I know why the GOP likes George Santos so much

[jmowreader]

There’s an old joke about a police officer lying in ambush outside a bar. About 2:30 am he sees a guy stagger out of the tavern, drop his keys on the ground, scratch up the door of his old shitbox trying to get in, and head toward the exit to the parking lot weaving around. The cop pulls him and finds he’s absolutely sober. “Officer, I’m the designated decoy.”

George Santos is too fucking stupid to be anything but a distraction. While we over here are having fun at this guy’s expense - and it is fun - the professional criminals in the GOP are criming unhindered.

Keep one eye on George Santos because it’s a guilty pleasure…and the other on the Trumps.

[2naSalit]

1. K&R

[agingdem]

2. Nah..he's a shape-shifting fabulist...

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the guy isn't stupid...he understood the GOP has an inclusion problem and so he morphed into the perfect big tent "token"... gay, Jewish, hispanic, immigrant, educated, Wall Street, money, charitable...George Santos is Donald Trump's "love child"

[TexasBushwhacker]

8. If he's gay, I expected him to dress better /s

His glasses look like they came from the bargain bin at Nerds-R-Us.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Yes, the GOP/Russians are installing foolish, cartoonish candidates.

To make the US look weak and ridiculous. And to distract and create chaos.
These candidates are also quite easy to manipulate.

[Rebl2]

6. Yep on all

five counts!

[Lochloosa]

4. Designated decoy////

[Jarqui]

5. That is how I see Trump

A distraction that protects Gov DeGenocidis from more media attention

[Upthevibe]

7. Kick. N/T

[Silent3]

9. If he loses his seat one way or another because of this...

...(it won't be by Republicans having the decency to get rid of him themselves) it'll make Republican's already-slim margin in the House painfully slimmer. They wouldn't deliberately set themselves up for that, probably not even when they were feeling sure of a bigger margin.

Nah, this is just a natural outcome of how Republican politics has been going. Of course someone was going to come along, see how much lying Trump got away with, and see if they could top that.

[Rhiannon12866]

10. And that's the reason the Republicans are keeping silent on his egregious behavior

It's all about power for them and they'll do anything to keep any Republican in their seat.

[Silent3]

11. To be fair, if Democrats were, say, one seat away from losing the House or the Senate...

...we'd be slower to condemn someone who fucked up big time too. Not as bad as Republicans are, but imagine losing all of the Biden judicial nominees for the next two years if we booted one (yes, it current would take two) Democrat out of the Senate.

You'd have to ask yourself if it would be worth it. If we'd been one seat short in the Senate the past two years, think of all the good things Biden got done that wouldn't have happened.

[Rhiannon12866]

12. Agreed, the only thing is, if a Democratic candidate got caught with one lie, let alone a biography

It would have made headlines and Fox "News" would be taking about nothing else well before the election.