Chuck Grassley is no John McCain. That’s a no brainer, but even with Grassley, one could have hoped for better in this particular instance. One of McCain’s better moments was when a constituent at a town hall was asking him about the “Arab” Barack Obama. McCain straightened out the garbled facts then and there and said that Obama was a “good man, he and I just disagree about some things.”
We have all come a long way since then and the ride has been especially torturous after the McCain and Romney years wound up and the GOP collapsed into the mess it is today.
The sad part about this is that the man hears this drivel and believes it and then it becomes tragic when Grassley doesn’t take the moment to set the facts straight.
Attendee at Chuck Grassley’s town hall asks him why we are against Putin since he is fighting the problems of Nazis, biolabs, pedophelia, and Deep State corruption in Ukraine. No John McCain moment correcting him coming from Grassley. Of course. pic.twitter.com/ukQgaC8ydl
— Ron Filipkowski ?? (@RonFilipkowski) April 13, 2022
This was truly a missed opportunity, but you know why Grassley did it. You know exactly why. To not do it, and to correct the gentleman and set a higher tone for the discourse would be to oppose the teachings of Fox News and God knows Grassley wasn’t going to do that.
If Grassley had set the record straight, this would have been a blazing moment, getting major headlines, instead of just flying under the radar and showing up on niche websites like this one.
Can you see it now? New York Times, “Grassley Tells Constituent There Is No Such Thing As International Pedophile Ring,” and “Ukraine Isn’t A Nazi Country, Its President Is A Jew.”
Tragically, but truly, those would have been the headlines and there is no way that old Chuck was going to get mixed up in any of that.
So the conspiracy theory goes on, a part of the fabric of our lives. The GOP and Conspiracy Theory are a married couple. They are inseparable. And one of them will be the death of the other. Or, of us all.
Grassley needs to retire. He could barely find an answer that would appease that dope and not spew that BS back. It’s pathetic that those old white guys don’t know their time has come and gone. Don’t get me wrong – I’m an old white woman but I believe my time has come and gone and it’s time to let the next generations steer the country in the direction THEY want to live in. We had our chance and did some good things and some bad things but it’s time to “pass the baton”.
He should have retired years ago. Twenty years in Congress should be enough for anyone.
Chuck wants to get re-elected-it’s that simple. He will spew any nonsense to get this accomplished. The thing is, in Iowa, this kind of shit plays well. Quite frankly I’m surprised King did not get re-elected. Iowa has been an outlier, as are ALL the red states, when compared to the general public in most matters. I hope that caucus crap gets shoved aside before next election.
As an old white guy that lives in Iowa, I really wish that more my fellow Iowans would wise up and become Democrats. Grassley, Ernst, and Reynolds are extreme embarrassments! Unfortunately, everyone that I know who is not a Democrat is of the type of MAGAt that there is no reasoning with at all.
Funny how all the “term limit” talk that comes from right-wingers CONVENIENTLY seems to ignore *their* people who’ve gone and “made a career out of Congress” like McConnell and Grassley who’ve been in the Senate since 1985 and 1981, respectively (Grassley was in the House from 1975 before he moved to the Senate; he also served in the Iowa House from 1959 until he was elected to the US House).