Keeping It Classy, Greg.
You might have figured out that I’m not all that fond of Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott and his scheme to take the Rick Perry legacy of Damfool up a couple of levels.
He wants to be Governor. Well, actually, he wants to be Führer but those Texans outside of Fredericksburg are a tad suspicious of foreign words.
Greg Abbott is a WalMart, beer bottle collection, velvet Elvis paintings kind of guy so it comes as no surprise that he feels safe encouraging loutish behavior among his supporters. Loutish is a nice way of saying “leaving the tattoo parlor riding their motorcycles to the meth lab to hang a confederate flag before going to the bowling tournament.”
Sooooo … no one was shocked when Greg’s twitter feed had this little doozy.
Retard Barbie? No, seriously. Retard Barbie?
He’s thanking a guy for calling Wendy Davis, a woman with a compelling life story, Retard Barbie?
Oh my, I can’t wait for Abbott’s campaign rallies.
Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa wasn’t surprised but he was disgusted.
“That Greg Abbott would thank a supporter for calling Senator Wendy Davis a ‘Retard Barbie’ is absolutely disgusting and disturbing. This is what Republicans think about women — that a Harvard law school graduate, State Senator, and a long time fighter for Texas families deserves such inappropriate slander. Greg Abbott endorses such disrespect. The people of Texas deserves so much better than this from their public officials. And the women of Texas deserve leaders who respect them as human beings.”
Later that evening, Abbott tweeted —
“I thank supporters on Twitter, but I don’t endorse anyone’s offensive language.”
Dude, it wasn’t merely the language that was offensive. And where the hell is the apology? Hell, Greg, you offended women, developmentally challenged people and the Mattel Toy Company all at once. That ought to win some kind of award for being the trifecta of scum.
Y’all, I do not like Greg Abbott and always will.
Thanks to everybody for the heads up.
I’m a Special Ed teacher (stuck as a sub in Greenville ISD) and an Instructor in Riding for People with Special Needs. “Retard” is a word used by people who don’t actually know anybody whom that would offend. Folks need to widen their social circle to gain more compassion and understanding.
1The individual who made this comment has a website: http://www.jefflegal.com and publishes his contact info: jeff@jefflegal.com (o) 940.269.0480 (f) 940.269.3084 (c) 940.391.8852. His twitter feed is @jefflegal. I plan on contacting him
2Wow! This should bring down the wrath of all special needs associations etc. on the heads of Jeffie and Greg! Someone around them should have the smarts and the cojones to tell both of them that ain’t a kick ass way to run for office. Watch for the parents of special needs kids at the Jeff and Greg rallies! Film at eleven!
3Where is the handwringing, screaming, shouting, name calling Sarah baby on this? Whenever she hears that word from someone just slightly to the left she gets on her soapbox. Where is she? Come on Sarah, where’s the outrage?
4Sarah’s reaction to Limbaugh’s use of the word:
…On Chief-of-Staff Rahm Emanuel, she said his comments calling liberal groups “f-ing retards” was “indecent and insensitive” and cause for his dismissal.
But the former governor went to great and sometimes awkward lengths to insist that when conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh used the same exact term to describe the same exact group, it was simply in the role of political humorist.
“They are kooks, so I agree with Rush Limbaugh,” she said, when read a quote of Limbaugh calling liberal groups “retards.” “Rush Limbaugh was using satire … . I didn’t hear Rush Limbaugh calling a group of people whom he did not agree with ‘f-ing retards,’ and we did know that Rahm Emanuel, as has been reported, did say that. There is a big difference there.”
5If there is one thing Texas retardican politicians know,it is retard.
6maggie @ 3,you will see and hear worse stuff at tea-bagger rallies where they try to one-up each other with vile,racist,hateful garbage.
7What’s behind the Twitter Gulag Defense Network? TGDN
8Well, at least he didn’t tell Davis to stick to her knitting.
9Button Pushed. Google Pennhurst.
I personally know someone who was obscenely abused there & named in the lawsuit to close the place down. She is my mom’s best friend’s daughter. You call her a name & you have to deal with me.
Greg Abbott and his followers have no idea what they are saying when they use this language. I challenge them to spend time volunteering with the Special Olympics. These athletes are the happiest, most innocent, loving people on Earth.
Greg Abbott would be lucky to have a special needs child in his life. He would be taught patience, pure love, appreciation of life & how to see the world through the eyes of an innocent child again. That perspective is necessary in today’s world because we need to remember life before power and greed. I promise you, the severely mentally challenged have no idea what bigotry, racism, greed, war or hate is. And I think they are better humans than we are because of that.
I hope Special Olympics contacts Greg Abbott directly to explain this to him.
10I used to have a teacher friend (she moved to Mississippi) who taught severely handicapped children. One day as she was feeding one of her students, she said she figured we all look that way to God.
11My very first bestest friend was the little blond daughter of my Mama’s friend Pat. She has Down’s syndrome. I have always been lucky to not have the staring aversion kids frequently have toward one who is different (savage little buggers, kids!) and have had several opportunities over the years to work with others who share her anomaly.
It would be a slap in Lisa’s face to call jefflegal a “retard.” He is, in fact, just another bigot, and just another mean Republican supporting other mean Republicans.
I guess birds of a feather really do flock together. Thanks for letting me hang out here in YOUR flock!
12FU Jeffie, __I__, and the horse you rode in on; “integrity”, my asss.
If you look closely at his little Tweeter avatar, it is an image of the first page of the US Constitution (We the People…), jes’ to let you know that he’s a jenuoowhine ‘Merikan Patriot…yeah, right.
Doubtless of the ‘teabagger’ variety of pseudo-patriot, they’re all real big on wrapping themselves in the Flag and carryin’ crosses around, etc.
“Sam in Kyle says”, @2: posted his telephone numbers, I assume from Jeffie’s webpage. They have apparently been scrubbed off now:
From his current webpage (as given by Sam above):
Jeffrey Rutledge – Attorney at Law
Principal office in Denton, Texas
“With integrity at every step, I offer responsive legal services for both current and long-term needs”…
(e) jeff@jefflegal.com
(o) EMAIL FOR INFO
(f) EMAIL FOR INFO
(c) EMAIL FOR INFO
Awww, he must have been catching some well-deserved heat on the phone, the tel numbers are gone now, whuffa. You gotta email widdle Jeffie for them now, WTG.
The a-hole can no longer display his effen bidness telephone numbers due to the self-inflicted outrage, heheh; so brave those pseudo-patriots are.
Wouldn’t y’all like to be a fly in his email inbox?
JJ, feel free to edit the above, I’m just still spittin’ caliche after reading this item.
13My youngest brother was stricken by something that left him, and a fine mind, trapped in a body that couldn’t do much (think Steven Hawking). He caught this same ignorant bull from the same kind of scum that ‘Jeffie’ appears to be.
Careful or Abbott’ll accuse you of picking on someone in a wheelchair. Just because I do it…..
14Heard this discussed on the Austin talk radio after work this afternoon, and the theme was that it might have been a staffer or hacker; surely Abbott didn’t actually high-five the Jeff guy.
What’s amazing is that conservatives had no trouble believing the stories about women’s rights protestors with bags of poo, but they don’t want to believe this big crock right in front of ’em.
15What Bernard said, doubled. Oh heck, tripled.
16It’s libel not slander. You just can’t train tea baggers.
17At a Repuplican press conference: There seems to be no sign of intelligent life anywhere.
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