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October 16, 2017 02:37 PM UTC

Gardner Gets All Fire and Brimstone on Chuck Schumer

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  • by: Colorado Pols
Sen. Cory Gardner (R).

As the Charleston Post and Courier reports, Colorado’s Sen. Cory Gardner got into televangelist character at a fundraising dinner for South Carolina Republicans, waxing bombastic in front of the friendly crowd:

Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner, the evening’s headliner, waxed poetic about his conversion to conservatism at a young age and railed against what he argued is increasing extremism from his Democratic colleagues.

“Our rights come from God, not from Chuck Schumer,” Gardner said, referring to the Senate minority leader from New York. [Pols emphasis]

It took us a minute to put this one together, since we’d say it’s pretty obvious that our rights as Americans do not descend to us from the current Minority Leader of the U.S. Senate. On the other hand, invoking the Almighty against some guy from New York City who…wait, that’s right, isn’t a Christian at allSurefire winner in the Palmetto State.

As it turns out, Cory Gardner can blow a dog whistle as well as anybody.

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14 thoughts on “Gardner Gets All Fire and Brimstone on Chuck Schumer

      1. Righty 101: God grants them, the Constitution guarantees them. If government gives you them, government can take them away. 

         

        The problem is whose god gave what rights to whom.

        1. I think the bigger problem is that government (us) clearly gave them.  Otherwise we'd be using the bible to decide if people could own guns, or papers could write mean things about Trump.

  1. Jesus, here I thought Corwardly was deriving most all of his rights from the Kochs, et ilk . . . 

    . . . wait a minute, soooo — the Kochs must be god ??? . . . 

    1. But the beauty of it is he will never know he was wrong.  An agnostic like me, in contrast, will spend eternity in a lake of fire feeling foolish.   Fortunately, as a longtime Broncos fan, I'm used to that.

  2. Poor Cory … seeing only "increasing extremism from his Democratic colleagues" and not realizing that his efforts for Senate Republicans in this cycle will be enabling extremism from his Republican colleagues — especially those on the outside who wanna be his colleagues (Roy Moore, come on down!).

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