1srelluc
Diamond Member
Democrats simply cannot or will not find a normal candidate to run in competitive or hostile Senate races. That leads to candidates such as Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico, who have to run away from their bizarre past comments to avoid alienating voters.
On paper, the Senate race in Texas should at least be competitive. Attorney General Ken Paxton won the GOP nomination for the seat, carrying his political baggage into the general election. He is exactly the kind of candidate Democrats hope to see in races such as this. All it would take to make the race a real nailbiter would be a normal, sensible Democrat who broadly appeals to normal Texans.
Instead, Democrats chose Talarico, a dyed-in-the-wool progressive who would be a better fit to represent the most Democratic areas of San Francisco. Democrats and Talarico are trying to distance him from comments he made just a few years ago, including his comments that God is nonbinary, which he made in support of the idea that there are six biological sexes. Talarico has since admitted that his comments were “intentionally provocative,” “missed the mark,” and that he certainly regrets them, though he continues to contort Christianity to endorse his far-left positions on transgender people and abortion.
In his 2022 Texas House of Representatives campaign, Talarico said ending meat consumption was necessary to save the planet from the “existential” threat of climate change and implied that it was immoral to eat meat because it means you don’t “respect animals in all aspects of society.” He declared his 2022 campaign to be a vegan campaign. Now that he’s running in a statewide race, though, the Democratic Party is posting cringey, staged photos of him eating meat while wearing a Texas flag shirt to make him seem more stereotypically Texan.
Well, it could be accurately stated that all dem hopefuls are a bit "off". Talarico seems perfectly creepy enough to fit right in with the rest.
