GOP Posts ‘Irishman’ O’Rourke’s Mug Shot On St. Paddy’s: ‘Please Drink Responsibly’

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Former Texas congressman and current Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke was arrested for driving while intoxicated in 1998.

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  1. Avatar for mrf mrf says:

    And in another tweet the RNC blames the Irish for the Great Hunger, praises British landlords for taking their land as well as lecture them about it being the fault of the "takers not the makers”.
    They also give a shout out to the Unionist and notorious anti Catholic bigot Reverend Ian Paisley who received an award from Bob Jones University and was a frequent guest of Senator Jesse Helms.

  2. This is College Republicans-grade thinking right here . . . and, more to the point, a game that can be played with Trump in ways that would be, you know, embarrassing as all get-out.

    But, you know, GOP: You do you.

  3. Avatar for pshah pshah says:

    But did he rape anyone with a friend named Squi? Moralizing doesn’t fit easily with the Party with no morals.

  4. Serious question: Do people of Scotch-Irish background consider themselves Irish at all, or is it more Scottish? It’s a huge ethnic group, very influential on the culture of the U.S., and highly represented in the West and South. Just one more reason for them to have thought about this a bit more.

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