear to most people and most GOP that: he's simply a very special ass. Trying to do that just makes it easier for crazed partisans on the other side to stereotype Democrats as all like Tulsie Gabbard, or all like Ocasio Cortez and Bernie Sanders.
Though slightly different because they are not elected representative, I find it similar to expecting all blacks to be responsible to speak out about something Louis Farrakhan said or all Muslims to be expected to speak out against this or that radical Islamist leader. Of course most don't agree, why demand all the time that they say it?
by artappraiser on Sat, 01/12/2019 - 3:28pm
The GOP has been silent on Steve King for a long time. This current outrage is an outlier.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/steve-king-nrcc-steve-stivers_us_5bd89af7e4b017e5bfd6ae9b
Michzel Steele notes Trump’s racism
https://www.newsweek.com/former-rnc-chair-michael-steele-blasts-gop-1203028
Joe Scarbough notes the use of race by the GOP in the midterms
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/voters-are-finally-on-to-the-gop/2018/10/26/8bd9ce84-d94c-11e8-83a2-d1c3da28d6b6_story.html?utm_term=.11758f3c390a
King fits in with the GOP, just like Trump fits in with the GOP.
Tim Scott objects to Steve King’s words, but agrees with policies. From his WaPo op-Ed
Scott ignores the racism of kidnapping and caging children at the border.
Regarding Farrakhan, Obama had to reject the Nation of Islam leader after questions from the WaPo and Talking Points Memo.
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2008/jan/23/chain-email/obama-decried-farrakhans-racism/
Edit to add:
The entire point of Tim Scott’s article is that the GOP is perceived as racist. This is not a creation by me, this is a definition of the GOP that Scott acknowledges. The racism has to be rooted out of the party. King should lose committee assignments.
by rmrd0000 on Sat, 01/12/2019 - 5:44pm
"Border security" is like "fetal personhood", "law and order", "freedom", "free market", "right to life"....just campaign bullsheet for the rubes. Republicans could care less. Succeeding 100% on any of these would be their worst nightmare, but is impossible anyway.
They are distractions for the naive, bigoted or apathetic while the GOP bankrupts the Treasury with tax cuts for their donors, deregulates Wall Street and shreds social programs.
by NCD on Sat, 01/12/2019 - 6:09pm
The Democrats were able to reach out to Democrats who would have stayed home and to Independents in the midterms. There are some Republicans who left the GOP., but the hardcore remains. Those who remain are willing to tolerate bigotry, racism, and homophobia. Democrats have to force McConnell to take up bills passed by the House to reopen government.
Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie cannot be cast as villains. They are on the side of the angels compared to Trump. We see the horror of Donald Trump on a daily basis. Trump is a racist who appears to be a Russian puppet. There is very little that can be done to convert his supporters.
History will condemn us for allowing the abuses occurring at the border.
by rmrd0000 on Sat, 01/12/2019 - 6:20pm
Edit to add especially interesting tweet reply:
by artappraiser on Sat, 01/12/2019 - 7:15pm
Conservatives Are Starting To Turn On White Supremacist Congressman Steve King
The Iowa lawmaker’s praise of white nationalism may finally have gone too far.
By Sara Boboltz @ HuffingtonPost.com, 01/11/2019 06:30 pm ET Updated 2 hours ago
by artappraiser on Sat, 01/12/2019 - 7:18pm
from Nov.:
Steve King dared a conservative magazine to release audio of him calling immigrants ‘dirt.’ It did.
By Kristine Phillips @ WashingtonPost.com, November 12, 2018
by artappraiser on Sat, 01/12/2019 - 7:26pm
FWIW just interesting comments
by artappraiser on Sat, 01/12/2019 - 7:39pm
The GOP must stamp out the seeds of hatred before it’s too late
Guest op-ed by Henry Olsen @ WashingtonPost.com, January 11 at 3:55 PM
Henry Olsen is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and author of “The Working Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism.”
by artappraiser on Sat, 01/12/2019 - 7:47pm
Ron Christie is doubtful that the GOO will take any action.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Ron_Christie?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
At any rate Trump wants to carry out Steve King’s per project ...the wall.
King demonstrating a model of the wall in Congress in 2006
http://cerealrecords.com/3780/
by rmrd0000 on Sat, 01/12/2019 - 8:48pm
The House Minority Leader tweeting what he said on teevee this morning:
by artappraiser on Sun, 01/13/2019 - 2:12pm