Preaching to the deplorable choir?
PassâŚ
Even bernie said no. Heâs learning.
Vander Plaats told NBC News after OâRourke, Buttigieg and Booker declined his invitation: âThe message it sends is they want to run for president for a piece of America, not for all of America.â
Flip that around, son: the Dems arenât running for the pussy grabbing piece of America. Rump can hump that part all he wants. Democrats want to represent the remainder of America.
Am I the only one who thinks Seth Moulton and Tulsi Gabbard will show up?
Good for them. I do not see any advantage in attending this clearly bigoted, hate-filled organizationâs meeting. Anyone who is truly a supporter of this guy is never going to vote for the Democratic nominee so why give them any sort of legitimacy by attending?
âThe candidates joined former Rep. Beto OâRourke, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) in declining the invitationâ
But you didnât bother reporting that. Only when Warren, Sanders and Harris dropped it did you deign to consider it newsworthy, at which point your reporting makes it look like theyâre the ones âleadingâ, not the first three. Moreover, appears you conveniently waited until it could be reported that Biden was odd man out to continue your favorite theme I expect youâll be treating us to until youâve destroyed him.
Frankly, I have no problem with people attending or not attending. What matters is what they say about the issues, whether attending or not. The reality here is that this invite was a cynical ploy to get these people to refuse the invite so theyâd be on record not wanting to unify America, which is a major thing people want to see this election and will be a running theme of hypocrisy from the Trump camp and GOP, because they know that making these kinds of disingenuous arguments about the Dems not wanting to be leaders or representative of all of America serves as a dogwhistle of âthe party that favors brown people over white people wants to put brown people in charge and take all of your rights and treasure and exact revenge on whiteyâŚthey donât want to govern FOR youâŚthey want to REPLACE you.â
These people, this organization, operates in bad faith. You should not share the stage with them.
Just one small correction on the headline; âŚConservative So-Called Christian Summit
You forgot to add the non-deplorable part.
You left off Schulzie
âThe message it sends is they want to run for president for a piece of America, not for all of America.â As opposed to Trump? The hypocrisy in the GOP and Evangelicals is universal.
FIFY
Donât matter that itâs pure Grade AAA hypocritical bullshit. They get to say it, the MSM will run with it and white middle-Murikkka will believe it.
Rump has, once and for all, blown up any and all pretense that the evangelical vote is nothing more that the neo-confederate, forced birther vote. And now that Rump has actually gone all in with the âDems kill babies at birthâ garbage, there is zero upside on this.
Now maybe he could stop treating Fox like a genuine news channel
This article would have been much better if it had laid out the ways in which this particular organization of bible-bashers stands against all that is good and decent before launching into quotes from their leaderâs sanctimonious lies. Or perhaps as soon as they call themselves âconservativeâ weâre supposed to know theyâre evil.
These candidates need to answer such things with a bit of humor. Maybe ask this guy first to come have dinner with them and some of their constituents first.
Vander Plaats is known for his successful effort to oust three Iowa Supreme Court justices in 2010 after the court ruled in favor legalizing gay marriage. The Family Leader is staunchly anti-abortion.
More recently, he served as a national co-chair of Sen. Ted Cruzâs (R-TX) presidential bid in 2016. He endorsed Mike Huckabee in 2008 and Rick Santorum in 2012 in Iowaâs Republican caucuses, the New York Times noted when he backed Cruz.
Has Vaner Plaats ever thought that he, and his organization has backed three losers, and that the Dems candidates donât need the loser stink to settle on their campaigns?
ââŚour mission is inspiring Christ-like leadership inâŚthe government.â
âThatâs why we always vote for upstanding christians like Steve King and #DerangedDonaldâ
Iâm hardly this conniving. I took note of the story when [NBC News reported][1] on the three people not attending. At that point, I reached out to the four remaining campaigns and asked if they were attending. I was prepared to receive no response and simply flag NBCâs report for our readers.
I was surprised, then, that three campaigns quickly emailed back saying they wouldnât attend. Blame pack mentality or whatever, but thatâs what happened. Those three campaigns are in the lede bc itâs breaking news, exclusive (at first) to TPM. We beat other outlets to the punch, which is why we think itâs more newsworthy than what was already reported.
I did âbother reporting thatâ â itâs right in the article youâre quoting!
[1]: https://www.nbcnews.com/card/buttigieg-booker-turn-down-invite-iowa-christian-conservatives-group-n999651