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Gregg Abbot shooting himself in the foot

leftysergeant

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Leave it to a Texas Republican to pick the wrong issues and attract the wrong voter base.

There should be no doubt in anybody's mind that the GOP has a pretty solid lock on those single-issue voters who view the Democratic Party as the enemy of their 2nd Amendment right to carry outrageous amounts of fire power with no social obligations attached. Rock'n'Roll sociopath Ted Nugent is a natural draw on the campaign trail for that crowd.

Now he has attracted a lot of attention for making comments in which he described President Obama as everything that the armed camps considers evil (Communist, ACORN activist and blah, blah, blah) and underscored it with "sub-human mongrel".

Most people would concede that the GOP has to broaden its base among women and minorities. Nugent is not going to help much there, especially after categorizing most feminists as fat pigs and such and then describing g the POTUS in terms that would have been more acceptable among reads of the Voelkische Beobachter.

Is Abbot afraid to have this loose cannon on board with him? Not a bit of it.

I think he is sending women and what few blacks he still has on his side to Wendy Davis.

Now Wolf Blitzer has picked up the controversy. He confronted his colleague Newt Gingrich. Gingrich attempted to deflect it by making comments about the Clintons and Bill's attitude toward women and a number of other issues that have nothing to do with the vile nature of fools like Nugent. He is less than convincing. Bring something other than Tu Quoque, Newt. You are supposed to be the heavyweight intellect in your party.

Blitzer handed him his butt with a nice teriyaki glaze.

The GOP is suicidal. Only possible explanation.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.co...-hits-campaign-trail-for-texas-gop-candidate/
 
In the absence of a response yet from GOP apologists..

blah, blah, blah, just one guy - blah, blah, blah, not representative of GOP as a whole - blah, blah, blah, Al Sharpton has said far worse - blah, blah, blah, taken out of context - blah, blah, blah, why are you so obsessed about such minor matters


BENGHAZI !!!!!1!!!!!!!!11!!!
 
Nugent's "subhuman mongrel" comment, in case anyone wants to try the "but you're taking him out of context!" defense:
I have obviously failed to galvanize and prod, if not shame enough Americans to be ever vigilant not to let a Chicago communist-raised, communist-educated, communist-nurtured subhuman mongrel like the acorn community organizer gangster Barack Hussein Obama to weasel his way into the top office of authority in the United States of America.
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One of those four characterizations is not like the others-

"Communist-raised"- evidence needed here for this, but- ok, this is political comment.

"Communist-educated"- getting a little repetitious here, Ted- but, ok, still just a political (if idiotic) comment.

"Communist-nurtured"- geez, Ted, we get it- anyone who disagrees with you politically is a damn commie- still, we're in the land of political comment.

"Subhuman mongrel"- ok, whoa- wut? Where did that come from? Certainly not the land of fair political comment; in fact, this sounds like, at best, pandering to the racism (and appealing for the votes) of folks who would be more at home in an age when a lynching was a good excuse for a party (or the other way around).

And the "acorn community organizer gangster" thing is just a group of buzz-words designed to get the rest of them, the ones who can think just enough that they're not entirely comfortable with the naked bigotry, but not enough to see past the cliches.
 
The sad part of this story will be people who insist that "subhuman mongrel" isn't really a racist comment. :rolleyes:
 
Tricky said:
Actually, "subhuman mongrel" was exactly what the Nazis called Jews.
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"Subhuman" was a favorite of the NSDP. "Mongrel" makes me think more of that somewhat famous "amalgamated, mongrel race of people" film snippet of the squealing of a Grand Wizard in some KKK rally.
 
The subhuman part is something that I think Nugent might've got away with. It's an insult, but it's a fairly non-specific one.
Mongrel, though? Really?
The use of the Hussein part of his name always rings alarm bells with me, too.

Why did he include Chicago in that rant? Have I missed something there, as I'm not from the US?
 
Dissolution said:
Why did he include Chicago in that rant? Have I missed something there, as I'm not from the US?
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Chicago politics are known to be dirty. Something like 4 of the last 7 governors of Illinois are in prison, or have gone to prison.
 
The Don said:
In the absence of a response yet from GOP apologists..

blah, blah, blah, just one guy - blah, blah, blah, not representative of GOP as a whole - blah, blah, blah, Al Sharpton has said far worse - blah, blah, blah, taken out of context - blah, blah, blah, why are you so obsessed about such minor matters


BENGHAZI !!!!!1!!!!!!!!11!!!
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DavidJames said:
Exactly, I think the word is satirical.
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These. Also, I don't see the word black in that subhuman mongrel comment so we're actually the racists for bringing race into it.
 
The_Animus said:
These. Also, I don't see the word black in that subhuman mongrel comment so we're actually the racists for bringing race into it.
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This is a guy who also said, once, "I'm a black Jew at a Nazi-Klan rally", so the onus is still on him for bringing up race.
 
The_Animus said:
These. Also, I don't see the word black in that subhuman mongrel comment so we're actually the racists for bringing race into it.
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You're joking right?

You see "mongrel" as something other than a direct reference to Obama's mixed race ethnicity? What does the word mean on your planet?
 
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