'Duct tape people to a tree!' Arizona GOP goes further off the rails

[RandySF]

Republicans in Arizona suffered a string of brutal defeats this past fall after a string of hardline Trump-backed MAGA candidates flamed out against Democratic opponents.

However, Politico reports that the Arizona GOP isn't responding to this by trying to rehabilitate its image and is instead getting even angrier and doubling down on the election denialism that cost the party winnable races in 2022.

To illustrate this, the report notes that the party recently considered resolutions to censure Republicans who were involved in past elections on the grounds that those Republicans were part of a conspiracy to help Democrats win.

One particularly angry attendee stood up at the meeting and said traditional censures did not go far enough.

"We should duct tape people to a tree in a dog park, so the dogs can pee on them," the man declared. "And then, when they’re there for a few hours and they have to crap in their pants, they can wallow in their own sh*t.”


https://www.rawstory.com/arizona-republicans-2659367798/

[milestogo]

1. 4th grade punisher?

[bluesbassman]

3. Only the best people.

That attendee sounds like the one drunk guy spouting shit at the end of the bar in every dive and honky-tonk I've ever played in. Fortunately my volume is always louder than theirs!

[Grins]

2. "The Party of Lincoln!"

Do they have a clue about stew-pud like this makes them look?

[dhol82]

4. He seems nice.

[EYESORE 9001]

5. That's a very specific fantasy

Obviously put a lot of thought into it

[Irish_Dem]

6. Yes exactly. Very specific and detailed fantasy.

[tanyev]

7. Yes indeed. Somebody's got potty issues.

[gratuitous]

8. And yet, for all their craziness

The major media court the opinions of these people as if they have both oars in the water, giving them a respectful hearing and scolding Democrats for not taking their concerns seriously.

[Hortensis]

10. Yes, but there may be a change about that and THESE people.

"In an analysis of the vote in Maricopa County, where a majority of Arizona’s votes are cast, a group of elections experts, including Benny White, a former data analyst for the state Republican Party, found Lake and other hard-right candidates had turned off thousands of voters who otherwise leaned Republican. In the governor’s race, about 40,000 voters who favored Republicans in other races on their ballots did not vote for Lake; about 33,000 of them actually voted for the Democrat, Katie Hobbs, instead.

At least part of the reason so many Republican-leaning voters defected, White told me, was Lake’s insistence on feeding the base’s addiction to election denialism."

The denialist, "the whole system's corrupt" whackjobs refuse to believe and don't care. The concerns of independents and moderates who've can't go where they do are being taken seriously.

"At this point, Republican Marston said, “the party may have to die to be reborn.”

[Hortensis]

9. Well, I understand better than this...creative gentleman might believe.

I haven't got over what amounted to an illiberal LW conspiracy to throw the nation to the Republicans as a way of finally defeating the "corrupt" Democratic Party that's always in their way -- and then for the most fairytale-inclined taking over after the RW presumably destroyed our nation. (Only the evil witch dies or gets "disappeared" in fairy tales.)

But in this case the Republicans who helped elect Democrats could always go home, shower, and get back to electing more Democrats, so kind of a waste of duct tape? This guy (his name's Mark Del Maestro) needs to give this further thought.

[Maru Kitteh]

11. "Man at QOP meeting details violent fecal fetish and

declares patriotic love for Jesus."

[GoCubsGo]

12. That guy needs to be duct taped to a jumping cholla.

In the middle of August.