Oregon GOP group defends gun raffle to honor Lincoln and MLK with inept slavery analogy
Source: Raw Story
Oregon GOP group defends gun raffle to honor Lincoln and MLK with inept slavery analogy
By Scott Kaufman
Monday, January 20, 2014 15:33 EST
An Oregon Republican group that was criticized for raffling off an AR-15 rifle to celebrate the legacy of Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr. has issued an apology that many see as worse than the offense.
The Multnomah County Republican Party had planned on raffling off an AR-15 to celebrate the legacy of two great Republicans who demonstrated leadership and courage that all of us still lean on today: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Abraham Lincoln.
When it was pointed out that both figures were assassinated, and that the only Republican among them, Lincoln, led a party that was only nominally Republican, the group decided to issue a second statement.
In that statement, the group claimed that in our enthusiasm for celebrating Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln and the U.S. Constitution, our Multnomah Republican Party issued a press release that was unfortunately easily misunderstood.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/20/oregon-gop-group-defends-gun-raffle-to-honor-lincoln-and-mlk-with-inept-slavery-analogy/
iandhr
(6,852 posts)Surely you can't be serious.
Ranchemp.
(1,991 posts)and don't call me Shirley.
Funny movie.
sakabatou
(42,202 posts)Ranchemp.
(1,991 posts)sorry about that Chief.
riqster
(13,986 posts)Journeyman
(15,044 posts)underpants
(183,007 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)The Republicans around here are so nuts, so racist, so crazy. I'm from CA where Republicans can occasionally dress like and pass for people, but the Republicans here are absolutely crazed. The Chairman of the State Party is Art 'radiation is good for you' Robinson. Let's review their leadership with a clip from Robinson's appearance on Rachel Maddow Show back in 2010....they made this guy chairman!
Bandit
(21,475 posts)He could not carry on any sort of conversation at all. Rachel was flummoxed because he was incoherent.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)This man has run for Congress in this district twice and this is how he is when he wakes up in the morning, when he goes to bed at night. I can see how you'd think he was drunk, seeing as you are not insane, but he was not drunk.
I read the article at the link. It's beyond belief that there are organized groups of people that are so stupid.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)MisterP
(23,730 posts)who demanded Federal intervention: it's almost like right-libertarianism and pseudopopulism are internally inconsistent!
the slavery rhetoric is as delirious as their Warsaw Uprising rhetoric or their race-war rhetoric--it's like when they attacked Malala and Gabby by saying (and I'm barely paraphrasing), "you only got shot: I had a nightmare once about a race war!"
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Racism and anti-social disorder are hallmarks of the gunner shithead personality.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)Which is probably good news in terms of the next two elections.
Baalzamon
(21 posts)...offend everyone and make your side look like the Dark Side.
I'll never understand these kind of actions. You can be for the 2nd Amendment and for semi-automatic rifles without doing this kind of thing. It's like they are purposefully just trying to troll everyone by being as outrageous as possible.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Nanjing to Seoul
(2,088 posts)jobendorfer
(508 posts)Clackamas County is just south and east of Multnomah County (urban Portland).
The Republican Party headquarters is in the Clackamas County seat, Oregon City, in a small office right next to a payday loan outfit with a huge sign reading "Cash For Gold!"
I shake my head every time I drive by.