"Republicans Are Clueless About Living in a Glass House"
"Republicans’ race to take back the House and Senate has taken the
strangest twist. The party has decided to make the midterms all about
wild accusations surrounding pedophilia.
That would be an unusual strategy under any circumstances, but truly
bizarre considering the folks in politics most-associated with
pedophilia are all Republicans.
MAGAs to Conservatives: ‘You’re With Us or You’re a Groomer’
Do they not remember Dennis Hastert—who was House Speaker for eight years—went to prison for abusing four boys and attempting to defraud a
bank out of $3.5 million to keep one of them silent?
Have they forgotten former Rep. Mark Foley, who tried to seduce teenage
boys whom he met when they were congressional pages? What about Judge
Roy Moore, who pursued girls as young as 13 when he was in his thirties
so flagrantly that, according to numerous sources, he was banned from a
local mall? (Even after the allegations against Moore were made public, then-President Donald Trump still backed him in his losing race for U.S.
Senate from Alabama.)
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee “forgave” Josh Duggar, family values activist and star of 19 Kids and Counting after he admitted to molesting
five young girls, two of them his own sisters. There’s no record of Huckabee’s forgiveness, or not, when six years later Duggar was arrested
on child pronography charges for content the arresting agent called
among the “worst of the worst" he’d ever seen, featuring as it did a
baby just 18 months old.
Sitting Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, a MAGA favorite, was once an assistant
wrestling coach at Ohio State University in the 1990s. Members of those
teams charged Jordan with refusing their appeals to stop Dr. Richard
Strauss from sexually abusing them (Jordan denies these charges). Team
captain Adam DiSabato testified before the Ohio legislature that Jordan
called him “crying, groveling, begging me to go against my brother,
begging me, crying for a half-hour. That’s the kind of cover-up that’s going on there." According to the AP, there were 2,200 instances of
fondling and 127 instances of rape attributed to Strauss, who died in
2005. When a lawsuit against Ohio State, brought by nearly 300
plaintiffs, goes to trial, the congressman may be called to account
under oath for his actions, or lack of them.
Republicans don’t shrink from hypocrisy. In 1997, House Speaker Newt
Gingrich tried to drive Bill Clinton from the Oval Office for having an
affair with an intern—all while Gingrich himself was having an affair
with a committee staffer.
Almost as crazy as accusing Democrats of what they’ve been doing
themselves, is putting up candidates accused of different, but just as disturbing offenses.
Republicans Say ‘Groomer’ to Put a Nice Face on Homophobia
How could Republicans (including Trump and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell) endorse the bid of former NFL star and reputed serial
domestic abuser Herschel Walker’s to unseat Sen. Rafael Warnock in
Georgia, unless they're blinded by needing to prove they’re not racist
by backing a Black celebrity? Walker’s been credibly accused by his wife
and girlfriend of threatening their lives—with his wife saying the
Senate hopeful even put a gun to her head.
Maybe Republicans know something we don’t, have something up their
sleeve we can’t see, or have nothing else to say. It was clear that the
party had dispensed with any coherent ideology on which to run when they declined to even put forward a platform in 2016.
Meanwhile Rep. Marjoie Taylor Greene—notorious before she even took
office for her QAnon sympathies—is screaming that anyone who votes for
the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is “pro-pedophile,” including three Republicans."
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/republicans-clueless-living-glass-house-021351431.html
""Murkowski, Collins, and Romney are pro-pedophile. They just voted for
#KBJ," tweeted Greene, a prominent member of the GOP's far right House
faction whose political career has soared from stirring online controversy."
TB
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