YOU STAY CLASSY, LEFTISTS: Pat Toomey questioner arrested for allegedly disrupting town hall by asking “Do you know whether you daughter, Bridget, has been abducted?”
On Facebook following the town hall, Radecki posted that he was trying to force Toomey “into a place of empathy for the briefest moment in the hope that he would acknowledge the humanity of so many others who live with fear that he is directly responsible for every day.
“My question in full, should I have been allowed to ask it in full:
“‘Thank you, Senator Toomey, for coming here tonight to hear our questions. I’m assuming you’ve been busy thinking about how to answer our questions, so you haven’t seen the news. Do you know whether you daughter, Bridget, has been abducted?’
“‘Whatever you’re feeling right now, that’s what it feels like to have a daughter deported. Thousands of fathers here in the Valley that live with that fear every day. Their daughters have names, too. So here’s my question. Do you unequivocally denounce any attempt by the administration to reverse DACA, which would hang the threat of deportation over hundreds of thousands of children the same age as Bridget?'”
As John Sexton writes at Hot Air, “My take is that the question is disturbing and inappropriate as phrased, i.e. not as a hypothetical but as news. A spokesman for Toomey called the question ‘reprehensible’ and that really seems to fit. Suggesting a politician’s teenage child has actually been kidnapped completely violates one of the few clear rules in American politics: leave the kids out of it.”
No who’s being, naïve, John? As we’ve seen repeatedly over the last several presidential administrations, that rule only applies to the children of Democrat politicians.