Friday, July 30, 2010
Arkansas Politics GOP making money off W. Memphis shootings
Posted by Max Brantley on Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 2:18 PM
- NEAL'S TRUCK: After shooout
First things first. Wildlife Officer Michael Neal is a hero. He slammed his truck into a pair of cop-killing renegades, beginning the end of the West Memphis shootouts two months ago.
But read on. Does it strike anybody else as just a little bit opportunistic to grab onto Neal's shirttail for a Republican Party fund-raiser so soon after the fact? He'll be honored at a dinner tonight in Brinkley. Proceeds will raise money for Republican candidates for state legislature and county judge.
Understand, state employees are free to participate in political fund-raisers off-duty. (But they probably shouldn't use state trucks to drive to such events.)
What do you think?
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I think that if it were a big lib Democrat, this wouldn't even be posted up here. It's only Wepublicans that can't waise money. But big lib Dems can waise money from Chinese Communists and every big company under the sun and that's OK.
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Bet you wouldn't dither if they drove to a socialistic democratic fund raiser....would you?
just so long as at least one speaker mentions that if we had more guns then the W.Memphis shootout would not have happened.
Poor, Poor, Poor, Max. It's the way he thinks. If it were Dems doing it, it would not even be news. He never mentioned that Bill Clinton said it was ok to be a member of the KKK {for 4 years and be a Grand Wizard in charge of recruiting} if your trying to get elected to office. And Bill said Byrd spent the rest of his life trying to make up for that. Yeah, old Byrd was so ashamed he joined Bill's mentor J. William Fulbright in voting against the Civil Rights act a few years later. Max you head is so lop sided, you look like Kate Gosslin on Kate + 8.
If Dems did it it would STILL be in bad taste, but they seem to have just a bit of a sense of shame, whereas Republicans.....
Conservatives are having a fund-raiser featuring a guy who killed a couple of conservatives acting on their conservative convictions. That's pretty funny.
It's also funny that they are using a government employee to raise money to become government employees. Talk about inbred socialism.
Good point, eLwood. If every person carried an AK-47 in their car, then the cops would not have to wonder about it.
"Can I see your license, registration and assault rifle please? Ummm.... this gun is not loaded. That's a ticketable offense. Do you have an excuse for not carrying a loaded assault rifle? I see your baby, ma'am, but that's no good reason."
I remember that they went into the Walmart for something, but the police would not release what that something they went into Walmart was for. Maybe they have said by now. If not, my speculation was they went in to buy more ammo. Could I be wrong in making that assumption? Truth is, we could all carry weapons and it does not mean that deaths from gun fire would go any higher than they are now. A gun is an inannimate object, it needs a human being to pull the trigger. Also, are these fundraisers being held for the black and latino communities as well. They have as much of a right to carry weapons as the rest of us...the 'us' being white folk.
Watching Demowhores and Republiasses debate who is more ethically-challenged is like asking if dirt or mud tastes better.
One of these, and one of those.
First of all it would not matter who was chosen as a keynote speaker some of you would find a reason to bash the republicans. Michael was raised in Brinkley and was being honored by people who consider him a hero!
Second the two criminals that were stopped by Michael were far from being conservative.
The two criminals were far from being conservative? What??? They hated government as a restriction on their freedom. That is exactly the basis of the Tea Party and the Republican party. I doubt they voted for Obama.
You aren't shoving those cop-killers over to the liberal side of the fence. You own them, no differently than you own the guy who shot liberals in that church, or the guy who shot Bill Gwatney in his office.
I think this is not really surprising as the Republican Party, state and national, has whored itself out to just about any "movement" or cause that will appeal to short-term gains and quick, emotional responses to problems that need long-term and deliberate solutions. Bravo to the candidates! I sincerely hope that you or your relatives could be exploited post mortem for partisan goals.
Why is saying "Well, well...uh... they did it too, so now we can!" EVER justification? (If there are specific examples of Dems pandering so low after the 1970s, I'd like to hear it.) If Dems did crap like that they should be ashamed, too. I just know that there is some class left in the party of David Pryor and Dale Bumpers.
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