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A couple of state Republicans in Tennessee had this brilliant bit of dialogue. Maclin Davis is a former attorney for the state Republican party and Ron Ramsey is the Lt. Governor running for Governor.
Mutt and Jeff do their thing.
Davis: Now since the Republicans control both houses of the Tennessee legislature, it seems to me that they might consider passing a state law that says in all future elections no candidate for president can be put on the ballot in Tennessee unless they produce positive proof they are a native-born citizen. If we had one like that a few years ago, we’d be a whole lot better off today. Is there any chance that you would consider that?
Ramsey: … I suppose that every state could individually do that.
Davis: It seems like it would be really good if somebody would file a suit against our present president to get back all the money he’s been paid as president on the grounds he’s not a legitimate president since he’s not a native-born citizen. The great preponderance of the evidence is he’s not a citizen. …
Ramsey: … I’ve got a tableful of advisers sitting over there and they’ll probably start cringing right about now when I start talking about some of this stuff right here. … I’m going to tell you something. I don’t know whether President Obama is a citizen of the United States or not. I don’t know what the whole deal is there. But I’m going to tell you something. When you walk out on the street down, people don’t really care about this issue. I’m all about winning elections, not as Republicans in this nation but also as Republicans in this state of Tennessee.
Ramsey’s camp is backtracking from the “I don’t know whether President Obama is a citizen…” remark. They claim it’s taken out of context. Geez. Every time one of these assholes makes a remark that highlights either their racist attitudes or simple lack of intelligence, they claim foul. If Ramsey is not a birther, what prevented him from making his thoughts on the subject clear? Nothing except the fact that he is obviously a birther.
Politico has more on the story.
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Of course this comes from the Tennessee, where we get to carry guns in bars and in parks and where the state court is homophobic.
You just can’t fix stupid.
I hope they can stop whining and do what the people want them to do. The more they concentrate on policy rather than infancy,we can get a whole lot done.
Get movin’