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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Ben Cline- 2022 Update [1]
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Date: 2022-10-30
U.S. House Rep. Ben Cline, from VA-6, a border wall and Personhood fan obsessed with protecting Donald Trump.
On this date in both 2020, as well as 2021, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” first profiled the sitting U.S. House Representative from Virginia’s 6th District, Ben Cline, who now serving in his second term in Congress, after having been in the Virginia House of Delegates for five terms over almost a decade.
Only days after being sworn in as a Congressman, it became clear that Cline was a bit extreme when he went on a conservative talk radio show to promote the false anti-immigrant narrative that “Democrats want open borders” and insisting they only care about immigration to “replenish their voting base” before pitching the positively ludicrous idea that Donald Trump should have held the 2019 State of the Union Address from the U.S./Mexico border before conceding maybe that was logistically impossible and they should do it at a stadium in Arizona or Texas.
How much of a partisan lemming is this stooge? Well, he’s willing to charge into a classified hearing behind accidental Butt-Head cosplayer/alleged sex trafficker Matt Gaetz. And when you follow that dumbass… you maybe should have your head checked. Especially because… BEN CLINE WAS ON THE COMMITTEE AND COULD HAVE BEEN IN THE ROOM WHENEVER HE WANTED. But no, he’d rather pretend he’s shut out, and that impeaching Trump for withholding Congressional-approved aid to Ukraine in exchange for political favors in the form of announcing an investigation into Joe Biden was a “sham”.
His entire legislative career, he’s been an extremist. From his Personhood stance on a woman’s right to choose, his refusal to consider any gun control measure, and his support for Trump’s stupid idea for a useless wall along the U.S./Mexico border, he’s in love with every failed conservative policy there is. Heck, as a state legislator in Virginia, he supported Voter ID, expanding the potential methods of execution by capitol punishment (because the state couldn’t get lethal injection drugs), and co-sponsored legislation to make it the state’s position that life begins at conception.
So in his first two terms in office, this is what Ben Cline has done (not much, and what he has, it ain’t good):
Virginia’s 6th Congressional District has a +13 Republican lean in the Cook Partisan Voting Index, making it a the second-most conservative out of the state’s 11 Congressional Districts. That helped him get re-elected with 64% of the vote, where he can do the important things like fight to make sure Trump supporters who joined the Border Patrol en masse don’t have to get mandatory vaccinations required of government employees by the Biden administration that will help prevent them from getting themselves or anyone else sick with Covid-19. Which, of course, is a thing the Trump administration was more than willing to spread among detained migrants, like the white nationalist ***holes they are, and then deport them to other countries without first assuring they didn’t already have a deadly disease.
But nice of Ben Cline to prioritize absolutely the wrong things.
His opponent in 2022 will be Democratic challenger Jennifer Lewis, who clearly has better ideas for the people of the district, and is looking to avenge her loss to him four years ago. We’ll see if the people of Virginia’s 6th take the opportunity at a second chance to ditch a white nationalist goon.
One Year Ago, October 30th, 2021: Ben Cline (VA)… 2021 Update
Two Years Ago, October 30th, 2020: Ben Cline (VA)… Original Profile
Three Years Ago, October 30th, 2019: Randy Baumgardner (CO)
Four Years Ago, October 30th, 2018: Wendy Rogers (AZ)… 2018 Update
Five Years Ago, October 30th, 2017: Wendy Rogers (AZ)… Original Profile
Six Years Ago, October 30th, 2016: Jim Spurlino (OH)
Seven Years Ago, October 30th, 2015: Joe Carr (TN)
Eight Years Ago, October 30th, 2014: Jan Brewer (AZ)
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