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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Mon Apr 28, 2014, 09:10 AM Apr 2014

Republicans Glued Themselves To Bundy And Now Hate That He Sticks

DYLAN SCOTT – APRIL 28, 2014, 6:00 AM EDT

Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy is a registered Republican, as the New York Times reported alongside his inflammatory remarks on slavery. Many prominent conservatives had voiced sympathy for his cause as Bundy battled the Bureau of Land Management.

Potential 2016 presidential contenders Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) criticized the federal authorities opposing Bundy. Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) drove up to the Bundy ranch to stand alongside him. Republican state lawmakers gave impassioned defenses of the armed militia that backed the 67-year-old rancher. Fox News personalities vigorously covered the proceedings and brought Bundy on their shows.

But now that Bundy's racial sentiments have been exposed, forcing the right to ostracize him as best they can, Republicans have re-directed their anger at those who might point out that the man who openly wondered if blacks had been "better off slaves" is one of their own.

They fumed that it had become just another excuse to denigrate conservatives.

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Republicans Glued Themselves To Bundy And Now Hate That He Sticks (Original Post) DonViejo Apr 2014 OP

Hell....most people that vote GOP agree with Bundy.... VanillaRhapsody Apr 2014 #1

You're absolutely right. The whole Cloven COLGATE4 Apr 2014 #2

Racists hate being called out for being racists. mikekohr Apr 2014 #3

"Dating their cousins"I love it! COLGATE4 Apr 2014 #7

If it walks like a rascist, talks like a rascist, and acts like a rascist it must be a republican Vincardog Apr 2014 #4

Those who maintain the undecided and are still semi conscious this has been a shock. gordianot Apr 2014 #5

The history and the views of the white power and sovereign citizen movement are well documented Gothmog Apr 2014 #6

republicans are covered with stains that will never wash out. Republicans are Bundy. Sunlei Apr 2014 #8

VanillaRhapsody

(21,115 posts)

1. Hell....most people that vote GOP agree with Bundy....

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Apr 28, 2014, 09:15 AM

Apr 2014

all you have to do is look at how all the conservative websites were singing his praises too!

COLGATE4

(14,732 posts)

2. You're absolutely right. The whole Cloven

Reply to VanillaRhapsody (Reply #1)

Mon Apr 28, 2014, 09:42 AM

Apr 2014

thing hasn't hurt them a bit with their base - on the contrary, I can just hear the chorus of RW assholes high-fiving each other because Good Ol' Cliven 'told it like it was'. This is just window dressing for the benefit of the 'Liberal Media'.

mikekohr

(2,312 posts)

3. Racists hate being called out for being racists.

Reply to COLGATE4 (Reply #2)

Mon Apr 28, 2014, 10:22 AM

Apr 2014

Except those that embrace their hatred, but most of those are in prison, dating their cousins or holed up in their Mom's basement in their pajamas, hunched over a computer posting screeds of Storm Front or the Free Republic..

COLGATE4

(14,732 posts)

7. "Dating their cousins"I love it!

Reply to mikekohr (Reply #3)

Mon Apr 28, 2014, 01:28 PM

Apr 2014

Euphemism of the year award.

Vincardog

(20,234 posts)

4. If it walks like a rascist, talks like a rascist, and acts like a rascist it must be a republican

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Apr 28, 2014, 10:30 AM

Apr 2014

gordianot

(15,238 posts)

5. Those who maintain the undecided and are still semi conscious this has been a shock.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Apr 28, 2014, 10:47 AM

Apr 2014

The uncommitted for whom both parties now pay billions to influence, the Cliven Bundy and Fox Noose embarrassment was a brief freebe. Not to worry the undecided perpetually ignorant will revert to a semi comatose state and will quickly forget the scum that briefly shook them awake.

Gothmog

(145,291 posts)

6. The history and the views of the white power and sovereign citizen movement are well documented

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Apr 28, 2014, 12:30 PM

Apr 2014

The GOP politicians who embraced Bundy knew the views that they were endorsing

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)

8. republicans are covered with stains that will never wash out. Republicans are Bundy.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Apr 28, 2014, 01:34 PM

Apr 2014

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