Some of This Week’s Questionable Republican Statements and Actions

David Streeter — August 6, 2010 – 9:14 am | Barack Obama | Civil Rights | Congress | Election 2010 | GOP Hypocrisies | Israel | Republicans | Stop the Smears Comments (1) Add a comment

Below is a sampling of this week’s questionable Republican statements and actions:

• Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle (R-NV) told Fox News, “We needed to have the press be our friend… We wanted them to ask the questions we want to answer so that they report the news the way we want it to be reported.”
• Angle also said that Democratic policies “violate the First Commandment.” She claims that the United States is “entrenched in idolatry” that is “the dependency upon our government. We’re supposed to depend on God for our protection ... not our government.”
• Angle’s communications director, Jarrod Agen, sent a statement to a reporter regarding Angle’s opponent, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), that said, “only the supreme arrogance of Senator Reid would believe that he has a divine right to rule over mere mortals by ramming through Obamacare, billions in reckless spending, and yes, buying cocaine for monkeys.”
• Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told Fox News that the birthright of citizenship granted by the 14^th Amendment “doesn’t make so much sense” and “cheapens American citizenship.”
• Republican Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty (R-MN) said that Minnesota should consider making English the official language and making the state English-only.
• Representative Mike Pence (R-IN) claimed that the Obama Administration is “the most anti-Israel administration in the modern history of the state of Israel and our relationship with her.”
• Nevada Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Sandoval (R-NV), who is Hispanic, told the Spanish-language news channel Univision that he supported Arizona’s controversial immigration law. The reporter asked how he would feel if his own children were stopped under the new law, to which Sandoval replied that his children “don’t look Hispanic.”
• Colorado Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes (R-CO) said that Denver’s bicycle-sharing program is “converting Denver into a United Nations community” and that the apparent UN plot to take over America is “all very well-disguised, but it will be exposed.”
• The campaign of Republican Mike Sparks (R-TN) promoted a video featuring a former KGB operative discussing “Jewish Marxist ideology.”
• Michigan Republican House candidate Andrew “Rocky” Raczkowski (R-MI) dove headfirst into the Birther pool by publicly declaring, “You have a president that seems to be, um ... well ... I don’t know if he even has been born in the United States, but ... until I see a birth certificate.”
• The conservative Club for Growth sent out a mailer on behalf of Tennessee Republican candidate Robin Smith (R-TN) that directed people to a phone sex line using the number 1-800-Get-Some-Pork.

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