How Many GOP Presidential Candidates Will Kiss Racist Rancher Cliven Bundy’s Ring?

Posted by | July 1, 2015 20:30 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Opinion Politics Tommy Christopher

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The more things change, the more they stay the same. It was just last week that many Republican leaders finally came around on the issue of the Confederate flag, but just days after activist Bree Newsome scaled the flagpole in Columbia, SC to take down that flag, one Republican leader opened up channels with a white activist who pines for the days of slavery. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) met with Bundy during a campaign stop in Nevada on Monday, a move that only merited a single mention on cable news, from Ed Schultz’s The Ed Show:

In case you’ve forgotten, Bundy is the Nevada rancher whose armed posse showed America just how good it is to be white by driving away federal authorities at gunpoint, and becoming an overnight conservative superhero in the process. That stardom was short-lived, however, when Bundy went off on a racist rant that was insufficiently coded to allow his fans plausible deniability:

With the Confederate flag coming down and black churches going up in flames in the wake of the Charleston mass killing, you would think that every politician would steer clear of Bundy and his racist baggage, but especially the politician charged with heading the Republican Party’s outreach to black voters. You would also think that such a visit would receive intense scrutiny from the cable news channels, rather than a single segment on MSNBC. You would be wrong on all counts.

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By: Tommy Christopher

Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.

8 responses to How Many GOP Presidential Candidates Will Kiss Racist Rancher Cliven Bundy’s Ring?

  1. ExPFCWintergreen July 1st, 2015 at 20:39

    Is this a trick question?

  2. fredoandme July 1st, 2015 at 20:40

    well. one. at least.
    I bet that at least 2/3’s of them do, and 3/4 of those in secret. we might as well go on and say, “all of them.”

    • allison1050 July 1st, 2015 at 21:16

      It’s too early for me but I believe that just about all of them (maybe 2 won’t) will knee and kiss Bundy’s dusty boot.

      • fredoandme July 1st, 2015 at 21:40

        hell. he’ll be head cheese in their brain truhst. this is what we have to look forward to if any of these maniacs is elected.
        yikes on spikes!

  3. William July 1st, 2015 at 23:31

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  4. Leigh Goodson July 2nd, 2015 at 05:36

    <-*********** Start working at home with Google! It’s by-far the best job I’ve had. Last Wednesday I got a brand new BMW since getting a check for $6000 this – 4 weeks past. I began this 8-months ago and immediately was bringing home at least $177 per hour.

  5. Warman1138 July 2nd, 2015 at 08:00

    There ain’t enough teats on that hog for all them thar piggies.

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