To the GOP & Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County GOP Chair RE Physical & Mental Disabilities

[SunsetDreams]

While you may think that is all cute and a smart thing to do to suggest or call any Obama Supporter "mentally retarded", it only shows your ignorance. By doing so, instead of actually "hitting" Obama Supporters with it, it hits anyone who has ever worked with, has a family member, or knows someone who do have physical and mental disabilities.

This is disgusting GOP.

SHAME ON YOU!

REPUBLICAN OFFICIAL: PEOPLE WITH OBAMA BUMPER STICKERS ARE ‘MENTALLY RETARDED’ | At an election party last night, Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County GOP Chair, Jim Roddey, brought the crowd to laughter and applause by calling an Obama supporter “mentally retarded.” Roddey, who is a long-time supporter of Mitt Romney, told the joke to a crowd of about 200: “I was very embarrassed. I was in this parking lot and there was a man looking for a space to park, and I found a space for him. And I felt badly — he looked like he was sort of in distress. And I said, ‘Sir, here’s a place.’ And he said, ‘That’s a handicapped space.’ I said, ‘Oh I’m so sorry, I saw that Obama sticker and I thought you were mentally retarded.’”

http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/08/08/655801/obama-sticker-mentally-retarded/

[livetohike]

1. Wow! Jim Roddey said that!!

There better be some outcry from the local media on this one. I'm in that media market, I'll be listening.

[SunsetDreams]

2. Yeah!!

Please let us know if you hear anything.

[livetohike]

4. Definitely. We only have one or two progressive voices on the radio around here

and the tv channels are not much better, but someone may say something.

[SunsetDreams]

6. I sure hope it lands somewhere

because this is beyond ridiculous and disgusting.

[coalition_unwilling]

5. Roddey 'brought the crowd to laughter'. Because making fun of the

intellectually disabled is just so fashionable among Repigs.

Exactly when can we compare Repigs to Nazis and not trigger Godwin's Law? I think this little episode might mark the border.

Your media is probably owned by Repigs, so I would not hold your breath.

[Ruby the Liberal]

3. I don't know which is more moronic

The unfunny insult, or the fact that an elected official would wave someone into a handicapped parking spot.

I'm going with the latter.

[SunsetDreams]

7. He thought he was being all funny

but this will backfire and backlash, that is if our media will cover it.