Amid all the hoopla about bipartisan comity in the aftermath of the shooting by a deranged regressive that pretended to support Bernie Sanders, I predicted two things. First I thought it would last for days at most. Second, I knew it would be Republicans that would abandon it. I’m sad, but not surprised, to tell you that I was right on both counts.
The race for Georgia’s 6th district is at a fever pitch now. After a long special election campaign, tomorrow is finally election day. Will voters flip the 6th district and send Democrat Jon Ossoff to Congress? Polls are tight and every single vote will count. As the race comes down to the wire, Republicans are hitting a new, nearly unthinkable low. They are using the shooting of Congressman Steve Scalise and three others at a Virginia baseball field to try and sway voters. And they aren’t shy about it, here is Brad Carver, GOP chairman in Georgia’s 11th congressional district, talking to the Washington Post:
“I’ll tell you what: I think the shooting is going to win this election for us,” Carver said Saturday after a get-out-the-vote rally for Handel in Chamblee. “Because moderates and independents in this district are tired of left-wing extremism.”
They even went so far as to use footage of Congressman Scalise being taken off the baseball field in a stretcher, featured in an ad called “Stop The Violent Left.” See the utterly repulsive ad below.
From <Daily Kos>
Triple Barf Bag Alert!!
This shooting is the only one committed by a so-called leftist in many months, while almost every week a Republican commits a hate crime, and every day, Republican politicians and pundits encourage others to commit violent acts, such as the time when Bloody Bullseye Barbie, pictured above endorsing Karen Handel, targeted Gaby Giffords by placing a Bullseye on her campaign headquarters.
RESIST!!
7 Responses to “Republicans Use Scalise Shooting for Propaganda”
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GO, Jon, GO!!!!
They got it all wrong! STOP KAREN HANEL. Stop!! Amazing how and what they say/do (repugs) and twist things around….to suit them. u.g.h.!!!
Yeah, it’s like Drumpfenfarten calling Democrats obstructionists while Obama endured 8 years of Republican obstruction including shutting down the government. Republicans are a bunch of liars with their pants on fire!!!
I can but hope and pray they have mis-estimated their audience, and that the suburban residents in the sixth will see through this and be repelled by it. Of course that depends a lot on getting out the vote. Hey, Furies, this isn’t your eponymous column, but could you all take a day and a half to work Georgia?
Shit! Now, I’m bound to have nightmares!!!!! Have they had her on ice, Mrs. Hockey puck, waiting in the wings for just this kind of nauseous display?
What a crock of horseshit! Karen Handel is a liar (no news there!) and a despicable individual based on the things I have seen and heard over the past few years. May a thousand camels crap all over her.
Go John Ossodff!!!
Resist and Persist!!!!!
After seeing that sick video I really wanted to post my barf emoji again, but I feared that would put me right up there with those “left-wing extremists” as apparently it stimulates barf-bag sales by itself.
I do hope Ossoff wins, because it wouldn’t say much for the people in that Georgia’s 6th district if they let themselves be swayed to vote for Handel if she has to rely on propaganda straight from Göbbels’ handbook for dummies.
Thanks, hugs and amen to all. We should know by morning.