ReTHUG candidate for Governor Tom Schweich committed suicide after Chairman of Missouri

[malaise]

ReTHUG party JOhn Hancock started a whisper campaign.

Missouri State Auditor Tom Schweich, a Republican candidate for governor, died on Thursday in an apparent suicide after he went public with allegations that rivals in the GOP planned to mount an anti-Semitic ‘whisper campaign” about his Jewish heritage.

The suicide came minutes after he called the Associated Press to accuse John Hancock, the head of the Missouri Republican Party. of making anti-Semitic comments about him.

Schweich was a churchgoing Episcopalian but his grandfather was Jewish.

Read more: http://forward.com/articles/215584/missouri-republican-tom-schweich-commits-suicide-a/#ixzz3TAJntNhF

What a party of fucking THUGS. THey did this to one of their own - imagine their plans for everyone else.

[rhett o rick]

1. Hey, you are pretty close to a C-word T-word.

[malaise]

4. This was covered on MTP earlier

I too suspect there is more to this story but they are still a bunch of ReTHUG scumbags

[Agschmid]

2. There is more to this story, I can't imagine a whisper campaign would cause that kind of reaction...

But who knows.

Either way politics has become to personal IMO.

[loyalsister]

8. I think so too

I wish they would get this whole story straight quickly.
His family is trying to make sense out of it and find some almost understandable motivation. I think it is horrible for this one to be promoted in the press. For his kids to hear that their dad killed himself because of his - and their heritage would pile on the trauma.

By all accounts, Tom Schweich was an honorable man. I find it difficult to imagine that anyone but a completely self absorbed monster would want to leave his children with that. My first guess is that he was experiencing a level of despair that prevented him from seeing the pain others would experience.

[kelliekat44]

24. He was an AUDITOR. think about that. What else was he going to expose? nt

[Fumesucker]

3. Kind of puts the lie to all that Judeo-Christian hogwash the conservatives keep on blithering about

[Smarmie Doofus]

5. That was Goldwater's background exactly. No?

Practicing Episcopalian w. Jewish ancestry on father's side.

IT didn't bother the rw kooks in '64; he was their *demigod*.

Now it bothers them ? This may seem like progress for GOP.

But I thought they LIKED Jews now. Or at least they like Israel. Or at least they pretend to.

They are hard to keep up with, I'll give ya that.

[Thor_MN]

13. They like sending them to Israel to bring on da pocyclypse.

cuasen they's buybull tells 'em so.

[OldRedneck]

6. GOP and the Mafia

It's a slow day here in the rural Virginia Northern Neck -- 6 inches of snow on the ground from last week's snow storm; frozen rain and sleet falling all day. Good day to stay inside.

Somehow Sweet Thing and I wound up plopped in front of the teevee where we watched a couple of hours of documentaries on the Mafia.

Now I read this from Missouri.

I can't tell the difference between the GOP and the Mafia.

[MannyGoldstein]

7. They actually told people he had Jewish blood?

And it caused him to commit suicide?

Perhaps our country is more anti-semitic than I realized.

[PCIntern]

9. Yeah, Manny. Maybe it is...

and many places where you THINK it shouldn't be anti-Semitic at all, ARE. Just sayin'. Know what I mean, jellybean?

[Zambero]

10. I wonder if this sentiment contributed to Eric Cantor's primary defeat?

As the right wing increasingly obsesses about ideological purity, similar obsessions regarding religious and ethnic purity will never be far behind. At it's core, conservatism fears and distrusts "the other".

[V0ltairesGh0st]

11. I don't get it.

The stigma of being jewish or having a jewsih heriatage remains as a point of political bullying by rethugs, yet they are the ones who when asked "Should the US support Israel ?" are all more than for it. I don't fucking understand this two-faced crap ? They praise Israel and Netanyhu on one side of their mouth, and then are openly anti-semitic towards even one of their own on the other side. I suspect any Jew that supported Hitler was as much a target, if not more so, on the grounds of ideological/racial purity. Fascists everyone of them, and all INSANE !!!

[PCIntern]

12. Good point. Kud bee. nt

[blkmusclmachine]

14. http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4079/4876857708_cee21e7e67.jpg

[sendero]

15. I can't help but think..

... that there is a lot more to this story than we know now.

Somehow I don't think having Jewish heritage is any big deal. I just don't see how. Even if it cost him his position somehow. So what? People lose elections every day.

I think something else is going on. Maybe we will someday find out, but I'm not holding my breath.

[gordianot]

16. Folks Missouri especially central to the eastern part of the State has gone off the deep end.

Southwest Missouri still has the sun-downer mentality. Much to the disappointment of many Ferguson did not result in a race war. I will not repeat the great satisfaction I have heard at the murder of Michael Brown and subsequent events. The anti antisemitism in St. Louis has simmered for decades even with a large Jewish population. I remember hearing secessionist sentiments in the 1990's which came to me as a total shock that anyone would express that out loud. You do not see Confederate Battle flags nor do you see swastikas as were common in the late 1930's up to early 1940's with the German American Bundt. This is the same State that wants to bar the ATF and other Federal agencies by law in the Missouri legislature. In Missouri this type of thinking is mainstream Republican politics, I have heard it first hand more than once directly from people who walk into the State Capital and take a seat. There is bound to be more to this tragic story but Mr. Schweich chose to be a Republican along with all the baggage that comes with Missouri Republicans. Much like the 1860's when Missouri could not decide on secession there has always been a balance of those who oppose such utter insanity. Being landlocked has always been a blessing in Missouri. I avoid St. Louis.

[malaise]

17. Thanks for this post

The hatred of the 'other' is too much for me.

[gordianot]

18. I heard many racist epitaphs growing up, I did not succumb.

[alcibiades_mystery]

19. Nope, it was something else

Nobody commits suicide because their opponent is going to reveal them as....of distant Jewish heritage! That was no doubt one of the things that Hancock was threatening him with, but probably the least of them. Who would care, really? He was being threatened with exposure of something else, something that people would actually care about, live boy or dead girl type stuff. This is an initial feint. But the reporter who got this story may well have the real story.

As I said before on this, the number of suicides related to threatened exposure of some secret is probably much higher than people know, especially among high achieving professionals who have built a reputation. Some can't stomach disgrace among their peers, and would rather die than suffer it. It's more common that people believe.

[malaise]

20. I actually hope that you're right

Would love the real story

[alcibiades_mystery]

21. You may not want it, actually

This happened a few years back to somebody I knew and respected. The whole thing was sordid and sad. Sometimes stuff is better left where it is.

[malaise]

23. I do feel sorry for the wife and kids

What a mess

[Autumn]

22. This seems off. My RW christian relatives love Israel, more than this country. The bible tells them

that they must support Israel to the very end, and it seems any politician that is Jewish would only fit that idea to a tee.