Will The GOP Call Timmy "Woke"?

I'm not woke.

Most Republicans want a candidate that "owns the libs." It means that many of these voters are concerned about culture wars and pissing off Democrats.

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) is officially running for president. He has gotten an endorsement from Sen. John Thune (R-SD) and Oracle's Larry Ellison. Ellison is putting some mega bucks into the Republican. The South Carolina senator is the only African American Republican in the current session.

But will Republicans back the Black guy?

Will Black America support a man who grew up in poverty to become a senator?

I strongly doubt it.

Known for his optimistic outlook, Scott, 57, told the stories of his grandfather, who once picked cotton in the Jim Crow South but later saw his grandson ascend to a seat in Congress, and his single mother, who worked 16-hour days as a nurse’s aide to support his family.  

His grandfather, he said, had a “stubborn faith in God, in himself and faith in what America would be. He looked beyond the pain of his present, and he saw the promise of his future.” And his mother’s work ethic “taught me that there is dignity in all work.”

Interwoven into Scott’s anecdotes about inspiration were attacks on Biden and Democrats. To name a few, he criticized them for allowing “waitresses and mechanics” to help pay for the student loan forgiveness “of lawyers and doctors making six figures,” for having weak border policies that allow migrants and fentanyl to pour into the country, and for “demonizing, demoralizing and defunding the police.”

He said, under President Joe Biden, the country  is “retreating” from patriotism, religious liberty, security, dignity in work, excellence in schools and more. 

Scott did not mention Trump or any of his other competitors for the GOP nomination, but he said he believes he’s the candidate “the far-left fears the most.”

“When I cut your taxes, they called me a prop,” he said. “When I refunded the police, they called me a token. When I pushed back on President Biden, they even called me the N-word. I disrupt their narrative. I threaten their control. The truth of my life disrupts their lives.” 

Scott said if he were elected president, he’d secure the Southwest border, including by completing the wall started under Trump; win the economic competition against China; strengthen the economy; and bolster the military. 

He pointed to his role as one of the lead authors in the 2017 Republican tax reform law. The legislation, he said, cut taxes for families, brought jobs and investment back from overseas and created “opportunity zones,” which are state-designated, economically distressed communities ripe for investment.

“That was just one bill,” Scott said. “Imagine what we could do with an entire agenda.”

Scott also said he would require every able-bodied American to work and give parents a greater choice in the schools their children attend and a voice in their curriculum.

Scott repeated a declaration he famously made in a televised 2021 speech following Biden’s first joint address of Congress when the South Carolina senator said, “America is not a racist country.”

“I'm living proof that America is the land of opportunity and not a land of oppression.”

He also said, “We need to stop canceling our Founding Fathers” — many of whom owned slaves — “and start celebrating them for the geniuses that they were.”

“They weren't perfect, but they believed that we could become a more perfect union,” Scott said.

He can trash Biden all he want and say he is a conservative but the white nationalists who backed Washed Up 45 see him as "woke."

He has to walk a fine line which is difficult. He supported Washed Up 45 for 2024 before he decided to enter the race. He backed almost every policy including the confirmations of Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. 

Many of these candidates owe their reelection victories to the former president. The former president's nationalist and pro-white agenda has touched millions and it appears not to be waning.

Mind you, the junk food media continues to talk about him. Even the progressive agitators are still obsessed with Washed Up 45 and not defending Biden's agenda.

Mushmouth.

Biden is getting low approval despite him delivering jobs and focusing on bringing down debt. But he is tasked to clean up the messes of Washed Up 45 and Republicans like Scott.

Scott along with Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) tried to pass the George Floyd Policing Act. Republicans are blocking it. 

It was previous worked on by Kamala Harris, now current Vice President of the United States. Scott, Booker and Harris tried to pass it in 2020. They also tried to passing voting rights legislation.

Scott walked away from both of these.

Scott opposes statehood for Washington, DC and Puerto Rico. He believes it gives Democrats an advantage. Republicans have expressed racism when describing why they oppose statehood and voting rights. Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia have a non-white majority population and are larger than seven states. Of those states, Republicans control. He opposes voting in presidential elections for permenant residents living  American Samoa, Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands.

Scott is considered a long shot candidate. He as well as former governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley and former Arkansas governor Asa Hutchison polling at 1%. Vivek Ramaswamy is polling at 2%. Larry Elder is polling at 0.9%. Washed Up 45 has at least 58% of the vote. Current Florida governor Ron DeSantis who will join this week is polling at 28%. 

Scott reminds me of Mushmouth from Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids. It all came to me when I looked at Twitter and someone who is a Black extremist who tagged him as the Mushmouth senator from South Carolina.