Republican State Chair Ben Proto said this on NPR:
“Kamala Harris was chosen for a reason and it had absolutely nothing to do with her ability to be the next president of the United States, to be the vice president of the United States,” said Ben Proto, the state GOP chair, on Connecticut Public’s “The Wheelhouse.”
“It was clearly gender and racial politics that were put in play by the Democrats, and as a result they have a person sitting a heartbeat away from the presidency who really is not capable of serving in that role,” he said.
In response State Treasurer Erick Russell wrote this:
How are we measuring qualifications for our elected leaders? Chairman Proto’s comments about Vice President Harris are despicable and we should expect leaders in Connecticut to speak with more respect and decency.
The spokesperson for Connecticut Democrats, Patty McQueen, said Proto would never say that about a man. McQueen is calling out what she described as misogyny and “DEI dog-whistles” following the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.
“There was lots of talk about how the Democrats were at fault, and that [Republicans] were going to have a new tone,” McQueen said, noting Proto’s comments about Harris undermine that idea.
if the GOP is so immune to racial politics then why are all their candidates white men?. roll the dice and go ahead and place your cards on someone who is racially different and you will see that you have been playing racial politics for decades.
Trump’s VP wife is a person of color. I am unsure of the point you are trying to make with this statement or OIB post.
Like Trump’s VP I would bet it was the diversity of his wife’s racial make-up that played a role in him being picked.
Racial identity politics is always at play in one form or another in American politics, Logically speaking. 🙂
PROTOtypical blowhard *rimshot*
JML what do you have to say about our democracy that politicians and media’s coup to get Biden off the ticket that the people vote for?
Do you think that is a threat to democracy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHfgU8oMSo
Political science makes us aware that balance is necessary in good governance and in the formation of tickets. Threats to democracy at the moment loom on several fronts:
* Folks failing to inform themselves of who candidates are, what their values indicate from experience, and what their policy platforms are. Too much work? Just pick an entertainer who divides life into “either/or” choices and vote the brand?
* Folks not seeing the danger in a presidential candidate, routinely expressing his attraction to autocratic or totalitarian leaders around the globe?
* Adults failing to heed the words of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865 at his second inaugural address talking about “the wound” the United States had suffered with the leadership in the South staging their own Second American revolution, which among other things, we call the Civil War, or War Between the States.
Instead of extending the healing from slavery necessary to human dignity and rights, folks in the North and South retained their belief in ‘white supremacy’, enacted resistance to the forward action of civil rights for al through Jim Crow activities, etc., and interrupted movements towards justice for all and civil equality. That remains a powerful threat to democracy as it strikes directly at trust in the rule of law. More to say? Likely. Time will tell.
Blance? Don’t we have balance in our government in the form of the D’s and R’s parties?
Threats to democracy at the moment loom on several fronts, to say the least, if it truly exists at all.
What party did Lincoln entertain, and what state was he from?
John, you say you are informed but in case you didn’t hear, a candidate for president and former president of the US just almost entertained the folk by getting his head divided.
Perhaps there is some truth to your “white supremacy enacted to resistance. I believe Lamont just created an office to combat systematic racial institutions embedded in America.
while ‘white supremacy’, enacted resistance to the forward action of civil rights for al through Jim Crow activities, etc., and interrupted movements towards justice for all and civil equality. That remains a powerful threat to democracy as it strikes directly at trust in the rule of law”
Do you find the media part of that powerful threat to democracy that strides directly at the trust?