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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWisconsin Senate Candidate Says Old People Shouldn't Get To Vote Because They're Almost Dead. (Hovde-R)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/wisconsin-senate-candidate-says-old-people-shouldn-t-get-to-vote-because-they-re-almost-dead/ar-BB1mNAtJ?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=7263498555864169b618f03955dd6f32&ei=13I rec reading the article in the above link but I'll post a few snips from it.
Rethug senate candidate Eric Hovde, a carpetbagging bank owner from California has been parachuted into Wisconsin to run against incumbent Sen Tammy Baldwin-D.
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One of the only reasons we have been partially saved from uniform Republican government over the past two decades is the fact that serious whackadoos have been winning GOP Senate primaries. They've felt compelled to assure us that they are not witches, and talked about paying your medical bills with chickens. Last time around, they came up with the comically terrible Dr. Oz and the terribly comic Herschel Walker. In New Hampshire, Democratic incumbent Maggie Hassan was thought to be vulnerable, but the Republican primary coughed up Don Bolduc, a retired general who believed that there were litter boxes in public school classrooms. Hassan won from here to there. In the aftermath, the Republicans announced that they would be vetting their candidates with more care in 2024, when the Senate map seemed tilted in their favor.
Good luck with that. There were soup kitchens in the Depression that did a better job vetting their clientele.
This time, it seems, the GOP has settled on candidates who are not quite as outwardly bananas as Christine O'Donnell or poor old Herschel. But scratch off a little bit of the veneer, however, and the inner wingnut and/or incompetent shines right through. Take, for example, Eric Hovde, the California gozillionnaire whom the Wisconsin Republicans parachuted in to take on incumbent Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin. On the surface, Hovde looked idealyoung, handsome, and rich, and the whole carpetbagger thing doesn't seem to bite anywhere as hard as it once did. Unless, of course, the candidate turns out to be such a klutz that carpetbagging becomes just another example of the candidate's inability to tell his arse from his elbow. So meet Eric Hovde. He really likes you, Meemaw. He just doesn't think you should vote. From Wisconsin Public Radio:
Well, if youre in a nursing home, you only have five, six months life expectancy. Almost nobody in a nursing home is at a point to vote, and you had adult children showing up and saying, Who voted for my 85- or 90-year-old father or mother? Hovde said.
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He also goes on saying he would support a full repeal of the Affordable Care Act and supports slashing SS benefits and increasing the retirement age to 72 in order to receive benefits.
Fellow Democrats, we really need to make this an issue during campaign season, starting now!
Hovde is this election cycle's version of Herschel Walker, Dr Oz, and Christine O'donnell all wrapped into one carpetbagging psychopath.
Let's keep on reminding elderly voters about him until election day.
Go Sen Tammy Baldwin!!!!
Arne
(3,549 posts)and start passing them out.
You get a worm and you get a worm...
jls4561
(1,428 posts)This guy claimed worms cured his MS.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218969072
Arne
(3,549 posts)riversedge
(72,572 posts)Imallin4Joe
(884 posts)We need to keep this wing-nut Hovde out of office!
LiberalFighter
(53,353 posts)Imallin4Joe
(884 posts)bullimiami
(13,922 posts)Shut down your most reliable voters.
sakabatou
(42,866 posts)Probatim
(2,974 posts)Social Darwinism is too soft for what he's peddling.
whathehell
(29,625 posts)I believe the nazis were quite on board with it.
Probatim
(2,974 posts)Traurigkeit
(1,290 posts)Attilatheblond
(4,063 posts)machoneman
(4,121 posts)Imallin4Joe
(884 posts)Fuck them and everything they stand for.
Warpy
(113,032 posts)and since there is no cure for stupid....
Imallin4Joe
(884 posts)those assholes are the height of stupidity!
Mblaze
(367 posts)You absolute twit.
Renew Deal
(82,830 posts)Obviously
peppertree
(22,803 posts)"Can't have the "wrong" 5 year-olds voting, can we? (Paquito? Aiysha? Whut are you doing here!? You too, Irving!)"
Ping Tung
(1,170 posts)Republicans usually count on a solid vote by the elderly. Calling them feeble minded and useless won't play well with them or their relatives or friends.
What a blessing is a gift of Repug candidates who antagonize voters they count on.
Cranky old voters like me (I'm 80) tend to take offense when insulted.
progressoid
(50,602 posts)That's a great line.
FelineOverlord
(3,745 posts)Someone had turned his Pledge of Allegiance into a Veep parody.
She also talks about the REAL reason he hates seniors so much (it involves a lawsuit about elder abuse) around 7:00 mark in the video.
Imallin4Joe
(884 posts)Maddow's excellent takedown of Fascist fuckface Hovde!!
pansypoo53219
(21,621 posts)TeamProg
(6,630 posts)Doh!
Rocknation
(44,818 posts)the presidential candidates are?
Rocknation
Traurigkeit
(1,290 posts)Srkdqltr
(7,472 posts)Imallin4Joe
(884 posts)Hovde was the guy that ate too much Elmer's Glue in elementary class!
Srkdqltr
(7,472 posts)Rebl2
(14,448 posts)he? He needs to remember that he too will be old one day, if he lives long enough.
Imallin4Joe
(884 posts)Rebl2
(14,448 posts)age is what? 60, 70? If hes in his seventies he should shut the hell up.