tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36404602.post276456877498177650..comments2023-10-26T05:08:20.977-04:00Comments on Connecting.the.Dots: Vote-for-Me Hate SpeechROBERT STEINhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11999996852219220599noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36404602.post-34413681550350518252010-10-12T19:03:29.785-04:002010-10-12T19:03:29.785-04:00Hardly a day passed after returning from a long tr...Hardly a day passed after returning from a long trip, a fatiguing 13-hour non-stop drive, when a GOP canvasser came to my door soliciting on behalf of the local Congressional candidate. Immediately, the spiel started with how the democrats are destroying the country and why I should read the GOP talking points pamphlet, which I refused to accept as one shuns the plague.<br /><br />Just as immediately, I went ballistic over the bigotry, racism, anti-Hispanic, homophobic, and Islamophobic hysteria of GOP wedge politics designed to polarize and abuse the electorate; and how the same kind of bigotry and hysteria murdered my ancestors; and why the GOP are nothing more than a gang of Nazis who want to privatize social security and Medicare, eliminate the EPA and FDA, end minimum wage and worker safety standards, prohibit gays and single women from teaching school, and turn the country into a banana republic; and then I yammered about the lets-bring-back-segregation candidate from Kentucky, the lets-shoot-Harry Reid candidate from Nevada, the stupid not-a-witch candidate from Delaware, the email-bestiality candidate from New York, and the Nazi-cross-dressing candidate from Ohio; then I started a verbal tirade over a <a href="http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/10/mark_kirk_sends_poll_watchers_to_vulnerable_largel.php?ref=fpb" rel="nofollow">secret plan by the GOP to disenfranchise minority voters in Chicago</a> …<br /><br />… <b>before I slammed the door</b>. As one of those mild-mannered, moderate voters, can you imagine what I might have done if I were a radical extremist!(O)CT(O)PUShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07589336822561030860noreply@blogger.com