By Carolyn Shore Aresu as libby shaw.
Greg Abbott descended into a hole in hate hell when he invited Ted Nugent to serve as one of his surrogates. But at least we now know a side of Greg Abbott we may not have noticed until today.
We know whose company he keeps and who can speak on his behalf.
Apparently, in order to woo his far right wing base (as if they really needed to be wooed), Greg Abbott unleashed a racist psychopath to unpack a lot of hate while campaigning in North Texas today.
You know. The perfect way to bring out the best in people. Sarah Palin did the same in 2008 when running as Republican candidate for Vice President. At her rallies she would work supporters into a frenzy until one or a few of them would finally scream "kill him."
Maybe this is how a Party that is bereft of ideas and goals for the future of the state, and for the country for that matter, has to excite its voters. Fling 'em slabs of red meat dipped in hate and fear.
In the last century there was a group that referred to another group as subhuman. This would be in 1930 Germany when the Nazis labeled Jewish people as subhuman.
Nice company you keep, Mr. Abbott.
A few weeks ago, Nugent launched his latest verbal volley at President Obama, calling him a “subhuman mongrel,” among other things. On Tuesday afternoon’s Wolf, the eponymous host discussed Abbott’s decision to campaign with Nugent, and went into great detail about the historical origins of the rocker’s comments about the President. Blitzer asked Wayne Slater of the Dallas Morning News if the Abbott campaign was aware of “the history of that phrase, subhuman mongrel?”
“That’s what the Nazis called Jews to justify the genocide of the Jewish community,” he continued. “They called them ‘untermenschen,’ subhuman mongrels, if you read some of the literature that the Nazis put out there, there is a long history of that specific phrase he used involving the President of the United States.”
Since Mr. Nugent is one of your surrogates, Mr. Abbott, we can assume you approve of these choice tidbits too.
NUGENT: I was in Chicago last week. I was in Chicago and said, "Hey, Obama you might want to suck on one of these you punk." Obama, he's a piece of shit, and I told him to suck on my machine gun. Let's hear it for him. And then I was in New York. I said, "Hey, Hillary, you might want to ride one of these into the sunset, you worthless bitch. Since I'm in California, how about [Senator] Barbara Boxer [D-CA], she might want to suck on my machine gun. And [Senator] Dianne Feinstein [D-CA], ride one of these you worthless whore. Any questions? [Ted Nugent, 8/21/07, accessed 2/14/14, via LiveLeak.com]
Really, Greg Abbott? You have a fine way of choosing your surrogates.
The next quote is far too nasty for the front page.
Cross posted on Texas Kaos.
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