Stay Classy GOP: Swastika in Obama’s Name, Pig References in Wisconsin
This must be the “it’s not the message, it’s the messenger” change in strategy Republicans have been talking about. First the Winnebego County Wisconsin GOP:
Haha! President Obama with a pig nose. Pork! Get it?
But they’ve got nothing on the folks out in Colorado, joined by right wing “pundit” favorite Michelle Malkin:
That’s noted right-wing shill Michelle Malkin posing with who we’ve dubbed “Swastika Guy,” owing to the sign he carried right onto the stage with State Senator Josh Penry, Congressman Mike Coffman, Colorado GOP Chairman Dick Wadhams, State Senator Dave Schultheis, former Congressman Tom Tancredo, and Independence Institute president Jon Caldara, among others. None of whom did anything about it, and in fact one person defended the guy to one of our people saying that the swastika is not a Nazi symbol, but an honored Native American symbol. – ProgressNow Colorado
Yup, there you have one of the fresh future faces of the GOP hamming it up for a photo with a guy who uses a Nazi swastika as the “O” in the President’s last name, surrounded by the party establishment in Colorado.
I wonder if equating the President to a Nazi is just the viewpoint of the “fresh young leaders” – the “messengers” who are going to deliver the GOP message – of the GOP, or something that is shared among it’s more traditional leaders as well. In Colorado at least, that seems to be the case.
I’m seeing the GOP tactics being used earlier in the Obama administration earlier than I would have thought. It’s the “socialist smear” party of NO, which I didn’t think we’d see for several months at least. In a few years, I fully expect them to move on to his girls and wife, just like they did in the 90′s.
It’s hard as a political party to say you’re going to be the “big tent” or move more to the center when you have crazy people like this swastika guy in Colorado leading the charge. If I were any kind of moderate Republican, I’d be mortified that this was the guy my party was responding to, or that the sum of the opposition in one of Wisconsin’s most Republican Counties was to photoshop a pig nose on President Obama.
Hmm, the WinneGoPig.bmp isn’t loading for me. Broken link?
Dan, I generally dont agree with you, but at least you usually come off as at least pretending to be serious in most of your assessments. Classy? referring to the president as a Nazi? Have you ever been to a lefty rally, are you seriously kidding?
Of course I’ve been to “lefty” rallies. I don’t recall the Dem rally though where we had people on stage with Nazi = McCain signs though
Maybe instead of trying to explain it away you should be asking why that’s appropriate behavior at your partys event?
Hey!
Winnebago County isn’t Republican anymore!
-jef-
Dan, why don’t you take a look at this utube clip of a Mcain march in New York and then tell me how classy your party is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQalRPQ8stI
and I’m sure you never heard your ilk refer to Bush as Hitler. It is your side that dumbs down the meaning of words like Nazi, fascist, torture, Hitler etc….. Seriously do you really think people should feign the fake outrage like you are doing?
I’ve just spent the past eight years watching the Left calling George Bush a Hitler, a fascist war monger, a genocidal thug, a pig, a monkey, a chimpanzee, a Zionist stooge, etc, etc.
So don’t get all self-righteous with me, I don’t buy it.
Your counter argument to a comparison between Nazi’s and President Obama at an event attended by elected State officials is a video of people in New York giving the thumbs down and middle finger, the captions of which include, “FACT: Islamic radicals would be more welcome on the Upper West side than American patriots”?
Because that’s a pretty weak comparison to put it charitably.
Dan,
Try googling “bush + chimp” or “bush + hitler”, you’ll find it informative. Fro example:
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=bush+chimp+pictures&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=YSWeSZDwHaKBtwe74eSPDQ&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title
Like I said, I’ve got no sympathy for your complaints.
“Because that’s a pretty weak comparison to put it charitably.”
Dan, if it was the other way around, conservatives just wouldn’t act that way. Liberals always cry victim only as a preface to victimize.
And the conservative lifecycle of justification is complete. Conservative leaders with crazy guy comparing Obama to Nazis is all liberals fault!
Conservative leaders with crazy guy comparing Obama to Nazis is all liberals fault!
Right on! Liberals started this nonsense eight years ago, we’re just doing a little catch up.