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2014-12-30 -Short Attention Span Theater-

How Do You Show Up at a David Duke Event and Not Know What It Is?

Some amusing comments about the recent revelations that a GOP house leader, Steve Scalise, attended an event hosted by rightwing moonbat David Duke.

Spoiler alert: Eric Erickson, not a favorite of mine nor of others in Rantburg.com, wants you to know that it was because of Duke, he left Louisiana all them years ago. Fair's fair.

If the Tea Party were smart, and I'm not saying they are, they'd primary Scalise. It is a ripe event begging to be initiated.

Now on to the comedy part of this presentation:
In 2002, a year after not long before Trent Lott was driven from office in December of 2002, for his statements about support Strom Thurmond, Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA)76%, now the number three Republican in the House of Representatives, went to a David Duke organized event.

How do you not know? How do you not investigate?

David Duke is the reasons I am no longer a resident of Louisiana. After supporting Edwin Edwards in the gubernatorial race against David Duke in 1991, I knew I had to get the hell out of a state where those were the two most popular choices.

I moved to Georgia to go to school and could only now consider moving back thanks to the hard work of Governor Bobby Jindal.

By 2002, everybody knew Duke was still the man he had claimed not to be. EVERYBODY.

How the hell does somebody show up at a David Duke organized event in 2002 and claim ignorance?

Trent Lott was driven from the field in 2001 for something less than this.

And the very GOP establishment now lining up behind Steve Scalise threw Chris McDaniel under the bus for speaking to a Sons of the Confederate Veterans event.

Posted by badanov 2014-12-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 I don't recall the Dems ever repudiating, much less removing or censuring, Robert Byrd over his Klan leadership, so I'm not getting terribly worked up over this one.

Posted by Raj 2014-12-30 00:39|| 2014-12-30 00:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Whoa, it turns out Fast Eddie and Duke are good for something after all: they're Erickson Repellant.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-12-30 00:48|| 2014-12-30 00:48|| Front Page Top

#3 TFSM - what's the deal with Erickson? I don't know him / his work all that well - is it a RINO problem?

Posted by Raj 2014-12-30 00:49|| 2014-12-30 00:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Just the opposite Raj.

Posted by Shipman 2014-12-30 06:40|| 2014-12-30 06:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Raj, The Atlantic

Posted by Shipman 2014-12-30 06:49|| 2014-12-30 06:49|| Front Page Top

#6 Okay, fouled the link lesson finally learned. No copy paste with iPad.
Link fixed.

Posted by Shipman 2014-12-30 06:50|| 2014-12-30 06:50|| Front Page Top

#7 How Do You Show Up at a ~~David Duke~~ Al Sharpton Event and Not Know What It Is?

Race hustler be race hustler.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-12-30 08:01|| 2014-12-30 08:01|| Front Page Top

#8 How? By trusting an idiot staffer. Anyone who thinks a rep chooses where he shows up himself is delusional.

Yes, it does say he has bad judgement for hiring. So we never elect him to a higher office.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2014-12-30 08:04|| 2014-12-30 08:04|| Front Page Top

#9 David Duke? Wow, there is a name pulled off the dust bin of insignificant historical trivia. Erickson is a strange dude; more of a CNN guy than conservative: Erickson

Posted by JohnQC 2014-12-30 08:39|| 2014-12-30 08:39|| Front Page Top

#10 "Well, they had liquor and money..."

Posted by ed in texas 2014-12-30 10:18|| 2014-12-30 10:18|| Front Page Top

#11 I only have one question: How would he vote on Affirmative Action?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2014-12-30 11:56|| 2014-12-30 11:56|| Front Page Top

#12 OK - can we start demanding resignations of those Dems who attended Louie Farrakahn's antisemetic and racist rallies too?

Posted by OldSpook 2014-12-30 13:46|| 2014-12-30 13:46|| Front Page Top

#13 Farrakhan, Sharpton, Jackson and Jim Wright too.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2014-12-30 15:02|| 2014-12-30 15:02|| Front Page Top

#14 Oooops. I mean Jeremiah Wright. How could I forget that?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2014-12-30 15:03|| 2014-12-30 15:03|| Front Page Top

#15 ION Duke News see also DEFENCE/PK/FORUM > PRESS TV: OBAMA A "CONTROLLED JEWISH PRESIDENT": EX-US REPRESENTATIVE [David Duke].

US + Western World has sold or given its soul to corrupt Israel + Zionism.

Last week on the Net the Bammer was labeled as the "First Latino President" of the USA - iff Bill Clinton presaged the Bammer as the US' first de facto "Black President", by extension, POTUS Obama come Jan 2017 presages ?????????? as America's first "Latino/Jewish President"???

EFFECT ON HILLARY, SECSTATE "JAAWHN/LURCH", + VEEP BIDEN, ETAL. IN NOVEMBER 2016 ELEX - BOBBIE JINDAL AS "DARK HORSE"???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-12-30 23:02|| 2014-12-30 23:02|| Front Page Top

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