GOP chairman Mehlman takes shots at Dem counterpart Dean

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05161/519567.stm

Behind schedule after a delayed flight, Ken Mehlman last night rushed into a room at the ornate Duquesne Club, Downtown, to address a gathering of the Republican Jewish Coalition.

"First of all, let me say to my fellow Christians, it's good to be here," the Republican national chairman said, cheerfully fanning the partisan flame ignited by his opposite number's comment earlier in the week that Republicans were "pretty much a white, Christian party.''

Jibes at the remark by Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean were a staple of the hastily arranged gathering of about 50 GOP partisans. The event underscored the partisan spat, but coalition member Joe Weinroth, the GOP candidate for mayor of Pittsburgh, insisted that its timing was coincidental. "Despite those rantings, this was going to go on anyway,'' he said.

Mehlman's appearance was one of a series of outreach efforts that he and the RNC have pursued with groups outside the traditional Republican constituencies. The outrage they mustered at Dean's comment notwithstanding, Weinroth and others acknowledged that the preponderance of Jewish voters, with a tradition of allegiance to the Democratic Party, remained a challenge for Republicans.

[Rainscents]

1. Oh, he can kiss my ass, you dirty, slimy, rotten smelly brown turd!

[karlrschneider]

2. He said "my fellow Christians" to the Jewish Coalition????

Nice move, Kenny BOY...
:eyes:

[sasquatch]

3. What were there like 15 people in the room

I can't really think of any Jewish republicans that weren't in the cabinet positions.

[Lucky Luciano]

4. His remark was a joke used to indicate

that not all republicans are Christian.

[greyl]

13. And we know Dean only said "pretty much..." not "all..."

The facts back up his statement, do they not?
Obama?

[BR_Parkway]

17. As accurate as saying "my fellow straight people", least if he tries

to include himself in that group.

[Califooyah Operative]

5. did you all know that republicans are at the forefront of progressivism??

haha look:

"Now there is a new progressivism, a progressivism of the year 2005, and Republicans are at the forefront, " Mehlman said."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20050609/pl_usnw/rnc_chairman_ken_mehlman_takes__conversations_with_the_community__to_jewish_leaders_in_pittsburgh308_xml;_ylt=A86.I1sKS6lCwToAOyOyFz4D;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

[Norquist Nemesis]

10. There they go again!

Apparently, 'progressive' must be polling positive. They trashed the word Liberal.

More Luntzspeak in play.

[The Icon Painter]

15. Progressive?

Please, will someone sent this man a dictionary?

[MisterP]

19. looks like he jabbed the corkscrew into his frontal lobe again

ugh

[deacon]

6. Would somebody please just change this guys diaper

get rove to powder his butt or something.....

screw you mel from hell

[sagesnow]

7. Howard Ain't Afraid o' No GOP!

Candor: Unusual behavior in a Major Party Politician.

[truthpusher]

8. GOP chairman Mehlman takes shots at Dean (greeting "My Fellow Christians")

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05161/519567.stm

GOP chairman Mehlman takes shots at Dem counterpart Dean

Democrats' Dean a lightning rod after remarks about Republicans
Friday, June 10, 2005

By James O'Toole, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Behind schedule after a delayed flight, Ken Mehlman last night rushed into a room at the ornate Duquesne Club, Downtown, to address a gathering of the Republican Jewish Coalition.

"First of all, let me say to my fellow Christians, it's good to be here," the Republican national chairman said, cheerfully fanning the partisan flame ignited by his opposite number's comment earlier in the week that Republicans were "pretty much a white, Christian party.''

(snip)

Mehlman's appearance was one of a series of outreach efforts that he and the RNC have pursued with groups outside the traditional Republican constituencies. The outrage they mustered at Dean's comment notwithstanding, Weinroth and others acknowledged that the preponderance of Jewish voters, with a tradition of allegiance to the Democratic Party, remained a challenge for Republicans.

Surveying the crowd of about 60, Weinroth joked, "We didn't know that there were that many Jewish Republicans."

But both he and Mehlman said that political affinity was ripe for change.

"We are at a very historic moment in terms of the party, but also our community," said Mehlman, who is Jewish himself.

An unapologetic Dean was on Capitol Hill in Washington yesterday, rebutting the criticisms of his remarks that have come from Republicans and even some members of his own party.

(snip)

Mehlman, who appeared at the Duquesne Club on his way to addressing a fund-raising dinner of the Allegheny County Republican Party, used both occasions to denounce Democratic stands on all of those issues.

"They're a party that just says, 'no,' " he maintained, just before speaking to the county party crowd of about 500 at the William Penn Hotel, Downtown. "They're so consumed by their own anger that they aren't saying what they are for."

Link: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05161/519567.stm

[derby378]

9. It's Mehlman's "Whack-a-Mole" argument

We're kept so busy trying to put out GOP fires that we don't get much of a chance to discuss what we stand for in the public forum.

That's why we're so fortunate to have Howard Dean as DNC Chair.

[Norquist Nemesis]

12. Yep! Meanwhile...

as Mehlman is taking swipes, the camera is on Dean saying "We're here to talk about the issues that are important. Issues like..."

Dean played this like a pro!!!

[Moderator]

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[gratuitous]

18. Mehlman takes his shot at Dean

Whilst Dean is conveniently thousands of miles away. Any chance you'd care to repeat your remarks to Dr. Dean's face, Mr. Mehlman? Or do the words "atomic wedgie"* strike fear in your black little heart?

*I speak rhetorically, of course.

[progressivebydesign]

11. Hey. THat event was NO DOUBT hastily put together to scew Dean.

Does ANYONE here who knows ANYTHING about those people believe that there was a regularly scheduled event for (coincidentally) Dean's counterpart at the Republican JEWISH Coalition???? C'mon. YOu're all brighter than that. It was a fake PR event.

[Habibi]

16. It would be swell

if Dean could find some way to refer to Mehlman's sexuality and his utter hypocrisy in hiding it.

[JNelson6563]

20. What a "moran"

He addresses the crowd as "fellow Christians" to prove Dean was wrong. haha Dumb-ass.

Julie

[deacon2]

21. Time for a grudge match

ala' Freddy Blassie vs. Bobo Brazil, no-holds barred, chained wrist to wrist in the "Cage O' Death" at the Olympic Auditorium. If only Dick Lane were still alive to officiate. I'd bet on Dean in a heartbeat. He'd clean the canvas with Mehlman's sweaty, shrunken pinhead for sure!

[PittPoliSci]

22. Weinroth? Mayor?

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!



Cold day in Hell, cold day in Hell my friends.:rofl:

[leesa]

23. So why is this good christian's homosexuality not a problem for Fundies?

[Guaranteed]

24. Then, after the meeting, Mehlman locked the Jews in and burned down

the building.

[kodi]

25. use their methods: "GOP chairman attempts to convert Jews to Christ?"

it has all the features used by the right. use of an interrogative as opposed to a statement thus making it an idea to be turned over in one's mind instead of a position held.

it uses the direct words used by the GOP head and he is left defending his words rather than going on the offensive.

its exactly what is occurring around the edges with Hillary Clinton and the whisper campaign about her sexuality. one can ask if she is a lesbian a lot easier than saying she is one and regardless the idea is placed and used for leverage later. that's the point. its a device that can be manipulate later

dean could just as well point to mehlman's words as evidence that even the GOP chairman was trying to convert Jews to Christianity.

btw: as to that ever expanding big tent the GOP bloviates about, how about stretching a little of that Big Top over the poor?

when republicans start going into poor urban and rural areas and begin to deliver the services necessary for a decent life, then they can say they are inclusive.

at least once in a while you see the democrats in the poor neighborhoods trying to make things better.

you won't see republicans in those areas, they're too are afraid they'll get their cars stolen.