A local Kansas Republican Party committee member unleashed a racist, homophobic attack on Democratic House candidate Sharice Davids, prompting state party officials to … try to turn the attack back on Democrats.
“Little Ms. Pritchett- you and your comrades stealth attack on Yoder is going to blow up in your leftist face,” [precinct committeeman Michael] Kalny wrote. “The REAL REPUBLICANS will remember what the scum DEMONRATS tried to do to Kavanaugh in November. Your radical socialist kick boxing lesbian Indian will be sent back packing to the reservation.”
Roughly 50 exclamation points followed the end of the message.
Sharice Davids is, in fact, a Native American lesbian amateur mixed martial arts fighter. These could all be used as neutral or even positive descriptions of her, but the “scum DEMONRATS,” “radical socialist,” and “sent back packing to the reservation” parts leave no doubt about how Kalny intended his screed.
Kalny didn’t draw much support (publicly, anyway) from higher-up Kansas Republicans, but here’s the hilarious part: the executive director of the Kansas GOP responded by saying that “This is the same type of rhetoric we condemn the left for. We must be better than this.”
Really? Republicans spend a lot of time condemning the left for racist, homophobic attacks on Republican candidates? And they’re going to try to peddle this holier-than-thou crap after a week of Donald Trump attacking sexual assault survivors and Trump audiences chanting “lock her up” about the inevitably female villain of the week? The dishonesty adds to the stink of the original comments.
Can you give Sharice Davids $3 to help her rise above this kind of Republican hatred and win?