Missouri Republican Hawley decries Democrats' 'mob behavior'

[pstokely]

Source: AP

COLUMBIA (AP) — Missouri's Republican Senate candidate Josh Hawley took a cue from President Donald Trump on Sunday and said Missouri voters are motivated by "mob behavior" by Democrats.

Hawley during an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press" tried to tap into frustration over his Democratic rival Sen. Claire McCaskill's vote against U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation. He said the "debacle" of Kavanaugh's confirmation process is energizing voters ahead of the Nov. 6 election.

"They cannot believe the conduct of these Senate Democrats," Hawley said. "They can't believe the smear campaign that they launched, and by the way, how they drug Dr. Ford through the mud, as well, and now, this mob behavior that we're seeing all over the country. It is motivating folks."

McCaskill said she voted against Kavanaugh largely because of his opinion that anonymous "dark money" spending on issues ads in campaigns should not be curbed.

Read more: https://www.komu.com/news/missouri-republican-hawley-decries-democrats-mob-behavior-

[elleng]

1. They'll try to take this to the bank.

[kimbutgar]

2. I guess he forget the tea party, the Charlottesville white wingers and the Patriot prayer groups.

[deurbano]

4. And the Republican National Convention... and every Trump rally to this day... etc.....

[iluvtennis]

11. Exactly.

[SWBTATTReg]

3. Mob behavior. You are one to talk. Where were you when they were threatening the ACA act and ...

you claim you used it for your one sick child and yet on the other hand you joined the rest of the repug AGs in filing a lawsuit against existing conditions under the ACA. Hypocrite.

Mob rule? To not let someone accused of multiple sexual assaults be nominated and then confirmed to the supreme court?

Mob rule? To let our so called president call the north Korean dictator Kim and the others such as Putin and the crazy guy in the Phil. his buddies?

Mob rule? Protesters under the constitution have every right to protest. As long as they do it peacefully, we're expressing our sacred right to free speech.

Mob rule? What about your Koch money that your campaign is using so eagerly? What about the lies your campaign ads keep harping on about Claire McCaskill?

Mob rule? The way you all (repugs) treated these victims who didn't come out for monetary gain but to actually inform the nation of these sexual assaults? How would you feel if someone attacked your wife in the same manner?

Mob rule? The only rules you'll follow obviously are those of the immoral repug party, currently ruled by a mad man and sexual predator himself.

Mob rule? If I recall, your party is allowing kids to be separated from their families over border issues and still hasn't returned the children to their parents. You can't even find them.

I guess if you want to call us acting on our first amendment rights as mob behavior, go ahead. This mob is wipe your ass off the map. I'll be pleased when we, the voters of MO wipe that smug smile off your face, especially since you promised you wouldn't run for another office and here you already are, running for senate and you haven't been in your AG job in MO for 1.5 years yet, or that you complained that Claire was going out of state to raise money and you did the same thing, hypocrite.

You are a joke.

[certainot]

5. until dems stop ignoring talk radio they get to decide who the mob is

[UpInArms]

6. Huh?

Sounds a lot like word vomit

[jmbar2]

7. They're trying to divert attention from Trump's mobbed up crime family

by emphasizing the alternative meaning of mob.

Don't let 'em. Emphasize Trump's mobbed up crime family at every opportunity.

[iluvtennis]

12. +++ agree.

[tazkcmo]

8. MTP

Helping the GOP remain in power with free air time for the MO AG suing to eliminate pre-existing conditions coverage. I hate that program.

[Trust Buster]

9. As usual, they only have fear to run on.

[dhill926]

10. Project much ya fuckstick...

[iluvtennis]

13. Exactly.

[MrQRO]

14. What annoys me is...

That the Dem. party is just letting this "mob" BS sit.
There's no push back that exercising the 1st amendment does not a mob make...
Or, that when the "other side" took to the streets, aka the "Tea Party" it was A-OK...
Remember when the Repubs were the "Constitution" people???
I'm not a politico and I could come up with 100 counter ads, talking points, or attacks over
this utter horse shite!! But, no.... Silence from our friends in "D" world! HUH!?!

This is the usual snatching defeat from the jaws of victory crap that makes me insane!
The Repugs find a meme, talking point, and TV ad, in everything!!! AND there is NEVER
a counter, or a similar strategy in counterpoise!

I truly am beginning to believe that the D party is really just the sheepdog for the R, and
it's all a game! They can't really be this dumb!

Yeah, OK... We're all just an angry, Venezuelan, socialist, gang of thugs, who want lawlessness & disorder!
Let's just let that framework stand! No pushback.. Cuz.... Peace Ya'll?

As always.... SMH!

[Cosmocat]

15. YEP

How GD hard is it to do a video of trump rallies showing them scream lock her up for Hillary and Feinstein, any one of a dozen clips of trump saying smashes head off the door, he'll pay anyone who gets arrested for beating someone up if his rallies, and cut a commercial?
How hard is it for elected Democrats, in the usual Suspects on cable news, to just simply mention these things, the congressman from New York who threatened to throw a reporter over a railing, the congressman in Montana I think it was it actually punched out a reporter.

[beachbum bob]

16. the new meme by GOP, we are mobs....good. Lets show them

[forgotmylogin]

17. Projection. TRMP brought the alt right and the supremacists out of the woodwork. (n/t)

[Progressive Jones]

18. At least Dem angry mobs are made up of literate serial bathers,

unlike the folks at Trump's Body Odor Fests For Angry Slobs.

[ck4829]

19. Hmm...