Interesting piece on Usha Vance:
Vance also once touted the notion that parents should have more voting power than people who don’t have kids.
Unlike LBJ? Sure, it’s never been verified, but it’s one of those stories that has legs because people could see LBJ saying it:
Maybe it’s true, maybe it isn’t, but the legend goes like this:
Former President Lyndon B. Johnson was in a tough congressional race and decided to hit his opponent with a nasty a rumor, that the guy’s a pig-fucker. His campaign manager was shocked, he tried to pull him back, he says, “Lyndon, you know he doesn’t do that!” But Johnson shoots back, “I know. I just want to make him deny it.”
Agreed, doesn’t seem unusual.
Actually reminded me of two presidents:
Gerald Ford, born Leslie Lynch King Jr:
After living with her parents for two and a half years, on February 1, 1917, Gardner married Gerald Rudolff Ford, a salesman in a family-owned paint and varnish company. Though never formally adopted, her young son was referred to as Gerald Rudolff Ford Jr. from then on; the name change was formalized on December 3, 1935.[12]
Bill Clinton, born William Jefferson Blythe III:
On August 19, 1946, three months after Blythe’s death, Virginia gave birth to their only child, William Jefferson Blythe III. Bill, as a teen, took his stepfather’s surname and became known as Bill Clinton, the future 42nd president of the United States.
We’re not dolphins.
I respect that he wants porpoise in his life.
I’d want a change from that name too, admittedly.
Yeah, we should bottle(nose) all that right now.
It’s never good when your name is easily turned into a sentence (add a comma after Leslie)
I went to High School with a guy whose first name was Neal and his last name rhymed with a homophobic slur (not sure if it’s appropriate to actually post it).
Oddly, he was a pretty popular guy. But he still got teased about that name.
The remarkable part of the couch story isn’t the claim that he did it. It’s the claim that he bragged about it.
Hey, it’s not like he bragged about doing something horrible to a dog like tying it to the top of the car on a long road trip or shooting it in a quarry.
GOP Senator Lisa Murkowski called out Vance on his “childless cat lady” comment today, saying, “To be so derogatory in this way is offensive to me as a woman.”
LOL! 2x
Moderating:
This is completely inappropriate. It’s sexist, racist and misogynistic. Knock it off.
How much more stuff does this guy have out there? A lot, I bet.
Yeah, thank goodness the Founders didn’t let people like that psycho George Washington anywhere near this country of ours!
Wow. That one is especially bad. Wait, just as bad. Whatever, this weirdo was quite a choice for the ticket. I assume the Joker wasn’t available.
As an old, straight, white, childless male, this is one of the few times I feel like a politician has attacked my demographic. I wonder how this is playing with childless Republicans.