GOP official resigns after flap over Republican candidate shooting at Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s likeness.
GOP official resigns after flap over Republican candidate shooting at Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s likeness.
Earlier this month, the South Florida-based Southeast Broward Republican Club held an event at a gun range where targets included silhouettes of Muslim stereotypes and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL). At the gathering, Wasserman Schultz’s GOP competitor “fired at a full-body silhouette with ‘DWS’ written next to its head.” The South Florida Sun Sentinel reports that the Republican activist Ed Napolitano, who was in charge of the club, has resigned from all his party positions, saying he was “pushed to quit”:
While he’s stepping away from the party, Napolitano said today he’s not ending his political activism. “I’m not going to be going away. You’re still going to see me around.”
He expressed frustration with Republican Party leadership, which he said doesn’t stand by and defend volunteer Republican activists – like himself – when they’re attacked.
“The leadership in the Republican Party is lacking in courage, and they do not stand by their people,” Napolitano said. “We’re volunteers. We volunteer our time and we volunteer our money. They’re there to facilitate us. We’re not there to facilitate them. They act like we’re their servants.”
The Florida Republican Party says it didn’t call on Napolitano to resign. Although Napolitano has apologized to Wasserman Schultz for the incident, Lowry has not.
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America doesn’t need jerks like Napolitano.
October 26th, 2009 at 6:26 pmgood
October 26th, 2009 at 6:27 pmWhile he’s stepping away from the party, Napolitano said today he’s not ending his political activism. “I’m not going to be going away. You’re still going to see me around.”
“I should be fairly easy to identify – I’m the one without a functioning brain.”
Do these people ever stop to think about what they are doing? And how patently offensive it almost always is? Will they ever learn?
October 26th, 2009 at 6:29 pmI agree with this guy. The Republicans should stand up and defend their right to joke about shooting representatives. When someone voluntarily tells the world they lack moral boundaries, the Republicans should agree with their right to do so. It is the Republican Way.
October 26th, 2009 at 6:30 pmFrom the story, a quote by Napolitano,
A$$ rape sucks, right?
October 26th, 2009 at 6:31 pmWe’re volunteers. They act like we’re their servants.
Sux to be Republican, don’t it?
October 26th, 2009 at 6:33 pmConservatism = Terrorism.
October 26th, 2009 at 6:34 pmNothing like watching a heard of chimpanzees having a food fight!
October 26th, 2009 at 6:34 pmanother one bites the dust
*democrats blow smoke from their barrels*
the news is gettin better each day
October 26th, 2009 at 6:35 pmdoesn’t stand by and defend volunteer Republican activists ….
So is he admitting that he is a subversive activist ? And may I guess that he is probably upset the repubs didn’t support him as a tea bagger ?
October 26th, 2009 at 6:35 pmEven more than firing at a target with DWS on it, I’m really offended that he was firing at Muslim characatures.
What message does this communicate to the Muslims in nations that we want to be allies with ? Should Pakistan trust us ?
Does it teach Muslims that the Jihad of suicide bombing is the way to go ?
What would be the result if the Muslims went around firing at targets that appeared to be Jesus ? Or even recognizable as being christian clerics ?
October 26th, 2009 at 6:37 pmactually.. I guess we can’t take credit for the rapid disintegration of the GOP… this dodo bird’s extinction was inevitable.
October 26th, 2009 at 6:41 pmGOP official resigns after flap over Republican candidate shooting at Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s likeness.
– - Fine, what about the jackhole that put the racist crap about Obama on the GOP Facebook page?
October 26th, 2009 at 6:42 pmHome, home on the Republican rifle range, when the GOOpers and the Teabaggers play, where seldom is heard a progressive word and the skies are not Democratically-blue all day…
October 26th, 2009 at 6:42 pmAnd yet you still just had to make a [completely lame] comment.
October 26th, 2009 at 6:43 pm11. MapleStreet says
Also don’t forget the message it sends to American citizens who are Muslim.
October 26th, 2009 at 6:44 pmHey, has anybody called the Waaaaaaaaahhhhmbulance yet?
October 26th, 2009 at 6:45 pmworkerbee
See we already KNEW you were a LIAR. So then you begin your post with an outright lie. You said you THOUGHT. This is a LIE. You have never thought in your life. You are far too stupid to think. You just flat lack the requisite equipment. So why not do us both a favor. STFU, stop embarassing yourself and let the adults talk
October 26th, 2009 at 6:52 pmI’m making my prediction now…
2012 – Obama Repeat.. Repubs make their worst showing ever..
2016 – Democrats win easily.. the distance between them and the GOP largely increased by the first very strong showing of an independent — I predict a third party receiving 18% of the popular vote..
2020 – In a heated race – An independent wins the election.. the GOP reduced to a category we now reserve for the libertarian/Green parties – a ‘wasted vote’
October 26th, 2009 at 6:52 pmI’ve always thought that Ronnie Raygun toilet paper would be a big seller.
October 26th, 2009 at 6:54 pm- – Ahh, I see we have an internet muscle-flexing, point-and-click “brute” in our midst who likes to pump up by hitting ‘Vote Down.’
October 26th, 2009 at 6:54 pmWhile he’s stepping away from the party, Napolitano said today he’s not ending his political activism. “I’m not going to be going away. You’re still going to see me around”.
Yeah ……..Because if there’s one thing the GOP sorely lacks , it’s individuals who say and do the stupidest , racist , sexist , most bigoted things……..
October 26th, 2009 at 6:58 pmworkerbee says:
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What message does this communicate to the Muslims in nations that we want to be allies with ?
I thought they all hated us?
October 26th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
Adter 8 years of the Bush administration , the worst in US history , who can blame them ?
October 26th, 2009 at 6:59 pm*After*
October 26th, 2009 at 7:00 pm“Napolitano said today he’s not ending his political activism. “I’m not going to be going away. You’re still going to see me around.””
Good for you Napolitano! A lunatic wingnut extremist with your knowledge of firearms is handy to have around. Perhaps you can still be of service to your locale KKK chapter or even help Rush Limpblob with the plans to blow up the White House.
October 26th, 2009 at 7:01 pmYour Terrorist war against the Freedoms and Rights of all Americans has only just begun!!!
Just another example of a Republican embracing what amounts to a small subculture of Americans. They make it more difficult for a rational, thinking person to say,”I can relate to that.” They have abandoned any pretense of a rational debate based on facts and appeal to a shrinking number of reactionaries that were never swayed by facts to begin with!
October 26th, 2009 at 7:01 pmI thought they all hated us?
The first and biggest mistake of a troll. The second is finding a keyboard.
October 26th, 2009 at 7:01 pmThe GOP freak show just keeps going. However, the shock value is wearing thin and even many bag-of-hammers-stupid people are getting bored with the insipid juvenile crapola that passes for political thought from the GOP.
October 26th, 2009 at 7:02 pmI thought they all hated us?
No, no. They hate our freedoms. But we can get it back by giving money to CEOs and wall street.
October 26th, 2009 at 7:02 pm“He expressed frustration with Republican Party leadership, which he said doesn’t stand by and defend volunteer Republican activists – like himself – when they’re attacked.”
Attacked???? For threatening to kill fellow Americans? This jerk should be counting his blessings that he’s not in Gitmo, or any other American prison. He’s a terrorist, for God’s sake! He wants to kill Americans!
October 26th, 2009 at 7:03 pmWorker bee: A mindless, sterile, female clone, more machine than animal, that’s controlled by chemicals that come out of the queen’s ass and whatever crap their antennae pick up. Willing slaves who even lack a personal survival instinct because it’s been programmed out of them.
I can’t imagine a more fitting name for a stupid troll.
October 26th, 2009 at 7:04 pmpete
Definitly. Rush is the Queen Bee. This one is of the Limborg hivemind
October 26th, 2009 at 7:08 pmIts called being thrown under the bus. Just a little friendly inequality that you must tolerate for the good of the whole.
October 26th, 2009 at 7:08 pmdasm@32 – not just threatening to kill an American, but threatening a sitting Member of Congress. And all because she’s a Demoncrat, a dirty lib-rul, and most likely because she’s Jewish, as well.
And he didn’t get backed up by the party?
Shocker.
October 26th, 2009 at 7:09 pmI thought they all hated us?
October 26th, 2009 at 7:12 pm—
No wonder you are stuck in a go nowhere laborer bee existance. You should have gotten an education…
Oh, boo-frickety-hoo!! That assbag stepped over the line of decency – he NEEDED to be smacked down.
Say, assbag – how about taking PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY for your ugly actions, eh? And quitcher damned WHINING!!
October 26th, 2009 at 7:13 pmHis little immature stunt hurt the clubs chances. Its like joining a ‘He-man woman haters club’ then get caught wearing womens undergarments. Of course they arent going to defend that.
October 26th, 2009 at 7:13 pmEugeneDebs
I’m constantly amazed that they can remember to breathe without ol’ Lushbo chanting, “in… out…”.
October 26th, 2009 at 7:17 pmHeh! Maybe he already has a place in Bible Spice’s new and improved extremist/conservative party?
October 26th, 2009 at 7:19 pmThe GOP has no game plan whatsoever now..
on wednesday they promote you for being a fanatic..
on thursday they distance themselves from you for the same..
I swear… this truly couldn’t work out any better for the dems. And considering they have no formal ‘leader’, they have no one to stop the madness… afterall, we know none of them can think for themselves…
October 26th, 2009 at 7:27 pmAny American who advocates killing other Americans should be fired/tossed out/removed/blasted… or whatever else you can think of. Killing fellow Americans? Isn’t that a Terrorist????
October 26th, 2009 at 7:34 pmI love how the conservatives “volunteer” their time and money. Sure they do. Serious strings attached. They do so if it advances their agenda. And very controlling are the rich folks with the “time” and “money”.
October 26th, 2009 at 7:47 pmWhat will it require for all Americans to finally recognize the vile craziness that is the modern conservative movement embodied in the Republican party. Their lies, crimes, corruptions, perversions, hypocrisies and threats seem to have no bounds. Instead of true concern for the welfare of the American people, and the success of the United States, the GOP has become a party of craven self-interest, delusion, and pandering to the fears of ordinary people. The Republicans and their rabid base supporters are truly disgusting.
October 26th, 2009 at 7:59 pmGood, get the other as*hole to resign as well.
October 26th, 2009 at 8:09 pmWasserman Schultz is a class act and these conservative republican bozos just keep getting crazier!
October 26th, 2009 at 8:13 pm#19 workerbee says:
I thought they all hated us?
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The last time I looked, the USA is fighting with only two of the dozens of muslim countries, with a small fraction of all the world’s muslim population.
In the other hands, the USA has a good relations with far more muslim countries (Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Egypt, Indonesia, only to cite a couple).
Who are they again?
October 26th, 2009 at 9:33 pmThis fool should have to shoot a picture of himself. Still he’d probably be too dense to see point.
October 26th, 2009 at 11:07 pmwhen FAKE NOISE doesnt want Lou Dobbs, and GnOPe doesn’t want Napolitano. we must conclude, the right is really tanking.
October 26th, 2009 at 11:24 pmNow that’s change.
Give the Republicans time. Once they weed out the wingnuts they will realize Pogo was right, “We have met the enemy and it is us.”
October 26th, 2009 at 11:34 pmNice. They use images of silhouetted Muslim stereotypes and a Jewish woman for target practice. Our fellow citizens who call themselves “conservatives” or “Republicans” prove to us each day that they are definitely among the least enlightened human beings on the planet.
October 27th, 2009 at 12:49 pm