Republicans show no class!

charver said:
Whatever language i'm speaking i won't be issuing a pitiful apology for it because i'm not a Republican Congressman.
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Taichiliberal said:
Wrong again, you ignorant lout. Check the news reports as to how Wilson's local opponent got a record increase in donations to his campaign after Wilson's public mind fart against the President.


Not a claim, but bonafide fact.

Get your ass in gear, Yurtle old thing. If you're informed, it'll make you look less stupid when you post.
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As of [September 11], Wilson had raised more than $700,000 since the incident, according to the National Republican Congressional Committee.
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http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2009/sep/12/democrats-to-pursue-upbraiding-of-wilson/
 
One has to wonder if Wilson and his ilk are intent on committing political suicide - and in the process taking down with them the entire GOP - or if their prejudices are so deep that they just cannot help themselves.

Many believe that Wilson's outburst was planned to distract from the President's speech. If it was, the plan worked like a charm. Shamefully, media coverage of Obama's message became a sidebar to Wilson's disgusting show of coarseness.

Yet, the plan could turn out to be no more than a pyrrhic victory.

After all, even if Wilson and his cohorts do not like it, Latinos are the fastest-growing group of new voters in the nation. And they can be sure that mistreating, dehumanizing and disrespecting Latinos - and immigrants in general - is not going to help them win their hearts and minds. There will be hell to pay at the polls.

The anti-immigration hysteria and inflammatory rhetoric of people like Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.), Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) and others have already made record numbers of Latinos flee the GOP. Wilson's outburst is sure to accelerate the exodus.

In New York alone, 715,000 new voters registered between January and November of last year, 200,000 of them in the two weeks leading up to the national election. Many were African-Americans or Latinos, and it is a sure bet that most of them did not join the GOP ranks.

In the nation as a whole, the number of Latino voters went up from 7.6 million in 2004 to 9.8 million in 2008. The number of Asian voters increased from 2.8 million in 2004 to 3.4 million in 2008. Again, the GOP was not the party of choice for the majority of new voters.

Come to think of it, Wilson's boorish behavior may turn out to be a political blessing in disguise.

Rob Simmons, his Democratic opponent, reportedly raised over $300,000 on the online Democratic political fund-raising Web site ActBlue in a few hours immediately following the crass "You lie!" bellow.

The results of a national poll released last May confirmed once more that immigration is a defining issue for the 12 to 13 million Hispanics who are eligible to vote in the U.S.

"The anti-immigrant movement's divisive tone and demagogic rhetoric keeps politicizing Hispanics and bringing them together in support of a new immigration policy," said Sergio Bendixen, president of Bendixen and Associates, which conducted the survey. Not good news for the flag bearers of nativism and intolerance.

Ironically, after all is said and done, Joe (You lie!) Wilson's outburst could go down in history as the death knell for the most reactionary and extremist wing of the Republican Party.


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local..._truth_about_gopers_fringe.html#ixzz0R0V3YKQF
 
OH NOSE, the Republican party is DEAD DEAD I tell ya..how do we know, because a lefty says so...and all it took was one line spoken by a Rep from the party..

:lmao:
 
How is it the truth?

BTW, Wilson's constituents also voted for Strom Thurmond, flew the Confederate flag over the State Capitol, and their ancestors started the Civil War to preserve slavery. Nice.
 
Interesting that taxes and tarrifs imposed by the republican north played a bigger part in the causes of the civil war than slavery.
 
DNC said:
[1]How is it the truth?

[2]BTW, Wilson's constituents also voted for Strom Thurmond, [3]flew the Confederate flag over the State Capitol, and their ancestors started the Civil War to preserve slavery. Nice.
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1. Its the truth because Obama lied.
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In his inaugural address as governor, Thurmond not only called for abolishing the poll tax, but also advocated expanding workman's compensation laws, and better working conditions in plants and factories. He repeated his call for better public education, and told the state that "more attention should be given to Negro education".

Thurmond advocated in his inaugural speech: ..."equal rights for women in every respect...equal pay for equal work for women."
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Jack Bass and Marilyn W. Thompson, Ol' Strom: An Unauthorized Biography of Strom Thurmond (2003), pp 121-22; ch 8
3. These are the actions of Democrats in South Carolina.
 
Jarod said:
Joe Wilson has already issued an apology. I take back what I said, it shows class to admit it when you make a mistake, and Joe Wilson did just that tonight.
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Example where I said a Republicans wrongfull actions should be forgiven.
 
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