Doug Mastriano says he's not extreme. So why do many say he is?

[AZLD4Candidate]

Source: Yahoo via AOL

Doug Mastriano is irate that he is being called an extremist.

“I’m really sick and tired of it,” the Republican nominee for Pennsylvania governor said in an interview last week with conservative comedian and pundit Ben Stein.

With two months until voters go to the polls, Mastriano — a 54-year-old state senator from southern Pennsylvania — is trailing state Attorney General Josh Shapiro by 7 points in the FiveThirtyEight polling average. Mastriano has fallen behind over the past month as it came to light that he had a relationship with the social media website Gab, an online incubator of antisemitism and bigotry.

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Walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck. . .

[PatrickforB]

1. Golly gee. If Doug doesn't want to be called an EXTREMIST, maybe he should stop

ACTING LIKE ONE.

[modrepub]

19. Even If He Found True Jesus

I'd suspect he was lying. Ignore what they say and watch what they do. Wearing a confederate uniform for a class picture tells you all you need to know about this person. And don't forget he was a big participant in the "Stop the Steal" rally.

And to be fair to him, he's not alone. You can't visit the Gettysburg area without seeing Confederate symbols all over the place. People have been asked to take them down but most argue the "history" angle. Which is pure BS; 33,000 Pennsylvanians died in the Civil War. Confederate dead on the battlefield were not buried with any honors or recognition. The farmers whose fields Confederate dead were hastily buried gave people in the south an ultimatum; come back and take out your dead or we'll dig up their bones and grind them up and reapply them on our fields. Union soldiers initially preserved the battlefield, put their unit markers up and held annual get togethers to mark the battle's anniversary. They NEVER allowed a Confederate to come to their gatherings or put up a unit marker. (All of those were put up after the National Park Service took over maintenance, and the daughters of the Confederacy white-washed the whole war). And because of the glorification of the Confederate cause, I personally do not like visiting Gettysburg.

[certainot]

25. rush limbaugh was the moral and 'intellectual' leader of the GOP for 30 years. half the party

listens to talk radio and if a few hundred bigoted insecure assholes on 1500 radio stations can shout the same ignorant bigoted extremist bullshit and lies all day to 50 mil a week, endorsed by hundreds of school and pro sports teams and local and national companies, and no one complains, why wouldn't a pack of ignorant extremist bigots try to piggyback that buzz to political stardom? plenty have the last 30 years.

[Atticus]

2. Uh, you don't get to decide if you're "extreme". The clear majority of the general public

makes that call and they agree you are extreme.

They also agree you're a fascist asshole.

See how that works?

[Botany]

3. So says the asshole who liked to dress up as the mother fuckers who thought keeping human beings ...

... as slaves was such a good idea that they wanted to destroy the United States of America
over it. Those are not an extremist/racist thoughts are they? Besides God made black people
to be slaves.

[Mr.Bill]

6. Actually I think the guy in the

sunglasses and shorts has some explaining to do also.

[Botany]

10. Too E.Z. Naval Seal

aka really tough dude.

BTW outside of rebel guy all the men up to the navy/air force guy in blue ....
they all have that I'm here and I will get business done look about them.

[COL Mustard]

9. So to be clear.....

This is at the ARMY War College. I see a bunch of civilians, two Marines, one each Air Force and Navy, but ZERO people in a (US) Army uniform. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot???

[Botany]

11. Talk to me

Starting w/the pilot on the left up to the older guy in the blues who are those people.

Army/Marines all the same.

[COL Mustard]

14. Mastriano is the guy at the far left, Confederate uniform

The dude with the prop and the flight helmet, I don't know. Behind him, in the black jacket and tan uniform, that's a Navy dude. The two in tan shirts/olive green trousers are Marines, and the dude in the blue uni is Air Force. As for the other civvies, I don't know who or what they are but there are a lot of civilian instructors there.

[dchill]

16. Pennsylvania fought for the Union, Doug.

GTFOOH!

[FakeNoose]

29. Yes but the Mason-Dixon line that delineated the slavery boundary

North of the M-D was designated anti-slavery (Union) and south of the M-D line was pro-slavery (Confederate.) Historians will note that West Virginia didn't exist before 1861, because the state wasn't formed until after the northwestern counties of Virginia broke away during the Confederacy. West Virginia was not a slave state even though it sits to the south of the Mason-Dixon line.

My point is that there were a few people living in southern Pennsylvania who were slave-owners before 1776. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution changed all that, of course. But people's opinions and prejudices are sometimes slow to change.

Mastriano represents one of those areas.

[dchill]

30. Mastriano represents 3 centuries of bigotry...

... Wherever he's from. I know these people - I live 4 miles south of Lancaster. If I trip, I can fall across the Mason-Dixon line.

[Warpy]

4. Crazy people always think they're ssne, the rest of us doubt our own sanity from time to time

so of course he thinks his extremism is perfectly reasonable, everybody at Gab thinks like he does.

[bringthePaine]

7. #1: no self-defining dickheads #2: unquestionably a dickhead #3: see #1

[COL Mustard]

8. Quack quack quack

He's a wacko. I'm just sorry he's getting an Army pension for the rest of his life, and presumably his wife will get half of that for the rest of hers.

[soldierant]

22. Provided

he doesn't kill her first.

Or unless the 20-20-20 rule applies. I have no idea whether it would.

[paleotn]

12. He's a racist, nazi nut job. There's no getting around that. Period.

[SouthernDem4ever]

13. It's too late to wash your reputation here

try Saudi Arabia. You can enter their golf game.

[The Jungle 1]

15. Yo dickweed listen up.

If you walk around in a treasonous confederate uniform you are extreme.
Americans do not support treason!!!!
What the south did was treason dumb ass.

[Deminpenn]

17. Let's go to the tape...

...

[twodogsbarking]

18. The confederate uniform is mild compared to other things he says.

[The Wizard]

20. And Hitler loved children and dogs

He was just misunderstood.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

21. Doug Mastriano...apologies to the JAWS screenwriters.

We're gonna need a bigger toilet.

[Stuart G]

23. K and R. Thanks for posting. Please remember this:...Stupid is ..."Still Stupid." He is a Dick

..... Thanks for reading this. It is short and to the point. Simple and Clear...

......Doug is ...a hamster ....(apologies to all hamsters out there)..........well I tried.......

[Heather MC]

24. Awww poor Racist Baby

[Mz Pip]

26. We've got the receipts.

Guy must be super stupid to believe his online presence can be erased.

[The Wizard]

27. Maybe compared to Goering or Attila the hun.

[BlueIdaho]

28. Trust Doug?

Yeah - that went out the window years ago. Nice try asshole.

[Initech]

31. Uh because he was part of the attempt to overthrow the government?