Lunchbucket Joe has stepped in it again by comparing President Trump to an infamous segregationist Democrat only to have it blow up in his face.
Rushing to pile onto Trump over the hysterical overreaction to a chant of “send her back” in reference to controversial Rep. Ilhan Omar at a North Carolina rally, the ex-veep invoked former Alabama Governor George Wallace in a jab at the POTUS.
New: @JoeBiden compares Trump rally chants of "Send her back!" to George Wallace and calls it "despicable" [via @ThisAlexTin @CBSNews] pic.twitter.com/iL5gkyh5Wr
— Bo Erickson (@BoKnowsNews) July 18, 2019
According to Biden, “..the fact of the matter is this president is more George Wallace than George Washington.”
The applause line went over well with the black voters at the Los Angeles campaign event that he was speaking to but the human gaffe machine failed to realize that it was a major blunder that would have best remained unsaid.
There was one major problem; it didn’t take long before an interview with a younger Biden speaking in glowing terms about Wallace back in 1975 was dug up.
According to Biden at the time, the Democrats “needed” a liberal George Wallace which when taken with his accolades for Sens James Eastland and Herman Talmadge isn’t going to sit well with woke Twitter – let alone his fellow contestants for the nomination.
JUST IN: @JoeBiden once said Democrats needed 'a liberal George Wallace'https://t.co/kwrPkDZzfm
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) February 7, 2019
Via The Washington Examiner, “Joe Biden once said Democrats needed ‘a liberal George Wallace'”:
Former Vice President Joe Biden, who has been emphasizing his civil rights record as he considers a 2020 White House bid, once praised notorious segregationist George Wallace and later claimed to have received an award from him.
“I think the Democratic Party could stand a liberal George Wallace — someone who’s not afraid to stand up and offend people, someone who wouldn’t pander but would say what the American people know in their gut is right,” Biden told the Philadelphia Enquirer on Oct. 12, 1975, referring to the racist then-Alabama governor.
During 1987 fundraising trips across the South for his unsuccessful 1988 presidential bid, he sought to appeal to white voters, telling audiences that he had received an award from Wallace in 1973 and that the segregationist had lauded him as “one of the outstanding young politicians of America.”
“campaigning in Alabama in April, Biden talked of his sympathy for the South; bragged of an award he had received from George Wallace in 1973 and said ‘we (Delawareans) were on the South's side in the Civil War.’” – Philadelphia Inquirer, September 20, 1987 pic.twitter.com/8G7NL2fSoR
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) July 18, 2019
Not only did he sing Wallace’s praises, but he also received an award from a man who was widely regarded as one of the most overtly racist politicians of his time and who hailed the up and coming Biden as “one of the outstanding young politicians of America.”
In words that have lived in infamy, Wallace’s rallying cry of “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever” are about to get an airing for a new generation.
Wallace was also a Democrat.
This doesn’t bode well for Biden who has been matched up against both Kamala Harris and Cory Booker, the two flamethrowing race-baiters who have already scored points against him over his praise of those Dixiecrats who he used to yuck it up with back in the good old days.
Look for the two black presidential hopefuls to be ready to rumble on July 31 in Detroit with CNN providing the coverage for what may be Biden’s last stand because they are going to give him the tag team treatment.
You have to give one thing to the former vice president, he is consistent and can always be relied on to put his foot into his mouth.
