REAL WORLD EVENT DISCUSSIONS

"GOP Rep.: Give Our Nominees ‘Duct Tape to Put Over Their Mouths So They Don’t Say Stupid Things’"

POSTED BY: NIKI2
UPDATED: Tuesday, February 11, 2014 02:31
SHORT URL:
VIEWED: 912
PAGE 1 of 1

Monday, February 10, 2014 1:37 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Quote:

Speaking at a Heritage Foundation event on Monday about conservative alternatives to the Affordable Care Act, Rep. Ted Poe (R-TN) told the audience that among the ways in which the GOP can facilitate a takeover of the U.S. Senate would be to provide nominees with “a roll of duct tape to put over their mouths.” He said that his party should have taken the Senate in prior election cycles but, because the party’s nominees said “stupid things,” they failed to achieve that.


“I would suggest, when we nominate people, we give them a roll of duct tape to put over their mouths so they don’t say stupid things,” Poe said. “Maybe we can win an election. " http://www.mediaite.com/tv/gop-rep-give-our-nominees-duct-tape-to-put-
over-their-mouths-so-they-dont-say-stupid-things
/


Well, at least some of them aren't completely stupid and realize what's going on. I wish him luck; I fear that as long as Faux News and the Tea Partiers are out there encouraging them, it's not gonna change...

How many Republicans have spoken up to say essentially the same thing? Going back to 2012:
Quote:

Former Tea Party Leader Ridicules GOP Candidates For Saying ‘Stupid Things’ During Campaign

Dick Armey, former House Majority Leader and Tea Party supporter, slammed GOP candidates and their leadership for the loss of Republican campaigns across the country. Armey told CBS This Morning that more than one Republican candidiate “said some stupid things” that cost them the election.

After leaving the House, Armey ran FreedomWorks, an organization which helped the Tea Party movement grow. This election season, FreedomWorks spent $40 million to elect Tea Party candidates, but only one out of every four candidates they endorsed won. Armey was asked whether the Tea Party was slowly weakening, but vehemently denied this, saying instead that the GOP itself was to blame.

Speaking of Senate hopefuls Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock, both of whom made headline-grabbing statements about rape and abortion, Armey said, “We had a lot of candidates, quite frankly, that did dumb things out there.” He blamed the party leaders, saying, “I don’t think the Republican Party schooled their candidates very well or supported their candidates very well.” http://www.mediaite.com/tv/former-tea-party-leader-ridicules-gop-candi
dates-for-saying-stupid-things-during-campaign
/


I hate to tell Dick, but it's mostly his ultra-conservative Tea Party candidates who say the stupidest things, and the establishment GOPers who've been telling them to stop making asses of themselves.

NOTIFY: Y   |  REPLY  |  REPLY WITH QUOTE  |  TOP  |  HOME  

Monday, February 10, 2014 2:16 PM

BYTEMITE


Silly pundits, that's what a ball-gag is for. *WONK*

NOTIFY: Y   |  REPLY  |  REPLY WITH QUOTE  |  TOP  |  HOME  

Monday, February 10, 2014 11:08 PM

JONGSSTRAW


Public comments like that and early over-confidence are greater threats to a Republican Senate takeover in November than anything else. They always seem to forget the power of Obama's bully pulpit and the Dem.-friendly media. It's a long long shot at best. It will require a discipline of message they don't seem capable of.

NOTIFY: N   |  REPLY  |  REPLY WITH QUOTE  |  TOP  |  HOME  

Monday, February 10, 2014 11:24 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


But what message should they be giving?

NOTIFY: N   |  REPLY  |  REPLY WITH QUOTE  |  TOP  |  HOME  

Tuesday, February 11, 2014 2:31 AM

ELVISCHRIST





While duct-taping their mouths shut, be sure to cover their noses as well.

NOTIFY: Y   |  REPLY  |  REPLY WITH QUOTE  |  TOP  |  HOME  

YOUR OPTIONS

NEW POSTS TODAY

USERPOST DATE

OTHER TOPICS

DISCUSSIONS
In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
Mon, July 28, 2025 13:43 - 5703 posts
QAnons' representatives here
Mon, July 28, 2025 11:33 - 822 posts
Music II
Mon, July 28, 2025 10:16 - 410 posts
Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
Mon, July 28, 2025 09:25 - 2661 posts
Steve Bannon Believes The Apocalypse Is Coming And War Is Inevitable
Mon, July 28, 2025 07:50 - 179 posts
Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
Mon, July 28, 2025 07:41 - 8671 posts
Monsters.
Mon, July 28, 2025 07:08 - 246 posts
A thread for Democrats Only
Mon, July 28, 2025 07:01 - 7066 posts
Boerenopstand !!! SHITHOLE Country - the collapse of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the end of the Dutch and Holland's constitutional monarchy
Mon, July 28, 2025 06:06 - 21 posts
The "disappeared" immigrant who never was: The legend of Luis Leon
Mon, July 28, 2025 05:48 - 3 posts
Obama signs Pedophile Protection Act, says leave Roman Polanski alone
Mon, July 28, 2025 05:37 - 23 posts
From the Desk of Donald J Trump
Mon, July 28, 2025 05:33 - 296 posts

FFF.NET SOCIAL