I’m cutting him some slack on the tattoo. I had never heard of this Nazi symbol before.
I'm willing to cut him some slack on the tattoo - when he was young.
Given his own campaign manager resigned after not only finding out about the tattoo but he also got found out
posting stuff on Reddit such as:
He wondered why Black people don’t tip. He blamed women who had been raped for getting too drunk. He casually used homophobic slurs and insulting language for people with disabilities. He called all cops “bastards” and rural white people “racist” and “stupid.” And he called himself a communist and member of the Democratic Socialists of America.
For 11 years now, we've all been subject to - AND I AGREE WITH THIS - with "why won't Republicans speak out against Trump, protect the guardrails, stand up for what's right" - and now the same people who were saying that have the opportunity to strangle a campaign that could do the same thing to their own party in its cradle, they act like Kay Ivey's "well, I want a Republican Senator" when giving Roy Moore a pass.
If this was as simple as "well, he got a tattoo and didn't know it's symbolism," I'd be on his side. And I AM on his side in that he appears to be an honorably discharged veteran suffering from PTSD in his service in the "forever wars" of the Bush administration. But he compounded that goof with the kinds of posts that (IMHO rightly) kept a Tidefans poster from getting appointed a judge, his excuse on why he didn't remove it ("I'm not near a tattoo removal parlor") rings hollow, and it's not just isolated to the one thing.
Throw in the fact this guy was an accomplished actor as a child, and I have to wonder how much of anything he says is truthful.
So yes, I agree that if it was just this one thing, young folks do make mistakes.
Problem is - it isn't just this one thing. It almost never is.
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