You know, what’s going on in the Republican Party is just heartbreaking:
BOISE — Sarah Palin is in Boise to campaign for Republican Vaughn Ward — who is vying for a seat in congress.
Ward admits that in recent weeks — he has experienced what he calls mis-steps.But Wednesday night, he says he mis-spoke while debating his opponent in Post Falls.
It had to do with a question about U-S expansion — whether Puerto Rico should become a state.
Ward answered, “The problem with extending statehood to some, to any other country, is that then the infrastructure requirements…cost an enormous amount of money. Let’s focus on what’s important here. It’s about putting Americans back to work. It’s about putting this country right again. And I don’t see that and I don’t care what state it is or what country it is that wants to become a part of America; it’s not time, it’s not going to be time. Let’s focus on us first.”
Labrador, who was born and raised in Puerto Rico, responded: “I just need to correct, Puerto Rico is not a country, Puerto Rico is a territory of the United States. It’s about time that we took some civics lesson and we learn what Puerto Rico is.”
Ward then said, “I really don’t care what it is. I mean, it doesn’t matter. I don’t care.”
This is the kind of a man that Sarah Palin wants to go to Idaho to endorse.
