Self-described 'Confederate' running for Parkway School Board says she's no racist

[pstokely]

Source: St Louis Post Dispatch

A Parkway School Board candidate who has identified herself as a Confederate, called Michelle Obama a “giant rat” on Twitter and retweeted a message about banning Islam in the United States argued at a candidate forum Sunday night that she is not anti-Islam or racist.

“I am not a xenophobic, homophobic, anti-Islam, anti-Semitic racist,” Jeanie Ames said in her opening statement at the forum, which was held at the Islamic Foundation of Greater St. Louis in Ballwin.

She claimed that people have waged a “vile smear campaign” against her. She said she thinks she faces opposition because she wants to be a pro-life, conservative voice on the school board, “which scares the board because it challenges their status quo.”

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[hedda_foil]

1. Either that or she's insane.

[Permanut]

2. Sounds like a perfect candidate..

but the heck with the school board, she should be in the Senate.

[dalton99a]

3. She's a babbling idiot:

[SergeStorms]

6. She just talked for 2 minutes......

and didn't say a word. From one incomplete talking point, to another incomplete talking point, a mish-mash of nothing from the mouth of a no one. Go ahead, tie yourself to Trump's coat-tails and see where that gets you, dullard.

[GWC58]

11. Trumps Teflon works for no one

but Trump.

[Cosmocat]

13. Do these people get the inherent contradictions that exist

in what they believe?

Her two main priorities are sovernism and capitalism, which ... run counter to one another.

You can't have the great capitalist environment by shutting yourself out from the rest of the world.

[forgotmylogin]

14. Why you gotta be a "Confederate", lady?

You can be a proud modern Southerner with a rich heritage of strength and tradition. You don't have to be a Confederate with all its current racist and xenophobic implications...

Unless of course, a racist is what you want to be.

[Coventina]

4. In what way does a school board handle abortion?

[genxlib]

10. They have a lot to say about the quality of sex education

But these types are always trying to teach abstinence only which just makes abortions more likely.

[SunSeeker]

5. What a piece of human garbage.

[onetexan]

7. She can't be worse than Betsy DeVos

[Skittles]

8. Ms. Ames, you are all those things and more

[safeinOhio]

9. I get tired of you PC folks saying

Confederate. Call them what they are, Surrender Monkeys.

[NickB79]

12. Or traitors. I like to call them traitors

They pissed on the Constitution and tried to destroy our nation.

[radliberal]

15. Pro-life?

These people are complete hypocrites.

[IronLionZion]

16. Does she have a Jewish lawyer?

Because I hadn't thought Roy Moore was anti-semitic until his wife informed us that they were not because they had a Jewish lawyer.

Whenever someone states “I am not a xenophobic, homophobic, anti-Islam, anti-Semitic racist,” they've probably done and said some things that were “xenophobic, homophobic, anti-Islam, anti-Semitic racist,”.

[MurrayDelph]

18. In Mrs Moore's case, it was worse than that

It would have been bad-enough if she had said that she can't be anti-Semitic because one of their lawyers was Jewish. What she said, and followed up with a big so-there grin, was "one of our lawyers is a Jew," which she pronounced with three syllables.

(And her Jew lawyer turned out to be a "Jew for Jesus," or as we call them, not-Jewish, as where she knew him from was her church)

[Paladin]

17. If she identifies herself as a Confederate, she's a racist. End of story. (nt)

[CottonBear]

19. Exactly. N/T

[B Stieg]

20. Really? Why?

from Websters:
confederate
kənˈfed(ə rət
noun
1. "a person one works with, especially in, something secret or illegal"

So, you're running as a crook? Seems to fit!

[tclambert]

21. So she wants to bring back slavery, but for white people, too?

'Cause, see, it's only racist if you have exclusively black slaves. If you allow white slaves, well, then not racist. Right?

[demigoddess]

22. banning Islam? isn't that against the First Amendment???

you know, freedom of religion and the practice of religion.