Norma Anderson, a trailblazing former GOP legislator, is among the Colorado voters who have challenged the Republican front-runner’s candidacy in a case that will be heard by the Supreme Court

  • Flying Squid
    35•1 year ago

    She thinks he’s too young to be president.

    • @[email protected]OP
      57•1 year ago

      A bit snarky, but it’s over his insurrection:

      “He tried to overturn an election,” she said. “The very first time I ever ran, I didn’t win. I didn’t go out and try to change the election. I said, ‘Whoops, work harder next time, lady.’”

      • Flying Squid
        25•1 year ago

        I’d respect her for that except she’s still a Republican voter.

        • @[email protected]OP
          32•1 year ago

          It’s possible to utterly disagree with somebody on policy, and still recognize that they’ve passed the ‘not a traitor’ bar. She manages that.

          • Flying Squid
            14•1 year ago

            Yes. She manages to recognize that something that is true is true. Congratulations to her for being able to recognize reality on this specific topic but probably not any others since she’s still a Republican.

            • @[email protected]OP
              15•1 year ago

              I’d rather reinforce them when they do the right thing; it helps to shift the range of what’s allowed on the right. Republicans are really good at love-bombing people who adopt one of their policy positions. We ought to think about the same.

                • @[email protected]OP
                  14•1 year ago

                  I don’t doubt that she’s terrible on a host of other issues; as I said, I likely disagree with her on almost every policy.

                  But praise when people start to move out of that mindset is part of how you detach people from it.

                • RedFox
                  -1•1 year ago

                  You know, not every American Republican is a Nazi are they?

                  Would you want everyone to make the worst assumption about you based on one characteristic?

                  I don’t like a lot of things about all the American parties.

                  It’s like listening to mass media, everyone is a fascist, Nazi, communist, etc.

                  • Flying Squid
                    10•1 year ago

                    As the saying goes, “if there’s a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you’ve got a table with 11 Nazis.”

                  • @[email protected]English
                    2•1 year ago

                    I know what Republicans stand for. You can’t blame “the media” for that. Well, you can, but you’d be fool to blame anyone but Republicans themselves.

        • @acceptable_pumpkin
          6•1 year ago

          And again it’s a former representative. Where are the current Republicans fighting this?

      • Flying Squid
        3•1 year ago

        As Chico Marx said, “and you can keep it.”

        But thank you. :)