New Rethuglican Terrorist Sport

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

But they want to whine about one of their candidates being called fat?

GOP member shoots target with Dem's initials

The Associated Press

Fri., Oct . 9, 2009

MIAMI - A South Florida Republican said it was a mistake to shoot at a target with the initials of the Democratic congresswoman he is trying to unseat.

Candidate Robert Lowry made a brief statement to a local newspaper but refused to speak further Friday about the incident, which happened Tuesday during a weekly GOP meeting held at a gun range.

Organizer Ed Napolitano defended the gathering, as well as the use of targets that appeared to be gunmen with traditional Arab head scarves.

"That's our right," said Napolitano, president of the Southeast Broward Republican Club. "If we want to shoot at targets that look like that, we're going to go ahead and do that."

Lowry declined to comment to The Associated Press. He initially told the South Florida Sun Sentinel that shooting at a target with the letters "DWS" — a not-so-veiled reference to Democratic U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz — was a "joke," but then said it "was a mistake."

His campaign manager, Chris Leggatt, said Friday: "I don't think we need to make any further comment about it. It's an issue that's been addressed."

Wasserman Schultz, who made headlines earlier this year when she announced she had been secretly battling breast cancer, represents a liberal district that includes a stretch of South Florida from Fort Lauderdale to Miami Beach. She is expected to easily win re-election, though Lowry and three other GOP candidates are vying to face her.

The congresswoman declined to comment. A spokesman, Jonathan Beeton, said "We didn't feel that behavior dignified a response."

Both Lowry and Napolitano said they were unsure who scrawled "DWS" on the target the candidate fired at during the event, which attracted about 50 people.

Many of the targets were basic silhouettes, though others were figures wearing traditional Arab head scarves, called kaffiyeh, and holding rocket-propelled grenades. Napolitano said the faces of those figures appeared to be white, though he understood why they would be assumed to be Arabs. He said critics of the event are simply angry that a Republican minority continues to exist in such an overwhelmingly Democratic area.

"I absolutely have no regrets. I don't care what the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee or any of them say — I know that they're offended by the simple fact that we're here and we won't go away and we won't be quiet," he said. "For the Democrats, who are supposed to be the party of minority rights, they're not being very sensitive to our rights."

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[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

What a novel idea! I wonder why nobody thought of that before! Oh, the outrage!

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Which Democratic Candidate for the US Congress has ever done "target practice" on a Republican incumbent?

Oh yes, the truth hurts, indeed.

[Ban Hammer 13,337]

not the swiftest political move, but i'm sure many leftists would love that gwb target.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

not the swiftest political move, but i'm sure many leftists would love that gwb target.

Maybe, but they're better than that.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

not the swiftest political move, but i'm sure many leftists would love that gwb target.

Maybe, but they're better than that.

http://www.behindthehype.com/tag/president-bush/

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2006/11/015697.php

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

not the swiftest political move, but i'm sure many leftists would love that gwb target.

Maybe, but they're better than that.

http://www.behindthehype.com/tag/president-bush/

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2006/11/015697.php

Which of these guys ran or is running for Congress?

[Peikko 1,575]

I don't know about target practice etiquette - is it normal to give targets an identity? I would have thought that would be bad policy personally as I always thought that target practice was when one left one's emotional baggage at home, shooting while emotionally invested doesn't seem to be a very wise idea.

As for whether Democrats or Republicans are the more morally superiour in election races, well all I can say is

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

POSTED: 2:27 pm EDT June 1, 2006 UPDATED: 2:35 pm EDT June 1, 2006

NEW YORK -- New York State Comptroller Alan Hevesi publicly apologized Thursday for a "beyond dumb" remark about "putting a bullet between the president's eyes."

Hevesi hastily called a press conference hours after putting his foot in his mouth during a speech at the Queens College commencement.

The comptroller said he was trying to convey the strength and courage of U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-New York,

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1641882/posts

The caller was among the scores of people responding to my Wednesday pan of Air America Radio, the all-liberal-all-the-time network carried on WLIB (1190 AM) in New York.

I wrote then that during 10 hours of programs, network hosts made frequent sex jokes about the Catholic Church, suggested that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld should be tortured and that President Bush should be shot.

While Al Franken, the network's top host, told me later in a phone chat he was sure there was no literal intent of violence, the angry caller certainly found the idea of a dead President appealing.

http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/opinio...ng_on___li.html

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

POSTED: 2:27 pm EDT June 1, 2006 UPDATED: 2:35 pm EDT June 1, 2006

NEW YORK -- New York State Comptroller Alan Hevesi publicly apologized Thursday for a "beyond dumb" remark about "putting a bullet between the president's eyes."

Hevesi hastily called a press conference hours after putting his foot in his mouth during a speech at the Queens College commencement.

The comptroller said he was trying to convey the strength and courage of U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-New York,

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1641882/posts

The caller was among the scores of people responding to my Wednesday pan of Air America Radio, the all-liberal-all-the-time network carried on WLIB (1190 AM) in New York.

I wrote then that during 10 hours of programs, network hosts made frequent sex jokes about the Catholic Church, suggested that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld should be tortured and that President Bush should be shot.

While Al Franken, the network's top host, told me later in a phone chat he was sure there was no literal intent of violence, the angry caller certainly found the idea of a dead President appealing.

http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/opinio...ng_on___li.html

So, guilt by association is the best you can muster? Sippenhaft again?

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

POSTED: 2:27 pm EDT June 1, 2006 UPDATED: 2:35 pm EDT June 1, 2006

NEW YORK -- New York State Comptroller Alan Hevesi publicly apologized Thursday for a "beyond dumb" remark about "putting a bullet between the president's eyes."

Hevesi hastily called a press conference hours after putting his foot in his mouth during a speech at the Queens College commencement.

The comptroller said he was trying to convey the strength and courage of U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-New York,

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1641882/posts

The caller was among the scores of people responding to my Wednesday pan of Air America Radio, the all-liberal-all-the-time network carried on WLIB (1190 AM) in New York.

I wrote then that during 10 hours of programs, network hosts made frequent sex jokes about the Catholic Church, suggested that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld should be tortured and that President Bush should be shot.

While Al Franken, the network's top host, told me later in a phone chat he was sure there was no literal intent of violence, the angry caller certainly found the idea of a dead President appealing.

http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/opinio...ng_on___li.html

So, guilt by association is the best you can muster? Sippenhaft again?

'Judge me by the people with whom I surround myself.'

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

POSTED: 2:27 pm EDT June 1, 2006 UPDATED: 2:35 pm EDT June 1, 2006

NEW YORK -- New York State Comptroller Alan Hevesi publicly apologized Thursday for a "beyond dumb" remark about "putting a bullet between the president's eyes."

Hevesi hastily called a press conference hours after putting his foot in his mouth during a speech at the Queens College commencement.

The comptroller said he was trying to convey the strength and courage of U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-New York,

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1641882/posts

The caller was among the scores of people responding to my Wednesday pan of Air America Radio, the all-liberal-all-the-time network carried on WLIB (1190 AM) in New York.

I wrote then that during 10 hours of programs, network hosts made frequent sex jokes about the Catholic Church, suggested that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld should be tortured and that President Bush should be shot.

While Al Franken, the network's top host, told me later in a phone chat he was sure there was no literal intent of violence, the angry caller certainly found the idea of a dead President appealing.

http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/opinio...ng_on___li.html

So, guilt by association is the best you can muster? Sippenhaft again?

'Judge me by the people with whom I surround myself.'

When did Obama say that? I see on the webs that the RWNs are all over this particular quote which they attribute to the President. One source seemed to have heard him say that during the Oct 15 Presidential debate. The transcript of that debate, however, lacks this particular statement. Seeing that you quote it here, perhaps you can point us to the occasion where he actually made that statement?