Congratulations, GOP. You really picked a winner on this one. Great move.
It’s actually worse when read silently than aloud because native is in scare quotes and that makes the whole thing sound even more clueless.
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Poor Ohio. Looks like a lose-lose race. No matter who wins, Ohio loses.
Good campaign ad though.
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And the worst part is that Ramaswamy learned nothing and happily continues with the same type of cluelessness.
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Perhaps he would be less clueless if he went to a prom and chill out a little. I’m sorry his parents didn’t just let him play outside more when he was a kid. It is a mystery though that despite their “superior” culture of overachievement, India and China are not a destination for all these amazing educated immigrants. Puzzling, very puzzling…
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Vivek is Vivek. I would never expect anything better from him. But it’s galling that the GOP rallied behind him and squeezed out all viable primary competitors. I would’ve happily voted for Dave Yost but he saw no path for himself after the state GOP made a primary endorsement. Mind you, this happened months *after* this horrible tweet. I have no idea what they were thinking.
I’ve criticized DeWine plenty in the past, but I do appreciate his obvious hatred of Vivek.
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The GOP can’t stop chasing the dream of showing that they, too, have diversity. They’ll sacrifice everything on the altar of proving that they are not racist. Which never works because they’ll still be called racist.
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I actually think it had more to do with a misguided idea that a competitive primary would hurt the party in the general. People felt that affected Vance’s performance in 2022 (it really had more to do with him lacking incumbency+Dems having a really good candidate.) That certainly can be an issue in a vicious primary, but primaries like that also tend to weed out weak candidates like Vivek. I hope Alex Triantafilou gets forced out of his job after this election.
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It doesn’t help that Vivek briefly had a following among the “based” crowd, though they’d all like to pretend that never happened now. By the time of the party endorsement that was long gone, but out of touch party bureaucrats don’t seem to have noticed.
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