CNN delivers bad news to Lauren Boebert after her CPAC rant about government benefits

[TheBlackAdder]

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According to a report from CNN, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) may come to regret her rant about refusing government benefits during her appearance at CPAC when she looks at how much her district relies upon them.

On Saturday night, the controversial conservative lawmaker strutted back and forth on the CPAC stage, boasting to attendees, "We're here to tell government, we don't want your benefits, we don't want your welfare. Don't come knockin' on my door with your Fauci ouchie, you leave us the hell alone."

While that type of red meat rhetoric may play well with the CPAC crowd that former Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA) called a "freak show" on Monday morning, CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale clued the GOP lawmaker into the fact that her words could come back to bite her in the 2022 midterms.
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"John, as of May of this year, four Colorado counties with the highest unemployment rates were in Boebert's district," Dale reported. "I'm not blaming her for that, or the unemployed for being unemployed. A large number of her constituent s constituents do rely on government money to buy food and put roofs over their heads."
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Dale went on to squash misinformation spread on Twitter that Boebert's restaurant Shooters was the recipient of PPP aid, stating it was another restaurant with a similar name located in Ohio, not Colorado.

https://www.rawstory.com/lauren-boebert-2653754544/

Watch the video of her strutting around on stage like a deranged Sarah Palin. Watch the hand and body gestures and expressions on her face.


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[edhopper]

1. I fear her voters

Are as stupid as she is.

[Wounded Bear]

2. She's borderline attractive in a physical sense and packs heat...they're drooling.

[Piasladic]

5. not my type

I guess anything wet and in skinny jeans is hot. She's way too mean to ever even be a friend to me.

[Wounded Bear]

6. I hear you...like I said "borderline" and only in a physical sense.

Her politics drop her attractiveness quotient a ton.

[lagomorph777]

9. She looks like she has a borderline personality too.

Those people are super-charming.

[Sugarcoated]

8. She's pretty average looking

[alphafemale]

11. She is made up to the extreme.

Very much a repug project to spend money on her face and photos.

She is very young but ordinary to the extreme without all the makeup

They can't do anything for MTG's looks.

[BradAllison]

14. A mask? A rubber one?

Might help MTG.

[obamanut2012]

15. I do not get why people think she's hot

She isn't, not to me, and trust me: lots of my GFs in college were good ole girls.

[alphafemale]

18. But she is still only in her mid 30's when everyone should still be "borderline" attractive.

She's no Sarah Palin who is still attractive and charismatic in her late 50's.

I do not like Palin at all but I have to admit the gifts she has.

If that woman had a few more IQ points we'd have been screwed.

[moose65]

4. Maybe not

Keep in mind that she didn't win her election by a landslide last year - she won 51 - 45 in a year when the rabid right came out in droves to support Trump, and they just happened to also vote for her while they were there. Without Trump on the ballot, a not insignificant portion of those rabid Trumpers will not vote next year.

She won by about 25,000 votes. Still an uphill climb for a Democrat, but not impossible.

[Captain Zero]

10. She should refuse USDA, FHA, and VA help.

I wonder how many rely on FHA, VA, USDA HOME LOANS in her district? How many rural firetrucks were bought by USDA IN HER DISTRICT?

Help me build the list...

[edhopper]

16. But they always vote for

these Repugs that take away the help they need.
Look at Medicade expansion.

[Tree Lady]

21. I am beginning to think republicans love

The benefits we set up, they just pretend not to. I think they count on us to keep them in place.

If they actually all got taken away they would scream and cry.

[FoxNewsSucks]

3. While braying jackasses like her grab the attention,

the smart ones are working non-stop with no scrutiny to ensure than Democrats will not win any more elections.

[colorado_ufo]

7. She's just clawing her way to the top, so to speak.

Newly minted, she found a way to make herself visible - by riding Marjorie's coattails and being loud and outrageous and defiant. She has actually done nothing, and she knows even less. Another reality TV personality.

[jalan48]

12. She doesn't care. She represents wealthy interests like the Koch Brothers. That's where the money is

[GoodRaisin]

13. Her rhetoric sounds tough but makes absolutely no sense.

We pay the taxes already so why wouldn't we want to get something back in return when we need it? Stupid lady, stupid audience. They want to live in a third world country.

[gratuitous]

17. Well, there's government handouts and there's totally deserved relief

Guess which camp Boebert's supporters place themselves when they complain about government assistance going to the undeserving?

[LakeArenal]

19. In actions: She's this new generation Michelle Bachman.

PS please stop about what she looks like.
Let’s just say all Republicans at ugly inside and forget the outside.

[Harker]

20. "Like a deranged Sarah Palin"?

That's pretty deranged.

[niyad]

22. Her ptomaine palace may not have received PPP, but let us remember that over 70

people got food poisoning from her pork sliders at some outdoor event.

[Peppertoo]

23. What is wrong with her?