Sex talk dominates N.C. election debate

[deadparrot]

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - U.S. Rep. Brad Miller (news, bio, voting record) chuckled through most of the first debate with his Republican challenger, who led a tense and often awkward discussion about sex-related issues Tuesday.

Vernon Robinson, who has run a series of brash advertisements about the two-term Democratic congressman, charged that Miller wants to import homosexuals to the United States and supported scientific studies that would pay teenage girls to watch pornography.

"Those are San Francisco values, not North Carolina values," said Robinson, repeating a common theme of his campaign.

A bemused Miller countered by blasting Robinson for a campaign mailer that implicitly suggested the congressman was gay and criticized Miller for being "childless." Miller's wife had a hysterectomy more than two decades ago.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/north_carolina_house

[Idioteque]

1. Liddy Dole is up for re-election in 08...

Brad should take her on. He would be a damn good Senator.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

6. Damn Skippy !

[Nevernose]

2. Shit, who DOESN'T support "paying teenage girls to watch pornography"

Seems like a no-brainer to me. Hey, Skinner -- how about the next DU fundraiser, we take the money and pay teenage girls to view pornography?

Assuming they're adults, count me in. Then again, I frequent the Lounge. :D

[BadGimp]

8. I second that emotion

[NMMNG]

3. WTF is it with them and their obsession with sex?

They can't keep their minds off of it. :eyes:

[Skittles]

4. yes

they are all for personal rights yet they are always trying to peek into our bedrooms - it is downright f***ing CREEPY

[Divine Discontent]

12. the two guys above your comment???

I don't know... ha.

but really, the rethugs have had a penchant for talking about bedroom discussions during POLITICAL discussions since as far back as I can remember as a kid.... amazing how much they love to discuss these "dirty" behaviors of Americans not like themselves (or more like themselves than they care to admit)

[NMMNG]

16. If I were the opponent I'd put him on the spot

I'd look him straight in the eye and ask, "Can we get back to politics or do you just want to keep talking about sex all day?".

[Divine Discontent]

33. that's funny...

wouldn't it be awesome to say that?


www.cafepress.com/warisprofitable <<-- antibush prodem stickers/shirts

[NMMNG]

34. Indeed it would

:rofl:

[Anakin Skywalker]

32. Them's Fundies For Ya!

Condemning sex on one hand (the public front) then getting kinky behind closed doors. It fooled their morons enough to win elections, however.

[Blackhatjack]

5. Robinson is Undoubtedly One of the Sleaziest Negative Campaigners....

....taking a page from the Jesse Helms playbook, he bombarded the district with robocalls spewing outright lies. His initial tv ads included pictures of when he was in his twenties, and in uniform with patriotic music playing in the background, always negative and an attack on Miller for things he made up.

Good riddance.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

7. That commercial gives me the creeps.

I saw a part of the debate on the news earlier. Miller made Robinson choke on his words.

[Supersedeas]

27. a Karl Rove protege

[KAZ]

9. Self Delete.

n/t

[Lautremont]

10. So this is the Ten Commandments guy?

He gets around!

[tomreedtoon]

11. America is outsourcing homosexuality now???

So we have to import them from other countries? Are they building better gays in India now, or are the labor costs just cheaper?

I remember when America could take pride in its USA-made gays and lesbians. But they're apparently shoddy and don't hold up as well as the foreign models. And all those costs from union employees for building and maintaining homosexuals add to the cost. It's easier to go to Wal-mart and pick up your gays there, and when they wear out, just discard them and buy replacements.

And the worst part is, the instructions for my Japanese lesbian are written in Kanji, and when I asked for a translation, they laughed in my face.

[Divine Discontent]

13. us American gays are just....

a bunch of lazy liberals too busy self-loving ourselves to do our civic duties of being out there for the country to bemoan and slander, and therefore, we gotta ship em in from Thailand, Brazil, Mexico, and Japan... they work for less anyhow and look so cute in pastel.

[Divine Discontent]

14. I hope cboy4 doesn't see my comment, he'll nail me!

oh my... did I say that?

[LostinVA]

24. There goes MY sexual orientation

Outsourced to a bunch of furrin queers.

Great -- JUST GREAT.

I spend 41 years honing my sexual orientation skills, taking continuing ed classes, getting advanced degrees, passing practicums... and look wtf happens?!

FUCK NAFTA!!!

[Breeze54]

15. Robinson "really" likes to polish his 'monument'; if you know what I mean!

:rofl: :rofl:

[Greeby]

17. ...........................

The fact I got this from his campaign site is all the more scarier :scared:

[JI7]

18. has this guy Robinson commented on the 600,000+ dead in Iraq ?

[JI7]

19. isn't Elizabeth Dole childless also ?

unless you count the step daughter who i believe was already an adult when Bob Dole married Elizabeth.

[wageslave71]

20. Has anybody seen Dole?

I live in NC, and she's been damn near invisible since her election.

[TheDebbieDee]

21. Now that you mention it, Liddy has been virtually

unseen since about June. I haven't seen her pinched and puckered face on any interview shows!

Maybe she had a cosmetic surgery disaster and she's ashamed to show ugly, disfigured face!

[leftchick]

22. she already had the cosmetic surgery disaster!

I was SHOCKED the last time I saw her. I didn't even recognize her. She should sue who ever fucked up her face.

[LostinVA]

25. If you want to hear my mom rant for two hours straight

Just say either "Liddy Dole" or "Sue Myrick."

[Marie26]

38. She does NOTHING. nt

[xchrom]

23. maybe france would import The Gays from

the u.s. -- then i wouldn't have to read about dumfucks like vernon.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

26. "R - Rated Robinson" - AKA "Uncle Creepy"

These are just some of my nick names for the pock marked
Vernon Robinson.

Uncle Creepy - he gives me the creeps - what a dirty old man

Vermin Robinson - he is a rat who crawls around in filth

R-Rated Robinson - because of his lurid obsession with sex

I think Robinson doth protest too much.

What's behind his systemic obsession with homosexuality?

He reminds me of Patrick McHenry. (google search that one).

[hedgehog]

28. I hope "bemused" morphs into a big belly laugh.

The first time someone pulls these guys out into the day light and laughs at them, they're done.

[Blue_Tires]

29. what a piece of shit

nt

[depakid]

30. Just another slimey Southern Republican

Gives me the creeps just being around that sort of thing (which unfortunately I was several weeks ago). NC hasn't changed at all since I first went there in the 70's. A sizable number of people still think just like Vernon Robinson.

[FormerDem06]

35. Some of the Dems down here in NC are slimy too....

Most people view Robinson's ads as entertainment and nothing more. They are there to laugh at. But in a state wehere you have State House Speaker Jim Black and his slush funds, vote buying, lobby bribe taking and flat out cheating every rule of the State House (He's a DEM!!!!!). Then you have Govenor Mike "Sleazley" Easley who uses state helicoptors to fly to his beach estate, and endorses using the state ferry system to host extravagent parties on the coast at the expense of taxpayers, the Dems make people like Robinson look par for the course.


The Democratic Party in NC needs new leadership BADLY. They don't do enough to help get the Repubs out of our national Representative seats, they only focus on getting rich and winning local and state elections.

Its enough to make me want to quit the state Dem Party and only vote Dem in national elections. Although since I don't vote Repub, and the State restricts ballot access, I don't have many choices locally.

[geniph]

31. "Importing homosexuals"? What, on H1-B visas?!

Is that a provision of CAFTA I somehow overlooked, or do we just have an undersupply of queerfolk here in the good ol' USA these days that has to be augmented?

Do they bring their own toasters?

[NYYFan]

36. Being from Winston-Salem, NC

I am embarrassed that Vernon Robinson wants to continue to "represent us."

He was a disaster when he was on the City Council and he would be even more dangerous and disastorous as a national figure.

He was going to run for 12th district, but realized he couldn't possibly defeat Mel Watt, so he chose the 13th- a district where he doesn't even live to challenge the "evil" Brad Miller.

By all accounts, Brad Miller has done a very good job for the 13th, and is well-liked. Vernon Robinson and his ILK have tried for years to undermine and push their radical agenda to get on the national stage. He prides himself on being "the Black Jesse Helms". If that's not enough reason to vote for Brad Miller, I don't know what is.

[Marie26]

37. They're just nuts.

I saw C-Span a couple days ago, and the Republican callers sounded the same way. "The Democrats are immoral & corrupt!" they'd screech. "They'll let The Gays take over! They'll raise your taxes!!". When the host brought up the Foley scandal, or the Abramoff convictions, they'd just flail around. They've got nothing now except the hate.

[Strawman]

39. If I were Miller, I'd say "yep you got me."

"My entire reason for going to Congress was to fund studies about old dudes whacking off and that is what is at stake for the people of North Carolina in this election."

"By the way, how often would you say you touch yourself, sir?"