Saturday, June 11, 2005
Theocracy on the March
President Bush yesterday traveled to Ohio to talk about terrorism, but he arrived in the midst of the biggest statewide scandal in years and to a crowd of angry "Coingate" protesters.The President made the visit six days after Republican officials said Mr. Bush will return $4,000 in campaign contributions from Mr. Noe and his wife, Bernadette.
The Republican National Committee will return $2,000 contributed by Mr. Noe, who faces state and federal investigations for allegedly misappropriating millions in state money and allegedly violating federal campaign finance laws for funneling money to the Bush-Cheney campaign through others.
The money being returned by Mr. Bush and the RNC will be given to a charity, but one has not been chosen, said Aaron McLear, an RNC spokesman and a former aide to Governor Bob Taft.
The United Steel Workers yesterday said Mr. Bush should return the more than $100,000 that Mr. Noe raised for the President's re-election campaign last year - a level that made him a "pioneer" in the Bush-Cheney campaign.
Mr. McLear said there are no plans to return those funds.
Toni Brandon, 33, said she hadn't read or heard any news about Mr. Noe or the Bureau of Workers' Compensation scandal. She and her eight-year-old son waited on a small hill near I-70 to try to catch a glimpse of the President as he headed toward the event."We love the President. He's a Christian and these people are evil'' said Brandon.
From Toledo Blade
Are there still any people naive enough to think that we can reason, inform, or win over these Pavlov’s dopes? Their attitude is "I don't know anything but you are evil if you don't like Bush". These cretins must be shamed back into their holes with nothing less than the angry truth!
AND [rant]
Average American's must be made to see and identify these type of frightening fanatics with the Republican Politicians that ride their votes to elected office. We should hang these fruit cakes like albatrosses around the necks of any Politicians willing to court their votes. God knows that the "mainstream media" saddles us with every shallow celebrity or Wackoh Activist they can find [or manufacture]
Democrats [and the Main Stream Media] allow Republicans to use these nuts to will elections and yet don't make them pay ANY price for being associated with such rabid zealot supports. Yet when any progressives get too mouthy Democrats immediately distance themselves from them. An amazing double standard and a republican laid path that leads to a permanent minority for us.
I also getting so sick of hearing from business-as-usual Democrats and Moderates that we have to be respectful and treat these people's insanity, bigotry, stupidity, and hatred as if they are ideas and beliefs worthy of respectful consideration.
