Grand Old Prevaricators

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Grand Old Prevaricators
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Tue, 10-21-2008 - 3:58pm
That'd be GoOPer Rep. Robin Hayes who's the one caught on tape this time (video at above link). Here's the story: on the morning of October 18, John McCain was the "headliner" (such as it is, LOL) at a big GoOPer rally in Concord, NC. McCain is being forced to pour money and time into this traditionally-slam-dunk red state, because....well, for all the reasons we post up here every day.

Although McCain was the main event (again, such as it is, LOL), other down-ticket GoOPers, some of whom are in real trouble against their Democratic challengers despite being incumbents, also got a chance to hop on the ever-shrinking coattails of St. Senator Maverick "Bomb-Bomb" McBush. One of those, Robin Hayes, is getting beaten handily by the challenger (Larry Kissell) who almost beat him in '06 and looks certain to send him to a well-deserved shower this time. Taking the microphone, Hayes reminded the crowd, according to several reporters at the scene, that they all needed "to not say something stupid," by which he presumably meant to not say anything truly hateful about Barack Obama or any of the local Democratic opponents, given the recent spate of ugly, violence-tinged rhetoric spewing forth from far too many places on the right wing.

And then (how many of you saw this coming, LOL?) he proceeded to speak extemporaneously about how Barack Obama is "inciting class warfare," and - here's the money quote - accused not just Obama but all liberals thusly:

Folks, there's a real America, and liberals hate real Americans who work and achieve and believe in God.


No, really. He said it. I know - it hardly seems believable, period, let alone after opening statements which caution against "saying something stupid." However, it seems as if what Hayes may have meant in his opening remarks was "I don't want to be CAUGHT saying something stupid." Why do I say that? Because when Hayes remarks about liberals were reported in the New York Observer (that America-hating rag which also recently broke the story that, um, Michelle Obama never ordered lobster and caviar, regardless of what Murdoch's NY Post may have reported, LOL), the response from the Hayes campaign - I kid you not - was to flatly deny that Congressdork Hayes ever made any such comments.

Again - no, really....that's what they said.

Apparently, The Politico was a bit shocked to hear such outright bile spewing from the mouth of an actual member of Congress, let alone one who was in a tough re-election fight, so they called his campaign, and spoke directly to....well....here's the quote from The Politico:

Hayes spokeswoman, Amanda Little says that Hayes absolutely denies making the comments that appear in the Observer article. She noted that other national reporters were at the event and didn't pick up on what the Observer reported.


I guess that - in the Hayes' campaign's playbook, if no one ELSE reported it (or they THINK that no one else did), then no one can PROVE he said it....and therefore, it didn't really happen. Or, at least, you can't use such ridiculous, offensive hearsay against such an honorable man, when there exists no proof of any kind to.....uh....what's that you say? Someone recorded the audio? Oh, crap....

Your modern GOP, ladies and gentlemen: Smear, defame, distort and attack....and then when called on it? Lie.

Time for some change, in North Carolina, and throughout this great country. Way past time, actually.....but I'll still take it now. :o) Two more weeks, gang. Don't let up. Keep the pedal to the medal. Wanna wake up happy on November 5th? Make sure that you wake up exhausted. Do everything you can. Donate. Volunteer. Phone-bank. Drive people to the polls. Show these people the door. Are loathsome rats like Hayes in danger of drowning at the polls? Throw 'em an anchor. Keep working.

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Registered: 10-20-2008
Tue, 10-21-2008 - 4:14pm
bump

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Registered: 10-08-2008
Tue, 10-21-2008 - 4:40pm

That is hilarious!

 

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Registered: 10-08-2008
Tue, 10-21-2008 - 4:47pm
Hilarious, and yet strangely revolting.
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Registered: 10-07-2008
Tue, 10-21-2008 - 4:57pm

If one wants to talk about "sameness" then perhaps the latest e-mail circulating should be considered:







iVillage Member
Registered: 10-08-2008
Tue, 10-21-2008 - 5:08pm

I find it interesting that all the mass e-mails circulating all bash Obama.

 

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Registered: 10-20-2008
Tue, 10-21-2008 - 6:04pm
I haven't.

But to blame the current mess on the last twenty months or so of Democratic congress is simple insanity - or, more likely, severe reality-aversion. As is the attempt to make an equivalency between outright bald-a$$ lying on the campaign trail by a member of Congress, and some half-baked libertarianish rant about what some anonymous idiot thinks might happen under an Obama administration.

The Chairman of this boardroom is a compliment collector

I'd like to be his funeral director

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Registered: 10-25-2006
Tue, 10-21-2008 - 6:58pm

Good work and thanks for the laugh. Hayes left me a bit confused though:

I know I'm a liberal. When my DH, who believes in God, goes off to work every day, is Hayes telling me that because I don't hate DH that he's not a real American, that he's not really going to work? Is he having an affair, do you think?

Or is Hayes telling me that DH is lying to me, that DH doesn't really believe in God, and that when he prays each morning he is praying to the devil? Maybe that's it, because a liberal loves him, he must be praying to the devil.

Or maybe Hayes is saying that my DH can be an achiever and believe in God, but that he is not a REAL American because his wife is a liberal who is supposed to hate him. But he is a citizen with an American passport. Or is it fake? Oh, no! Have I been living with a terrorist the past 35 years?

Heeeeeeelp! I'm SO confused!

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Registered: 09-26-2008
Tue, 10-21-2008 - 7:50pm

AND WHAT HAS CONGRESS DONE IN THE LAST TWO YEARS, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING


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Registered: 07-04-2008
Tue, 10-21-2008 - 8:28pm

>>I find it interesting that all the mass e-mails circulating all bash Obama. I haven't yet seen one bashing McCain.<<

Don't forget the bashing robo calls.

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Registered: 10-08-2008
Tue, 10-21-2008 - 8:31pm

I have gotten the e-mails, but no robo calls yet.

 

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