Heidepreim: Republicans are the party of hate
In a comment reminiscent of Tim Johnson's taliban comment that got him into trouble a while back, Scott Heidepreim does him one better, and at the McGovern Day library event this past weekend flat out calls Republicans the party of hate as related by new website Badlands Blue:
Holy crap!! This is the pandering candidate who says we need to listen more and shout less? But he calls the majority party out as as the party of "hate"? What an utterly undefendable remark.
The bottom line is that Democratic Senator Heidepreim needed a lot of Republican votes to get elected. But once that happened, he's now thrown off the cloth of moderation, and shown himself to be the liberal ideologue we all knew him to be.
After this comment, I hope the Republican Senate wakes up and realizes that Scott isn't about working together - he's about drawing battle lines.
UPDATE - good catch by one of the readers. It was pointed out to me that the Badlands Blue blog is paid for by the SDDP.
Hmmm........
Heidepriem said it was a thrill to serve with some of the people here today, the new Senators, and gave credit to the great Democrats who made this possible ("we can't thank you enough"). Heidepriem said he was confident Democrats can take control of the State Senate. Heidepriem talked about his father, also a World War II vet, a Republican but also a progressive and environmentalist. "Why did I change parties," he asked? Because he wanted to be part of a party that was about hope, not "hate."Read that incredible comment here.
Holy crap!! This is the pandering candidate who says we need to listen more and shout less? But he calls the majority party out as as the party of "hate"? What an utterly undefendable remark.
The bottom line is that Democratic Senator Heidepreim needed a lot of Republican votes to get elected. But once that happened, he's now thrown off the cloth of moderation, and shown himself to be the liberal ideologue we all knew him to be.
After this comment, I hope the Republican Senate wakes up and realizes that Scott isn't about working together - he's about drawing battle lines.
UPDATE - good catch by one of the readers. It was pointed out to me that the Badlands Blue blog is paid for by the SDDP.
Hmmm........
Comments
1. Republicans hate women who wish to make their own medical decisions concerning birth/abortion.
2. Republicans hate taxes.
3. Republicans hate hearing about global warming.
4. Republicans hate admitting their wrong.
5. Republicans hate marijuana, a harmless plant they called "devil's weed."
Please add to the list.
Now, allow me to refute your little list:
1. Repubicans do not have women who wish to make thier own medical decisions concerning birth/abortion. For one thing, there are many Democrats who pro-life. Also, pro-life people of both parties simply happen to care about unborn life also.
2. I would say everyone hates taxes. If you really studied taxes, I would imagine Republicans pay more taxes in total than do Democrats; just look at who votes for Reps and for Dems. Instead of saying that Republicans hate taxes, you could say that Republicans are more for personal responsibility and Democrats are more for a socialist system of "from everyone according to ability and to everyone according to need."
3. Global warming seems a Dem issue because of good ole Gore, who happens to be a hypocrite about the whole thing. If truly concerned about global warming, it's not a Dem/Rep issue; it's an international issue. Just this morning on the news was a report about coal fired plants being built in China at the rate of 2/week, and these contribute hugely to the assumed causes of global warming.
4. Come one now, both parties and all politicians hate admitting they are wrong. Just about every person on earth hates to admit he/she is wrong.
5. Hi, Newland!
Why won't the potheads leave this website so we can have serious political debate?
The "potheads" will leave when everyone who's ever overindulged in booze leaves the website. Wake up. Alchohol causes far, far more problems to society than marijuana--and this is coming from someone who's never touched pot and never will.
"Why won't the potheads leave this website so we can have serious political debate?"
If you're looking for serious political debate, you've come to the wrong website..
We're here. We're smart. Get used to it.
And Powers is its poster child.
The rich, or middle class which is most of us are whom you refer to as rich, pay most of the taxes in this country already. If we didn't, who would pay for the infrastructure that everyone including your poor enjoy? They certainly don't pay enough into the system to support it.
Bush's tax cuts have fueled the economy, but you will never hear that admitted from the media. Just more fueling of class warfare in the US.
I don't hate taxes for instance, I just hate that my tax dollars go to things like museums for soybeans in BF Iowa, etc.
1. Women who have abortions and do not regret them.
2. Gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered people who are not involved in ex-gay ministries.
3. Indians of all sorts.
4. People on welfare.
5. Poor people.
6. Union workers.
7. Tom Daschle.
8. Hillary Clinton
9. Most black people
10. Most college professors
Start a topic on the War College about ANY of these people and you will have 50 rabid crazy Republican responses within 24 hours.
I know he dropped a ton of cash on his last campaign, but are these teens on here or what?
Distraction tactics only from children!
Scotty got caught saying something really dumb, nothing new, but deal with it!!
bekuz I'm not as gud of a typer.
But if it makes you happy, anon 3:03, to think we as Reps hate all the above, well, it's a free country and have at it. Wouldn't want you to lose any sleep over it.
Oh and 8:51 just said "lit up".
They told me. I called them.
PS: Hey, Newland. Why won't you let me buy you a beer (in a smoke free bar, of course)?
"What I don't understand is why Republicans can say that hating women for being pro-choice is ok because it is supported by their religion"
Of course you can't understand it, it's not true! If you support abortion, YOU may wish that it were true to vilify your opposition.
Identify ANY Republican that says HATING women for being pro-choice is OK.