Madison Cawthorn’s Getting A Trip To the Cornfield

Andrew Donaldson

Born and raised in West Virginia, Andrew has since lived and traveled around the world several times over. Though frequently writing about politics out of a sense of duty and love of country, most of the time he would prefer discussions on history, culture, occasionally nerding on aviation, and his amateur foodie tendencies. He can usually be found misspelling/misusing words on Twitter @four4thefire and his food writing website Yonder and Home. Andrew is the host of Heard Tell podcast.

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  1. Kazzy says:

    There were also the leaked photos of him in lingerie, which do seem to be pretty obviously to be some sort of gag event but which nonetheless seem intended to smear him, especially among conservatives. Curious.

    I was a little surprised that his allegations about the cocaine and orgies just seemed so summarily dismissed. I mean, the guy isn’t exactly trust worthy but… neither are any of the folks he seemed to be talking about. I don’t necessarily believe him… but I’m also not necessarily convinced he was lying. Unless I missed it, it doesn’t seem anyone actually tried to dig into the veracity of the comments.

    Either way, I agree with the thrust of your article. The GOP wants Cawthorne to go away but not necessarily for the right reasons. And rather than use their actual power to make him go away, they’re sort of just hoping to wish him away.Report

  2. InMD says:

    One of the more interesting trends during my lifetime has been watching the Republicans go from a bunch of stodgy suits and religious types to the home of the most truly bizarre people on the national political stage.Report

    • Philip H in reply to InMD says:

      When you remember that they have spent 40 years trying to consolidate power so only they win, its not that hard to see how Cawthorne or MTG or Lauren Boebert get elected. Because the end point is power, not competence.Report

  3. Philip H says:

    Yet another instance where Republicans are cowards and Democrats have no willingness to call them such. Color me shocked.Report

  4. Chip Daniels says:

    This is yet another data point illustrating why I refuse to regard the Republicans as a normal political party.
    Instead they are an insurrectionist faction, dedicated to gaining power itself by any means.

    The thuggish threats, the bullying, the vicious hate-fests against the outcasts and vulnerable aren’t deviations from their proclaimed values, they ARE their proclaimed values.Report

  5. CJColucci says:

    Where is Richard Widmark when we need him?Report

  6. Chip Daniels says:

    Appears we’re in “dead girl/ live boy” territory here:

    ‘I would like to see a naked body beneath my hands.’ GOP Rep Madison Cawthorn is caught on video with male scheduler’s hand on his crotch
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10764209/GOP-Rep-Madison-Cawthorn-caught-video-male-staff-members-hand-crotch.html

    It’s the Daily Mail, so there’s a decent chance the story’s a lie, but it’s a Republican, so there’s a decent chance its true.

    Historians will recall this as the Night Of The Long Sporks.Report

  7. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said that the North Carolina congressman “did not tell the truth. That’s unacceptable.”

    No comment necessary.Report

  8. Jesse says:

    As Southpaw said on Twitter, this shows the Establishment always had the levels to pull on Trump, they just chose not to use them.Report

  9. Pinky says:

    Is it time for a BSDI argument? I hate those if they’re a defense of an action. But they’re legitimate if they’re against the claim that only one side does it. InMD, Philip H, and Chip don’t say that only the Republicans do it, but it seems implied by the fact that they’re not complaining about how bad Congress is in general.

    So I have to bring up Ilhan Omar. Not because of her politics, but because of her tax irregularities, anti-Semitism, seeming hand-waving of 9/11, rumors about her brother, and marriage to a political consultant that her campaign had paid. Her anti-Semitic comments were nearly condemned by the House, but the Democrats massaged it into a broad condemnation of bad things in general.Report

    • Philip H in reply to Pinky says:

      When Dems in Congress do things that we believe are bad, we complain. we also check facts before we wave arms, which is why we don’t wave much about Rep. Omar since everything you note have been extensively investigated and debunked publicly.

      If you are going to BSDI here, please share which Democratic congresspersons have repeatedly carried loaded guns through TSA check points while impugning the character of their fellow representatives regarding orgies and drugs, after making inflammatory remarks about using physical violence against people they disagree with from a policy perspective?Report

      • Pinky in reply to Philip H says:

        I’ll grant you that you personally are willing to criticize Democrats.

        No Democrat has committed the specific claims against Cawthorn. Your position was that Republicans favor power over competence, and on that general point, BSDI.Report

        • Philip H in reply to Pinky says:

          Republicans do favor power over competence. That’s why MGT won’t suffer any punishment for saying the catholic church is under Satan’s influence because it cares for refugees and migrants. That’s why Cawthorn won’t be censured or run out of congress (unlike Al Franken). And its why Kevin McCarthy continuously beclowns himself trying to get the House Speakership.Report

    • InMD in reply to Pinky says:

      I don’t know that I’d vote for her in a primary but I think a lot of her comments on Israel and the ME/terrorism produce some much needed discussion on substantive issues of foreign policy.Report

    • Chip Daniels in reply to Pinky says:

      There’s one Ilhan Omar in the Democratic Party.
      There are about 70 million Tucker Carlsons in the GOP.

      By that, I mean the sort of people who call the attempted overthrow of a free election, a “kerfuffle.”Report

      • Pinky in reply to Chip Daniels says:

        * For fans of continuity: someone made a reference to Jan 6th as, I don’t remember, but something other than an insurrection. Someone else called that out. I commented that Andrew Klavan refers to Jan 6th as a “kerfuffle”. It looks like that conversation was pulled; I’d guess due to the trolling nature of the initial comment. *

        We’ve talked about Jan 6th before, I’m sure. I consider it in substance an insurrection, in action a riot, and in potential impact a kerfuffle. It delayed the election certification by a few hours; at the worst, it could have done so for a day. I think it’s important to call it an insurrection, but it’s also important to mock that label, because it bestows a gravity on the situation that it just didn’t have. It was nothing like the Civil War or 9/11, as some have tried to paint it, and I worry that foreigners and low-information Americans might start to believe that nonsense.

        Anyway, following the BSDI rules, I’ll say that there’s one Madison Cawthorn in the Republican Party, and about 70 million Cenks, Stelters, and Whoopis.Report