Stateswomanly
By Mitch Berg
The Tom Emmer campaign has been aggressively pushing itself into places where, the conventional wisdom says, Republicans just don’t go. Right after the MNGOP convention, Emmer paraded at the Longfellow May Day parade, promting all manor of victorian vapours among the lefty pundits who have, for some reason, stopped being big champions of the First Amendment since Barack Obama took office.
Last weekend it was the Cinco De Mayo parade, on Saint Paul’s West Side. The Bill Jungbauer campaign blog observed some intensely bigoted behavior…:
Another event that was totally outrageous occurred when we passed the dfl booth. About fifteen people stood in front of the booth in the street and chanted loudly in our faces, “KKK go away.”
And an interesting VIP (emphasis added):
Among the crowd was none other than Margaret Anderson-Kelliher, the endorsed democratic candidate for governor. The fascist, tax and spend feminazi was the ring leader amongst her merry band of liberals. So, rather than everyone sharing in our right to free speech and expression, these leftists, led by MAK, chose to disrupt and disturb us and those around us. The wonderful people of the community who only wanted to enjoy their celebration stood in witness to MAK and the democrats leftist hatred, exposing to us all their true fascist tendencies.
I don’t like bandying the “F” word around pointlessly – and I personally would like some third-party verification – but if a candidate herself gathers a pack of supporters, not to question or counterdemonstrate, but to heckle her opponent with defamatory ad-hominem, it’s not all that far off the beam.
What do you Democrats have to say about your endorsed candidate engaging in that kind of behavior?
Isn’t this the “angry” “provocation” that you are all mewling about the GOP doing (without, as always, providing any examples)?
UPDATE: We may have video on the way shortly. Stay tuned.
May 10th, 2010 at 8:52 am
Does anyone have video of the incident? It would be nice to post a link to it here.
May 10th, 2010 at 9:02 am
If Big MAK really wanted to harrass Emmer she should have shown up in a bikini.
Big MAK. I like that. It’s kinda catchy.
May 10th, 2010 at 9:05 am
Big MAK + bikini – what the hell I was going to fast today anyway!
May 10th, 2010 at 9:38 am
Big MAK. I like that. It’s kinda catchy.
David Spade had a brilliant one line quip on SNL several years ago, when Calista Flockhart started getting way too skinny
“Ally McBeal, eat a McMeal”
I could see something similar yet reversed happen here.
May 10th, 2010 at 11:48 am
PLEASE tell me someone got this on video
May 10th, 2010 at 12:11 pm
Good for Emmer, getting out of the usual comfort zone.
A question, did MAK or her supporters do anything that exceeded their lawful 1st Amendment rights? Or are you accusing her and her supporters merely of being discourteous?
Maybe she was just being entertaining? (written with a wink and a grin – Mitch will understand the reference)
May 10th, 2010 at 12:22 pm
as usual common sense misses dg by a fricken mile. The point is, DG< that calling people "KKK" is a good conversation killer, it kills any chance at debate. Calling someone racist is not a debatable point. If they had said "Emmer wants to cut school and social service spending" THATS a debatable point. It means they don't want to engage in meaningful conversation so they are either scared or don't think they are worth debating. I'm leaning more towards scared.
May 10th, 2010 at 12:43 pm
Right now you have only the word of Jungbauer or someone using his name or blog that Big Mak was there and joined in on an ill mannered chant.
On the other hand you do have proof that Jungbauer or someone did call Big Mak rather discourteous names.
Name calling isn’t going to win over our opponents. We need to explain our differences, the Ponzi schemes, and how we are destined to become Greece if we continue down the socialist path.
May 10th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
Good for Emmer, getting out of the usual comfort zone.
Interesting way to describe a trip through a gauntlet of slavering, bug eyed leftists screeching their hate to the heavens.
A question, did MAK or her supporters do anything that exceeded their lawful 1st Amendment rights?
ROTFLMAO!! Hittin’ the Victory gin & kool-aid a little early, are we deegee?
May 10th, 2010 at 1:11 pm
A question, did MAK or her supporters do anything that exceeded their lawful 1st Amendment rights? Or are you accusing her and her supporters merely of being discourteous?
Sure – discourteous in an allegedly defamatory sort of way.
May 10th, 2010 at 1:11 pm
DG is peeving.
May 10th, 2010 at 1:20 pm
Discourteous like constantly calling fellow Americans “teabaggers”? Calling Michele Bachmann an idiot?
May 10th, 2010 at 1:20 pm
Kermit Says: “If Big MAK really wanted to harrass Emmer she should have shown up in a bikini.”
Or if BIG MAK had threatened to eat Emmer, while clothed only in a bikini! Now that’s the stuff of night terrors!
May 10th, 2010 at 3:22 pm
From Minnpost
“Kelliher, who is looking to be Minnesota’s next governor, retorted, “Minnesotans expect leaders to be adults and to talk to each other with respect and to lead.””
May 10th, 2010 at 6:41 pm
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May 10th, 2010 at 7:12 pm
MoN, liberals don’t practice what they preach, its practically part of their creed. Best example, tolerance.
May 11th, 2010 at 1:32 am
They were probably all republican plants there to discredit liberals.
Tom Emmer is fat.
(You guys find this kind of argument fun, huh?)