This Is Outrageous!!!!!

[Hope And Change]

June 17, 2008
Categories: Barack Obama

A button in Texas

http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/06/stick-a-pin-in-it.html">On sale at the Texas GOP convention. The speakers were generally respectful of Obama, the Dallas Morning News reports, but this is the sort of stuff that the RNC has been warning state parties about for months.


By Ben Smith 01:21 PM

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0608/A_button_in_Texas.html#comments

[Bicoastal]

1. And notice what color the button is, ho ho ho.

:puke:

[Perky]

4. Who you calling "ho"?

[quantass]

24. For $500 - Alex:"This term for a long-handled gardening tool can also mean an immoral pleasure seek"

Ken Jennings: What's a hoe?

[Catherine Vincent]

2. Yep. That's what I was talking about yesterday.

They were also selling tee shirts.

[bluestateguy]

3. They make the button black and white to racialize the message

nt

[JuniperLea]

5. Hate, Racism, Bigotry...

Alive and well, now playing in Texas, thanks to the GOP!

:puke:

[jobycom]

6. Maybe it's a reference to Bush's cocaine use?

You know, like, since Bush and the Republicans aren't there any more, all the cocaine will be gone, so it's not longer the White House?"

Nah, probably not. They're just disgusting.

[ourbluenation]

7. Unleash the beast...here's the company that sold them. Inundate them with DU love.

racist bastards.

http://www.republicanmarket.com/store/home

[C_U_L8R]

11. I went there and searched...

for "republican senator bathroom decoder" and whattaya know

http://www.republicanmarket.com/store/search?spec=republican+senator+bathroom+decoder

puts "wee publicans" in a whole new light

[liberal N proud]

8. Here is your sign!

Anyone wearing something like that is obviously proud to be a racist pig!

[smoogatz]

9. Somebody should start collecting this stuff.

Twenty years from now, no one will believe it.

[Vilis Veritas]

15. 20 years from now you will be shot for possesion of it.

saddlesore

[smoogatz]

16. I have no idea what you're talking about.

But don't bother explaining.

[Vilis Veritas]

28. Bad joke...my apologies for explaining.

This will be a part of history they will like to erase...

[Indenturedebtor]

10. Wow how disgusting can you get. Might as well say

"Don't vote for that there n*****! He'll steel yer whyte womens."

:grr:

[Howler]

12. OHHHHHH FOR PETES SAKE!!!

MAN.....WTF!!! @#$%!!! unbelievable those republican &%$#@!!!!!

[On the Road]

13. The Germans Will Call it "Onkel Baracks Hutte"

http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,1201036,00.jpg

[casus belli]

14. This $%!^ will backfire on them big time.

Let them keep openly parading their ignorance, and it will most assuredly come back to bite them in the *ss. This isn't the 1960's. You can't play this card and win anymore. People are far less tolerant of outright ignorance such as this in modern times.

The fact that the GOP is openly endorsing this position by allowing this point of view to be sold at their events is political suicide. They will be lucky if they just lose the GE and more seats in the Legislative branch. This type of campaigning could serve to render them irrelevant for decades.

[smoogatz]

17. Yep.

I think all the Fox "terrorist fist jab" and "baby mama" shit will come back to bite them, too, in the form of lost advertisers and loss of credibility among the few remaining viewers who still see them as an "objective" news source. I'm guessing we've just seen the tip of the iceberg from Fox: the question is, which of their stable of on-air wingnuts will be the first to out himself once and for all as a virulent racist. My money's on O'Reilly: he's been halfway down that road already.

[casus belli]

19. Nail. Head.

O'Reilly has already proven he has a hard time controlling himself under stress. I'm waiting for a blowout of astronomical proportions on a program that won't be kind to him in the editing room.

[wvbygod]

18. Is there a link or some other evidence showing someone selling these?

So far I have not seen the source of the button. Does someone have the smoking gun sale or
a picture of the vendor selling it?

[highplainsdem]

20. Disgusting. Would the sale of that button have had to be okayed by a Texas GOP official?

If so, can we find out which one did it?

[wvbygod]

22. Exactly. We need the GOP source of this if there is one

Otherwise they will blame it on an agent to smear the GOP.

[SurfingAtWork]

21. How Klassy of teh GOP

[bookman]

23. Please don't judge us all..

..in Texas by this digusting group.

[Hope And Change]

25. Texas GOP Disavows Knowledge Of Racist Anti-Obama Button

Texas GOP Disavows Knowledge Of Racist Anti-Obama Button


By Greg Sargent and Eric Kleefeld - June 17, 2008, 3:39PM

We just got off the phone with a Texas Republican Party official, who tells us that the party had absolutely no knowledge whatsoever about this tasteful button that was for sale at this past weekend's state GOP convention:




The button, which was flagged by AmericaBlog, was sold at a booth run by RepublicanMarket.com, a business that sells a lot of red-meat buttons, bumper stickers and other paraphernalia for GOP voters.

So did party officials know about this button being sold all weekend at their convention? In an interview with Election Central, Texas GOP political director Hans Klingler answered with an emphatic No. "We had hundreds of vendors at the convention," Klingler said. "I don't know what the merchandise is, we don't check the merchandise."

Klingler added that the party would have done something if it had been brought to their attention at the time. "We wouldn't have let him sell it."

Hmmm. This button seems like the sort of thing that would have been hard to miss, doesn't it?


http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/06/texas_gop_we_didnt_know_about.php#comments

[proud patriot]

26. I ran into some awful stuff when looking for Obama stickers

truly sad and pathetic IMO

[damntexdem]

27. Wow, Republicans telling the truth about their racism.

[Bleacher Creature]

29. "Texas GOP convention" - what more needs to be said? n/t

[Hope And Change]

30. Vendor of controversial button banned by Texas GOP

June 19, 2008

Vendor of controversial button banned by Texas GOP

Posted: 10:55 AM ET

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – The Texas Republican Party is telling a vendor who sold campaign buttons it considers racist at a state convention over the weekend that he's no longer welcome.

The head of the Texas GOP says they will "neither tolerate nor profit from bigotry."

The buttons asked, "If Obama is president … will we still call it The White House?" Jonathan Alcox says he was trying to be funny, and based the button on a political cartoon. He describes
himself as an independent who may vote for Obama.

But the Texas Republican Party doesn't see the joke. Besides banning Alcox from its future conventions, it's alerting the Republican National Convention about him. And officials say the $1,500 vendor's fee he paid to sell at the state convention is being donated to Midwest flood victims.


http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/06/19/vendor-of-controversial-button-banned-by-texas-gop/