Steve King’s Tweet Was So Bad Even Republicans Are Going After Him
Steve King’s hole is just getting deeper.
After the Congressman tweeted Sunday that, “we can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies,” he came under immediate fire from liberal media and commentators online. An attempt to explain the tweet during a Monday appearance on CNNs New Day failed to stop the bleeding.
Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies. https://t.co/4nxLipafWO
— Steve King (@SteveKingIA) March 12, 2017
Now, it seems, even GOP elected officials and pundits are racing to put distance between themselves and King.
“I do not agree with Congressman King’s statement,” Jeff Kaufmann, the former chairman of the Iowa Republican party said in a statement, The Hill reported. “We are a nation of immigrants, and diversity is the strength of any nation and any community.”
In addition to Kaufmann, King also took heat from his House GOP colleague, Rep. Carlos Curbelo, who even offered King a trollish hashtag.
.@SteveKingIA What exactly do you mean? Do I qualify as “somebody else’s baby?” #concernedGOPcolleague
— Carlos Curbelo (@carloslcurbelo) March 13, 2017
Former Ted Cruz communications director Amanda Carpenter, said she was also starting to spill some of the water she had been carrying for the longtime Iowa Congressman.
Steve King is showing himself to be the person I always denied he was. Please change.
— Amanda Carpenter (@amandacarpenter) March 13, 2017
… And Commentary Editor John Podhoretz was blunter still, calling King “in-bred” and a “moron.”
He means “homogeneous,” but he’s so in-bred he doesn’t know the difference. https://t.co/hfLjBgQQQ9
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) March 13, 2017
Yeah, we’ll never save our culture with children of immigrants, right, Steve King, you moron? https://t.co/xtd3FUbK9j
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) March 13, 2017
The tweet did receive a favorable shout-out from former Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard, David Duke, who retweeted King saying that “sanity reigns supreme in Iowa’s 4th congressional district.”
Just in case you were thinking about moving -> sanity reigns supreme in Iowa’s 4th congressional district.#MakeAmericaGreatAgain https://t.co/RRjTzAzlKw
— David Duke (@DrDavidDuke) March 12, 2017
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