AZ GOPer Who Supported Sketchy Election Audit Now Says It 'Makes Us Look Like Idiots'

[kpete]

Arizona state Sen. Paul Boyer (R) apparently has regrets about backing his fellow GOP senators’ push for a shady audit of Maricopa County’s 2020 election ballots to boost ex-President Donald Trump and his allies’ bogus conspiracy theories about voter fraud.

“It makes us look like idiots,” Boyer told the New York Times in an interview published on Sunday. “Looking back, I didn’t think it would be this ridiculous. It’s embarrassing to be a state senator at this point.”

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[hatrack]

1. Nope. Your candidates, your beliefs, your conduct, your ignorance made you look like idiots.

This was just final confirmation of your idiocy, for those who hadn't been paying attention.

[pandr32]

32. +1

[Lovie777]

2. DUH . ..

and what's up with the masks? Oh that's right to them it equivalent to KKK hoods.

[East-A-Squared]

3. Makes you look like idiots? That ship sailed a long time ago.

[AZ8theist]

35. Exactly. But do you think this clown will actually DO ANYTHING about it????

[SamKnause]

4. You are idiots, EVIL idiots !!!!!!

[spanone]

5. more like traitors to our democracy

[Brother Mythos]

6. "It makes us .... .... idots." Fixed it for him.

[marble falls]

7. Go with that feeling, ace! If that bamboo fits - wear it!

[littlemissmartypants]

37. Hahaha! ❤ nt

[Xavier Breath]

8. Yes, that's a good one.

That was the tipping point

[Aristus]

9. No. You're already idiots. You just made it public.

[Silent3]

10. Yes, he thought the rigged recount would be tastefully, less obviously rigged

He wanted a deniable farce, not an obvious farce.

[Marcuse]

11. Mmm. Bamboo!

[MissMillie]

12. Indeed it does, but...

...to be fair, you folks looked like idiots long before this.

[machoneman]

13. Ya think? Whatta bunch of dummies!

[usaf-vet]

14. The TRUTH HURTS! You are all idiots listening to a narcissistic fool. Who suggested using bleach....

..... to "Somehow get it into the body" to kill CoVid.... that should have been your clue this guy is NUTS!

[ananda]

15. That's because they ARE idiots!

!!!

[William Seger]

17. Yes, he should have said, "It makes us realize we're idiots." (nt)

[C_U_L8R]

16. Whatta revelation.

Self-awareness is slow to arrive with these dopes.

[malaise]

18. Look like?

[appleannie1]

19. MAKES them look like idiots? More like THEY ARE.

Looking with a magnifying glass for bamboo in 40,000 ballots that China deposited in a ballot box. And they believe that crap?

[AZLD4Candidate]

20. Don't worry. Next November, God willing, I'll make one of your GOP co-conspirators a one term Rep

in the Arizona House.

[demtenjeep]

43. good luck

I have thought about running but .........................

[sarge43]

21. You believed Trump.

Idiot is your default. You're something worse.

[Marthe48]

22. Absolutely anything anyone does to prop up the traitor

makes them look like idiots.

Except storming the U.S. Capitol. That makes them look like traitors.

[Orrex]

23. Well Paul, if it makes you feel any better...

We've known all along.

[NCjack]

24. So, Arizona state Sen. Paul Boyer (R), start an action to end it.

[Jerry2144]

25. If it looks like a duck

And quacks like a duck…

[yonder]

26. Smells like some more cancel culture from the cancel cult.

[muriel_volestrangler]

27. A Republican that can feel embarrassment. That's progress, I suppose (nt)

[Escurumbele]

29. He will be reprimanded and then he will fall in line

Lemmings can't get off the line for too long, they bring them in as soon as they do.

[Escurumbele]

28. Well senator...

it should also be embarrassing for all those who voted for you, for trump, and all the other republicans working hard to destroy our Democracy, all the fools who bought the line that Biden and Democrats are "socialists"...

More amazing is the fact that people cannot see through republicans, your corruption and idiocy is so transparent.

[FSogol]

30. LOL, the (R) after your name tells everyone you are an idiot. n/t

[wryter2000]

31. If the shoe fits...

Will this have an effect on Repigs in other states?

[BobTheSubgenius]

33. I hope he can drag some of his former fellow conspirators with him.

It's nice to see that at least some are not beyond redemption, and can change their minds. A great pity that he and others didn't see this coming months ago.

I view both him and Liz Cheney - and probably some others, but wo knows any more? - in the same way as PJ O'Rourke viewed Hillary in 2016. Despite being a dyed-in-the-wool conservative (MAYBE not a regressive...I don't follow him at all), he said he was going to vote for her because "She may be wrong about everything, but at least she's wrong within normal parameters."

Please remember the preceding paragraph are not my thoughts; I just like the concept of the final sentence. It's much the way I think about some of those that I used to despise, but could at least be reasoned with. William Buckley, for example.

[whopis01]

34. Being an idiot makes you look like an idiot?

Thank you Commander Obvious.

[OverBurn]

36. So Now you look like Idiots, Really? Just Now?

[littlemissmartypants]

38. Better late than never, Paul. nt

[patphil]

39. In other words, it's even more ridiculous than he had expected it to be.

The Arizona Republican Party should cut it's losses here and send these Cyber Ninja hustlers on their way.
I wonder how the voters in Arizona feel about this mess? It can't be good for the Republican Party image in the state.
Each day this farce continues will cause them to look more and more like a circus clown act.

[Aussie105]

40. What is this?

A rare moment of introspective thinking and self judgment from a 'R' type person?

Wow!

Maybe the Trump era induced fog of irrationality is starting to lift slowly, and sunlight is getting into some 'R' brains?

[keithbvadu2]

41. Looking for bamboo contaminated ballots.

Looking for bamboo contaminated ballots.

[Skittles]

42. LOL

they really don't need anything to make them look like idiots, they ARE idiots