Paul LePage: "We Might As Well Go Home ... And Get Our Guns Out"

[DonViejo]

Last edited Thu May 30, 2013, 10:42 AM - Edit history (1)

(TPM) Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) sounded a dire note of caution Wednesday about the dangers of curtailing the First Amendment, warning ominously that any limits to free speech should serve as a call to arms. LePage was still fuming over an incident at a state Appropriations Committee meeting on May 19, when his request to speak about the state budget was denied by a Democratic legislator. The outspoken governor added, "The minute we start stifling our speech, we might as well go home, roll up our sleeves and get our guns out."

[leftyohiolib]

1. they should have set paul lepage in a free speech cage out in the parking lot just like in the good

old days of w (w as is worst president ever)

[Kber]

2. The right to free speech does not mean the right to a podium

No one is stopping the Governor from, say, sending the committee members a letter or putting out an op-ed or standing on the corner and shouting his message.

If you don't get the distinction, I worry about your fitness to govern.

[naturallyselected]

3. I am so embarrassed by this fool

I have lived in Maine for 25 years (so I am still considered by natives as someone "from away&quot , and I love it. I can deal with having Susan Collins as one of my senators, although I almost always disagree with her, but I feel a constant need to apologize for the moron in the Blaine House.

I didn't vote for him, 62% of Maine voters didn't vote for him, but this is the nonsense we have to listen to every single day. The backstory to this particular quote is unbelievable - this is a spoiled child, not a governor.

[avebury]

7. ROFLMAO on you first line!

My Mother, who moved to Oklahoma in her late 20s, used to say the exact thing about always being considered by the natives as someone "from away." That comment is totally accurate. It does not matter how long you live in Maine, if you were not born there you will never be considered a native.

I moved to Oklahoma 17 years ago and for years used to point out Maine as the model of rational government - until recently. Oklahoma wouldn't recognize rational government if it looked it in the mirror. Is was so discouraging to see what has been going on in Maine with the election of Paul LePage. I feel your pain, I don't vote for the idiots here either.

[LiberalFighter]

19. While here in Indiana they consider everyone to be a Hoosier

Most except it I suppose. They also make a big deal about Hoosier common sense as if they are the only ones that have any intelligence.

I will never be a Hoosier.

[4bucksagallon]

28. Well in Maine it is not just being from Maine........

I grew up in a small town in mid Maine and moved to the adjacent town and was considered as being "from away" LOL. Only when I was home visiting my mother was I among people that considered me a native. THAT'S how bad it is in Maine. As to LiarPage, he is going to help bring an end to the Republican brand so for that I am quite happy. He and Charlie Webster will soon be forgotten, but and it will be a long long time before another Frenchman and an longer time before another Republican is elected to be Governor, hopefully.

[Maineman]

32. Like many states, Maine has wide variation. Almost one-third of us voted for this idiot.

I have been in Maine for 8 years and do not notice that from-away reaction. But, I am in South Portland, a great little town next to Portland.

Maine has a pretty good supply of progressive and common sense folks. I have lived in numerous states, and the people of Maine are among my favorites. But, we need a better voting system so we do not end up with a governor who gets only 32% of the votes (and who is a jerk and an embarrassment).

[Paladin]

4. "You folks should understand that better than I."

Gotta love it.

[BlueDemKev]

5. Let me guess...this asshole got elected in 2010

When Democratic voters stayed home, right? How else could a moderate-to-progressive state like Maine elect a governor who talks like he's from some rural county in Oklahoma?

[Hippo_Tron]

6. There was a left-leaning independent candidate, the vote was split

[dionysus]

8. we had a Dem candidate that was broke, an Indepenadant who was basically a Dem, and that asshat

lepage... The Dem and Indy split the vote and lepage squeaked in barely... I believe with thirty something percent of the vote

[MarianJack]

22. Libby Mitchell is a friend of mine, and...

...I believe she'd have been a great governor!

PEACE!

[mountain grammy]

9. Sorry for the reference, but wasn't the Nazi party elected with about 1/3 of the vote?

Hell, we didn't even elect w, yet there he was: our national disgrace and embarrassment.
That said, I grew up in New England and loved going to Maine. Will make the trip this fall.

[Moostache]

10. I do hope he gets his gun and is as successful as THIS Emmy Award winner...

[Highway61]

17. Damn

I was at work today and saw this on my lunch hour. I damn near coughed up my peanut butter and jelly rollup! Laughed so hard. What a fucking idiot!

[gordianot]

27. Quick draw with a semi automatic pistol what an idiot.

I learned quick draw years ago, that violated every rule I was taught. The bullet looks to me that it went down the front of his leg and probably missed his foot. If it went down the side of his leg or the back of his leg he would be dead. At best he would have probably needed major surgery to save the leg. I have fired several thousand rounds quick draw with a special holster and a would not dream of doing that again.

Wonder if he has a permanent limp?

[SCVDem]

11. Free speech

does not allow you to out our intel assets.

It's way past time to honor our soldiers and lock these traitors up!

Looking at you, Cheney and Wolfowitz!

[AlbertCat]

12. So...

Congress made a law restricting free speech?

I missed that.





Might as well go home, LePage, and get your Constitution out.... and read it this time!

[KamaAina]

13. "I hear they've got the LePage glue gun."

"It glues a whole squadron of planes together at once." -from Joseph Heller's classic Catch-22

[Zoeisright]

14. Report him to the FBI.

https://tips.fbi.gov/

[Spitfire of ATJ]

15. I miss the days when some guys in white coats with a big butterfly net would handle this.

[Highway61]

18. Right???

[lhooq]

16. Ignore the buffoon -- there are more important things to discuss

As a post above notes, LePage was elected with a distinct minority of votes in a three-way contest. I expect he, like Florida's Allen West, will be a one-term legislator. After he leaves the Blaine House, maybe he can get his own wing nut talk radio show -- and perhaps do some target practice with some of those guns. Ho hum. Big deal. These present comments are practice for his audition.

Having had the privilege to live and vote in Maine for nearly 4 years, I respect Maine voters.

[Swede Atlanta]

20. I'm sure LePage's personal attribute would speak to his vocal utterances.....

My experience is those that claim their "constitutional rights" have some other motive for their protestations, often a sense of physical inadequacy

[MarianJack]

21. As a Mainer,...

...I apologise to America. We'll try to send him back to his Florida home next year!

PEACE!

[freshwest]

23. Reverse of AZ. Brewer said until the legislature approves Medicaid expansion, they can STFU.

Obama must have put a spell on that woman.

[alp227]

24. Maybe Brewer confused Obama with the "I Put a Spell on You" singer?

Screamin' Jay Hawkins, who sang the original version of "I Put a Spell on You"



(But I actually know the song because of CCR's version.)

[freshwest]

26. Yup, that's the one I know. That second pic looked like Brewer was in love with Obama...

Who would've thought?

And I love Fogarty's voice. Ooooh...

[alp227]

25. Paul LePage must have caused a surge of illegal immigration to New Brunswick and Quebec.

When is he going to be sued by the premiers of those provinces? He's such a jackass nutty governor that Maine might have moved to the South!

[sigmasix]

29. treason takes time and planning

The democratically elected president of the United States continues to attempt to follow the wishes of the 99%. Extremists work hard to manufacture indignation and massage anti-/american conspiracy theories. These are the traitors that are damaging our country because they despise the liberties and safety nets that make America so special.

Why do teabaggers hate their own family so much

[NYtoBush-Drop Dead]

31. and then blow your brains out.

DOn't get your panties in a wad DU! I know, I'm mean and inappropriate...

[marble falls]

33. Jackass, and I thought Rick Perry was the simplest twit in a Govenor's seat.