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MI GOP official won’t resign over Facebook post about “filthy homosexuals” who “account for half the murders in large cities”

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The Detroit Free Press is reporting on what Republican national committeeman Dave Agema’s posted on Facebook during the Supreme Court oral arguments on marriage equality.

LANSING — A prominent Michigan Republican was not backing down or apologizing Thursday as he faced calls for his resignation over an antigay posting on his Facebook page. [...]

The post depicts gay people as sexually promiscuous, rife with sexually transmitted diseases and responsible for “half the murders in large cities.” It cites 30-year-old studies for some of its statistics and sources such as the Congressional Record and special-interest groups for others.

The article he posted is titled “Everyone Should Know These Statistics on Homosexuals.” You can link over and see the despicable content for yourself.

Here’s how it appears on his Facebook page:

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See? “Dave likes” that article!

After criticism poured in, he responded with this:

“It’s not hate. It’s facts derived from several studies. The trouble is many don’t like facts.”

“Many don’t like facts” but “Dave likes” that article!

The next day he said that it was worth sharing, plus this:

Some publications and even a few liberal Republicans have chosen to take the words of someone else and cast them as my ownI will not back down… I will dig in and fight even harder to defend our conservative values from these attacks by liberals in the media, and even in our own party.”

Of course he also insisted that he doesn’t hate or discriminate against anyone.

Of course not. Why would anyone ever suggest such a thing? But Dave sure “likes” that article!

Just to be clear about what kind of extremist nutball this guy is, here are a couple of other items he has posted on his Facebook page:

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How’s that reachy-outy thing workin’ for ya, GOP?

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John McCain: “Rand Paul, Cruz, Amash, whoever” are “wacko birds.” Amash and Paul respond.

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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) are getting the attention of John McCain, and you know what they say: Any attention is good attention, even if it’s negative attention. So his three conservative colleagues must be thrilled.

Or not.

Via HuffPo:

When I asked him if “these guys” — having just mentioned Amash, Cruz and Paul by name — are a “positive force” in the GOP, McCain paused for a full six seconds.

“They were elected, nobody believes that there was a corrupt election, anything else,” McCain said. “But I also think that when, you know, it’s always the wacko birds on right and left that get the media megaphone.

“I think it can be harmful if there is a belief among the American people that those people are reflective of the views of the majority of Republicans. They’re not,” he continued.

I asked McCain to clarify who, specifically, he was talking about.

Rand Paul, Cruz, Amash, whoever,” McCain said.

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But, via Taegan, it appears that Rand Paul shrugged it off. Here’s what he told Mike Huckabee:

“You know, I think he’s just on the wrong side of history, and on the wrong side of this argument, really… I treat Sen. McCain with respect. I don’t think I always get the same in return.”

Amash wasn’t quite as respectful:

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Montana corporal punishment bill proposed by Republican legislator. Who knew the GOP was into spanking?

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Land o’ Goshen, Montana’s getting kind of kinky! Or one of their legislators is, anyway. He’s appears to be into… spanking. Okay, maybe kinky wasn’t the right word. How about misguided? Or just plain nuts?

I mean, come on, flogging is so Les Miz ago.

Memo to GOP: Violence is not the answer. Guns are not the answer. Beating, flogging, spanking, or otherwise harming other human beings: none of these is the answer. Common sense laws are, reasonable punishment is, you get the idea.

The bill proposed by Rep. Jerry O’Neil (R-Columbia Falls) includes the following:

A BILL FOR AN ACT ENTITLED: “AN ACT ALLOWING A DEFENDANT TO BARGAIN FOR THE IMPOSITION OF CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IN LIEU OF OR TO REDUCE THE TERM OF ANY SENTENCE OF INCARCERATION AVAILABLE TO THE COURT FOR IMPOSITION; AMENDING SECTION 46-18-115, MCA; AND PROVIDING AN APPLICABILITY DATE.” BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MONTANA:

NEW SECTION. Section 1. Corporal punishment in lieu of incarceration. (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a person convicted of any offense by a court in this state, whether a misdemeanor or felony, may during a sentencing hearing as provided in 46-18-115 bargain with the court for the imposition of corporal punishment in lieu of or to reduce the term of any sentence of incarceration available to the court for imposition.

(2) The court and the person convicted of an offense shall negotiate the exact nature of the corporal punishment to be imposed, which must be commensurate with the severity, nature, and degree of the harm caused by the offender. If the court and the offender cannot agree on the exact nature of the corporal punishment to be imposed, the court shall impose a sentence as provided in 46-18-201.

(3) The imposition of a sentence under this section must be carried out by the sheriff of the county in which the crime occurred if the sentence for corporal punishment reduced or eliminated the term of incarceration in the county jail or by the department of corrections if the sentence reduced or eliminated the term of incarceration in the state prison. Any imposition of sentence pursuant to this section must be carried out within a reasonable time.

(4) For purposes of this section, “corporal punishment” means the infliction of physical pain on a defendant to carry out the sentence negotiated between the judge and the defendant.

No, he’s not kidding.

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Corporal punishment, according to Merriam-Webster:

Infliction of physical pain upon a person’s body as punishment for a crime or infraction. Such penalties include beating, branding, mutilation, blinding, and the use of the stock and pillory. The term also denotes the physical disciplining of children in the schools and at home. From ancient times through the 18th century, corporal punishment was commonly used in instances that did not call for capital punishment, ostracism, or exile. But the growth of humanitarian ideals during the Enlightenment and afterward led to its gradual abandonment, and today it has been almost entirely replaced in the West by imprisonment or other nonviolent penalties.

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H/t: The Lowdown

More GOP madness… and these stories are from just the past few hours

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It’s uncanny that Republicans, specifically conservative Republicans, specifically whacko crazy nutjob far right Republicans, are gung-ho-willing to continue pushing their whacko crazy nutjob far right agenda so enthusiastically after losing the November elections so badly.

Who in their right mind doesn’t learn from such obvious mistakes? And by right mind I mean far right mind. And by far right mind I mean beyond help.

Check out today’s headlines:

Louisiana GOP Governor [Jindal] Suggests Eliminating Corporate Tax, Paid For By Taxing The Poor

North Carolina Restaurant Owner Writes Lesbian Customers An Anti-Gay Letter

Three Things The NRA Wants You To Believe About Biden’s Gun Safety Task Force That Aren’t True

Video- Gun Activist: If Blacks Had Guns, They Wouldn’t Have Been Slaves

Head Of House Republican Group Is Okay With U.S. Default

Hobby Lobby Manipulating Employees’ Health Care Plans To Deny Them Access To Birth Control

And those are from just today. It’s only about 2 pm here in SoCal. I’m sure there’s much more wingnuttery where that came from.

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AUDIO: Tagg Romney says he wanted to take a swing at President Obama

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Just a little something Tagg Romney let slip on the Bill LuMaye Show. You can hear the entire segment here.

Host:

“What is it like for you to hear the president of the United States call your dad a liar? How do you react to that?”

Tagg Romney:

“Well jump out of your seat and you want to rush down to the debate stage and take a swing at him.”

Tagg goes on to say, ” But you know you can’t do that because, well, first there’s a lot of secret service agents between you and him…”

Those family values just ooze out of the Romneys, don’t they?

H/t: @MikeNellis

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VIDEO: Sexual assault survivors speak out against Todd Akin in Claire McCaskill ads

Via Trudeau’s Doonesbury genius.

Talk about powerful ads… wow. Hey Todd “Legitmate Rape” Akin, looks like women are smarter, tougher, and more effective than you thought… although he did give their bodies credit for magically killing rape sperm by being able to “shut that whole thing down.”

Diana:

“I’m a Republican and a pro-life mother, and a rape survivor. In the hospital I was offered emergency contraception. Because of my personal beliefs, I declined. Here’s what else I believe: no woman should be denied that choice. What Todd Akin said is offensive, but what he believes is worse. He would criminalize emergency contraception. I’ve never voted for Claire McCaskill, but because of Todd Akin, I will now.

Watch all three. They pack a real punch.

H/t: CNN.

VIDEO- Reince Priebus: Todd “Legitimate Rape” Akin should get out of the race. Wait. No he shouldn’t.

Oh what a difference a few weeks makes. RNC chairman Reince Priebus has learned something brand new from flip-flop expert Willard M. Romney: The art of Etch A Sketching.

Why, it seems like only last month that Reince was none too thrilled with Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO), who is running against  “un-ladylike” Claire McCaskill for a seat in the U.S. Senate. After Todd’s rather, erm, unusual remarks about women’s magic uteri that can prevent pregnancies from “legitimate rape,” Republicans were running from him faster than Paul Ryan in a marathon.

That was then. This is now.

Reince Priebus, August 2012:

 

“I think he should get out of the race…”

“…We’re not gonna send him a penny.”

Reince Priebus, September 2012:

Asked directly if he considered Akin to be a better option for Missouri voters than McCaskill, Priebus did not hesitate.

“Well, absolutely,” he said in the interview. “That’s a given, and as chairman of the party, I have an obligation to make sure we win as many seats in the Senate as possible.”