MAGA world figures describing the ad as a ‘self-inflicted wound’ in private, report claims
Vivek Ramaswamy was reportedly warned by Ohio Republicans and campaign staffers not to run the controversial attack ad on Democratic opponent Amy Acton that featured her estranged mother - but went ahead anyway.
Some campaign staffers are so incensed by the decision to run the ad - which featured Acton’s 82-year-old mother, Donna Arthur smearing her daughter as a “liar” over child sex abuse she suffered - that they have considered resigning, according to Zeteo. Arthur lost custody of her children after her late husband, Cledith Arthur, was indicted for raping Acton when she was a child. She stood by her husband, who died in 2004.
Several Ohio Republican and Trump-world figures privately described the ad as a “self-inflicted wound” to Zeteo as the polls with Acton have narrowed.
It’s a smart move to quit now, in protest, when you know he’s going to lose. So you lose a week’s pay, big deal.
If they had quit immediately, THAT would have been the move that showed moral courage rather than this cynical and strategic quitting.
We’re talking about people who chose to be Ramaswamy staffers, they have neither morals nor courage.
Rats don’t flee the ship until it’s noticeably sinking.
And only if they can’t make it to the highest point.
Even imagining republicans might have courage in any scenario is kind of hilarious, ngl.
Sir, these are Republicans.
And this isn’t a Wendy’s
That moral courage would have kept them from accepting the job in the first place.
They are always, without exception, unable to act before if affects them personally.
If that ad went over well they would abandon whatever “concern” they had. They have no fortitude.
I mean they did work for him in the first place after all.
Just like all the scumbags who only denounced the orange kid-diddler after Jan 6, tried some book deals, then went and fell back in line 2 years later.
Fuck. Every. Single. One of them