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Utah Congressional candidate Mia Love gets racist hate mail. Wingnuts suddenly find vicious attacks on an African-American appalling:
Nothing drives the left nuttier than successful black Republicans. Then they show just how racist they are. Before speaking at the Republican Convention Love trailed by 15 points in polls. After her well-received speech, which was ignored by the liberal news outlets, she’s now surged to a 15-point lead, a 30-point swing in just a month.
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Quite clearly the angry, racist liberals cannot tolerate strong, black conservative, which is why they resort to such ugly tactics.
A packet of information sent to Mayor Mia Love‘s office that city officials described as racist launched a police investigation Tuesday.
City Manager Mark Christensen described the contents of the thick envelope as “disturbing” and “pretty creepy stuff.” He said it included a picture of Love and her husband, Jason, and a hooded Ku Klux Klan character. There also were pictures of aborted fetuses, he said.
“I couldn’t tell if it was threatening or anything. It kind of shocked me, what I saw,” he said.
Meanwhile, in ole Virginny…:
Virginia Republican Party officials on Tuesday ordered their Mecklenburg County affiliate to remove photos portraying President Obama as a witch doctor, a caveman and a thug from its Facebook page.
The altered photos have been on the Mecklenburg County Republican Committee’s page for months but drew attention outside the rural southwestern enclave after a luncheon event this week with Republican Senate candidate George Allen.
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As part of a campaign swing through the southwestern part of the state, Allen, a former senator and governor, held a business roundtable luncheon Monday that the committee had helped promote. ProgressVA, a group that supports Allen’s Democratic opponent, former governor Timothy M. Kaine, found the images among 100 “wall photos” posted on the committee’s Facebook page.
Allen’s campaign said he had no advance knowledge of the images, which he has since condemned.
So, for months, this wasn’t an issue until Senator Macaca came to town.
Duly noted…
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What, no backward “B” carved into her cheek? If the Love campaign wants the conservative Wurlitzer to pick up this story – especially the Apple Dumpling Gang over at deadbreitbart – they are going to have to try a little harder.
Mia is gettting some of that Kkkarl Rove kind of loving, only the kind Kkkarl can give.
I would make a comment about Ms. Love, but then because I’m an angry racist liberal, I’d be accused of being an angry racist liberal.
I will say, however, that she’s very attractive.
Oh wait, does that make me sexist, too?
It’s off topic, but who gives a fuck I blame Obama anyways:
Official American Treasure Mr. Charles Pierce celebrates his Esquire political blog’s oneth birthday today, and gives props to – among others – a somewhat popular blogger for his virtual inspiration.
It’s the blogosphere’s version of Eric Clapton telling guitarists to go listen to Robert Johnson. TBogg: King of the Delta Snark.
Stop it. Just stop it. It is not Senator Macaca. It is former Senator Macaca.
Ah, the old Both Sides Do It routine. Let’s see: an anonymously sent “package” to the victim on one side, versus an official party organization posting “humorous” Der Sturmer-type photos on its official website.
Yep, sounds like exactly the same thing… if you’re an idiot.
Amen, brother.
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Why, yes – the standard Lieberal actions: mailing racist material and pictures of aborted fetuses. No, hang on a sec; even I can see that doesn’t fly. Got it – it was a Lieberal pretending to be an honest, God-fearing Conservative Christian by mailing racist material and pictures of aborted fetuses. No, wait – let me try that again. Aha! It was a Lieberal mailing racist material and pictures of aborted fetuses, just like all those Lieberal agents provocateur who constantly do that to their own kind in an effort to implicate the honest, God-fearing Conservative Christians. Yeah, that’s the ticket!
A little checking into that Mother Jones article reveals Ms. Love to be a bit of a lying hypocrite, so I guess she is exactly what the GOP needs/wants. How handy that her hypocracy comes packaged in a nice looking black African American with ladyparts.
Funny how her life story is that of a “anchor baby” for her Haitian parents, or that how she claimed to be the “ticket” that let her parents stay and her siblings join them is actually not at all congruent with what immigration policy was at the time. Also funny is how when a non-republican claims/is accused of being an anchor baby it makes the baby Jebus cry, but in Ms. Love’s case it is hosannahs all around. She’s so pro-immigrant and pro-poor too, what with her wanted to half the Earning Income Tax Credit, eliminate school lunch programs, and end any subsidies for pubic housing (it ‘creates dependency’ dontcha know).
I grew up near the Planet of Utah; I’m willing to bet the racist crap she got was from one of those old pre-revelation Mormons who didn’t pull his car to the side of the road and cry tears of celebration once the Mormon church revealed that blacks were 100% human.
How about this?
I hope whoever sent her all that awful crap is identified, prosecuted, and jailed.
AND I hope her Democratic opponent routs her at the polls.
Bogg: you can’t possibly expect the Republicans to behave like they actually have any ethics. To have ethics, you would have to have a morality that transcends the simple desire for power.
Where do we get those pics of aborted fetuses and racist pics? Asking for a friend….
I’m just dying to know how Ms. Love deduced that the package was sent by liberals. Do liberals prefer a certain brand of plain brown envelope?
All is not well in Zion….
…according to a poll from what reputable polling organization? Uh, what’s that? The poll was paid for by Love’s own campaign committee?
Sounds like a job for that Unskew guy.
File this under: “Of course” as well as “True, dat.”
OF COURSE, if a “conservative Republican,” who just happens to be AA, gets racist & dead foetus stuff in the mail, it was de facto sent by some liberal, all well-known to be the truly true for-realz racists in this nation. Don’t let anything fact-y get in the way, like how can anyone tell who/where this “anonymous” package came from. OF COURSE it’s from a LIEbrul.
TRUE DAT some elected Republican official had clearly racist hate photos of AA Pres Barack Obama on their website/Facebook/emails, but it doesn’t really mean anything, nup, nothing at all, just a few, ya know, entirely *harmless* but incredibly *entertaining AND humorous* photos, doncha know?? TRUE DAT liebruls, like femi-Nazi’s, simply have NO sense of humor…