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Texas Senate GOP Candidate: "Shoot wetbacks"

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A Republican Senate candidate argued to The Dallas Morning News editorial board earlier this month that ranchers in Texas should be allowed to shoot "wetbacks" trying to cross the border illegally.

The candidate, Chris Mapp, who is running in the Republican primary against Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), also called President Barack Obama "a socialist son of a bitch," according to the Morning News editorial board.

In a separate interview with the San Antonio Express-News on Friday, Mapp defended his remarks saying wetback is as "normal as breathing air in South Texas."
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Puppycow said:
Never heard of him. I'm not sure you can blame Republicans for him any more than you can blame Democrats for Kesha Rogers.
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Yeah, we'll hear about a hundred Republican nut bags and the come back will still be Kesha Rogers. Cause you see, it's equivalent.

It nice to see Kesha replacing Cynthia McKinney though as the token Democrat kook.
 
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DavidJames said:
Yeah, we'll hear about a hundred Republican nut bags and the come back will still be Kesha Rogers. Cause you see, it's equivalent.

It nice to see Kesha replacing Cynthia McKinney though as the token Democrat kook.
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I mentioned her because she's running for the same office in the same state.

The main difference is that Rogers is leading in at least one poll, but Mapp appears to be an "also ran".
 
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Back, way back when I was an immigration officer in the inspections division, I was always impressed by the fact that the people who wanted me to shoot unarmed civilians weren't applying for my job.
 
Unabogie said:
There's a logical fallacy here that rhymes with "two spokes".
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Tu quoque?

I don't think so because I'm saying you probably shouldn't blame either party for what a candidate says, at least until they actually nominate that person.

But David Wong says what I'm trying to say better:

5 Ways to Spot a B.S. Political Story in Under 10 Seconds

In this case, replace "lawmaker" with "candidate". He's even less important that an actual "lawmaker".
 
Puppycow said:
Tu quoque?

I don't think so because I'm saying you probably shouldn't blame either party for what a candidate says, at least until they actually nominate that person.

But David Wong says what I'm trying to say better:

5 Ways to Spot a B.S. Political Story in Under 10 Seconds

In this case, replace "lawmaker" with "candidate". He's even less important that an actual "lawmaker".
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I totally disagree with this. Crazy "lawmakers" are the product of crazy voters. After all, when Crazy Eyes Bachmann was up for re-election, her voters opted to keep her in office despite her insane ramblings. What's news is not that a crazy lawmaker with limited power is crazy. It's that being crazy wasn't disqualifying to their voters. That's newsworthy, not something to shrug away.
 
Just because he called them "wetbacks" doesn't mean he's racist like the Jew-media would have you believe.
 
Arguably the bigger problem is not the pejorative term he used, but the fact that he advocated "shooting them on sight". His (non) apology didn't seem to cover that aspect. The focus seems to be more on the racial slur than the idea of shooting people on sight.
 
Oh lordy. I'm looking over a sample ballot and trying to find out which Republican is the least horrible, and it appears that one of the people running for the Republican nomination is (and I'm not kidding) SECEDE Kilgore. Yes, he had his name legally changed. His platform has a single plank. Guess what it is.
 
Tricky said:
Oh lordy. I'm looking over a sample ballot and trying to find out which Republican is the least horrible, and it appears that one of the people running for the Republican nomination is (and I'm not kidding) SECEDE Kilgore. Yes, he had his name legally changed. His platform has a single plank. Guess what it is.
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Let me guess: The improvement of the US by excising a tumor on our butt?
 
Tricky said:
Oh lordy. I'm looking over a sample ballot and trying to find out which Republican is the least horrible, and it appears that one of the people running for the Republican nomination is (and I'm not kidding) SECEDE Kilgore. Yes, he had his name legally changed. His platform has a single plank. Guess what it is.
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He should be careful, there was guy from Tenn. who changed his named to Byron Low Tax Looper. Things ended badly for him and even worse for a political opponent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Looper
 
Tricky said:
Oh lordy. I'm looking over a sample ballot and trying to find out which Republican is the least horrible, and it appears that one of the people running for the Republican nomination is (and I'm not kidding) SECEDE Kilgore. Yes, he had his name legally changed. His platform has a single plank. Guess what it is.
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It's hard to believe that this party produced elder statesmen like Eisenhower and Mark Hatfield.
 
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