Tenn. GOP Chair draws parallel comparison of Obama murder plot to a Palin effigy halloween display

[TeamJordan23]

Tenn. GOP chair draws murder plot parallel

The chairwoman for the Tennessee Republican Party draws a wild parallel:

"Hate is not a political party, policy statement, agenda or ideology - it is a pure evil that no place in civil society," said Robin Smith, Chairman of the Tennessee Republican Party. "Whether it is neo-Nazi skinheads plotting a racist shooting spree targeting Sen. Obama, or West Hollywood liberals hanging Gov. Sarah Palin in effigy and calling it 'art,' or unknown anarchists tossing bricks through the windows of a county Republican headquarters in Murfreesboro, Americans of all political views should be outraged."

The Palin effigy was crude, but it's breathtaking to compare that with indictments in a mass murder and assassination plot.

The Tennessee Republican Party has been regularly out front, and occasionally chided, in its anti-Obama talking points, but this one seems to go a bit further.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1008/Tenn_GOP_chair_draws_murder_plot_parallel.html?showall

[anonymous171]

1. Doesn't feel good does it? Now they know how we feel.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

2. The neo-nazi plot was racist, illegal, and immoral.

The Palin effigy was none of those things.

[ck4829]

3. No mention of Jim Adkisson or the guy who murdered Bill Gwatney?

Huh?

[Epiphany4z]

4. what about the Obama effegy Halloween display

sheehs guess that one doesn't bother her

[BlueIdaho]

5. They are exactly the same except for the fact that they are entirely different. nm.

[Clio the Leo]

6. On behalf of all Tennesseans......

..... please accept my apologies as the nutwings of our state continue to make complete fools of themselves.

[Phredicles]

7. Hey, what state is jackass-free?

[Clio the Leo]

9. Alabama

But only because I was born there and George Wallace is gone. :)

[Clio the Leo]

10. ... and Alaska.....

since Sarah's been out touring the real America.

[boppers]

8. Chickens coming home to roost.

8 years of a culture of corruption, anti-intellectualism, and acceptable "collateral damage" have messed up the whole freaking country.

Funny how Smith fails to take any responsibility for it.

[colonel odis]

11. robin smith is genuinely crazy. beyond the typical harpie/shrewish republican

type, this woman is off her rocker.

perhaps the only one there crazier than she is her communications guy, a fellow named bill hobbs, who's been fired a mind-boggling number of times. his last one, though, is a doozy. he was working in communications at a local baptist university and circulated some plagiarized anti-muslim cartoon.

what a pair.

[No Elephants]

12. No difference between a Hallowe'en display in questionable taste and a murder attempt? Live and

learn, huh?

[TheKentuckian]

13. An effigy is free speech

it might not be a pleasant tone or even an effective way to communicate an idea but its not even a similar sport to assassination and random mass murder, much less the same ballpark.

Its getting to the point that Republicans should be right at the top of the Terrorist watch list. I'd like a rational explanation of what separates these loons from Al Queda other than being an American political party?

[leftofcool]

14. Would it be free speech had it been an Obama effigy?