The Republican sickness
Submitted by staff on Fri, 10/13/2006 - 11:35pm.
There is something wrong with Scott Pullins. Deeply wrong. In a vain effort to smear Ted Strickland and mask the perversion of his own party he runs a 10 year old story of a man who exposed himself to some kids.
Pullins reproduces the police reports, which among other things gives the name and address of one of the girls, who was 13. That's right he publicly outs a 13 year old victim for petty political gain. I'm not going to link to the post for that reason.
What should be of interest is one of Pullins comments in that post
Scott Pullins wrote:
This information was given to me and to many others. It would have come out. We chose to present both sides of this story and hope that he has recovered and will not harm children in the future.
Now who do you suppose would have given Pullins those police reports ? The tooth fairy ? Hardly, the tooth fairy, just as any other decent human being, would puke if they got within 50 feet of this piece of human garbage.
While the right has been trying to smear Ted Strickland and his wife of many many years, denigrate their marriage - they fail to acknowledge the very real perversion within their own party. Not just Republican congressmen praying on young ambitious boys, but their party covering it up.
In the world of Pullins, RABid blog, Jihadi Guy, Little Matty, Ken Blackwell et al this isn't an important issue. All that is important is power. Need to change your party ? No Problem. Need to change your policies? No problem. Need to overlook the corruption ? No problem. Need to masquerade behind shady organizations to attack and smear ? No problem.
There isn't an issue or situation they will stand on principle for anymore. Smaller government ? Hardly. State rights ? Don't make me laugh. Individual freedoms and choice ? Whatever.
The Republican party stands for nothing but raw ambition and it doesn't care what lives it damages along the way. Coming from Britain as a Conservative there would have been a time I would have called myself a Republican, now they just make me sick. The whole lot of them, because even the decent Republicans stand by and enable the likes of Pullins and Blackwell.
The Republican party has a deep and malignant sickness, among other things this election is also about curing it - and returning the party back to some decency.
I'm dumbstruck
Submitted by MLM Liberal on Thu, 10/19/2006 - 12:36am.
Two weeks ago, I did something normally unthinkable for me. I posted the photo of a pre-teen boy.
Not any boy, of course. It was Brandon Kerr, the son of Passionate America blogger William Kerr, who outed a former Congressional page.
The posting included commentary from me on how Brandon and other children were not as safe as they were 24 hours earlier because his dad made it more difficult for victims of sex crimes to come forward and for law enforcement, including my co-workers at ODPS, to hunt down sexual predators and get them off our streets.
A reporter for the Wall Street Journal said I was trying to spook Kerr. The Oklahoma City media made this blogger a folk hero. And others in the blogosphere called me various forms of excrement for doing what I did.
But my co-workers understood, and the reaction ranged from "Stand your ground" to--if Kerr and his supporters wanted to pick a fight--"Bring it on."
Now, I read Scott Pullins has done something ever more despicable by releasing the name and address of the victim of a sex crime which occurred when she was 13.
Pullins has yet to recognize my existence. It took him a month to mention something about my blog linking him to the suicide of an Afghan war veteran, depressed over the loss of a promotion with the Columbus City Health Department.
The promotion was given to a "bumped" employee with more seniority who fell victim to city budget cuts as a result of Pullins' Ohio Taxpayers Association successfully, and deceitfully, getting voters to defeat a car-rental tax that would have averted budget cuts.
And when Pullins mentioned what I wrote, he cited a blog where it was cross-posted, not mine.
Now, upon reading this, I'd be more than happy (please pardon the sarcasm) to post a picture of his daughter Alaina.
Even with the accompanying commentary, which would be even more severe than I what I said about William Kerr, there is no way I could come close to stooping to his level.
But maybe perhaps that will shut him up. I'll just need to prepare for the excrement comments sure to follow.
There is really something wrong.
I followed the link from the another site.¬ I'm sorry I did.¬ The young girl was only 12.¬ Twelve years old.¬ He named her.¬ He's not sorry.¬ Almost 67% of the people who saw the story voted on his site that they disliked the story.¬ How about it, Scott?¬ Do you get off on things¬ like this?¬ I hope this young girl, who is¬ now probably 24 or 25, sues the living crap out of him.
This happened back¬ in 1994.¬ What a jerk.¬ Americans are dying in Iraq every day.¬ Children in Ohio are not getting proper educations all the time.¬ Right now.
What a jerk.¬ A real jerk.