Republican attempts to paint the Democrats as a party rife with sex scandals after Graham Platner suspended his campaign to win Maine Republican Susan Collins’ seat in the U.S. Senate got a thorough beatdown on MS NOW on Thursday morning.
“Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough pointed to Donald Trump’s well-documented history of sexual misconduct accusations, his ties to notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s infidelities and suggested the GOP may want to sit this one out.
With Politico reporting, “Republican National Committee Chair Joe Gruters said that ‘Democrats rolled in the mud with Platner, and now they are completely stained by their association with this sick monster,’” Scarborough was overwhelmed by the hypocrisy.
“I just want to say, really —— I mean, Republicans that are spending their time on Fox News and social media; outrage that Democrats would support, dare support a candidate who was accused of sexual impropriety, even when that candidate vehemently denied that. That is beyond hypocritical.”
“That is, that is just sheer farce,” he exclaimed. “This is, this is even beyond South Park levels of farce. What I am reading on X, what I am reading in social media, what I am seeing on TV after the past decade …”
“And by the way, if you want to talk about morally challenged candidates, you don't have to look at the White House,” he pointed out. “You don't have to look at Republicans bowing and scraping for the past decade. Just look at Texas! Look at who Republicans are behind as they are trying to suggest that [Dem Senate candidate James] Talarico is gay?”
“But look at Paxton, he's not,” the MS NOW host observed. “I mean, the hypocrisy —you know, Republicans should just really just shut up. They really should just shut up. If they're going to be critical of Democrats for supporting a morally challenged candidate or one who has been accused of doing things that are morally challenged, it is so hypocritical, Willie [Geist] and they should just leave this to the Democrats.”