October 02, 2012 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
Brad Staats, a Republican candidate for Congress in Tennessee, is such a … well, Republican.
He’s trying to win friends and influence people.
Mr. Staats posted a picture On this Facebook page of his black and silver Colt 1911 semi-automatic pistol with the message, “Welcome to Tennessee, Mr. President.”
I think a gift basket would have sufficed.
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Ummm, the Secret Service arrested people for less under President Bush.
1Yeah, well Dubya was white too. This whole business makes me sick to my stomach and it’s scary! What is happening to our country when this kind of behavior is tolerated?
2“Apparently Tennesseans are part of that crazy crowd that Obama says “cling to their religion and guns.” Here is something that I usually have with me.” (a gun) Brad, for future reference, if you are trying to DISPROVE a point, you probably don’t want to do the exact thing that PROVES the point.
3The saddest thing about this whole farce (Staats has .000001% chance of winning) is that Obama isn’t even planning to come to Tennessee. It was such an obvious cry for attention.
This is the Republican Party in Tennessee. Sure, they’re a big deal out in East Jesus where nobody lives, but in the big cities where people are educated and actually pay attention? Zip.
4Call me crazy but besides being a tad illegal, isn’t he talking pretty big to a guy who is Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States????. Well, Bless his Heart
5I’m w Susan F, I’m thinking I’d put the kettle on if I were Brad and expect company, soon! Maybe he can come up with a nice walkback, meanwhile?
6This might just win him a visit from the Secret Service.
7This gets old. Everytime someone pulls something like this – Secret Service needs to get all up in their business, just like they would have done under any other President. This needs to stop being tolerated.
If ANY candidate or sitting official does this – it should be immediate grounds for dismissal/ineligibilty.
This country cannot go forward until these idiots are weeded out.
8It’s probably going to take a bushhog. I don’t think weeding will ever remove this kind of creeping idiot. And if the republicans lose in this election, I am really going to be worried for all of us.
9And Obama has drones. Welcome to reality, Mr. Staats.
10When my ex threatened my life (I left because I was scared because I am often bedridden and as an anesthesiologist he kills people and brings them back on a regular basis, and I figured since I couldn’t move, I was a sitting duck) I got a gun and lessons to go with it…then I got a crossbow–silent but deadly, now, because of the crazies, we are getting a shotgun.
11The chachink sound is recognizable and a deterrent all by itself–sigh–I grew up in violence, I was hoping by now it would be in my past forever, but as my neighbor said, “We have people less than a mile away who would kill us for the contents of our freezer.” Cutting the social fabric to ribbons is the last thing we should be doing…
Obama should respond with a picture of the graduating class from USMC Boot Camp and a caption that says “Thanks for the welcome, I hope you don’t mind if I bring a few friends.”
12If he had really posted his gun and “welcome to Tennessee Mr President” it would indeed warrant a visit from the Secret Service. I read the post. He didn’t. He posted typically obnoxious Second Amendment blather. As Democrats we don’t need selective editing to make our case. We need to be better than this. Keep it real rather than using Hannity-style editing to create outrage. Now excuse me, I have to go was my hands after typing the “H” word.
13Wally, He DID post a picture of what he purports to be his handgun.
14Wally, I’m not on Facebook, so I can’t verify what he posted. But that Raw Story article said that he had, indeed, posted a photo of his handgun. I wonder if you read his first post? Or the one that he put up after a few people mentioned his apparent threat to the President?
In any case, the verbiage would be plenty to make me consider him a nutcase, and potential danger.
15Guess what peeps? I was re-districted from TN-7th Marsha the Lightbulb Moran Blackburn to the TN-5th of Jim Blue Dog Cooper. While I am grateful to be part of the 5th and no longer have to endure Marsha, I did spend quite a bit of time yesterday, calling, emailing and generally posting as much as I could calling for the ARREST of this imbecile – he has about 3% chance of winning over Jim Cooper – but this creepy RePigBagger needs to apologize to America and POTUS for being a threat to sanity. Glad to be part of Blue Nashville’s 5th District with Jim Cooper, even though he is a Blue Dog.
16Ralph Wiggam, you are my kinda guy.
17There is huge difference between a gun photo with the caption “Welcome to Tennessee, Mr President” and the same photo accompanied by:
18“Many people in Tennessee keep asking me about my opinion on Second Amendment rights. Apparently Tennesseans are part of that crazy crowd that Obama says “cling to their religion and guns.” Well, then I must be part of that crazy crowd. Here is something that I usually have with me. Welcome to Tennessee Mr. Obama, where we appreciate our 2nd Amendment rights and the Constitution that was wisely given to us by our founding fathers.”
He is a jerk and a blowhard with a shrill dog whistle but a reasonable person doesn’t read that and see a threat to attack the President. Edited down to the “welcome” line it reads like Dirty Harry; taken as a whole it is just more NRA Second Amendment bullshite.
We don’t need to selectively edit these jerks to make them look bad. His statement, taken in its entirety shows him as small and afraid. No need to paint him as a potential assassin. The truth, the whole truth, should always work in our favor and if it doesn’t we need to clean our own house, not deny the truth.
Wally, to most of us a nutcase with a gun is threatening. To call out the President after saying “I’ve got a gun” Is a threat to the President. And I don’t believe that is an unreasonable position. I do believe you are trying to defend the indefensible.
19Couldn’t get the link to work at all, so can’t really comment except to say that what an individual citizen thinks is a threat, and what a law officer thinks is a threat, are very different things (after all, law officers shot a double-amputee mentally disabled man in Houston…he was waving a ballpoint pen at them.) Just like you don’t joke about bombs in the security line at airports and expect to make your flight, you don’t show a firearm and make any comment that can be remotely construed as connecting that firearm and the President and expect to have no one checking on your background and likely behavior. It’s the Secret Service’s job to look for such connections. There are plenty of law officers who would consider such things a threat when aimed at private citizens, too.
Haven’t seen the original article, the link being nonfunctional for me, but in my view displaying a weapon is a sign the displayer has plans to use it and intimidating (or attempting to intimidate) someone with a weapon is a definite threat.
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