The Chairwoman of the Tennessee Republican Party goes just a little off message with this statement in response to the foiled plot by Tennessee Neo-Nazi’s to kill 108 people and then die trying to kill Barack Obama. Chairwoman Robin Smith said:
“Hate is not a political party, policy statement, agenda or ideology – it is a pure evil that no place in civil society. Whether it is neo-Nazi skinheads plotting a racist shooting spree targeting Sen. Obama, or West Hollywood liberals hanging Gov. Sarah Palin in effigy and calling it ‘art,’ or unknown anarchists tossing bricks through the windows of a county Republican headquarters in Murfreesboro, Americans of all political views should be outraged.”
So in case you missed it, “a plot to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate 102 black people in a Tennessee murder spree,” a planned act of domestic terrorism, is worth roughly the same outrage as hanging a Sarah Palin doll from a tree or a broken window.
Jeff Frederick must have sighed a brief sigh of relief tonight, as he is no longer the most recent state GOP Chair to say something embarrassing to the party and downright stupid.
H/T: Ben Smith
October 28, 2008 at 2:33 pm
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