2020 Election - Thread #5

[DHBirr]

Well, it's a sort of "honesty"....

David Ball, the chair of the Washington County [Pennsylvania] GOP, vented his anger at Sen. Pat Toomey, fellow Republican of Pennsylvania, who committed the apostasy of joining six other GOP senators in voting to convict former president Donald Trump of inciting insurrection.

“We did not send him there to vote his conscience,” Ball said on Monday. “We did not send him there to do the right thing or whatever he said he was doing. We sent him there to represent us.”

Isn't it good that this party official was sincere enough to confess that RepubliKKKans want their representatives to do the wrong thing if it's the RepubliKKKan thing?  And that they're supposed to be without conscience about it?

Edit: HuffPost's article on the same incident includes a "MeToo" Tweet from another representative:

Twitter users seized on Ball’s apparent suggestion that Toomey should have ignored doing “the right thing” and voted to acquit Trump.

“Reminds me of what an Iowa GOP voter said during my primary challenge to Trump,” tweeted former Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh, who ran a long-shot campaign against Trump for the 2020 Republican presidential nomination.

“She asked why I’d run against Trump,” he continued. “I said because it was the right thing to do. She screamed at me ‘We don’t want you to do the right thing. We want you to stand with our President. No matter what!’”