Should Sharing A Campaign Stage With Steve Bannon Disqualify A Candidate?
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Nov 02, 2022 · Fortunately, for Lake , her “modern-day Washington” is out of prison pending appeal – allowing him to be in Arizona to rev up the crowd with the Big Lie that has energized the …
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What does a candidate have to do to be deemed unfit for office? Kari Lake recently had Steve Bannon, a Jan 6 insurrection insider, be her opening act at one of her campaign events as she tries to get elected governor of Arizona.
Bannon has a long history of being a far right extremist, a dabbler in white nationalism, a Trump whisperer, a swindler, and an election denier. Bannon is the one who famously said that the "stop the steal" at the Capitol would be something like no one had ever seen before. He said that on his podcast a day or two before Jan 6, after all the "plans" had been made.
By bringing Bannon on to her campaign stage she shows she has no respect for America.
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She described Bannon as a modern day George Washington, who is this rhetoric meant to appeal to?
“…who is this rhetoric meant to appeal to? “
The old idiom surely applies…’you are known by the company you keep’.
She is playing to the base, posturing to the most base…and most frightening, she may succeed.
She’ll make Evan Mecham seem like a moderate.
She's a very qualified candidate, destined to beat her miserable opponnentt
Having Steve Bannon do campaign work for her disqualifies her.
“She's a very qualified candidate…”
Only in today’s dysfunctional environment.
An election denying quasi-celebrity with no platform, only platitudes. Promising nothing but retribution, regression, and risk to our entire system of governance. And before you shout ‘hyperbole’, take a moment and listen to her own words.
She's as good as I've seen this cycle in handling hostile media. The way she handled this gotcha premised on a conspiracy theory wrapped in emotion was perfect.
Kari Lake is an extremist. Whether she is sincere or just taking advantage of a MAGA base may not be 100% clear yet . In either case she is not worthy of being a governor.
Perfect? She deflected on to fentanyl and the border and complaining about 'fake news'...
Thats why MAGA loves her.
Does failing to denounce attack ads based on a lie (Officer Sicknick was murdered by people like Kari Lake) disqualify every Arizona Democrat?
Were the Jan 6 rioters "people like Kari Lake?" Given the fact that she has embraced Steve Bannon, one of the masterminds behind Jan 6, I think it is not unfair to say that she is like them and vice versa.
Was Sicknick murdered by the rioters? That is a matter of opinion, but it is a defensible opinion.
What is defensible about having Steve Bannon share your campaign stage?
. The cause of death is an actual fact.
So you think Kari Lake is just fine because there is a difference of opinion as to whether or not the mob caused a police officers death?
What about Bannon ? Are you good with her bringing a traitor like Bannon on stage with her?
Just like there's a "difference of opinion" over whether Trump won in 2020.
You don't get to lie about facts (that he died of natural causes is a literal fact) and call them opinions.
Only if having an angry, confused, senile old man on the stage with you is disqualifying as well.
Seems to work for donald...
A ridiculous comparison.
It’s funny watching all the sanctimonious pricks out there giving Biden a complete free pass after they constantly hammer Trump for much, much less. Same pricks who probably hammered on Reagan for being senile and Quayle for misspelling potato.
The delusion involved is really epic. I’ve never seen anything like it.
It’s crazy!
I am not a fan of Joe. I thought he should have run against trump instead of Hillary, now he is too old, just like trump.
Neither party has any top candidate I like.
We agree.
Both are arrogant pricks in their own way.
The acid test for me is simple. Things were generally better under Trump. It took a pandemic to get Biden elected. No pandemic and Trump would have gotten a 2nd term. No doubt about it IMO.
And no need for anyone to dump their TDS affliction on that comment. TDS is not worth any serious consideration.
I think anyone other than trump and Joe might lose.
Then the people will get tired of the political games again and the dems may make gains in congress
And back and forth we go....
Lol your capitalization shenanigans are rather sophomoric don’t you think?
It seems to be the way it goes. People get tired of one party and the other party gets voted back in, back and forth.
She was disqualified long before she campaigned with Bannon.
Trump-endorsed gubernatorial candidate appears with Nazi sympathizer and QAnon-linked activists at campaign events
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Very true.
Steve Bannon is a slob of a man. I'm surprised the republicans are unaware that Kari Lake has switched parties multiple times in a 10 year period of time. She's a grifter, saw an opportunity with the fringe which might be a majority of the state at this point and took it.