Head of GOP women's group in NM draws criticism for calling Obama 'a Muslim socialist'

[Nambe]

Source: AP

ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) _ County and state GOP officials criticized the head of a New Mexico Republican women's group for calling Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama a "Muslim socialist" and stating that "Muslims are our enemies."

Marcia Stirman, the head of the Republican Women of Otero County, will be asked to step down, Sassy Tinling, the chairwoman of the Otero County Republican Party, said Wednesday.

In a letter published Tuesday in the Alamogordo Daily News, Stirman wrote that she believes "Muslims are our enemies." Stirman told The Associated Press in an interview: "I don't trust them at all. They've sworn across the world that they are our enemies. Why we're trying to elect one is beside me."

Obama, an American-born Christian, has fought false rumors that he is a Muslim throughout the presidential campaign. ...

Read more: http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-gop-wo...

[Starbucks Anarchist]

1. No wonder Republicans love the 2nd Amendment.

They love shooting themselves in the foot.

[Soup Bean]

24. Wow. True colors indeed. n/t

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

26. I think that's reserved for federal LEO speaking to school groups.

[av8rdave]

2. It's nice to see that occasionally stupidity comes at a price!

[baldguy]

3. Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/krkhan.htm

[Democat]

4. GOP women seem a lot dumber than our bright Democratic women!

This election cycle has really made the difference between GOP women and Democratic women obvious.

Look at Palin vs. Hillary, just for starters.

[Nambe]

13. ¨Dumber¨! I am sure you meant well. Have you ever met a repub man?

I am not saying all republicans are stupid, I am saying all the republicans I have met are stupid. I can´t remember who said that but it is early American.

[wolfgangmo]

16. I believe that will rogers said that.

[Democat]

22. When I read it back now...

"Dumber" doesn't sound very good, but it's hard to fit everything in that subject line!

[concreteblue]

14. "THANK GOD!"

sayeth the republican men.....

[Laelth]

31. Welcome to DU!

The United States is a LIBERAL Country.



-Laelth

[Hand]

5. Here's the original letter (puke alert)

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/rm_rocks/20...

I decided not to copy and paste it.

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

8. I LOVE how these little local GOOP clubs keep getting new leaders

One mouths off, bites the dust, and is replaced with another.

Lifting rocks and exposing these turds to the light of day is improving the race.

State Repugnant party leaders are having sooo much fun this year.

Couldn't happen to nicer people.

[edbermac]

12. She believes in "life" and "a good reason for the death penalty."

I read in today's paper what a woman wrote explaining why she's a Democrat. Let me tell you why I'm not. I'm a Republican because:

I believe in a sovereign God who sometimes gives us what we deserve.

I believe Muslims are our enemies.

I believe in life. A baby is not just a fetus, but a living being no matter where it resides.

I believe there is a good reason for the death penalty.

I believe in fiscal responsibility, for the government and for us.

I believe the government is way too big and rife with greed and corruption.

I believe in the truth. People believe lies because it's much easier than finding the truth.

I believe in personal responsibility. That includes spanking your children.

I believe American women should raise their own children and American men should be men enough to pay for children they've produced.

I believe a man and woman make marriage. Period.

I believe in America first and foremost and we ought to take care of our own people, our own land, and illegal aliens should go home.

I believe in guns and knowing how to use them properly.

I believe war is a fact of life and we should always win.

I believe in lower taxes. I know how to spend money better than Congress any day of the week.

I believe in voter ID.

I believe there is a moderate and a socialist in this election.

I agree with a two-party system, but Obama isn't a messiah or a democrat.


She's a Republican, alright.

[xxqqqzme]

18. Let me tell you why you can never trust a publican...

All the crap she wrote, plus voted for dumbya, probably TWICE and, I'm guessing, she's voting for mclame.

[MNBrewer]

20. Publicans are great

They run pubs. REpublicans on the other hand....

[BayjanDem]

6. Is it just me

Or have the republicans reached all new level of stupid? Have they ALWAYS been this brain-dead? "Muslim Socialist"? "Muslims are our enemies"? I have Muslims in my community. And a lot of them are Republican (at least they were) This is just . The assholery continues.

[happygoluckytoyou]

7. DEAD FROM THE NECK UP....

McCain stonewalls on radical friend
Steve Chapman
October 23, 2008
There are three things in the world that you should recognize will not happen in this lifetime. You will not become a billionaire. The Cubs will not win the World Series. And John McCain will not explain his warm association with a notorious political criminal.

McCain has attacked Barack Obama for his connection to former Weather Underground member William Ayers, who in McCain's words "was unrepentant over his activities as a member of a terrorist organization." In the final debate, McCain said that "we need to know the full extent of that relationship."

But though he thinks it's terrible for Obama to associate with dangerous militants, he thinks it's fine for him to do the same thing. And he'd rather go back to the Hanoi Hilton than disclose "the full extent of that relationship."

The extremist McCain has befriended is G. Gordon Liddy, who got a 20-year prison sentence for multiple felonies in the Watergate scandal—including burglary, conspiracy and illegal wiretapping. Finally forced to acknowledge the connection in an interview last week by David Letterman, McCain ducked and dodged before replying, "He went to prison, he paid his debt, as people do. I'm not in any way embarrassed to know Gordon Liddy."



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Politics Video Video Pressed further, McCain said he was ready to furnish what he asked of Obama: "Everything about any relationship that I've had I will make completely open and give a complete accounting of." Sure he will. Right after Sarah Palin becomes a Rastafarian.

After the Letterman interview, I repeatedly e-mailed campaign aides Tucker Bounds, Jill Hazelbaker and Mark Salter with several questions about the association. Their response? The same response I would have gotten had I e-mailed a trio of wax dummies: silence.

This leads us to some inescapable conclusions. The first is that McCain lied when he promised to lay out his relationship with Liddy. The second is that he is hypocritical in demanding something of Obama that he won't do himself. The third is that he is scared to tell Americans the truth because they won't like what they hear.

He's probably right. Liddy is not someone most of us would want to see visiting the Oval Office. Working for President Richard Nixon, he committed a raft of crimes to secure Nixon's re-election and punish his perceived enemies. He proposed to do still more—bomb the liberal Brookings Institution, kidnap anti-war activists and murder a couple of inconvenient people. But cooler heads prevailed.

What does any of this have to do with McCain? Plenty. Liddy held a fundraiser at his home for McCain's 1998 Senate re-election race. He agreed to speak at another McCain fundraiser in 2000.

He has given several large contributions to McCain, including $1,000 this year. He has hosted McCain on his radio show, where the Arizona senator gushed, "I'm proud of you."

McCain says Liddy paid his debt, as if that erases everything. Actually, most of the debt was forgiven by President Jimmy Carter, who commuted his sentence. McCain doesn't mention that, like Ayers, Liddy has never repented of his crimes, but takes pride in them.

His contempt for the law has not abated. After the 1993 raid in Waco, Texas, Liddy urged lethal violence against federal agents. "Now if the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms comes to disarm you and they are bearing arms, resist them with arms," he told listeners. "Kill the sons of bitches." Only a year later did he amend his remarks to recommend that citizens not shoot unless they are shot at—which would have been a great comfort to any ATF agents gunned down in the meantime.

But don't take that as a sign that he has changed his ways. Liddy, who as a convicted felon is forbidden to possess a firearm, has bragged about keeping guns in his house and using them for target shooting. When I asked the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms what an ex-con could get for firing a gun, even at a target range, I was told it's a crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

For at least a decade, this unreformed criminal and enemy of democracy has been McCain's loyal friend, supporter and contributor. It may be a mystery just why the Republican nominee consorts with a lawless radical. But it's no mystery why he doesn't want to talk about it.

[kestrel91316]

9. Maybe someone has reminded the Republican Party that when

Muslims are politically active, they OFTEN REGISTER AS REPUBLICANS.

[4lbs]

11. But..... Obama has the "muslin" vote!

[Chulanowa]

25. For how much longer, I wonder?

Blacks, too, used to go straight Republican. That changed when the Goldwater and Nixon types turned the GOP into a racist organization.

I, for one, would happily welcome Muslims to the Democratic Party. They're clearly unwelcome within the ranks of Republicans.

[4lbs]

10. Yet another GOP "head" case forced to resign after racist doings.

n/t

[Judi Lynn]

15. Photo of the lovely and brilliant Marcia Stirman. What a genius!

http://alamogordotimes.com/modules/myalbum/photo.php?li...

Marcia's own "Deep Thoughts"

I read in today's paper what a woman wrote explaining why she's a Democrat. Let me tell you why I'm not. I'm a Republican because:

I believe in a sovereign God who sometimes gives us what we deserve.

I believe Muslims are our enemies.

I believe in life. A baby is not just a fetus, but a living being no matter where it resides.

I believe there is a good reason for the death penalty.

I believe in fiscal responsibility, for the government and for us.

I believe the government is way too big and rife with greed and corruption.

I believe in the truth. People believe lies because it's much easier than finding the truth.

I believe in personal responsibility. That includes spanking your children.

I believe American women should raise their own children and American men should be men enough to pay for children they've produced.

I believe a man and woman make marriage. Period.

I believe in America first and foremost and we ought to take care of our own people, our own land, and illegal aliens should go home.

I believe in guns and knowing how to use them properly.

I believe war is a fact of life and we should always win.

I believe in lower taxes. I know how to spend money better than Congress any day of the week.

I believe in voter ID.

I believe there is a moderate and a socialist in this election.

I agree with a two-party system, but Obama isn't a messiah or a democrat.

He's a Muslim socialist.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/rm_rocks/20...

[Quantess]

21. Some of those were pretty funny, unintentionally.

I would expect to read something like that in the Onion.

[Kalifornia.Kid]

17. Form a club with Diane Fedele where they can wear their pointy party hats and bed sheets together.

[Liberal Dose]

19. Rethugs really are proud of their ignorance, aren't they?

Freakin' lunatics

[barack the house]

23. They really are self destructing, best just to stand back and not intervene.

[Bush h8ter]

27. OMG

Not again- they will try anything!!

[Vinnie From Indy]

28. These people are just nuts

Rush Limbaugh tells them lies and they go out and repeat the bullshit like zombies. It is an awesome thing to witness.

[LynnTheDem]

29. Buh-bye, Marcia, you dumb ignorant little person.

[Laelth]

30. I almost feel sorry for these low-level Republican operatives.

They honestly seem to not understand that Limbaugh, Hannity, and senior Republicans have been lying to them all along. They actually believe this crap, and they're just shocked when they discover it's really not O.K. to publicly spread lies unless you, yourself, are either Limbaugh, Hannity, or a senior Republican.

The United States is a LIBERAL Country.



-Laelth