Current Events > "The era of the kinder, gentler Republican is over." - GOP candidate

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https://twitter.com/PoliticoKevin/status/885493218737094657

A. When was this era, exactly? I must have missed it.
B. His version of not being kind and gentle involves a lot of the Confederate Flag (despite being from Minnesota) and calling people cucks

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/05/15/why-corey-stewart-thinks-the-lost-cause-is-a-winning-strategy-215138

On April 24, as cities from New Orleans to Charlottesville were considering tearing down statues of Confederate heroes, a long-shot Republican candidate for Virginia governor penned his umpteenth tweet defending the honor of Dixie: “Nothing is worse than a Yankee telling a Southerner that his monuments don't matter.”

The tweet went viral. For Corey Stewart, whose political profile is high inside Prince William County, where he is chairman of the County Board of Supervisors, but considerably lower among the state’s Republican voters, this burst of notoriety would seem to have been helpful.

The only problem was that the attention was almost entirely negative. Stewart’s ratio of unfavorable replies to favorable retweets and favorites was horrendous: more than 3 to 1. At least four national political reporters noted that Stewart, was in fact, born in Duluth, Minnesota, making him much more of a Yankee than a son of the South. R&B singer John Legend, with 9.22 million followers, rebuked him with a simple question: “Really, nothing?”

But what others saw as a PR disaster, was from Stewart’s perspective an unqualified success. This explains why over the three months of the campaign, Stewart, 48, has tweeted numerous times about issues that would appear to concern only the most entrenched neo-Confederate. He has relentlessly criticized the city of Charlottesville for its plan to tear down a statue of General Robert E. Lee in one of the city’s major parks, and rename parks named after Lee and Stonewall Jackson.

“No Robert E. Lee monument should come down. That man is a hero & an honorable man. It is shameful what they are doing with these monuments,” he wrote in one Twitter missive, following up a few hours later: “After they tear down Lee & Beauregard, they are coming for Washington & Jefferson.” He added the hashtag #HistoricalVandalism.

When he hasn’t lamented the shoddy treatment of Southern heritage, he has compared the politicians who support removing statues to ISIS, the murderous Islamic extremists who have destroyed historic artifacts and religious sites throughout Syria. Or suggested that George Soros “needs to be tried for sedition, stripped of his citizenship or deported.” Or labeling his main opponent a “cuckservative,” the disdainful epithet of choice among the alt-right.

He came in a very close second in the GOP primary for governor last month
http://results.elections.virginia.gov/vaelections/2017%20June%20Republican%20Primary/Site/Statewide.html
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GOP member is an awful person, is unfortunately not news anymore.
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Twinmold posted...

GOP member is an awful person, is unfortunately not news anymore.

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A. When was this era, exactly? I must have missed it.

You've never heard of this tactic?

It's like yelling "no more mister nice guy" in the middle of a fight.
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whitewimmin posted...

A. When was this era, exactly? I must have missed it.

Every year the republicans did not engage in the democrats' hostile dishonest tactics.

repubs are always letting the dems walk all over them.
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lmao
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