Here is the forty-eighth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today’s honoree is Congressional candidate Tony Strickland. He is so honored for pushing his credentials to Republican gun-nuts the day after a local massacre.
A day after a horrific massacre in California that left seven people dead, voters outside Los Angeles received a robocall from the congressional campaign for Republican Tony Strickland talking about his pro-gun stance along with his backing from the National Rifle Association and other gun groups…
…Here’s the transcript of the robocall, via HuffPo:
Protect our gun rights, vote for Tony Strickland for Congress. Tony Strickland has a history of protecting our Second Amendment rights and will do the same in Congress, Tony Strickland was a founding member of the NRA Member Council and former California Rifle and Pistol Association Legislator of the Year.
Tony has been a longtime supporter of the rights of citizens to keep and bear arms and will continue to oppose, and actively fight, any legislation that would take away our Second Amendment right to bear arms. As the founder of the Freedom Firearms Coalition and with a lifetime ‘A’ rating from the NRA, we can count on Tony Strickland to protect our constitutional rights.
On June 3rd, vote for Tony Strickland for Congress. This call was paid for by Strickland for Congress…
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Now, this vile Republican claims that his robocalls were scheduled, before the shooting took place, but that’s no excuse. Any decent person would have made one easy phone call to cancel the robocalls. But no! This Republican opted to capitalize on the deaths by using this bloody phone SPAM to remind his rabid base that he will remain a GOP gun-nut, no matter how many die because of his policies. He’s the last thing we need in Washington!
7 Responses to “Republicans on Parade–5/27/2014”
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Strickland is (by his own actions) proved to be a) revolting and b) unbearably arrogant and PAINFULLY stupid – who in their right mind would let such calls continue?
If you can't trust a man in small things, you can't trust him in big things – and here's a good example.
We need to remember that Elliot Rodgers purchased his guns and ammo legally
Elliot Rodgers registered his arsenal, as required by law
So by NRA standards Elliot Rodgers was clearly a "Good guy with a gun …"
Until 9:27 PM, when he fired his first shot.
The NRA and its gun-worshipping members can go f\/ck themselves.
Unfortunately, Lona (Care2) makes a good point – anyone who was offended would likely have been offended even without the incident, and his constituency was probably reassured, not offended. Ashley (Care2) is also correct that gun manufacturers make a killing (and admits it's a bad pun by using quotes).
I was playing a solitaire hidden-object-puzzle-adventure computer game yesterday which had just been released last Thursday, and the plot was based on a number of girls (now young women) who had all been to the same school being kidnapped and presumably killed. Turns out there had been one boy at the school, the son of the owner, whom all the girls had scorned …. talk about like reading the headlines. There were enough plot twists that it ended up quite different, but for a while there is was definitely creepy. Life imitating Art imitating Life.
Being a TeapublicanT, maybe he didn't know how to use a phone to cancel the robocalls. Brain-dead perhaps?
He capitalized on the tragedy by appealing to those who are so afraid of losing their guns. Typical Republican strategy.
Strickland is not one of life's winners. But then, he's a Republicanus/Teabagger and a gun wacko! I guess he could be the NRA's poster boy. And hey, the NRA doesn't have to buy him. He donated himself. What a sorry excuse for a humanbeing!
Thanks all. I agree with everything said here.