At a casino bingo hall in southwestern Colorado, Lauren Boebert, a Republican congresswoman, bounced her 6-month-old grandson on her knee.
“The election’s still a ways away,” she said as the guests arriving for the Montezuma County Republican Party’s annual Lincoln Day dinner trickled into the room. “And in talking with people at events like this, you know, it seems like there’s a lot of mercy and a lot of grace.”
The month before, Boebert, then in the midst of finalizing a divorce, was caught on a security camera vaping and groping her date shortly before being ejected from a performance of the musical “Beetlejuice” at the Buell Theater in Denver for causing a disturbance. The footage contradicted her own initial claims about the incident, and the venue’s statement that Boebert had demanded preferential treatment added to the outrage.
Reminder: This woman is 36 years old.
Now now, let’s not shame young mothers. Let’s shame her hypocrisy.
Doesn’t that hypocrisy include abstinence until marriage? Because that’s sure not what happened with her son.
Don’t forget being a part of the party that works to remove social nets and support systems for young parents.
In general, I don’t think it’s rational to judge people for the choices their offspring make.
I think it’s very rational to judge people’s parenting ability.
Do I judge her because she’s a 36 year old grandmother, generally no. Do I judge her because of her consistent stream of poor choices and hypocritical bullshit that has led her to becoming a 36 year old grandmother? Absolutely.
Look shit happens, you’re not necessarily a bad person if your kid makes a poor choice and now has their own kid. You are a bad person if you can do all of those things and then try to pretend like you are some pious Christian that gets to lord over everyone else. She can get fucked. I hope she gets demolished in the election and fades into obscurity.
That’s a red herring. She’s not an awful person for being a grandmother at 36. She’s an awful person for being a hypocrite.
To simplify even further, she’s just an awful person.
She’s just awful.
I mean her son is just following in her footsteps. She was 18 when she had him and apparently learned nothing from it to teach her son. At least that’s what I assumed we were talking about here.
That’s ultimately a nature vs nurture question though, right? Even if you argue she was deficient in her parenting, I doubt anyone will place the choices of her adult child 100% on her. Do you follow all the same paths of your parents? I sure don’t…
Sorry, you must not have understood me so let me put it into clearer terms. I’m bagging on Boebert for not practicing what she preaches and having a child at 18 out of wedlock. Not her son. I have no idea what he preaches. I only pointed out that there seems to be a pattern here that stands in pretty strong contrast to her party’s dogma; other than that I don’t know why we’re focusing on him.
Her son is not the elected representative for the party that is pushing abstinence-only sex ed, moving to ban both birth control and abortion, and defunding programs that help young and single parents, all against the will of the people.
Though, to answer your question; it does stand to reason that if she, as a parent that supposedly follows this ideology, can’t even keep teen pregnancy out of her own home, let alone her own body; how does she expect things to go on a national level without the aforementioned programs and services? Just as you said, teens don’t tend to heel to the dogma of their parents and government especially when said dogma goes against their very basic nature.
Or her in a crowded theater full of children.
I’m not going to shame her for being a grandmother at her age. I will absolutely blame her for using her 6-month-old grandkid as a political prop.