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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsToo many premature Katie Britt obituaries
People keep saying this speech was bad for her career.
I think it's silly assuming, just because her speech was emotionally deranged, riddled with dishonesty, factually dubious, comically manipulative, and tonally bipolar, that this is going to somehow hurt her with the Alabama electorate. If she'd only had to sense to boil an actual bunny in that kitchen set, she'd be a shoe-in for Vice President nominee.
I'd say Supreme Court nominee too, but she's past 40.
Irish_Dem
(48,097 posts)Walleye
(31,156 posts)Irish_Dem
(48,097 posts)Trump knows she is stupid and easy to manipulate.
And young enough to dress the part of a trump woman.
LiberalFighter
(51,389 posts)And she is willing to do it.
Maybe someone should ask her if she is willing to be hanged if Trump tells his followers to do it?
Irish_Dem
(48,097 posts)Make herself a national laughingstock if she thinks it will get votes. Someone told her the speech was a great idea and she agreed.
Trump could play her for even more of a fool. Who knows maybe he gave her the speech.
Bucky
(54,094 posts)Irish_Dem
(48,097 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,574 posts)Irish_Dem
(48,097 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,574 posts)Irish_Dem
(48,097 posts)TwilightZone
(25,518 posts)She brings nothing to the table, pun intended.
The VP candidate will be someone more high profile, but not someone who would overshadow him. He values nothing more than absolute loyalty, so it'll be one of his sycophants. Scott, Stefanik, Noem, Lake, etc.
Walleye
(31,156 posts)hatrack
(59,606 posts)Can't think of anything more likely to cut into the Cletus and Bubba vote than that, and that's pretty much the only voting bloc that the Ambulatory Bag Of Septic Garbage Of The United States has left.
Walleye
(31,156 posts)Cha
(298,087 posts)his Sycophantic ass.
Walleye
(31,156 posts)dmr
(28,364 posts)I've never seen a more craven display of sycophancy in my life
Yes you have, remember TFG sitting around the big oval table with his Cabinet? Fawning all over him? It was disgusting, and kinda funny in a sick kind of way.
Video of this momentous meeting at link.
[link:http://.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/6/12/15784894/trump-cabinet-meeting-praise|]
mobeau69
(11,169 posts)Walleye
(31,156 posts)Bettie
(16,151 posts)I mean, she was not quite as deranged as he is most days, but close enough that he'd recognize a kindred spirit.
Aussie105
(5,500 posts)Can't quite put a label on it.
To be polite though, perhaps she should get a script writer?
And a fact checker of course.
Irish_Dem
(48,097 posts)Irish_Dem
(48,097 posts)She was so labile, exaggerated, nonsensical.
Really poor judgment.
I thought perhaps she had been drinking.
PufPuf23
(8,858 posts)spin the event for her advantage to her ignorant and similarly self-centered supporters.
Many Christian Nationalist young women now view Katie Britt as a role model.
Part of the audience liked and are inspired by Britt's performance art.
hatrack
(59,606 posts).
Bucky
(54,094 posts)She only heavily implied that the brutal rape the anchored her speech was in any way connected to the rest of what she was talking about.
Apparently she wants us to believe that she just happens to break off from her policy speeches to mention brutal sexual assaults as she goes about doing her job.
msongs
(67,504 posts)NanaCat
(1,551 posts)jcgoldie
(11,662 posts)Think. Again.
(8,892 posts)....she's working the rightwing side of the street, so I assume her performance the other night was a boon to her career prospects.
nevergiveup
(4,772 posts)He was suppose to be a rising star in the Republican party but after his disastrous speech he nationally pretty much disappeared into the wordwork.
NanaCat
(1,551 posts)Despite a disastrous SotU, he easily won re-election as governor. It was when he tried to run for POTUS that the SotU speech hurt him. So he did fine with his state's constituents, even if he crashed and burned with people outside the state.
Same thing with Rubio. He's done on the national stage after his SotU flameout, but what consequences has he really faced beyond sacrificing his POTUS aspirations? He's still a Senator, and probably will be for a very long time, given the state he represents.
Britt will undoubtedly win re-election in her Senate race, a statewide office. Like Jindal and Rubio, she won't suffer any consequences for her dishonesty and stupidity in her home state, but she has now hit her ceiling for elected office at the national level.
nevergiveup
(4,772 posts)NanaCat
(1,551 posts)Sorry.
nevergiveup
(4,772 posts)Have a great day!
calimary
(81,608 posts)Much as she really should do EXACTLY that.
jcgoldie
(11,662 posts)Katie Britt''s creepy stepford wife speech won't hurt her one bit in Alabama.
misanthrope
(7,436 posts)The seat held by Tuberville was previously held by Doug Jones. Jones won the 2017 special election to fill Jeff Sessions' seat after Sessions became Trump's AG. Jones won by a scant margin of 49.97 percent to 48.34 percent for ephebophile and federally censured former judge Roy Moore.
At that time, Britt's current seat was filled by longtime Senator Richard Shelby, the man who employed Britt from 2004-2007, then again from 2015-2022.
brooklynite
(95,012 posts)...she'll get re-elected without a problem in 2028.
The only thing that died was her prospect as Trump's VP choice.
Cha
(298,087 posts)ecstatic
(32,798 posts)The first article I saw sealed her fate.
I'm not going to link their crap, but the headline was: Mitt Romney Issues Complete and Total Endorsement of Katie Britt as Vice Presidential Pick.
LOL. I'm not sure if Romney was being serious or not, but trumpers HATE him, so any suggestion from him is met with a lot of suspicion and hate.
Also, some of them openly admitted that Katie did a terrible job in her rebuttal.
Blue Owl
(50,596 posts)bigtree
(86,021 posts)...it's cynicism that assumes this person is politically omnipotent because she's supported by enough cretins to make her relevant in her own creepy way.
The political value for Democrats isn't in Alabama, it's that republicans put her forward as the face and voice of their party. If we can't win campaigns against that representation of our opponents, we're not really trying.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,366 posts)limbicnuminousity
(1,407 posts)She didn't lose credibility with Alabama voters. Alabama lost credibility with the United States.
The voting majority in Alabama seems to want to live in the dark ages. The judges responsible for the IVF ruling are elected. The citizens of Alabama voted for Tuberville. They voted for Britt. Britt may remain in office but it will be over a decaying and declining state that lacks the necessary means to support public education and health. Maybe their god can save them but I expect the American southwest to start looking like it's going through the plagues of Egypt in the coming decades.
Demsrule86
(68,825 posts)BannonsLiver
(16,548 posts)Anyone ever hear his name called lately?