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  • THURSDAY AUGUST 7 2008 6:00 AM

Who Needs Republicans?

Submitted by FearTheReaper

Edited by erin_broadley

Tags: Democrats, Republicans, Tennessee, Kansas, Nikki Tinker, Steven Cohen, Gail Finney, Inga Taylor

Turns out Democrats can be just as horrible, hateful people as our GOP friends. This week Democrats in a couple of primaries took the low road with ugly religious and gay attacks. It’s really sweet to see the supposed liberal party go to depths many Republicans would not.

First came Democrat Nikki Tinker, who is running against Democratic Representative Steven Cohen for Tennessee’s 9th district seat. The election is today and Nikki is apparently down in polling, so she took the lowest road possible. It’s a road Hitler would have been proud of. Her latest ad is far from subtle.


In the ad, a child’s voice is heard praying while the narrator, clearly meant to be a black woman but not Tinker, wonders who “the real Steve Cohen is anyway” while questioning one of Cohen votes on school prayer while in the state Senate.

While he’s in OUR churches clapping his hands and tapping his feet, he was the only Senator who thought OUR kids shouldn’t be allowed to pray in school.


Yeah, what is that Jew doing in your churches? And how dare that Jew uphold the Constitution of the United States by voting against prayer in schools. I wish I could show you the ad, but Tinker pulled it from You Tube due to complaints.

This isn’t the first time Cohen’s religion has come into the race. Over the past few months, black ministers have passed out these fliers:



Nikki Tinker has refused to denounce the fliers. The black ministers began to circulate them because of Cohen’s support for federal hate crimes legislation to protect gay rights. Go Democrats!

Oh, and don’t forget about Cohen’s KKK connections.



That’s about as low as it gets - and it's coming from a Democrat. Meanwhile, Cohen is a freshman Congressman who sounds like a decent legistator.


He has earned a reputation as a loquacious, media-friendly liberal, outspoken in his opposition to the Iraq war, aggressive in questioning Bush administration officials on the House Judiciary Committee and assiduous in efforts to cultivate his majority-black constituency, including initiatives to rename federal buildings in Memphis after African-Americans.


But he’s not black and he’s a Jew and Nikki Tinker is making sure everyone in the district knows. Hopefully she loses the election today.

Some equally vile conduct is occurring in Kansas, home of ignorance. Gail Finney, a marketing consultant and vice-chairwoman of the local Democratic Party, was in trouble going into the final days of the primary for the state's 84th District House seat. But yesterday, she defeated Inga Taylor, a black lesbian, by using the classic GOP “here comes the gay agenda” attacks in the final days of the campaign.

Using a “coordinated mail, e-mail and phone campaign,” Finney was able to swing voters and win easily. Here’s a sample of an email that went out.


Taylor considers it an honor that if elected, she will be the 1st openly gay African American Legislator in the United States. If you will go to the www.victoryfund.com website, you will see that they are excited about the same and working strategically to ensure that this candidate wins the election . . . Who would she be representing? Those that fund her from the East Coast or 84th District? Is this what we want to be known for in Kansas? In Wichita?


Oh, my God no. They might change the name to Lesbichita.

The Victory Fund realized how serious the anti-gay attacks were on Tuesday and asked Kansas governor and serious vice president contender, Kathleen Sebelius, to denounce Finney’s tactics. Sebelius did nothing. If there's one thing you can always count on from Democrats, it's that they will run away from their beliefs during election time.


“What’s the matter with Kansas Democrats? We plan for and expect openly gay candidates will face attacks from right-wing bigots, not Democratic Party officials,” said Victory Fund president and CEO Chuck Wolfe, adding, “This is divisive, gutter politics at its worst, and Gail Finney should be ashamed of herself.”


Go Democratic Party! Feel the pride.

FearTheReaper is a comic, writer and actor. You can read more of his babbling on his blog, Stop All Monsters.

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Aaron

Aaron

Shakopee, MN
July 2004

AUG 07, 2008 08:13 PM

0_0_0_0 said:

stockula said:
I found out something horrible about another Democrat politician, too: He accepts tons of money from oil companies, even more than his Republican opponent.



You didn't read the article, did you? It clearly states that INDIVIDUAL employees, not the Oil Industry, have given to the Obama campaign at marginally higher rates in the past, while the Industry itself has donated to McCain at substantially higher rates. Individual employee donations are not industry donations.

At any rate, the author of the article is making specious claims that aren't supported by the data he actually cites.



I opened the link read a few lines and thought, "are you serious with this bullshit?" It's good to know that my private campaign contributions count to the electronic data recovery lobby's political funding. Fucking ridiculous.

scylis

scylis

USA
November 2004

AUG 07, 2008 09:08 PM

Necia said:

coyotemike said:
Right. Because making a joke about those buttons and things that were being sold at Republican events ("Can we still call it the Whitehouse" and others) is so the same thing.



No.

Really? Like, for serious? There are really buttons out there that say that?

I really feel quite naive for being so surprised by that possibility, but goddamn. eeek



SPOILERS! (Click to view)
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MessyJesse

MessyJesse

Roanoke, VA
February 2008

AUG 07, 2008 09:24 PM

SergeantPsycho said:
Obama is just as bad. How much of a smear is it to suggest your opposition is afraid of you because you "don't look like othe presidents"?



Obama is just as bad? What the fuck election coverage have you been watching? McCain's entire campaign so far has been nothing but a bunch of cheap shots.

tonyx3

tonyx3

Albany, NY
July 2005

AUG 07, 2008 09:43 PM

stockula said:
I found out something horrible about another Democrat politician, too: He accepts tons of money from oil companies, even more than his Republican opponent.



That article could be more clear in presenting it's conclusions. The writer defines "Big producers" as Exxon, Chevron, and BP. Employees in those three companies gave more to Obama's campaign than McCain's. But if you look at their abstract chart and the raw data they make available, the companies they study give McCain twice as much as they give Obama. "Big Producers favoring Obama" doesn't seem to translate into an advantage. If you think this is "horrible" (I think anti-semitic and homophobic smears are much worse), you probably don't know that most of these industries will hedge their bets and give to both parties, and they will also give more to the candidate they expect to win. The two party system is very helpful to corporate interests; with only two candidates running, they can cover the spread, as it were.


At any rate, your conclusion that Obama accepts more from the oil industry is incorrect. Also; based on what you've been hearing in stump speeches, is McCain's oil policy better than Obama's?

RedBstrd

RedBstrd

Riverside, CA
April 2004

AUG 07, 2008 09:50 PM

SergeantPsycho said:
Obama is just as bad. How much of a smear is it to suggest your opposition is afraid of you because you "don't look like othe presidents"?



The faces of presidents on the dollar bills wouldn't have been an issue if McCain didn't make it one through a campaign ad. While the McCain campaign was partially trying to present Obama as being arrogant, they blatantly said that the change that he offers is aesthetic: "It's change you can photoshop."

So quit crying about McCain being called out on his bullshit. If he doesn't want to be accused of fear-mongering of the way a candidate looks, he shouldn't be suggesting that visual changes are the ones that Obama has to offer.

bean

bean

STAFF

Los Angeles, CA

AUG 08, 2008 12:08 AM

It's worth noting that Tinker lost the primary tonight by a whopping 60-point margin. I hope anyone who says that brutally negative campaigning works is taking notes.

headtraumajr

headtraumajr

Mukilteo, WA
February 2004

AUG 08, 2008 02:38 AM

that it mainly works for republicans?

SergeantPsycho

SergeantPsycho

USA
January 2007

AUG 08, 2008 02:58 AM

coyotemike said:

SergeantPsycho said:

coyotemike said:

SergeantPsycho said:
He wasn't talking about the button guy, he was talking about Bush and McCain.



Actually, Obama only says "they" and "their only strategy" not "Bush and McCain" or "McCain's campaign strategy."

Sounds like he is refering to conservatives in the street who (and I have heard this a time or two myself) talk about his middle name, how America is not ready for a black president, how they would support him being killed, things like that.



And exactly how does he know what the "conservatives in the street" think?



It isn't exactly a secret. I've heard statements like that on the local talk radio shows, in the post office, in restaurants and cafes, in line at grocery stores . . . the people who say things like that aren't hiding it.



Personally, I've heard people say that they're afraid other people will assassinate Obama, but no one who advocated themselves.

Coyotemike

Coyotemike

USA
May 2006

AUG 08, 2008 07:38 AM

SergeantPsycho said:

coyotemike said:

SergeantPsycho said:

coyotemike said:

SergeantPsycho said:
He wasn't talking about the button guy, he was talking about Bush and McCain.



Actually, Obama only says "they" and "their only strategy" not "Bush and McCain" or "McCain's campaign strategy."

Sounds like he is refering to conservatives in the street who (and I have heard this a time or two myself) talk about his middle name, how America is not ready for a black president, how they would support him being killed, things like that.



And exactly how does he know what the "conservatives in the street" think?



It isn't exactly a secret. I've heard statements like that on the local talk radio shows, in the post office, in restaurants and cafes, in line at grocery stores . . . the people who say things like that aren't hiding it.



Personally, I've heard people say that they're afraid other people will assassinate Obama, but no one who advocated themselves.



Go to a gun show. Listen to what people say.

defaultx

defaultx

I'm lost
February 2006

AUG 08, 2008 09:58 PM

madness.

ckdexterhaven

ckdexterhaven

USA
December 2005

AUG 08, 2008 10:14 PM

coyotemike said:

SergeantPsycho said:

coyotemike said:

SergeantPsycho said:

coyotemike said:

SergeantPsycho said:
He wasn't talking about the button guy, he was talking about Bush and McCain.



Actually, Obama only says "they" and "their only strategy" not "Bush and McCain" or "McCain's campaign strategy."

Sounds like he is refering to conservatives in the street who (and I have heard this a time or two myself) talk about his middle name, how America is not ready for a black president, how they would support him being killed, things like that.



And exactly how does he know what the "conservatives in the street" think?



It isn't exactly a secret. I've heard statements like that on the local talk radio shows, in the post office, in restaurants and cafes, in line at grocery stores . . . the people who say things like that aren't hiding it.



Personally, I've heard people say that they're afraid other people will assassinate Obama, but no one who advocated themselves.



Go to a gun show. Listen to what people say.


Have you actually been to a gun show and overheard people saying that they would like to see Obama assassinated, or are you just assuming that those kinds of conversations take place all the time at gun shows based on conjecture?

Coyotemike

Coyotemike

USA
May 2006

AUG 08, 2008 11:30 PM

ckdexterhaven said:
Have you actually been to a gun show and overheard people saying that they would like to see Obama assassinated, or are you just assuming that those kinds of conversations take place all the time at gun shows based on conjecture?



Last Spring, annual gunshow, overheard people saying that he would be shot if he were elected and that it would be, in their opinion, a good thing. I heard it more than once.

abbazappa

abbazappa

Sacramento, CA
June 2006

AUG 08, 2008 11:48 PM

coyotemike said:

ckdexterhaven said:
Have you actually been to a gun show and overheard people saying that they would like to see Obama assassinated, or are you just assuming that those kinds of conversations take place all the time at gun shows based on conjecture?



Last Spring, annual gunshow, overheard people saying that he would be shot if he were elected and that it would be, in their opinion, a good thing. I heard it more than once.


I hear people say the same thing about Bush, not at gun shows but that it would be a good thing if he got assassinated.

lifeinrewind

lifeinrewind

I'm lost
OLD SKOOL

AUG 09, 2008 12:32 AM

I love how people act surprised when the lines seem to blur.
It has been for a LONG time and will remain to be two sides of the same coin.
It's all marketing and old money.



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