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This is why the NC GOP is dying the death of 1000 cuts. They are way out there in wingnut land and the laughingstock of NC politics. That it is now led by Tom “I am not gay” Fetzer only adds to the fun. (Under the Dome):
The N.C. Republican Party is bringing in Doug Hoffman, the defeated conservative New York congressional candidate who helped spark a national debate about the party’s future, to speak at a political fund raiser in Raleigh later this month.State GOP Chairman Tom Fetzer said that Hoffman would be a good fit for Tar Heel Republicans, Rob Christensen reports.
“His candidacy in New York inspired conservatives across the country, and he will reach out to North Carolina conservatives to help us reclaim our government,” Fetzer said in a statement.
Hoffman is the guy who was drop kicked after Dede Scozzafava was smeared as too moderate for the GOP by such leaders as Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck. I honestly don’t think inviting Hoffman can help the NC GOP move any more to the right than it already is. They are hanging from the fringe.
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Hey, can we get a “I am not gay” in there on Doug Hoffman, too?Because this gaydar is a-screaming like I’m back in Bible college.
Seems the right has another Joe the “Plumber”
WTF? WTFF?
(Emphasis mine)
Last time I checked the NC government belonged to all NC citizens, not just conservatives. “Government of the people, by the people, for the people” isn’t just a throw-away slogan – it means something. It means that everyone has a right to a voice in their government, including those they consider unworthy, and that no-one has any right to deny them that voice. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have died over the last 233 years for sake of this ideal.
I think this highlights a problem with the right-wing: they don’t believe that anyone other than them has any right to influence government, and therefore that when the left has control of one or more branches of the government (as is currently the case with Congress and the White House) we are usurpers. They believe that theirs is the correct way, the only way, and that anything else is heresy; hence for some any means of regaining or retaining political control is acceptable. How far they are willing to go is something the black, Jewish and queer communities know from long and bloody experience.
Umm…What has he done to “inspire” anyone in the GOP?
* He’s not a Republican.
* He was running against a Republican candidate.
* The Republican candidate threw her support in favor of the Democrat instead of this guy.
* He lost to a Democrat.