The top Republican candidate to replace Paul Ryan is an avowed white supremacist

[Lanyap]

Again I see no effort to root this guy from their midst. How a birther like campaign to get this guy out?

Or is that kind of effort only saved for the black guy born in Hawaii?

He's a major ahole. What else to you want them to do?

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/lo...cle_7a22b615-f107-5d48-b097-030f10827c98.html

The Republican Party of Wisconsin has cut ties with congressional candidate Paul Nehlen, recently banned from Twitter after making posts widely viewed as racist and anti-Semitic.

Nehlen paid membership dues to the Racine County Republican Party in 2017, campaign finance records show. He also paid dues to county parties in Walworth and Kenosha counties, state GOP officials said.

Alec Zimmerman, state GOP spokesman, said Tuesday those dues were for 2017 and Nehlen now “is not a member of the Republican Party of Wisconsin” and won’t be going forward.

“Nehlen and his ideas have no place in the Republican Party,” Zimmerman said.

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, said of Nehlen on Tuesday that “it looks to me like he’s a racist bigot.”

“I don’t want him as part of my party,” Vos said.

A spokesman for U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan, of Janesville, whom Nehlen is challenging in the August GOP primary, said “it has long been clear that Paul Nehlen holds bigoted views.”

“While his Twitter feed is beyond disturbing, it should be ignored so he’s not given the attention that he desperately craves,” said Ryan campaign spokesman Kevin Seifert.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news...eaders-denounce-paul-nehlen-racist/334432002/

Wisconsin Republicans collectively said Tuesday that they'd had it with the primary challenger to House Speaker Paul Ryan, saying Paul Nehlen is a racist who doesn't belong in the GOP.

Republican county offices are returning or donating to charity dues received from Nehlen, who had his Twitter account suspended after posting a series of outrageous tweets in recent weeks. Nehlen has used the racist and anti-Semitic posting to help his campaign raise funds and, in turn, pay his wife a salary.

“Paul Nehlen is not a member of the Republican Party of Wisconsin," GOP spokesman Alec Zimmerman said. "Nehlen and his ideas have no place in the Republican Party.”

State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R-Rochester), who lives in the 1st Congressional District currently held by Ryan, was even more blunt.

"I didn't read all of (Nehlen's) comments. But it looks to me like he's a racist bigot," said Vos, a longtime Ryan supporter. "I don't want him as part of my party."

Gov. Scott Walker's campaign agreed.

"The governor has always supported Paul Ryan, and stood against racist comments like this and those who make them," spokesman Nathan Craft said in an email.

Nehlen drew international criticism over the weekend for tweeting an image that replaced the mixed-race fiancée of Prince Harry with a dark-skinned prehistoric Briton known as "Cheddar Man."

"Honey, does this tie make my face look pale?" Nehlen tweeted along with the image, which the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is not sharing.

 

[zinfamous]

I have wondered several times if the local dems in these shithole districts should register as Republicans and vote the nazis into the GOP primary. Maybe organize a tiki torch march through downtown to support the Republican cause. Then vote true for the general elections.
The white supremacists have coopted the GOP in enough places in the red states that this could be a viable strategy across the south.

no, that's a terrible idea. You do such a thing in order to support the least vile, most moderate type of person. We've learned already that the average republican will gleefully vote for an individual to the right of the fascist spectrum anyway, so the last thing you want to do is increase the chance of that person actually getting into office.

 

[Lanyap]

Yet Nehlen got 10,864 votes in his Republican primary run against Ryan. That's more votes than any other Republican got in that race against Ryan.

Nehlen was the only one who ran against Ryan in the republican primary. As far as the number of votes, it could be people who wanted to vote against Ryan like conservatives who didn't like Trump but voted for him because they didn't want Hillary to win. They thought he was the better of two "evils". Trump turned out to be the worst.

 

[UberNeuman]

Nehlen was the only one who ran against Ryan in the republican primary. As far as the number of votes, it could be people who wanted to vote against Ryan like conservatives who didn't like Trump but voted for him because they didn't want Hillary to win. They thought he was the better of two "evils". Trump turned out to be the worst.

Get over it. The pattern of the GOP/Trump supporters has been consistent for quite awhile.

 

[zinfamous]

Nehlen was the only one who ran against Ryan in the republican primary. As far as the number of votes, it could be people who wanted to vote against Ryan like conservatives who didn't like Trump but voted for him because they didn't want Hillary to win. They thought he was the better of two "evils". Trump turned out to be the worst.

Here's the thing, and the Pubs keep dodging the thing:

Why do white supremacists, Nazis, bigots and racists have a long history of comfortably running for office under the GOP banner? Why? It's not like that isn't happening. The only thing anyone hears from the GOP is "But But But But we don't like them!" and yet they still keep running.

Clearly enough people within the GOP like these Nazis, and clearly the GOP honestly doesn't care that this is a significant enough percentage of their party because they haven't changed their messaging in any way to discourage the obvious dog whistling to court these votes over the last 5 and 6 decades.

Stop defending the problem and obfuscating. The point remains: why?

 

[Lanyap]

Meh. They still got over ten thousand votes in one tiny district, and over 20,000 in another. What, do you think Dems went out and voted Nazi to make the GOP look bad?

The Wisconsin 1st congressional district is smaller in physical size than most of the other districts but it has a similar population (710k) compared to the other districts so you can't really say it's "tiny" in population which is what counts in that comparison of votes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin's_congressional_districts

I don't have the time to check on the Nazi guy.

 

[zinfamous]

GOP supporters deserve to be reminded of the foundation of their party, why and for what purposes it exists today. The people that they still worship as the intellectual and spiritual pillars of their party--the power of McGovern, Reagan, Thurmond, Helms: the modern GOP hasn't changed, it's probably just gotten worse. It's certainly become more vocal about what they are.

I think there is a lot of self-hate among GOP supporters, because they refuse to accept the truth of what they are, never better described than it was by one of the foremost acolytes of the Southern Strategy, and the major power broker behind Reagan and the power grab at the minds of evangelicals, Lee Atwater: