Do Reps. Biggs, Gosar still back bigoted Rep. Boebert?

Colorado Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert has left little doubt that she is a bigoted Islamophobe, brazen enough to be caught on video twice telling the same phony, hateful trope about Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar.

Suggesting Omar is a terrorist. Calling her “evil.”

Saying she’s a member of a “Jihad Squad”.

Engendering the kind of threatening, hateful response from the ignorant goons who somehow believe Boebert. Putting Omar’s life at risk.

All while Boebert’s fellow Republicans largely say … nothing.

For instance, I haven’t heard anything from Arizona’s two biggest Boebert backers – Reps. Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar.

Not long ago Boebert was one of those Gosar said he was “proud” to serve with.

Proud. Really:

He tweeted as much, saying: They can take a committee but they can never take our pride. Proud to serve with my colleagues @RepAndyBiggsAZ, @mattgaetz, @laurenboebert.

He also tweeted: Thank you to my conference for supporting me against the hysterical mob that is running the circus.

Again mentioning Boebert by name.

Then again, Boebert was one of those who rose to Gosar’s defense when the House voted to censure him for posting a doctored anime video showing him killing New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and threatening President Joe Biden.

During her Gosar defense Boebert managed to call Omar a terrorist sympathizer and member of the “Jihad Squad.”

Then there’s Rep. Biggs, who also brags of Boebert being his “friend.” Mentioning their close relationship in tweets as well.

Like-minded individuals tend to stick together, I guess.

Boebert also voted against ratifying the Electoral College results from Arizona, joining Biggs, Gosar and Rep. Debbie Lesko in their effort to disenfranchise millions of Arizona voters.

The day the mob stormed the U.S. Capitol, Boebert tweeted, “Today is 1776.”

The nasty responses Omar has received following Boebert’s nasty comments suggest there also are racist undertones to an attack on the Muslim representative. It’s everything that elected officials in the United States, a nation of immigrants, are supposed to fight against. Not support. Not boast about. Not use as a fundraising tool.

And does anyone believe that those who denegrate someone like Omar based on how she looks and what she believes would have those feelings about only one person, or group of persons.

Over our long and difficult history

we’ve learned, often the hard way, that bigots rarely limit their prejudice to only one race or religion or ethnic group.

And if, like Biggs and Gosar, you refer to such a person as a “friend,” and you talk about how “proud” you are to serve with her, even as she so publicly displays her hateful tendencies, what does that make you?

Nevermind.

It’s a rhetorical question.