Oops, One Slipped Out Of The Backroom
Most Republicans keep their real motivations indoors. They put on a dandy face and leave the ghosts and goblins at home when they venture out in proper company.
One slipped out.
Meet Republican Michael Peroutka, a candidate for the Anne Arundel County Council, an area that includes Annapolis, Md.
Peroutka starts by throwing a fit about “hordes of non-white immigrants.” He favors secession so the South can return to its “Anglo-Celtic” roots. But, that’s just getting warmed-up.
Peroutka opposes gay marriage, says he believes in creationism and favors the dismantling of public education, which he has called “a plank in the Communist Manifesto.”
He sang “Dixie” at a League of the South conference in 2012, calling it “the national anthem.”
Look, I’m not saying that all Republicans are racist homophobes. I’m just saying that all racist homophobes are Republicans and there’s a damn good reason for that. Even Republicans who aren’t racist homophobes have something about them that attracts racist homophobes. You’d think they’d try to figure out what that is, but they don’t. They are too busy talking about building a fence on the border and stopping marriage equality. Then they want to act shocked, shocked I tell you, when a blazing racist homophobe wants to hold their hand.
Anyway, back to Peroutka. He is probably gonna win because he’s running in a GOP stronghold. .
Thanks to Tina for the heads up.
Awww c’mon, how much ” Anglo-Celtic ” heritage can a jerk with the surname of “Peroutka” have anyway?
Hell, he looks Jewish to me…/snark.
1If he thinks Anglo-Celtic life was so great, I guess he doesn’t know about how Angles and Celts were bitter enemies who spent their time splitting each other’s skulls. Yeah, everything was great when it was just white people killing you.
2I’m a Democrat living in the middle of that Republican stronghold, and I can tell you it’s a MODERATE Republican stronghold that gave the US Marjorie Holt back in the day. Most elected officials are Democrats. Peroutka is being laughed at. There aren’t many Peroutka signs on lawns but there are many, many Patrick Armstrong (Democrat) signs in the area.
3What always amazes me about the GOP is how many of those elected officials want to return this country back to the ’50s. Not the 1950’s, the 1850’s. Or even the 1750’s, when we didn’t have a pesky Constitution and Bill of Rights in place.
And people wonder why I’m such a cynic when it comes to politics.
“Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics. I’d already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded, and hung in effigy.”
4— Jack Kemp
This guy is old news in the D.C. metropolitan area. What a loser!!! Seriously, I remember a time when political parties did a better job of attracting real talent. Dems have their problems with wackos’ too, but as far as the Republicants are concerned its a competition as to how many of these guys they can attract and support for office. This is one “contest” I certainly wouldn’t want to win!
5There are about 6 million people in Maryland, 2 million are African American.
I want to be there when this guy tells 2 million black people that he wants to take away their Constitutional Right to vote.
6Of course the original “hordes of non-white immigrants” came over on slave ships. Oddly enough, I suspect that is the only non-white immigration that makes sense to this guy.
7Name Meaning of Peroutka
Czech: from peroutka ‘feather’, ‘feather duster’, ‘quill’, a nickname denoting either a small, light person, or possibly a clerk, on account of his use of a quill pen.
http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=peroutka
I wonder when his family came to the states (probably the 1880’s) and if they came legally?
8At least this guy says what he’s thinking. His fellow Repugs try to couch it in euphemisms: Voter ID’s to stop voter fraud, family values, God’s will etc. God help us if voters continue to fall for this politicrap.
9@Ralph Wiggam
10On the date and at the time ole Mikey Peroutka “tells 2 million black people that he wants to take away their Constitutional Right to vote”, I want the popcorn concession for about an hour before.
He gives me the creeps. Hope the other guy wins.
11Glad to hear from W.C. Peterson that this moron likely won’t get in; the WashPost writer seemed to think he would.
The WashPost ran a big front-page article today about Joni Ernst in Iowa, almost entirely about how this former unknown is now a “contender,” with one buried paragraph about her extreme and loopy views. I am so sick of the “horserace” political reporting, as if who’s ahead and their childhoods are the only kind of things that matter, not what they’re likely to support and propose if they get elected.
And why are all these crazy people now running for office and being taken seriously and getting IN? Are voters– especially GOP voters– so tuned out that they stumble into a voting booth and plug for everybody with an R, not knowing or caring squat about what these people have said? Where are the sane Republicans we used to have? Not that I’d vote for most of them, but they weren’t like this.
At least when Caligula made his horse Incitatus a consul, the horse couldn’t do any damage except to the Senate floor. These horses’ asses can do incalculable damage.
12Just because the Repub Bexar County DA is a racist, homophobic alcoholic, I have other reasons not to vote for her.
13Is he aware that Dixie was written by a couple of Northerners? Maybe he thinks that’s OK because it was written for a blackface minstrel show.
14Sadly, we live in a time when clowns like Michael Peroutka and Joni Ernst are taken seriously. And our so-called democracy is becoming a joke.
15Oh, Rhea, you have no idea how I miss the Good Old Days when there really were sane people in the GOP! Two of my best friends just voted for the teaparty idiot, because they say, “at least he’s going to call attention to all the failings in our government.” Call attention, Hell, the teaparty is the REASON for most of those failings. People like this really do scare the heck out of me. Really.
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