He couldn’t name a Democrat he actually voted for but insists he’s a lifelong Democrat… who opposes abortion, racial equality, “cultural Marxism”….
Democrats in Nebraska are calling out a primary candidate as a Republican plant, saying that he is only running to divide the liberal vote in the state.
Conservative pastor William Forbes filed to run in the U.S. Senate race, which Democrats had worked to clear. The state party is supporting independent candidate Dan Osborn, who they believe will have a better chance of beating incumbent Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-NE) if he runs as an independent.
CNN looked into Forbes’ background. He posted several sermons to Facebook, where he railed against “cultural Marxism” (an antisemitic dog whistle), “radical feminism,” and the “left-wing media.” He attacked Black Lives Matter and Occupy Wall Street protestors and praised Republicans for restricting abortion. He also referred to former President Joe Biden as “Dementia Joe.”
Making matters more complicated, a fourth candidate, Cindy Burbank, filed to run at the last minute as a Democrat when she saw that Forbes was running. She said her goal is to beat him in the primary and then drop out and support Osborn in the general election, a move that could get her disqualified if the state’s Republican government believes she isn’t running in good faith.
This is the sort of thing you’d read in story satirizing politics. Guy enters primary fraudulently in order to receive votes from people so uninformed they don’t know who the candidates for the highest office are, woman joins to beat him with a clear statement of intentions in accordance with the goals of the party, and a politician from the opposing party will block the counter and not the actual fraudster.
You will not believe the amount of fuckery that will go on around this election. And it’s working.
They should just call him a plant period.
Interestingly I thought this was going to be about Fetterman …
The bible was pretty clear about bearing false witness.
I was going to quip about the Bible being full of contradictions, but this might actually be one of the few things it’s consistent on… I can’t think of any situation where it condones lying…
The whole book is a lie so…it implicitly condones lying
It’s a book of fables and metaphors. It’s no more a lie than Hansel and Gretel can be.
Except the authors clearly wanted readers to take it literally as truth. Lying.
I agree that it’s false, but that’s only a lie if they don’t believe it. I’ve seen no evidence of that. I don’t disagree that it’s possible, but I wouldn’t call them liers.
Doesn’t seem like he’s hiding it. He’s only there the win the straight line democratic voters and sabotage the independent.
Down with Vichy Democrats
When the Democrats get fussy about primaries, this is why.
LIke you can’t already tell from most of their voting records.
Some people don’t bother to do that research…
