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Judi Lynn

(164,047 posts)
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 04:37 PM Jan 2021

Loeffler Sinks to Last-Ditch 'Child Abuse' Accusations Against Warnock

Source: Daily Beast

Sam Brodey 1 hr ago

CUMMING, Ga.—With three days to go before the runoff election to decide control of the U.S. Senate, Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA)—who has run a relentlessly negative campaign against her Democratic challenger, pastor Raphael Warnock—is throwing out the harshest and most personal attacks seen so far in this already-heated race.

At a campaign stop Saturday morning in Cumming, a town in the conservative northern exurbs of Atlanta, Loeffler accused Warnock of being “involved in child abuse, domestic abuse—he’s hiding out, he won’t answer those questions.”

That line drew cheers from the crowd—and from one man, the familiar Trump-era refrain reserved for the most hated political figures: “Lock him up!”

The senator then said that “Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer” contributed to Warnock’s campaign. “I don’t think that’s a coincidence,” she added. Loeffler was likely referring to David Boies, the prominent attorney who has previously represented Weinstein. Boies has donated to a PAC supporting Georgia Democrats but not to Warnock’s campaign specifically, according to federal records.

In making the explosive charges, Loeffler was referring to a pair of events that have defined the GOP’s effort to attack Warnock’s character.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/loeffler-sinks-to-last-ditch-child-abuse-accusations-against-warnock/ar-BB1cqeRh?ocid=msedgntp&li=BBnb7Kz

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Loeffler Sinks to Last-Ditch 'Child Abuse' Accusations Against Warnock (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jan 2021 OP
He needs to sue her. So far over the line. onecaliberal Jan 2021 #1
Better yet. Go confront her. Don't let this stand unchallenged. Funtatlaguy Jan 2021 #2
hit back twice as hard.... dhill926 Jan 2021 #3
I am getting really sick of the "everyone I don't agree with is a child abusing pedophile" argument. Initech Jan 2021 #4
Yup. LiberalLovinLug Jan 2021 #24
What makes it even worse is that there's no base for it. Initech Jan 2021 #26
Fuck the Republican Party. BlueStater Jan 2021 #5
agreed Evolve Dammit Jan 2021 #21
Ratcheting up the destruction to engage an increasingly insane base BeyondGeography Jan 2021 #6
She forgot pedophile Bayard Jan 2021 #7
She's shot her wad. She's got nothing left now. no_hypocrisy Jan 2021 #8
After watching her debate performance, I don't think she had anything to begin with.... AZ8theist Jan 2021 #18
She knows it is difficult for a black man to fight back hard against a white woman's lies. Tommymac Jan 2021 #9
She is channeling Mayelle Ewell ... Miigwech Jan 2021 #19
Will Majority white people vote for this ? JI7 Jan 2021 #10
Yes. dawg Jan 2021 #17
This was her last chance smear. She knows she losing. n/t Peregrine Took Jan 2021 #11
Miserable Cow. BlueIdaho Jan 2021 #12
Nazi wench TeamPooka Jan 2021 #13
Her fat old husband....Sprecher...... Ziggysmom Jan 2021 #14
So, that's a false accusation about Warnock allegedly running over his ex-wife's foot versus... LudwigPastorius Jan 2021 #15
This should be a shoe-in mdbl Jan 2021 #16
Sen. Kelly Loeffler? Aussie105 Jan 2021 #20
Covid-19 death count goes up daily, as Republicans sink lower. Tragic, and disgusting. n/t Judi Lynn Jan 2021 #22
Loafer the Gofer Kid Berwyn Jan 2021 #23
Has she answered questions about profiting off COVID-19 TexasBushwhacker Jan 2021 #25
In the 2006 Senate election in Vermont "he's coddling child abusers" heckles65 Jan 2021 #27

Initech

(107,258 posts)
4. I am getting really sick of the "everyone I don't agree with is a child abusing pedophile" argument.
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 05:16 PM
Jan 2021

Really, it needs to die.

LiberalLovinLug

(14,566 posts)
24. Yup.
Sun Jan 3, 2021, 03:32 PM
Jan 2021

Its obviously because child sexual abuse is regarded as the only thing worst than premeditated murder. They just reach down and stretch to the very bottom of the barrel to find the very worst charge they can. That by even uttering it, even accusing someone of it, can stain the targeted person.

Initech

(107,258 posts)
26. What makes it even worse is that there's no base for it.
Sun Jan 3, 2021, 07:09 PM
Jan 2021

They just throw it out there and hope that it sticks. And they just stoop to the worst thing imaginable.

BlueStater

(7,596 posts)
5. Fuck the Republican Party.
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 05:35 PM
Jan 2021

As much as I’d like to say that Trump corrupted it, all I think he did was uncover what was already there.

BeyondGeography

(40,794 posts)
6. Ratcheting up the destruction to engage an increasingly insane base
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 05:58 PM
Jan 2021

Your modern Republican Party at work.

Tommymac

(7,334 posts)
9. She knows it is difficult for a black man to fight back hard against a white woman's lies.
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 06:42 PM
Jan 2021

He cannot show anger. Not in the South.

This is the tragedy of the South since the Civil War. Jim Crow comes down to "They want our women."

His campaign needs to sternly deny this dispassionately, immediately and forcefully.

Fucking UGLY ass Witch.

 

Miigwech

(3,741 posts)
19. She is channeling Mayelle Ewell ...
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 09:36 PM
Jan 2021

Someone else has to kick the shit out of her (figuratively) for him!

Ziggysmom

(4,022 posts)
14. Her fat old husband....Sprecher......
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 07:28 PM
Jan 2021

Owns Intercontinental Exchange, a company that operates the New York Stock Exchange and other marketplaces for securities and commodities. Sprecher is the company’s CEO.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST ANYONE???

LudwigPastorius

(14,081 posts)
15. So, that's a false accusation about Warnock allegedly running over his ex-wife's foot versus...
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 08:07 PM
Jan 2021

Loeffler actually campaigning multiple times with a Neo-Nazi and a QAnon conspiracy theorist?

You're going down, KKKelly.

mdbl

(8,040 posts)
16. This should be a shoe-in
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 08:19 PM
Jan 2021

everything Kelly and David are accusing their opponents of are things they all love about trump so warnock and ossof will get all the repug votes, right? LOL hypocritical assholes.

Aussie105

(7,572 posts)
20. Sen. Kelly Loeffler?
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 10:08 PM
Jan 2021

Not fit to be a senator. (Voters, make it so.)

Not fit to be a member of the human race. (Membership hereby revoked.)

Does she sound stressed? She sounds stressed to me. (See a doctor. They have medicines for that.)

I wonder what is causing the stress? (See a therapist or shrink. Don't talk again until you have cleaned up your act.)

Sad to see US politics descending into the gutter and looking for yet more low points to sink to.

Judi Lynn

(164,047 posts)
22. Covid-19 death count goes up daily, as Republicans sink lower. Tragic, and disgusting. n/t
Sat Jan 2, 2021, 11:16 PM
Jan 2021

TexasBushwhacker

(21,089 posts)
25. Has she answered questions about profiting off COVID-19
Sun Jan 3, 2021, 06:24 PM
Jan 2021

information or how she got the value of her mansion dropped by over 50% when surrounding properties values went up?

heckles65

(630 posts)
27. In the 2006 Senate election in Vermont "he's coddling child abusers"
Mon Jan 4, 2021, 09:50 AM
Jan 2021

was the last-ditch campaign line of Rich Tarrant's campaign against Bernie Sanders. It didn't work.

As many issues as I've had with Bernie, I am much happier having him represent my state in the Senate than Tarrant, a complete nobody-with-money who would be one more abject servant for Mitch McConnell.

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