They’ll be running for Congress next.

Indeed

Fill me in on why it’s unsurprising.

Massive all-white crowd in a multicultural country. Romney made a ‘birther’ joke and has attacked food stamps. There’s more reasons.

You always get some dic5heads at party conference. Like last year at the FF Ard Fheis, when 2 delegates were mocking and singing cheerio to people in the Work abroad expo who told them FF should be ashamed for what they did to Ireland.

The problem for the GOP and FF is that both, while being on the extreme of the spectrum, fit in to a long pattern of having no respect for much of the electorate. So it becomes unsurprising, making it even harder for parties like that to engage with ordinary people. A fatal hubris for any party.

David, judging by the words actions certain elements of the political landscape in the states who would be naturally given to supporting the Grand Ol’Party (Tea Party fr’instance), especially now with Obama in the White House, with poster boys of the right, Beck labelling him a racist with racist policies, Limbaugh blaming extreme weather events on him, many commentators, GOP senators including the Republican nominee himself questioning Obama’s birthplace and thus qualification to run for the presidency (which I believe is merely because Obama is a black man whose father was Kenyan and makes good column inches for right wing conspiracy-porn addicts) and added to the fact that prior to the 2008 election nearly 9 out of 10 black voters would vote for the Democratic candidate in a general election (making the GOP the non-black party) I find it unsurprising that a racist incident would occur at the GOP National Convention.

The public commentary and political rhetoric is all officially sanctioned. It’s only to be expected that the grunts will grunt it out with their actions.

Tea Partiers? (right wing lunatics)

I refer mainly to the tea partners Kevin but the guys at the top are panning to these bigots. Its plain to see! this is a great video from a few nights ago raising the birther/food stamps issue as you mentioned above. http://youtu.be/U7ZWnyy6pAw

Well said Val

True, Val (would the theory exist if he looked like Bill Clinton?). However the Democrats have their Truthers (a disbelief that non-white Americans/Jews are responsible for 911 – one survey had it at around 50% of democrats believed Bush had some part in it – how could the US be attacked if it wasn’t some sort of conspiracy?).

Birthers/Truthers, all the same. They look stupid to the undecided…

*wasn’t

That is what a racist would say?

;)

Far too bloody many. Sad thing is I think on the ground level we’re pretty bad for the for all those things as a country too.

Fine Gael right wing ?! get real ! they are the all Keynesian big government, less freedom lefties!

And in politics in Ireland, we’ve a bunch of lefties who don’t like to debate but indulge in emotional sloganing too…
Debate immigration? Racist!
Debate abortion? Fundamentalist!!
Debate gay marriage? Homophobe!!

Such people are common to every part of the politcal spectrum…

@Saint Ruth – What’s emotional about calling someone out on their racism and intolerance? it’s the logical thing to do for any progressive

@ Peter 0_0

There are extreme elements on both the left and right but who specifically in FG is racist, fundamentalist (not quite sure what you mean by this) or homophobic?

Kerron. The problem is that some people on the left, no shortage of them, seem to feel that they define the terms and references of all debates and then proceed to shout down or smear those that they disagree with.

The radical left and the Tea Party types often come across as smug, self-satisfied addicts to applying labels to those they disagree with. (Fascist, Socialist, Commie, bigot, Nazi, fag, homophobe, redneck). It turns the voters off, both exhibit messianic visions of theirs being the one true path to salvation. Marx or Hayek as their Prophet and woe unto the cursed unbelievers.

Arjun, precisely and exactly.

Arjun – the notion that Socialism and Left politics are somehow equatable with the far-right is liberal centrist nonsense

James Dunne –

racist – Mayor of Naas Darren Scully for one – were there not N*gger comments from Enda himself too?

homophobic – Lucidna Creighton

fundamentalist (Christian) – any one of the shower from Mayo – anti-choice and moralistic

Hi, biggest load of BS I’ve read in a long time. Thanks for that!

So all pro-lifers are Fundamentalists?
All those who don’t agree with full gay marriage are homophobic?

Okay, calling someone a N*gger indicates you’re a racist.
But there were many who called everyone who voted Yes to the Citizenship Referendum a Racist.

There’s some people with very narrow political ideas and everyone who disagrees with them is therefore intolerant. No point talking to them. Closed minds. They can be on any part of the political spectrum.

And Arjun didn’t equate “Socialism and Left politics are somehow equatable with the far-right “, he was talking about the people. Some (a minority) progressives ” often come across as smug, self-satisfied addicts applying labels to those they disagree with”

When this ‘change’ is having to pay for other peoples’ stuff, I’d feel threatened too. Off topic though, point is – individuals were done for racist behavior. If you want that to be extended to ALL Republican party members, then there is an elephant-sized irony in there for you.

I am disappointed at how biased you are against republicans. The persons involved were ejected! But Vise President Biden gets a pass on saying “Romney goin to put y’all back in chains” and how he described Obama 4 years ago “he speaks very well for a black fella”. You don’t even know that this people were Republicans. Democrats have staged other (racist) episodes that were proven to be untrue! Races and economic classes are more divided then ever thanks to Obama! What Hippocrates!

Mark you seem to forget that the republicans have questioned all along Obamas citizenship and to this day bring it up, even last week by Romney himself. They call him an Arab, a Muslim which in itself is disturbing. If an Irish American can be president by can’t an African American or indeed a Muslim become a US president. If it wasn’t such an issue the tea partiers would not make any noise over it

Every chance they get they try these nasty subliminal pot shots saying he’s somehow not American and influenced by Europe etc. Everything is made to belittle him. I just hope the US doesn’t flip flop like Romney and his plastics and pan to these neo-con Christian lunatics.

Mark, can you give me a link to Biden saying that Obama “he speaks very well for a black fella”. Also, can you post up some of these (racist) episodes the Democrats have contrived?

Or women or camera people but I think it’s fairly obvious what they meant.

They could have been speaking swahili and misheard and butterfingered with the nuts. The possibilities are endless, Damocles.

Good grief.

Just sayin’

Anyway some journos are animals.

Damocles, I can hear you! :(

Some, not all.

Why use plants to make the Republicans look bad when they do it themselves so well?

Your right I must have been nuts to think otherwise….I am killing the nuts thing are’nt I?