GOP's Saint Patrick's Day Tweet of Beto's Mugshot So Bad People Can't Believe It: 'No This Didn't...

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GOP’s Saint Patrick’s Day Tweet of Beto’s Mugshot So Bad People Can’t Believe It: ‘No This Didn’t Happen’

by Caleb Howe | Mar 17th, 2019, 3:01 pm

Today is St. Patrick’s Day, and to celebrate, the official GOP Twitter account started a huge backlash and engendered sympathy for a Democrat candidate for 2020 who was otherwise not having a great week: Beto O’Rourke.

The amazingly ill-advised tweet, complete with mugshot given photoshop treatment, went out just after noon, and the last two hours have been almost exclusively negative reactions from prominent accounts on both the left and the right. Smooth.

Here’s the offending tweet:

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https://www.mediaite.com/online/gops-saint-patricks-day-tweet-of-betos-mugshot-so-bad-people-cant-believe-it-no-this-didnt-happen/

[dalton99a]

1. They are scared.

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. Yikes, so any Democrat with an Irish surname is an irresponsible drunk?

Tell that to Brett (I like beer!) Kavanaugh.

[Tipperary]

8. I think they were referring to his DUI arrest.

They took advantage of his Irish heritage and St. Patrick’s Day to make this stupid tweet. But this is going to come up again and again.

[greatauntoftriplets]

9. Ah, thanks. I didn't know he had a DUI.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. They ran out of brown people to demonize so they decided to take on the Irish. Again.

So, having used up all the slurs against black and brown people, who's the next group of white people after the Irish to insult, like in the good ol' days? Italians? Poles? Maybe even German-Americans, who got an awful lot of grief during WWI and for quite awhile afterwards. Of course, Germans include Trump, although for awhile he claimed to be Swedish, but Scandinavians were also discriminated against when they first immigrated because many were just poor farmhands. GOP, your base is getting smaller and smaller...

[jberryhill]

7. No no no... making fun of the Irish is not bigotry...

It’s a tradition! Denigrating the Irish is part of our heritage as a nation.

If you do it long enough, it’s a “traditional custom”.

[nolabear]

4. Way to alienate, idiots. Keep talking...

WTF was the point of this? To get Repubs to oppose him? Do they think Democrats are clueless and will fall for this kind of idiocy?

They think we’re the bsing bullies they are.

[MustLoveBeagles]

13. They think we're as stupid as they are

[R B Garr]

5. The Bush/Cheney gang had about 7 DUI's between the

two of them. I think I remember that number. Cheney had about 4...? Didn’t that affect why he got out of Vietnam. I forget all the details of those stories now.

[ucrdem]

6. Wow

Stay out of Dallas motorcades Beto . . .

[JI7]

10. he has an attractive mugshot

[Gothmog]

11. Trump is scared of Beto

Link to tweet

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[R B Garr]

14. Yes, Trump is not the only one. BS also. nt

[JDC]

12. I haven't seen their Matt Gaetz post yet. Which DUI pic to post I wonder

The GOP is just human trash.

[DesertRat]

15. And hours later, this offensive drunken Irish trope is still up

The GOPs prejudice knows no bounds.