PA-18: Rick Saccone (R) Has Election Eve Meltdown, "Liberals Hate God, Trump, and U.S." & In Totally Unhinged Speech Trump Slobbers Over Foreign Despots While Attacking America's Free Press 13&11MAR18

 

NOT only has the national republican party spent millions on rick saccone's rf PA campaign to hold on to the 18th cong district, the nra has donated also, and saccone has accepted their blood money. And he has the gall to accuse Liberals and Democrats in the 18th cong district of hating our country, God and the president. How can anyone who accepts campaign donations from the nra accuse their opposition of not loving our country? AND GOD? Politically I am a Christian Socialist and I do not hate God. rick saccone accuses Liberals and Democrats of hating God, and in doing so breaks the commandment Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor. saccone's accusation about hating the president? I do not hate NOT MY pres drumpf/trump, NOT MY vp pence and their corrupt administration, I loathe them, but I do not hate them. These 2 articles show just how much saccone is drumpf/trump-pence and visa-versa. From DailyKos.....
PA-18: Rick Saccone (R) Has Election Eve Meltdown, "Liberals Hate God, Trump, and U.S."

Here’s a guy having a meltdown:

Pennsylvania state Rep. Rick Saccone, the Republican candidate in the special election for Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District, reportedly accused the Democratic party of being galvanized by "hatred for our country" and "hatred for God," during a rally in Elizabeth, Pennsylvania on Monday.

Saccone, who was endorsed by and campaigned with President Donald Trump on Saturday, continued the campaign trail with Donald Trump Jr. on the eve of the election.

"They say the other side is energized," Saccone reportedly said. "Let me tell you, they're energized for hate for our president. They have a hatred for our president."

Saccone then suggested that liberals founded their ideals on the basis of hating religion and the US.

"I've talked to so many of these on the left," Saccone said. "And they have a hatred for our president. I tell you, many of them have a hatred for our country."

"I'll tell you some more — my wife and I saw it again today, they have a hatred for God," Saccone continued.

Of course, he’s having a meltdown because he’s losing to Conor Lamb (D. PA-18). Plus, Trump may not be enough for him to win:

The visits were part of a desperate, multi-million dollar Hail Mary by the national Republican Party to avoid another embarrassing loss ahead of this fall’s midterms. The race should be Saccone’s for the taking. The 18th district is a region of shuttered coal mines and steel mills that went for Trump by nearly 20 points in the 2016 presidential election. But Saccone, a 60-year-old Christian conservative who once dubbed himself “Trump before Trump was Trump,” is trailing his opponent, moderate Democrat Conor Lamb, by six points a day ahead of the vote, according to a Monmouth University poll released Monday. According to Politico, Republicans have spent $8 million on television ads alone in the state, twice as much as the Democrats have.

“They’re trying to stave off what the Democrats see as momentum,” Republican strategist Doug Heye says of the Republican push for Saccone. “We tend to over-inflate the meaning of special elections. But in this case, we’ve seen more than twice as many House Republican retirements as Democrats, and we’re hearing lots of concern that if we lose this seat as well, we could see six or seven members pull the plug in the next week.”

Meanwhile, the national media has descended upon the coal towns outside Pittsburgh to cover the election. And the locals — the retired and laid-off miners and steelworkers who have a steep personal investment in the outcome of this race — find themselves annoyed by all the noise.

“This is supposed to be about a congressional race here—what’s important is food stamps, Family and Medical Leave—and it’s all Trump, Trump, Trump!” says Tony Ross, an unemployed steel worker who ventured to the candy shop to see what the commotion was about. He identifies politically as an independent. “It’s like, two scoops of ice cream for Trump, one scoop for the candidate. Isn’t there something wrong with this picture? $11 million dollars, and it’s all about Trump!”

This resentment is shared by Republican political operatives. Last week, Politico cited more than 20 party officials and strategists who bemoaned Saccone’s failings as a candidate. Lamb has raised nearly $4 million dollars; Saccone can boast just one-fifth of that, and has relied heavily on Republican outside groups to bankroll much of his campaign.

“This is supposed to be about a congressional race here—what’s important is food stamps, Family and Medical Leave—and it’s all Trump, Trump, Trump!” says Tony Ross, an unemployed steel worker who ventured to the candy shop to see what the commotion was about. He identifies politically as an independent. “It’s like, two scoops of ice cream for Trump, one scoop for the candidate. Isn’t there something wrong with this picture? $11 million dollars, and it’s all about Trump!”

This resentment is shared by Republican political operatives. Last week, Politico cited more than 20 party officials and strategists who bemoaned Saccone’s failings as a candidate. Lamb has raised nearly $4 million dollars; Saccone can boast just one-fifth of that, and has relied heavily on Republican outside groups to bankroll much of his campaign.

But if Trump can't help, who knows if the NRA's last-minute attempt will save Saccone:

The National Rifle Association has engaged in an under-the-radar spending campaign for Republican candidate Rick Saccone in Pennsylvania’s Tuesday special election.

It is the only federal political spending the pro-gun group has reported since the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., according to FEC reports.

The NRA spent $7,868 in support of Saccone but the money wasn’t seen in a high-profile venture like TV ads or get-out-the-vote efforts. Most of it - $7,532 - was spent on mailings scheduled to be distributed in the district on Monday. The remaining $336 was spent on phone banking earlier this month, according to campaign finance filings.

The group confirmed the existence of the mailer to ABC News but declined to describe it or where it was sent in the 18th Congressional District. The NRA has endorsed Saccone, who has an A+ rating from the group, and has donated $2,450 to his campaign.

In Totally Unhinged Speech Trump Slobbers Over Foreign Despots While Attacking America's Free Press

Trump turns rally for Rick Saccone into a rally against media

 The President of the United States left Washington, D.C. this Saturday, but didn't head south to his luxury Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach as usual. Instead Donald Trump went up to Pennsylvania to deliver a campaign speech on behalf of Rick Saccone, who is at risk of losing to Democrat Conner Lamb next Tuesday in a district that Trump won by twenty points. The rally was reminiscent of Trump's aimless campaign speeches in 2016 where he pontificated like a mad evangelist for an hour or more.

In keeping with his practice of shrieking sermonizing, Trump made a point of attacking what he considers the the scourge of his existence: the media (video below). He rattled off the sort of derogatory slander that would ordinarily be reserved for bitter enemies of all that is righteous. It was a storm of damnation, both personal and broadly general.

For instance, Trump lashed out at NBC's Meet the Press calling it "A show now headed by sleepy eyes Chuck Todd. He's a sleeping son of a bitch, I'll tell ya." Remember, this speech was at a daytime rally with children present. He also went after an unnamed "certain anchor on CNN" who he said was "fake as hell, CNN. The worst. So fake. Fake news." And he wasn't letting NBC off either. He ranted that they were "perhaps worse than CNN, I have to tell you. And MSNBC is horrible." Continuing down that path of raw animosity he called MSNBC "third rate. And NBC, which is horrible. Their newscast, by the way is not doing well. On NBC network. They're heading down the tubes."

This might be a good time to inject some facts into the discussion. NBC's newscast anchored by Lester Holt has won ten consecutive quarters in the key advertising demographic of 25-54 year olds. They were also number one in the most recent sweeps period of February 2018. And their morning news program, the Today Show, topped their competition (ABC's Good Morning America and CBS This Morning) in both the demo and total viewers. As for MSNBC, Rachel Maddow has been beating Trump's BFF Sean Hannity on a regular basis.

But Trump wasn't about to let mere reality interfere with his delusions. He went on to make a ludicrous and utterly nonsensical prediction about the media that he despises so, and which he is convinced hates him. Pointing to the press at the rally he said...

"Six months prior to the election, every one of those guys - 'We really endorse Donald Trump. We think he has to win.' You know why? Because if I don't win the election their ratings are gonna go so far down they're gonna be out of business, every one of them."

WTF is he trying to say here? That the media that he accuses of trying to destroy him will suddenly reason that it's in their interest to support him? If that's true, then why wouldn't they support him now for the same reasons? What's more, he's implying that the media's surging ratings are the result of having him around to attack. Which means that more viewers are watching because they enjoy seeing him get hammered. That's actually true. Every poll shows that Trump has the lowest approval rating of any president ever recorded. So people probably are happy to see him get cut down by responsible journalists whose reporting of Trump's failures is just part their job.

The tone that Trump sets in these rallies is decidedly hostile and un-American. He praises China's Xi Jinping, who just maneuvered himself into being president for life (of which Trump is envious). He declares that he blindly trusts Kim Jong Un's promise to refrain from missile and nuclear testing. He protects Vladimir Putin's Russia from sanctions mandated by Congress as punishment for their election tampering. Trump speaks of these and other anti-democratic tyrants in radiantly glowing terms. But he viciously insults fellow Americans who practice their Constitutionally protected right to freedom of the press. And he thinks that's how to MAGA - or KAG, as he now says (Keep America Gross).