'It Sends the Wrong Message': Inside the GOP Civil War Over the Jan. 6 'Martyrs'

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Georgia's Cobb County GOP is hosting a 1/6 anniversary "vigil" for Capitol rioters, featuring a speech from the group that organized last year's rally. It's one of multiple one-year commemorations trying to recast 1/6 participants as martyrs.

‘It Sends the Wrong Message’: Inside the GOP Civil War Over the Jan. 6 ‘Martyrs’
Some local GOP chapters are hosting Jan. 6 anniversary events that valorize the Capitol attackers as “patriots” or “political prisoners”—enraging the party’s remaining moderates.
thedailybeast.com
6:39 PM · Jan 3, 2022

https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-gop-civil-war-over-the-january-6-capitol-riot-martyrs

On the anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, Cobb County, Georgia’s Republican party will gather for a candlelight vigil—not to condemn the attack, but to recognize “J6 Patriots held in DC prison.”

The event will feature a speech by the founder of “Women for America First,” the group that secured permits for the Jan. 6 rally that preceded the deadly riot. And the Cobb County event will begin with a livestreamed Donald Trump speech, in which the former president is expected to double down on his lies about winning the 2020 election.

The local Republican party’s event is among more than a dozen Jan. 6 anniversary events that valorize the Capitol attackers as “patriots,” “political prisoners,” or “martyrs.”

“It sends the wrong message,” Jason Shepherd, the former chair of the Cobb County GOP told The Daily Beast. “It goes to the heart of what the Republican party's having to deal with, and that is: do we believe in the core values of the party, the principles of the party that are in our platform, or are we simply following one person?”

*snip*

[Solly Mack]

1. Warped, sick minds.

[MurrayDelph]

2. Well, if they want to gather themselves up in a single location

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and go on stage admitting their crimes of their own free will, we can just collect all the fish in one barrel.

[mercuryblues]

3. That or

Spread Covid amongst themselves. Win, win. 🏆

[world wide wally]

4. All because of one overweight, spoiled brat's ego.

[Midnight Writer]

5. No doubt sponsored by the same folks who celebrate Confederate secessionists as heroes.

[Mr. Ected]

7. "Remember Benghazi?"

"This is almost the same, only on 1/6 you were the violent riotous protestors that got 5 people killed".

Capiche?

[Ford_Prefect]

8. Reminds me of when W declared those who died were patriots less than 1/2 hour after the towers fell.

How does that conversion happen when you don't even know who did it, eh George? The Feckless Fool made martyrs of them to save his own ass and enable endless war.

[lindysalsagal]

9. And this luke-warm, badly attended rally will be different from all the other failed rallys

because....oh: GRIFTING.

[Achilleaze]

10. Whiney Republican traitors are so pathetic

Whine, whine, whine. No wonder they call themselves "boys."

[inthewind21]

11. Oy Vey

“It sends the wrong message,” Jason Shepherd, the former chair of the Cobb County GOP told The Daily Beast. “It goes to the heart of what the Republican party's having to deal with, and that is: do we believe in the core values of the party, the principles of the party that are in our platform, or are we simply following one person?”

If you don't already know the answer, you're dumb as a stump. When the building you're in is on fire, how big and out of control does that fire have to get before you realize you have only 2 choices, 1. stay and become consumed by said fire or 2. Save yourself and bail the F out of the building, it's a lost cause!

[JHB]

12. Wait, the former county chair of Newt Gingrich's old stomping ground...

...is dismayed that his rank and file are stirred up and on the march over complete horseshit?