Tim Swarens Hypocritical Attack on Todd Hoekita w/Update

Tim Swarens Opinion Editor of The Indianapolis Star

Earlier in today’s Indianapolis Star. Tim Swarens an editorial writer for the establishment paper of record penned an article “Todd Rokita wants to be your Jerk in the Senate”. We have written about Swarens being a bitch for the Hoosier political establishment before. As his column today shows he is still in the establishment’s pocket after all these years.

It is no secret that the IR team has no problem hurling criticism at Todd Hoekita as a reader of ours loves to call him. Truth compels us to point out that not everyone who goes after Theodora Todd Rokita is any better than him. Swarens article is proof positive of that.

Todd Rokita attempts Jedi Mind trick “You will vote for me!”

Swarens had this to say about old Todd: 

Todd Rokita, in his bid for a U.S. Senate seat, has worked carefully to craft an unusual, perhaps effective image of himself: I'm a jerk.

Why would any candidate want to encourage such a perception? Well, Rokita's other message to Republican primary voters is that Washington squashes nice guys faster than Donald Trump on a Twitter rampage. And it will take someone who doesn't care about good manners or good taste to be an effective fighter for Hoosiers in the D.C. swamp.

What other Indiana Republican today would criticize Mitch Daniels, even indirectly, for correcting a structural deficit in the state budget by reducing a property tax subsidy way back in 2005? Who else would release a campaign commercial that essentially says it was a mistake to build Lucas Oil Stadium and expand the Indiana Convention Center? Who besides Rokita would criticize the sitting Republican governor and state legislative leaders for increasing the gas tax to improve Indiana's neglected streets and highways?

What Swarens should be asking is why aren’t most Hoosier Republicans criticizing Mitch Daniels for using taxpayers money to pay for Lucas Oil Stadium? As for Holcomb’s raising gas taxes, and hiking user fees to maintain our roads. Why should this be necessary given that “Major Moves” which Mitch Daniels pushed for and signed into law in 2006 was supposed to provide for Indiana’s road needs for decades?

Todd Rokita deserves no credit for his criticism indirect or otherwise of Daniels and Holcomb. As some the following from the Indy Republican mailbag will make clear:

“TR (Todd Rokita) actually has never been their Daniels and Holcomb’s) bitch he criticizes them to "raise" himself to their level of perceived "stature" not bc he cares about the issues”

“Rokita is a little bitch, a thief, etc, but he has never been in the Daniels/Holcomb orbit...Daniels and Holcomb are evil strategists. Todd is like the insecure irrational Prince in Shrek 3 whose mommy has groomed his fragile ego”

Matt Stone from Indy Student Blog pointed out why Democrats should welcome Rokita being the GOP Senate Nominee:

Dear @GOP, please run @ToddRokitaIN. It'll be a win-win. We'll get a re-elected @SenDonnelly and you get six more years to bitch about him. https://t.co/rMxi1eni3S

— Matthew Stone (@IndyMattStone) February 1, 2018

@ToddRokitaIN couldn't help himself. These guys followed Mike Braun around the Statehouse after he filed Senate candidacy papers. Braun regularly pulled Democratic primary ballots until 2012. pic.twitter.com/iQq8w9VPrz

— Brian Slodysko (@BrianSlodysko) January 31, 2018

UPDATE: Todd Rokita was asked by CBS4’s Dan Spehler about his statement in early 2016 in which he called Donald Trump “vulgar, if not profane”. Here is Rokita’s laughable attempt to walk back his 2016 statements on Trump:

NEW: @ToddRokitaIN reacts to AP story on 2016 #INfocus interview in which he called then-candidate Trump "vulgar"

Rokita tells me @POTUS is "not politically correct" and that he's "come to love that about him"

I'll have more on the #INsen race tomorrow & Sunday #INfocus @FOX59 pic.twitter.com/iGYosYN0X6

— Dan Spehler (@DanSpehler) April 5, 2018