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June 17, 2021 10:09 AM UTC

Boebert Hovers Above CO GOP Leader's Effort To "Brand" Republicans As Caring

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  • by: Jason Salzman

(One of these things is not like the other – Promoted by Colorado Pols)

You have to agree with the leader of Colorado’s Republican Party when she says people think Republicans are white and mean–and this creates problems for them when it comes to winning elections.

“People have a misconception, I think [about Republicans],” Burton Brown said on KHOW last week at 24 minutes, saying it’s her job to re-brand the Republican Party. “They’ve put us in a box. ‘Here’s what Republicans are. They are old. They are white. They are men. They do not care. They only want to give the rich people money.’

Kristi Burton Brown

Yet Burton Brown can’t say enough good things about U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), whose meanness continues to shock even people like me who listen to her all the time.

For example, back in April, when the humanitarian crisis on the border was ramping up and officials were struggling to find ways to help children who crossed the border, Boebert showed no sympathy at all.

With images of destitute kids all over the news, Boebert was asked on conservative radio, what’s the “biggest problem at the border right now that could be addressed right away if you could only do one thing and do it first? What would Representative Bobert recommend doing?”

“Continue construction on the wall. That’s exactly what needs to happen,” Boebert told a KHOW radio host, acting as if the kids in the news didn’t exist. “On day one, Biden issued an executive order to halt construction at our southern border. We need to get the wall built.”

Even if you believe the wall could work, which serious people don’t, you still have the kids, right here right now, who need care that border security, especially a wall, won’t give them.

Then, and now, all Boebert can do is repeatedly mock their plight and offer no help or ideas or anything but…a wall of meanness.

Just this week on Flashpoint, a Christian right podcast, Boebert offered not a word of love or compassion toward immigrant children but instead degraded them with language that served her need for a political attack line but had no basis in reality.

Thousands of migrant children are “wrapped and stacked like baked potatoes” at the border, she said.

Like baked potatoes, because some, at some point, had mylar blankets?

This is run-of-the-mill stuff for Boebert who embraces far-right militias, who votes against medals for police who defended her the Capitol from insurrectionists, who is one of only 62 Republican votes against an anti-Asian hate crimes bill, and who was one of only two House Republicans who opposed a bill to help people stricken with cancer.

It’s too much, goes too far, even by the standards of the brutal political culture we live in.

So, yes, people in Colorado don’t think Republicans care.

Can you blame them?

How could the Colorado Republican Party leader’s re-branding project succeed with Boebert, who’s now a fixture in the news and defines the GOP in Colorado, out there promoting herself as exactly the uncaring GOP politician whom Republicans want people to think they’re not?

Listen to Boebert April 12 on KHOW:

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14 thoughts on “Boebert Hovers Above CO GOP Leader’s Effort To “Brand” Republicans As Caring”

  1. So many Republicans just can't let go. I was wondering, as I read a challenge by CHB to a comment by Sparky on the subject of just what IS a "Republican", these days.

    CHB is quick to defend a Republican brand that no longer exists. I guess memories are easier to defend than current events.

      1. So "deployus.org" looks interesting. From their "About us" page:

        Only bipartisan collaboration will deliver sustained, ambitious decarbonization.

        So are they a lobbying/ consulting group, and what has been their track record so far in achieving "bipartisan collaboration" on climate change?

          2. I've made a mental note not to feed you, Sparkles. Any relation to that great Paul Simon song: "She's got Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes?"

        2. CHB valiantly continues to pretend these widespread, little known conservative efforts to speak for the Republicans mean something…

          Who speaks for the Republican National Committee? Who is the leadership in Congress?…anyone from deployus.org in the Senate leadership?

          1. Come now, Duke. I think most of us know that Donald Trump speaks for the Republican National Committee. And in Congress, both McConnell and McCarthy suck up to Trump.

            As for "pretending," that's a good song by Eric Clapton. Otherwise, from tiny acorns, mighty oaks can grow.

    1. Yeah…

      I was wondering if she is content with the fact that her kids are eating government cheese. If she thinks she is earning her fat salary and all the associated grift, she needs to be instructed by voters that her ascension to Fox News stardom isn't in the fucking job description.

      Neither is insurrection.

  4. "… racism is an excuse used for capitalism, and we know that racism is just – it's a byproduct of capitalism."

    Fred Hampton

     

    It is not mean unless it happens to white kids in their country of birth.

    See – they can hire the workers and treat them poorly, and save us all a bunch of money that would otherwise just be lost to Social Security and Medicare and welfare and education. They know how to separate and divide to do it. The kids cannot be hired, so they don't care. How can it be mean if they do not care?

     

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