GOP tries to knock out Tea Party backed candidate in NC

kaitie · May 24, 2010

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100524/ap_on_el_ho/us_gop_tea_party

Okay, so I was reading this a few minutes ago, and here's my God's honest question.

I want to know the logic here. The people I know personally who are now Tea Party supporters are also people who used to give me shit for having the nerve to say the President shouldn't have gone to war in Iraq. I was told it was "unpatriotic" for me to have the nerve to speak out against the fairly elected president. Maybe it's just the people I know (I'm from Texas), but I want to know how on earth it's now considered acceptable for a candidate to run for office on vows of dismantling branches of the federal government?

The Tea Party members are the same ones saying we're being pushed to socialism and arguing that the Constitution is the end all, etc. Am I right? Because that's sure how it seems to me. So how is it that they are now actually backing a candidate who says essentially that the Constitution is wrong?

See, to me this reads as a case of "It's okay for me to do it but not okay for you to." But what makes it worse is that the "crimes" against the Constitution and the calls of being unpatriotic that I've heard for ages and the ones that are going on now seem so absolutely minor compared to things like this.

I don't get it. Really, I don't.

Don · May 24, 2010

I don't think I've ever heard of him.

I notice on his website he's having a fundraiser... a Machine Gun Social, he calls it.

MP-5s and M-16s will be available to shoot
$25 per magazine

Includes Carolina BBQ and refreshments

FREE GUN GIVEAWAY

All attendees will be eligible to win an AR-15 from Shooters Express (giveaway at 8:30pm)

ETA: Just noticed the date. He held this already, before the first primary.

kaitie · May 24, 2010

Free gun giveaway?

Okay. I'm saying this as a person who until recently has considered herself republican. What has changed that is exactly this sort of thing. I am damned glad that the republican party is trying to fight this guy. I think we need--on both sides--to be moving toward the middle and compromise and respect for democracy.

I see things like "free gun giveaway" at a political event as absolutely sickening.

robeiae · May 25, 2010

More on Tim: http://www.npr.org/blogs/secretmoney/outside_groups/tim_dannunzio/

As to Tim and tea parties, meh.

nighttimer · May 25, 2010

Can you spell "whack job?"

More fun facts about Tim.

In Hoke County divorce records, his wife said in 1995 that D'Annunzio had claimed to be the Messiah, had traveled to New Jersey to raise his stepfather from the dead, believed God would drop a 1,000-mile high pyramid as the New Jerusalem on Greenland and found the Ark of the Covenant in Arizona. A doctor's evaluation the following month said D'Annunzio used marijuana almost daily, had been living with another woman for several months, had once been in drug treatment for heroin dependence and was jailed a couple times as a teenager.

The doctor concluded that his religious beliefs were not delusional. A judge wrote in a child support ruling a few years later that D'Annunzio was a self-described "religious zealot" who believed the government was the "Antichrist." The judge said he was willfully failing to make child support payments.

link

Not seeing the problem here. Okay, so what if he's a fucking stoner who likes to spark up some hippie lettuce? :hat:

Yeah, so he likes to raise the dead and go put on his Indian Jones fedora and look for the Ark of the Covenant. A guy can't have a few hobbies?

What's a tea party without a Mad Hatter? :crazy:

Torrance · May 25, 2010

Crazy dirtbags, surely a Tea Party centric phenomenon.

Gary · May 25, 2010

If tea party goers are supporting this guy, just imagine how bad the Republican Party backed nominee must be.

jennontheisland · May 25, 2010

nighttimer said:
More fun facts about Tim.
In Hoke County divorce records, his wife said in 1995 that D'Annunzio had claimed to be the Messiah, had traveled to New Jersey to raise his stepfather from the dead, believed God would drop a 1,000-mile high pyramid as the New Jerusalem on Greenland and found the Ark of the Covenant in Arizona. A doctor's evaluation the following month said D'Annunzio used marijuana almost daily, had been living with another woman for several months, had once been in drug treatment for heroin dependence and was jailed a couple times as a teenager.

The doctor concluded that his religious beliefs were not delusional. A judge wrote in a child support ruling a few years later that D'Annunzio was a self-described "religious zealot" who believed the government was the "Antichrist." The judge said he was willfully failing to make child support payments.

link

Not seeing the problem here. Okay, so what if he's a fucking stoner who likes to spark up some hippie lettuce?

Yeah, so he likes to raise the dead and go put on his Indian Jones fedora and look for the Ark of the Covenant. A guy can't have a few hobbies?

What's a tea party without a Mad Hatter?

You guys are gonna save a tonne of cash when he ends the "war on drugs" so that he can keep poking smack.

Roger J Carlson · May 25, 2010

kaitie said:
GOP tries to knock out Tea Party backed candidate in NC

From the thread title, I was expecting a Tonya Harding type episode. Imagine my disappointment.

GOP tries to knock out Tea Party backed candidate in NC

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