Nannychusetts the Butt of Jokes?
Romney distances himself from KKK joke
By Andrew Miga, Associated Press Writer November 10, 2005
BOSTON --Republican Gov. Mitt Romney was introduced as head of a state run by the "KKK ... the Kerry, Kennedy Klan" before a speech Thursday in Washington, words that sparked criticism from Massachusetts Democrats and a rebuke from Romney himself.
"It's not appropriate to joke about the Ku Klux Klan," Romney said in a phone interview from Washington after his luncheon address to the Federalist Society.
Romney branded the remarks "ill-advised" and "inappropriate."
Romney laughed along with the audience, The Boston Globe reported in a story for Friday's edition, and thanked the speaker for "a very generous introduction."
The governor insisted he wasn't really paying attention to the introduction.
"I was looking at my notes and preparing for my speech at the time," Romney said.
State Democratic Party chairman Phil Johnston, who has criticized Romney for making Massachusetts the butt of jokes as a liberal bastion during his out-of-state travel as he considers a run for president, said he was outraged that Romney could find any humor in the remarks referring to Sens. Edward Kennedy and John Kerry invoking the KKK.
By Andrew Miga, Associated Press Writer November 10, 2005
BOSTON --Republican Gov. Mitt Romney was introduced as head of a state run by the "KKK ... the Kerry, Kennedy Klan" before a speech Thursday in Washington, words that sparked criticism from Massachusetts Democrats and a rebuke from Romney himself.
"It's not appropriate to joke about the Ku Klux Klan," Romney said in a phone interview from Washington after his luncheon address to the Federalist Society.
Romney branded the remarks "ill-advised" and "inappropriate."
Romney laughed along with the audience, The Boston Globe reported in a story for Friday's edition, and thanked the speaker for "a very generous introduction."
The governor insisted he wasn't really paying attention to the introduction.
"I was looking at my notes and preparing for my speech at the time," Romney said.
State Democratic Party chairman Phil Johnston, who has criticized Romney for making Massachusetts the butt of jokes as a liberal bastion during his out-of-state travel as he considers a run for president, said he was outraged that Romney could find any humor in the remarks referring to Sens. Edward Kennedy and John Kerry invoking the KKK.
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Nope, we mostly live in comfort in peace with our Maker.
The VA has been working on my teeth and will give me dentures next week. I told them I was a Mr. Ducky, Taxpayer, Platinum Card member, but, found out treatment is the same for everyone. Thanks Duck.
Texans are not lazy despite the appearance. Just because we govern slugs like you doesn't mean that we do not actually work. You make fun of our "intellectual pursuits" yet it is us flyover hayseeds who govern your big ol' gigantic Snooper's Union educated pretentious brain. So who's smart?
Why would Democrats be offended by references to the KKK?
As all historians know, the KKK began as the militant wing of the post-Civil War Democratic Party, and their terrorist activities against blacks were often at the behest if not the direct participation of elected Democratic Party members in the law enforcement community.
Even today, a Grand Kleagle of the KKK sits as a Democrat Senator from West Virginia, Robert Byrd, and he is praised by Democrats as a "statesman."
President Harry Truman was another Democrat Klan asshole.
Fascism has been a hallmark of Democratic Party policies since the 1830s when President Jackson disregarded the Supreme Court's ruling in favor of Cherokee sovereignty and began forcing American Indians into Oklahoma at gunpoint.
Civil rights marchers sprayed down with firehoses in the 1960s? It wasn't Republicans holding the firehoses. Bull Connor was a Dem.
There has never, ever, in the history of American politics been an intellectually defensible reason to vote for any Democrat.
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