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RVN VET71

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5. Is Wilson still a Republican?
Wed May 1, 2019, 07:23 AM
May 2019

There are so many of these people in the media and on TV, the folks who get all over Trump but still proudly remain loyal members of the Party that created him.

Here's a test for you, Rick: How do you feel about Reagan's racist attacks on black people, his propagandizing about "welfare queens", implying that all blacks were welfare cheaters sucking up taxpayer money from hard working white people? Or about his referencing Willie Horton as emblematic of the dangers black men pose to the white women they want to rape and defile -- not to mention the liberal (by which he meant evil and weak) whites who abetted their crimes by releasing them from prison on an unsuspecting virginal and pure white population?

Where did you stand on Bush/Cheney's war in Iraq, not only misdirected and immoral but -- for the first time in the history of any civilization -- paid for not by raising taxed but by issuing promissory notes which crested an enormous budget deficit which, of course, co-president Cheney said "didn't matter"?

And what outrage did you express publicly at how the Republican Party's dog-whistle attacks on the Obamas, including their children?

Maybe I'm wrong, here, maybe he came out publicly against all of the above, but I don't recall. Maybe Joe Scarborough did the same? And the rest of the Republican pundit crew currently making coin on cable and network news by attacking the monster the GOP created?

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