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ificandream

(11,837 posts)
Sun Jan 8, 2023, 02:22 PM Jan 2023

Boebert's backers urge her to 'tone down the nasty rhetoric'

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Source: Associated Press/By JESSE BEDAYN

RIFLE, Colo. (AP) — Debbie Hartman voted for Lauren Boebert for Congress in 2020 and again in 2022, delighted by Boebert’s unequivocal defense of cultural issues that animate the Republican Party’s far right flank. But as Hartman shopped recently at a supermarket in this Rocky Mountain ranching outpost, she had one piece of advice for the Colorado lawmaker.

“Tone down the nasty rhetoric on occasion and just stick with the point at hand,” said Hartman, 65, a veterinary tech assistant.

That sentiment reflects Boebert’s challenge as she begins her second term in the House. In her relatively short time in Washington, she has built a national profile with a combative style embracing everything from gun ownership to apocalyptic religious rhetoric. Constituents such as Hartman in the Republican-leaning 3rd Congressional District laud Boebert for defending their rights, but cringe at her provocations, contributing to an unexpectedly tight race last year that she won by just 546 votes out of more than 300,000 cast.

“She tapped into what Trump was doing, and she maybe took it too far in some instances,” said Alex Mason, 27, adding that Boebert, whom he supports, is still more tactful than former President Donald Trump.



Read more: https://apnews.com/article/politics-united-states-government-lauren-boebert-colorado-548e31f15bcbd1929cfe25975c200421?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_02



Good luck with that wish. You idiots are stuck with her.
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Boebert's backers urge her to 'tone down the nasty rhetoric' (Original Post) ificandream Jan 2023 OP
She's not defending their rights, they aren't fetuses Walleye Jan 2023 #1
They aren't right-wing billionaires peppertree Jan 2023 #3
Harsh, but believable Walleye Jan 2023 #22
She - and a bunch more among them besides peppertree Jan 2023 #23
Exactly! mountain grammy Jan 2023 #7
Protential answer: "she's defending uhmerika's freedom against satanist SOCIALISM" Justice matters. Jan 2023 #21
Boobert would rather give up hooch that do that peppertree Jan 2023 #2
And here I thought I was the only person who still used "hooch" oldsoftie Jan 2023 #12
It's her one true love - well, besides money, fame and power peppertree Jan 2023 #16
How about a compromise? Mawspam2 Jan 2023 #19
Cheeto could tell us all about that - I'm sure peppertree Jan 2023 #20
Maybe not sell her mother but, she will take her mother's Social Security away. LakeArenal Jan 2023 #25
Anything, and everything peppertree Jan 2023 #27
Sounds about right SouthernDem4ever Jan 2023 #30
You knew when you voted for her she was trash. That's what you got. Autumn Jan 2023 #4
Nasty rhetoric is all she's got. Ocelot II Jan 2023 #5
As a certain former pResident used to say.... COL Mustard Jan 2023 #14
Nasty rhetoric is her defining characteristic. Simeon Salus Jan 2023 #28
"combative style" huh William Seger Jan 2023 #6
"Do you have to eat faces ALL the time?" The Unmitigated Gall Jan 2023 #8
I wouldn't take advice from anyone who voted for her In the first place kimbutgar Jan 2023 #9
Garbage in, garbage out, fuckos Blue Owl Jan 2023 #10
"You idiots are stuck with her." I find that very offensive as they are not idiots. cstanleytech Jan 2023 #11
Not mutually exclusive. LakeArenal Jan 2023 #26
They're not? calimary Jan 2023 #29
Thanks so much for imposing that sub-human witch on the rest of us. Paladin Jan 2023 #13
546 votes underpants Jan 2023 #15
Hey Debbie Hartman can I call you Debbie and .....how about you Alex Mason, can I call you Alex turbinetree Jan 2023 #17
NOW they're embarrassed? dchill Jan 2023 #18
She's got a stylist, and a speech coach, and a fashion advisor Walleye Jan 2023 #24
Fuck you Debbie Hartman you ignorant slut. OMGWTF Jan 2023 #31
"laud Boebert for defending their rights" Martin Eden Jan 2023 #32
Brainwashed by fox. Cha Jan 2023 #34
Bring it on bobert *****.. I Hope Cha Jan 2023 #33
After a review by forum hosts....LOCKING lapucelle Jan 2023 #35

Walleye

(44,797 posts)
1. She's not defending their rights, they aren't fetuses
Sun Jan 8, 2023, 02:25 PM
Jan 2023

peppertree

(23,336 posts)
3. They aren't right-wing billionaires
Sun Jan 8, 2023, 02:27 PM
Jan 2023

The fetuses, she'd gladly throw in a sacrificial pyre if it means more power and money.

In fact, she probably already has.

Walleye

(44,797 posts)
22. Harsh, but believable
Sun Jan 8, 2023, 03:20 PM
Jan 2023

peppertree

(23,336 posts)
23. She - and a bunch more among them besides
Sun Jan 8, 2023, 03:21 PM
Jan 2023

If walls could talk (or should I say, grove trees).

mountain grammy

(29,034 posts)
7. Exactly!
Sun Jan 8, 2023, 02:29 PM
Jan 2023

she doesn't understand the meaning of the word "rights"

Stupid foolish interview, just like Boebert.. stupid and foolish. I'd like to ask her, what "rights" are Boebert defending?

Justice matters.

(9,785 posts)
21. Protential answer: "she's defending uhmerika's freedom against satanist SOCIALISM"
Sun Jan 8, 2023, 03:19 PM
Jan 2023

They get brainwashed every day by the FOX-NEWS-for-profits networks and it (the propaganda) works.

peppertree

(23,336 posts)
2. Boobert would rather give up hooch that do that
Sun Jan 8, 2023, 02:25 PM
Jan 2023

I was going to say 'sell her mother' - but that wouldn't quite make it to the top of her list.

 

oldsoftie

(13,538 posts)
12. And here I thought I was the only person who still used "hooch"
Sun Jan 8, 2023, 02:36 PM
Jan 2023

But regarding your comment, we're talking about Bohbert here; giving up the hooch is really nothing new for her I'd bet

peppertree

(23,336 posts)
16. It's her one true love - well, besides money, fame and power
Sun Jan 8, 2023, 02:44 PM
Jan 2023

Like a modern-day Madame Pompadour (of sorts), she's dead-set on putting her claws in the Oval Office someday.

And as you know, for her the next step is the Vice-Presidency - which of course means she'll try to create as much attention around herself as possible.

It'll be one publicity stunt after another from that one - even more than the last two years have been.

Mawspam2

(1,106 posts)
19. How about a compromise?
Sun Jan 8, 2023, 03:10 PM
Jan 2023

'Sell her cooch'. Pretty sure she -allegedly- did that with Ted Cruz.
🤪

It must be true 'cause I read it on the Internet!

peppertree

(23,336 posts)
20. Cheeto could tell us all about that - I'm sure
Sun Jan 8, 2023, 03:13 PM
Jan 2023

"She's good. She's not Ivanka - but she loves Trump, what can I tell you?"

LakeArenal

(29,949 posts)
25. Maybe not sell her mother but, she will take her mother's Social Security away.
Sun Jan 8, 2023, 03:25 PM
Jan 2023

peppertree

(23,336 posts)
27. Anything, and everything
Sun Jan 8, 2023, 03:29 PM
Jan 2023

When they wrote the Whore of Babylon into the New Testament, she's exactly what they were referring to.

SouthernDem4ever

(6,619 posts)
30. Sounds about right
Sun Jan 8, 2023, 04:22 PM
Jan 2023

Autumn

(48,961 posts)
4. You knew when you voted for her she was trash. That's what you got.
Sun Jan 8, 2023, 02:27 PM
Jan 2023

Ocelot II

(130,516 posts)
5. Nasty rhetoric is all she's got.
Sun Jan 8, 2023, 02:28 PM
Jan 2023

COL Mustard

(8,217 posts)
14. As a certain former pResident used to say....
Sun Jan 8, 2023, 02:42 PM
Jan 2023

She really is a "nasty woman".

Simeon Salus

(1,638 posts)
28. Nasty rhetoric is her defining characteristic.
Sun Jan 8, 2023, 03:36 PM
Jan 2023

She's sort of a one trick pony.

William Seger

(12,442 posts)
6. "combative style" huh
Sun Jan 8, 2023, 02:29 PM
Jan 2023

She's an ignorant and abrasive blowhard who exploits her constituents' xenophobia, bigotry and resentment, to no purpose except self-promotion.

The Unmitigated Gall

(4,710 posts)
8. "Do you have to eat faces ALL the time?"
Sun Jan 8, 2023, 02:30 PM
Jan 2023

Wails the idiot who votes for the Leopards Eat Peoples Faces party…

kimbutgar

(27,248 posts)
9. I wouldn't take advice from anyone who voted for her In the first place
Sun Jan 8, 2023, 02:30 PM
Jan 2023

To vote for that looney toon bobert shows they have no intelligence or sense.

Blue Owl

(59,084 posts)
10. Garbage in, garbage out, fuckos
Sun Jan 8, 2023, 02:31 PM
Jan 2023

cstanleytech

(28,470 posts)
11. "You idiots are stuck with her." I find that very offensive as they are not idiots.
Sun Jan 8, 2023, 02:35 PM
Jan 2023

Are they assholes though? Yes.

LakeArenal

(29,949 posts)
26. Not mutually exclusive.
Sun Jan 8, 2023, 03:28 PM
Jan 2023

calimary

(90,002 posts)
29. They're not?
Sun Jan 8, 2023, 04:19 PM
Jan 2023

Just asking for a friend…

 

Paladin

(32,354 posts)
13. Thanks so much for imposing that sub-human witch on the rest of us.
Sun Jan 8, 2023, 02:40 PM
Jan 2023

You get absolutely zero points for the sadder-but-wiser whining at this point.

underpants

(196,489 posts)
15. 546 votes
Sun Jan 8, 2023, 02:43 PM
Jan 2023

THIS close to casting her out into the news porn world.

turbinetree

(27,545 posts)
17. Hey Debbie Hartman can I call you Debbie and .....how about you Alex Mason, can I call you Alex
Sun Jan 8, 2023, 02:59 PM
Jan 2023

did you look at your neighbors that are collecting a Social Security check or Medicare that your neighbors paid into all of there lives just like you for example that your fascist loving self want it to be cut.....did you tell your neighbors that you voted for her so that she can screw you and them by defaulting on there Social Security because your right wing ilk have no principles and run around that its all about compassion and life, when its not true...do you have the principles or the lack there of to tell your neighbors that you want to see them on the street, broke, and that you are independently wealthy and don't need Social Security that your parents have and your neighbors rely on....please tell us .... and that your just fine letting corporate fascist just plain screw you and million of others so that you will have to pay more and get nothing in return to keep the elites happy, because you think you can live on the extra 7.6% of that wage in your paltry wage you make on weekly or bi-weekly basis, and that that your pay is around 360% below the corporate masters CEO pay scale, while the corporate class make billions off there 7.6% eliminated tax that you want and support her to cut and gut.........come on please tell us that your hero will not screw you and millions of others out of their Social Security that "WE" have earned all of our lives working to make the corporate elites wealthy so that they can buy off one Lauren Boebert to make $187,000 a year off your tax dollars and will get a pay raise this year to further her to be blackmailed....because after all she wants the taxpayers pay but she and your ilk want to cut and gut everyone else's ....... talk about a lack of human compassion on "Life" .....

dchill

(42,660 posts)
18. NOW they're embarrassed?
Sun Jan 8, 2023, 03:02 PM
Jan 2023

Way too late. They didn't just elect her. They RE-ELECTED her!

Walleye

(44,797 posts)
24. She's got a stylist, and a speech coach, and a fashion advisor
Sun Jan 8, 2023, 03:23 PM
Jan 2023

They are packaging her. I wonder if that money is coming out of campaign funds or is tax deducted or both.

OMGWTF

(5,131 posts)
31. Fuck you Debbie Hartman you ignorant slut.
Sun Jan 8, 2023, 04:26 PM
Jan 2023

Martin Eden

(15,622 posts)
32. "laud Boebert for defending their rights"
Sun Jan 8, 2023, 04:36 PM
Jan 2023

What rights of Debbie Hartman and her ilk are actually under threat?

Cha

(319,058 posts)
34. Brainwashed by fox.
Sun Jan 8, 2023, 04:39 PM
Jan 2023

Cha

(319,058 posts)
33. Bring it on bobert *****.. I Hope
Sun Jan 8, 2023, 04:39 PM
Jan 2023

Adam Frisch is Waiting Patiently in the wings.

Colorado Rejected All Election Deniers Except District 3..

They should be proud Russian Tv praised boebert for her brave stance on Ukraine. Bloodthrisy Idiots of Innocents.

lapucelle

(21,061 posts)
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Sun Jan 8, 2023, 05:08 PM
Jan 2023

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