GOP congressional candidate pretends to shoot at Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
GOP congressional candidate pretends to shoot at Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
The Associated Press reports today that the South Florida-based Southeast Broward Republican Club held an event earlier this week at a gun range where targets included silhouettes of Muslim stereotypes and of Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL). Among those who attended the event was real estate CEO Robert Lowry, who is vying to replace Wasserman Schultz in 2010:
South Florida Republicans held a weekly meeting at a gun range, shooting at targets including cut-outs of a Muslim holding a rocket-propelled grenade launcher.
The GOP candidate to replace U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz fired at a full-body silhouette with “DWS” written next to its head. [...]
Robert Lowry, who’s vying for Wasserman Schultz’s seat, initially described his target as a joke. Minutes later, he called it a mistake.
Others refused to apologized [sic] for the Southeast Broward Republican Club event, featuring assault rifles and handguns. A conservative activist said they should stand up for their beliefs in the heavily Democratic county.
Commenting on the event, Broward Palm Beach News Blog writes, “OK, so I suppose that target isn’t too offensive. Clearly, it’s a terrorist. That is, a religious radical who truly hates his political opponents, who arms himself to the teeth, and who uses violence as a means of achieving political ends. It’s just that in America, the Republicans have also been the religious radicals, the most hateful toward their opponents, and the most eager to use guns. So you all should be careful gunning down terrorists — you might hit one of your own.”
There is nothing light or funny about pretending to shoot someone. At a time in our country when people are bringing guns to Town Hall Meetings and a preacher is calling for the death of our President, I find this type of action serious and disturbing. Tonight I am going to have to talk to my young children about why someone is pretending to shoot their mother. Trivializing violent behavior is the kind of extreme view that has no place in American politics.
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I know who Debbie is, but who is that clown?
October 9th, 2009 at 1:13 pm“Others refused to apologized”
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Typo, TP… “refused to APOLOGIZE…”
October 9th, 2009 at 1:16 pmRobert Lowry, who’s vying for Wasserman Schultz’s seat, initially described his target as a joke. Minutes later, he called it a mistake.
Republicans seem to have a lot of those incidents, don’t they? Y’know… first it was a “joke” then it was a “mistake”…
it’s almost like they have no ability to be funny.
October 9th, 2009 at 1:18 pmAIO says:
I know who Debbie is, but who is that clown?
If he is Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz’s opponent next year, he is the clown that will lose to her by a landslide.
October 9th, 2009 at 1:18 pmrefused to APOLOGIZE
I don’t think they should apologize. Everyone needs to know just what kind of scum they are.
October 9th, 2009 at 1:18 pm“mistake” in Republicanese means, “whoops, I got caught being a jerk”…
Debbie has WAY bigger balls than this idiot. And way more class.
October 9th, 2009 at 1:18 pmhim @sshole
October 9th, 2009 at 1:18 pmA conservative activist said they should stand up for their beliefs in the heavily Democratic county.
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Since you’ve opened the door to that conversation, just what might those beliefs be, Mr. Conservative Activist?
“It’s okay to shoot people you disagree with?”
October 9th, 2009 at 1:18 pmThis is why Grayson called them “knuckledraggers”
October 9th, 2009 at 1:19 pmRobert Lowry: Showing reightwingers true colors, all day, everyday.
Can’t get much lowry than that!!
October 9th, 2009 at 1:21 pmDon’t these guys think about what they are doing BEFORE they do it?? My God. These guys have no sense of control. Telling Pelosi to ‘Stay in her place.’ George Allen’s ‘Muchaca’ moment. Limpballs throwing a hissy fit because Sebilus urged people to get flu shots. WTF? These guys are acting like angry children for crying out loud.
October 9th, 2009 at 1:21 pmRobert Lowry, who’s vying for Wasserman Schultz’s seat, initially described his target as a joke. Minutes later, he called it a mistake.
Well one thing for sure is that you are a Mistake by your parents. And unlike your side doing the right thing or trying is not a joke.
So lets place a target of you there and shoot it i bet you have a great laugh at that. you better hope no one takes a shot at her. as they would not have to go to far out who the joker is.
October 9th, 2009 at 1:23 pmWhy hell yes, they should stand up for their beliefs, and if those beliefs include the murder of an elected official, maybe they ought to be willing to do a little time for conspiracy to murder or incitement or such.
It doesn’t do any good to ask if they have any decency. They clearly don’t. It’s stupid adolescent behaviour, they’ve no regard for the consequences of their encouraging words and actions, so they have to be called out. If they can’t bring themselves to stop, and criminal law can’t be invoked, perhaps a civil suit would get their attention.
October 9th, 2009 at 1:26 pmIf the belief for which you feel the need to stand up involves miming the assasination of political rivals you may wish to find somewhere else to live. Taliban-controlled regions of Pakistan for example. I assume this moron is running as a vanity project so he can get his name in the news a few times next fall. Then he can go back to his country club with DWS’s footprints stomped all over his a$$.
October 9th, 2009 at 1:26 pmApparently Right wingers don’t like women who stand up and want to be counted, there seems to be a pattern in how they feel about women. The pattern is not good.
October 9th, 2009 at 1:27 pmI think what is happening is that these guys can’t stand women in power. Just the last few days Pelosi was insulted, Limpballs practically threw a fit about Sebilus, Madeline Albright had her looks disparged, and Billo told Bachman that the ‘Lefties’ are jealous of her looks. These guys won’t be satified until they insult every woman on the planet.
October 9th, 2009 at 1:28 pmralph the wonder llama says:
it’s almost like they have no ability to be funny.
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I actually ran into this exact situation last night at another website, ralphie.
A right winger had posted a self-penned “essay” deriding ‘bitter, shrill Democrats” and asked why can’t lefties be pleasant, entertaining clowns like Al Franken. Not that Franken exhibits any true intelligence or worthy insights… just that he’s… well… entertaining.
One of the people who commented tried to come up with a list of funny conservative comedians…
He never got past Dennis Miller… and then proceeded to wonder why so many comedians are liberals…
This is all true…
The person who posted the thread finished up decrying all the “tirades and invective” coming from: “the silly fairies and the tree-hugging environmentalists”, complaining about“the King of the Idiot Clowns, Obama” and ended up describing Franken as having a face “wrinkled like one of those wrinkly dog’s butt…”.
They’re TOTALLY destroying Irony and Satire…
October 9th, 2009 at 1:28 pmThese are the kind of things that will defeat Republicans in the next election. They cannot control themselves and most voters are going to reject this offensive conduct. The Republicans just don’t get it. They will never be able to hold on to the independent voters.
October 9th, 2009 at 1:33 pmPathetic…
Why would any intelligent person vote for any of this repiggie trash these days?
October 9th, 2009 at 1:33 pmYou know they are right about one guns don’t kill people…It’s people them that kill people.
October 9th, 2009 at 1:34 pmAs if Rep. Wasserman-Schulz needed a larger margin of victory.
She won her last three elections with 70.2%, 100%, and 77% of the vote.
Asshat Lowry just makes things too easy…
October 9th, 2009 at 1:34 pm“A conservative activist said they should stand up for their beliefs in the heavily Democratic county”
And those beliefs evidently include shooting at & killing fellow Americans. Repubs are really sickening, continuing to behave as home-grown terrorists.
October 9th, 2009 at 1:35 pmHow many of these numbnutz klowns have been in combat?
October 9th, 2009 at 1:38 pmZero or fewer, I’d guess.
P.D. says:
I think what is happening is that these guys can’t stand women in power.
October 9th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
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And it’s no coincidence that they’re taking out their frustrations at gun ranges, no less. I mean, they’re out there taking aim with their long, hard rifles, excitedly discharging their loads, repeatedly penetrating their targets…
One might conclude that the members of the Southeast Broward Republican Club were compensating for something.
October 9th, 2009 at 1:39 pmRepublicans, the enemy within.
Can they get more Unamerican?
Republicans are scum sucking, racist, bigoted, ignorant, brown shirt, jack booted, knuckle dragging neanderturds.
October 9th, 2009 at 1:40 pmevangenital says:
Pathetic…
Why would any intelligent person vote for any of this repiggie trash these days?
October 9th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
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They wouldn’t. That’s why Republicans focus on winning the very large moron demographic.
October 9th, 2009 at 1:42 pmWhat a great, yucky analogy.
October 9th, 2009 at 1:42 pmThe GOP is in the political racketeering business. We should go after them on RICO statutes as an organized crime party. It’s always about them being in charge so they can clean out the rest of the country. This guy is implying “I’m willing to symbolically kill my opponent to take over the seat”. I’m sure there are plenty of people who support him and the Republican agenda to attempt to make it a reality.
October 9th, 2009 at 1:44 pmHar-de-har-freaking-har.
I hope these bloodthirsty bastards shoot their own feet off.
October 9th, 2009 at 1:46 pmP.D. says:
I think what is happening is that these guys can’t stand women in power.
October 9th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
I think they can’t stand blacks/minorities/woman or any white Democrat in power.
October 9th, 2009 at 1:46 pmAnd if any left-leaning candidate or voter would have done something similar with regard to a sitting Republican during the Bush years, they would have been whisked away in the dead of night to Gitmo or worse.
Quasi-violent political extremism in America is getting old, quickly!
October 9th, 2009 at 1:48 pmBy the way, Lowry, that knock on the door is the FBI.
October 9th, 2009 at 1:49 pmLeftside Annie says:
I hope these bloodthirsty bastards shoot their own feet off.
I can think of another appendage they should shoot off.
October 9th, 2009 at 1:49 pmNo, shooting an image of Schultz wasn’t a “mistake” for them — I’m sure that was intentional. This is what they find humorous and entertaining.
They just consider it a mistake that they got caught. At least they recognize (with some prodding) that the rest of us consider this type of behavior to be really sick.
October 9th, 2009 at 1:51 pmThe republicans are the skeletons in the American closet.
Quick, someone get the key & lock that door!!
October 9th, 2009 at 1:53 pmhar5125, I doubt that they could find it with a microscope.
October 9th, 2009 at 1:54 pmWell, there goes his candidacy.
October 9th, 2009 at 1:54 pmRepubs and their love of violence is killing Americans.
October 9th, 2009 at 1:55 pmI would not be the least surprised if the knuckledraggers also had targets of Obama to shoot at as well.
October 9th, 2009 at 1:56 pmEvery day, more and more, stories of the Right and their hatred of women, gays, Latinos, African Americans, poor people, unions, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, unemployment insurance, public schools, and any other secular program. Their concerns–the Muslim population growth (the real reason they oppose abortion, and support the wars, keeping the financial industry/corporations unregulated, and their christian nationalism.
October 9th, 2009 at 2:00 pmAstonishing.
October 9th, 2009 at 2:01 pmThis is the repugniscum party. They believe they are superior to everyone else – they can set up their political enemies’ silhouettes as targets – they and they alone are the arbiters of right and wrong – they alone determine what’s fair or not – they continue to display their true colors in these ugly and threatening ways – they give validity to the fringe party members who advocate coups, or physical violence to resolve their differences – they actually foment violence with their casual “jokes” about the opposition.
This is long past the limits of free speech – this is inciting mayhem and chaos, and that is criminal.
Have you ever noticed they go after ACCOMPLISHED women? Pelosi, Albright, Clinton …. And yet, they praise hair brained twits like Bachman, and Palin? I guess the only women Repugs like are unintellegent, hate mongers. LOL! They are the FEMALE versions of themselves.
October 9th, 2009 at 2:01 pmThe whole idea of making a party out of shooting at mock humans is effing sick. The whole damn bunch of them should be evaluated by mental health experts.
October 9th, 2009 at 2:08 pmThere’s a word for those who make their political statements with guns.
“Terrorists”
October 9th, 2009 at 2:11 pmAnother Rushpuber that simply has no clue about America.
YOU can GO HERE to his website…OH…LOOK, special fundraising speaker…Seating is Limited! (I’ll bet it is…2 chairs per sweaty Rushpub)…GO Look! (Hint, it’s another Rushpub pig):
http://www.lowryforcongress.com/
Don’t forget to hit that Contact button and let him know that he is offensive.
October 9th, 2009 at 2:11 pmP.D. I agree that among their many, many faults, the repugs disrspect for women is quite apparent. Women in power frighten them; women in power are not under the control of their men; women belong in the house, performing domestic chores for their men; women belong in the bed of their men, but when those men want anything kinky, they seek it outside of their marriage to those “pure” women.
October 9th, 2009 at 2:14 pmThey try to disguise their hatred of women by declaring their oppressive attitude toward women as protecting them, but it is obvious to even a casual observer that it is not paternalistic protection, it is authoritative subjugation.
Marie@47, Bingo. These guys would like nothing more than to go back to the olden days when women were chattel,
October 9th, 2009 at 2:17 pmP.D. says
October 9th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Have you ever noticed they go after ACCOMPLISHED women? Pelosi, Albright, Clinton …. And yet, they praise hair brained twits like Bachman, and Palin?
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And when they “go after” the accomplished women, it’s generally to make some negative comment about their looks. And when they praise Bachmann and Palin, that praise often has to do with their looks.
In other words, in the minds of these neanderthals, the only thing that matters about a woman is her looks. This should be offensive to any woman with an IQ higher than that of a head of cabbage.
October 9th, 2009 at 2:23 pmMarie says:
Astonishing.
This is the repugniscum party. They believe they are superior to everyone else – they can set up their political enemies’ silhouettes as targets – they and they alone are the arbiters of right and wrong – they alone determine what’s fair or not – they continue to display their true colors in these ugly and threatening ways – they give validity to the fringe party members who advocate coups, or physical violence to resolve their differences – they actually foment violence with their casual “jokes” about the opposition.
This is long past the limits of free speech – this is inciting mayhem and chaos, and that is criminal.
Apparently it isn’t criminal since there have been no arrests in situations like this. When are these people going to be arrested, tried and convicted of treason?
October 9th, 2009 at 2:23 pmMinutes later, he called it a mistake.
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Imagine being the mother of this LOSER . .
Congresswoman Wasserman-Schultz, wife and mother of 3, is still receiving treatment for cancer and travels to D.C. from her home in Florida every week. This woman is to be admired . .
October 9th, 2009 at 2:24 pmMark it zero, Lowry. That was over the line.
Does anyone with two brain cells to rub together actually think that now is an appropriate time to joke about shooting an elected official? The tension is thick in this country and violence is bubbling to the surface. Encouraging this behavior and playing this type of sentiment off as humorous is not acceptable at this time.
October 9th, 2009 at 2:41 pmWhere are all the Republican apologists on this thread? Can’t find something to praise in this latest expose of sick Republican values?
October 9th, 2009 at 2:41 pmLizCoro says: Well said.
Ms Wasserman-Shultz is an inspiration to many Americans.
Not just for what you described above, either.
I used to watch her late nights on CSPAN with the ‘30 something’ group. They railed for hours against the Cheney Cabal. Debbie isn’t afraid to take a stand against corruption.
She’s a rising star in her Party & our Country.
OTOH, this dipshit Lowry, who looks like a used car salesman, is like Becky, searching for headlines. He should have to crawl through a live fire exercise like we did in the Marines, where if you don’t keep your ass down, you’ll be spending some time in hospital.
He’d piss his pants before attempting to crawl.
Republics are chickenshits. Too scared to man up, & too quick to laugh at others.
Have I mentioned that Tom Coburn is a total @sshole?
October 9th, 2009 at 2:43 pmBut just what exactly is it you don’t like about republiscums?
Snark/
October 9th, 2009 at 2:47 pmContact this “person’s” election staff at “staff@Lowryforcongress.com.”
October 9th, 2009 at 2:54 pmDisgusting.
October 9th, 2009 at 3:01 pmI wonder how long before law enforcement sees this as a threat against DWS and knocks on this asshat’s door?
And by shooting at muslim images, we are winning the hearts and minds of Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan how ? We’re fostering a diplomatic compromise with Iran how ?
We’re telling 1/3 of the earth’s population what ?
And I haven’t even gotten to the classy shooting at images of duly elected representatives. And how is that not assault ?
October 9th, 2009 at 3:07 pmIt’s a sort of macho game to these good ol’ boys… they have no respect or real concern for the office or constituents, just for them and their buddies to chip off a new piece of power. I have a feeling Debbie W-S will have his lunch, but the point is that there is more and more of this edging toward violence stuff, and it needs to be stopped. Mistake indeed… getting caught. Thanks for the above link …. WOW, did I use it…. :-)
October 9th, 2009 at 3:08 pm“So you all should be careful gunning down terrorists — you might hit one of your own.”
This could be my new bumpersticker.
October 9th, 2009 at 3:21 pmHmm… if cross burning is a hate crime, I wonder where this fits in.
October 9th, 2009 at 3:24 pmA quote from AP article on this:
Organizer Ed Napolitano defended the gathering, as well as the use of targets that appeared to be gunmen with traditional Arab head scarves. “That’s our right,” said Napolitano, president of the Southeast Broward Republican Club. “If we want to shoot at targets that look like that, we’re going to go ahead and do that.”
Their right? Yes, indeed. Their right to be racist and stupid has not been infringed.
October 9th, 2009 at 3:30 pmzxbe says:
Nice.
I noticed that no one tried to stop them….so anyone harping on “it’s my right” is just looking for a fight.
Of course it’s their right. It’s stupid, and looking at the candidate Lowry is running against, it’s political suicide….but it is indeed their right. That guy was just being indignant and came off as incredibly stupid.
October 9th, 2009 at 3:52 pm.
So it’s now acceptable to shoot at cardboard cut outs of politicians?
Next, we’ll see these nuts shooting AT politicians, NOT the cutout’s.
Gawd the Crazy in this country is dangerous.
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October 9th, 2009 at 4:22 pm.
Of course, “Brown Shirts” take aim at their religious and political rivals.
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October 9th, 2009 at 4:25 pmMax Anax junius -1 says:
So it’s now acceptable to shoot at cardboard cut outs of politicians?
Next, we’ll see these nuts shooting AT politicians, NOT the cutout’s.
Gawd the Crazy in this country is dangerous.
I’m thinking this country is around 66/33 or so on the sanity scale.
The really crazy thing is, these cardboard shootings are somehow thought acceptable to endorse. Has the intelligence gene been bred out of the Republican Party?
I wonder how they’d react if Democrats started using Dick Cheney cut-outs?
If you can’t support rules of reasonable public behavior and you can’t/won’t accept the truth about such uncontroversial issues, like Global Warming and Domestic Healthcare…are you really a national Party that ought to be taken seriously?
October 9th, 2009 at 4:36 pmThese people are punks, plain and simple. The want to incite, but don’t have the balls to do the act themselves. Instead, he seems to want to incite some of the crazies who make up his base. He and others like him are the argument for gun control. Ok, just step over the line, I hope Eric Holder has the balls for his FBI to go after these hate mongering clowns.
October 9th, 2009 at 4:45 pmLet me get this straight. Republicans are the pro-life party. Right? Republicans also portrayed themselves as “compassionate.” Right? OK. Now I understand.
October 9th, 2009 at 5:30 pmIf these Repubs like shooting guns at Muslim targets, then they need to enlist to go fight the Bush/Cheney wars.
October 9th, 2009 at 5:32 pmMurphis
You are a MORON. STFU
October 9th, 2009 at 7:01 pm@ 48. P.D. says: Marie@47, Bingo. These guys would like nothing more than to go back to the olden days when women were chattel, October 9th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
What do you mean “go back”? I’ve known a few of these reactionary dimwits and some of them do live that way here and now. They spend a little time every day browbeating the wife and any female offspring while damning their sons with faint praise. They don’t want to go back, they want us to join them. From my perspective (male), I don’t know whether these arses who specialize in (mostly) psychological damage or the out-and-out knuckledragging wife-beaters are worse, but we could certainly do without both.
October 9th, 2009 at 7:12 pmGOP congressional candidate pretends to shoot at Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Oh, the outrage. Did you feel the same way in 2006?
Death of a President (2006), directed by Gabriel Range, is a British fictional documentary about the assassination of George W. Bush, the 43rd U.S. President, on 19 October 2007, in Chicago. By means of archival film footage, actors, and computer-generated special effects, the assassination is the thematic beginning of serious discussions about civil disobedience, racial profiling, the U.S. Government’s reduction of the civil liberties of its populace, news sensationalism as agitational propaganda, and the theory of Just War.
The premiere showing was at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival on 10 September 2006, and in the UK, it was broadcast on More4 on 9 October, then on Channel 4 on 19 October 2006 — a year to the day before the assassination date in the film. It was broadcast in Finland on 18 October 2007 — the assassination date’s eve. In Japan, despite governmental interference, the film was exhibited in cinemas on 6 October 2007.
Newmarket paid one million dollars for the U.S. distribution rights the total production budget for the film was two million dollars. The film showed in theaters for 14 days, its widest release was 143 theaters, and worldwide it grossed $869,352.
Did you feel the same outrage?
October 9th, 2009 at 7:48 pmDr Venture. Not only are you stupider than brass bubblegum you are a liar a fool and a punkass troll. First that movie wasnt made by an American company. Second did you SEE the movie? I did. It is about the aftermath and investigation OF the crime. It wasnt a movie about how great it would be to kill Bush. Nor was assasination glorified it was an element in the plot only. You are just pathetically brainwashed.
October 9th, 2009 at 8:23 pmkwsventures says:
Death of a President (2006), directed by Gabriel Range, is a British fictional documentary
Yeah, a “movie” made in a foreign country exactly the same as an American Congressional Candidate firing a gun at an American President! LOL! My goodness you’re stupid! ;)
October 10th, 2009 at 1:35 pmA South Florida Republican said it was a mistake to shoot at a target. vajina estetigi
October 15th, 2009 at 5:18 am