When a sitting U.S. Senator will get primaried from the fitting flank of his or her moribund, pathetic shell of a celebration, this is likely to be seen as a sign to get severe concerning the citizens’s issues.
As an alternative, U.S. Sen. James Lankford is trolling Vice President Kamala Harris with idiotic memes and malevolently attacking all points which may positively have an effect on minority voting and illustration.
OPINION by George Lang
This week, Lankford posted a meme exhibiting Harris photoshopped into the parking zone of an On the Border chain restaurant in response to the Veep’s resolution to go to the precise border. Following days of assaults in opposition to the previous legal professional basic of a border state for not posturing on the Rio Grande in camouflage like he and U.S. Senator Ted Cruz did, he childishly went after her for agreeing to go to the border.
This petulance, by which he can neither abide Harris specializing in the Central American international locations from which most refugees are leaving nor Harris’ largely symbolic resolution to go to the southern border, signifies that he has an issue with no matter Harris does or says that borders on pathology.
Lankford’s issues with Harris appear to transcend occasion politics.
He slimes Harris and President Joe Biden even once they decide to issues he supposedly helps, like visiting the border or presenting anti-crime platforms, like Biden did this week when he focused so-called “rogue gun sellers.” I might tolerate Lankford if he appeared to behave with a level of ingenuousness on — oh, I don’t know — something.
As an alternative, he’s blowing canine whistles. Lankford spent the previous week attacking the S.1 voter reform laws that can’t move with out an finish to the Jim Crow-era filibuster, attacking statehood for the District of Columbia, and attacking Harris. He’s seemingly obsessive about wedge points that abundantly and transparently have an effect on minorities, one thing a considering individual together with his appreciable pallor would possibly keep away from.
This conduct betrays a sure lack of seriousness on Lankford’s half — shocking, given his penchant for scowling from the pages of social media any time he isn’t shaking arms with intercourse offender Josh Duggar or having a bedwetting occasion throughout his frequent appearances on Newsmax.
He’s dipping his toe into the racist finish of the voting pool and getting super-soaked.
This doesn’t imply Lankford’s doubtless major opponent, Tulsa-based Christian Id minister Jackson Lahmeyer, is any extra palatable.
This weekend, Lahmeyer might be joined by a clown automobile of seditionists led by disgraced former Nationwide Safety Adviser Michael Flynn on the Embassy Suites in Norman. It’s disappointing that the situation the place I acquired each Pfizer pictures will now be full of QAnon-worshipping anti-government bozos.
Whereas I don’t relish a major battle between two incompetent, reactionary, right-wing clergymen, a part of me desires Lahmeyer to pull his fellow choirboy into the ash heap. If Lahmeyer have been to put naked Lankford’s core hypocrisies, this might scorch the earth for Republicans and supply the most effective path to victory Democrats have seen in three many years.
However Oklahomans want greater than mere GOP buffoonery to flip the Senate seat. Oklahoma Democrats can’t afford to run placeholder candidates with cornpone nicknames anymore.
They want clever fighters, principled leaders with identify recognition and the potential to fill conflict chests. We want candidates on the congressional and senate ranges who can encourage confidence and largesse from the nationwide occasion.
Democrats can’t rely upon the GOP’s round firing squad major race to do the heavy lifting. They have to recruit badasses.
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