"From Cotton to Congress"
Lost in all the news from Ohio and Ukraine last week was a campaign stop that Senator Tim Scott made in Iowa. He is a potential GOP Presidential candidate, and he is likely testing the waters. There he only spoke of law & order and public safety. He will need more depth to be a serious candidate, such as positions on issues ranging from the southern border to a foreign policy.
Scott left us with a very fine speech in 2020 when he was the last speaker on the first day of the GOP Convention. That speech will forever be remembered as the "From Cotton to Congress" speech. It was kind of an auto biography and when the voters consider his candidacy, that speech should be the starting point.
Here is that speech:
I thought it rivaled Barack Obama's speech at the DNC Convention in 2004. I'd like to point out that the disreputable Washington Post went right after it. They really seem to hate the idea of a Conservative Black American candidate.
In April of 2021 came the response:
"The Washington Post shocked readers on Friday for publishing a "hit job" on Sen. Tim Scott , R-SC, questioning his family history of going from a childhood picking cotton to the halls of Congress.
Scott, who was chosen Thursday to deliver the Republican Party’s response to President Biden's speech to a joint session of Congress on April 28, was the subject of a lengthy piece by the Post’s fact-checker , Glenn Kessler.
"If you find yourself telling the grandson of a Depression-era Black man who spent his youth picking cotton to check his privilege, please for the love of all that is holy log off, WaPo," Washington Examiner executive editor Seth Mandel responded .
Pundit Stephen L. Miller added , "Democrats and media can lie about what Jim Crow was for weeks on end and not a word from Glenn or his newspaper. Not one. A black conservative Senator whose grandfather actually lived during Jim Crow comes along.. Glenn is 'Now wait just a minute.' This is a stunning new low."
The piece, "Tim Scott often talks about his grandfather and cotton. There’s more to that tale," examined the "origin stories" of comments the Senator has made about being an ancestor of slaves. Scott has said his grandfather dropped out of elementary school to pick cotton, so the liberal newspaper enlisted its fact-checker to get to the bottom of the claim.
"The tale of his grandfather fits in with a narrative of Scott moving up from humble circumstances to reach a position of political power in the U.S. Senate," Kessler wrote. "But Scott separately has acknowledged that his great-great-grandfather, Lawrence Ware, once owned 900 acres in South Carolina."
Kessler then declared he "dug into the South Carolina census records" to "close this gap in Scott’s narrative" despite admitting "census data is historically questionable at best — and at times unreliable."
"Our research reveals a more complex story than what Scott tells audiences. Scott’s grandfather’s father was also a substantial landowner — and Scott’s grandfather, Artis Ware, worked on that farm," Kessler wrote. "Scott’s family history in South Carolina offers a fascinating window into a little-known aspect of history in the racist South following the Civil War and in the immediate aftermath of slavery — that some enterprising Black families purchased property as a way to avoid sharecropping and achieve a measure of independence from White-dominated society."
Kessler then dove into a longwinded tale of Scott’s ancestors using data he already admitted was often unreliable.
Kessler then declared, "Scott’s ‘cotton to Congress’ line is missing some nuance, but we are not going to rate his statements." The Post fact checker declined to give Scott any Pinocchios.
"Scott tells a tidy story packaged for political consumption, but a close look shows how some of his family’s early and improbable success gets flattened and written out of his biography. Against heavy odds, Scott’s ancestors amassed relatively large areas of farmland, a mark of distinction in the Black community at the time," Kessler wrote. "Scott, moreover, does not mention that his grandfather worked on his father’s farm — a farm that was expanded through land acquisitions even during the Great Depression, when many other Black farmers were forced out of business."
"Senator Scott deserves an apology for this. It's everything wrong with the fact checking industry. The targeting. The lack of good faith. The personal side of it. It's bad," political strategist Rory Cooper wrote .
One journalist called the article , "the most cringe inducing thing I have seen in an American newspaper in many years."
Washington Post crushed for ‘fact check’ on whether Sen. Tim Scott truly went 'from cotton to Congress' | Fox News
We can be sure that if the eventual GOP nominee is named either DeSantis or Scott, everything including the kitchen sink will be thrown at them. The dishonest media will even try to find women to make false accusations or worse. We have seen in recent years that the media uses any kind of smear while simply claiming it came from an unnamed source. One thing we know for sure: throughout the course of the GOP primary the leftist media will be on the side of Donald Trump. That is who they want to run against.
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As I said, he needs a bit more depth for a political campaign.
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I can assure you that if he does run, we can expect the usual hateful, racist comments, memes and overall screeching from the left, just as we do with every non plantation living minority.
The left...."party of inclusion, unless you don't think like me"
We can take it to the bank.
What does his speech in 2020 have to do with his campaign stop in Iowa recently?
As I pointed out that speech was his personal story. It's his introduction to the nation as the center of the GOP.
I think he needs more experience in global affairs before he's ready for this step. His experience in the Senate has been all on-shore.
He has some good but I think he needs more experience before I'm willing to vote for him.
He will be an option for those who think Trump & DeSantis are too far to the right.
Right now Scott is polling at about 1%, so yes, he needs to fill out the resume.
Run Tim! RUN!
"The dishonest media will even try to find women to make false accusations or worse. We have seen in recent years that the media uses any kind of smear while simply claiming it came from an unnamed source. One thing we know for sure: throughout the course of the GOP primary the leftist media will be on the side of Donald Trump. That is who they want to run against."
The slimy left along with it's media henchmen will most assuredly pull this out of their dirty tricks handbook once again. But the public sees through it. But they won't be running against Trump, and that has them scared shitless.
WE aren't the ones with the handbook of dirty tricks. 'False accusations or worse' - meaning what?
Doubtful it was 'lost in the news', it just wasn't newsworthy.
Tell us what happened to all those who made accusations against Herschel Walker?
Where are they now?
Don't hold your breath waiting for evidence as you know it won't be provided. Seems that all some can provide is finger pointing, casting blame and the "nuh uh's".
Those darned unnamed sources!
Speaking of handbooks of dirty tricks weren't we? Not Herschel Walker.
I know that some folks never provide evidence. I am not one of them.
No, if more Republicans run Trump likely wins the gop nomination insuring Biden easily wins his deserved second term!
Still waiting for you to provide any evidence of anything...