Birthers, Racists, Sexists and Homophobes: 13 Endorsers of GOP Candidates
What’s stunning about this year’s crop of endorsers of Republican presidential candidates is the torrent of venom, mendacity and absurdity that spills from their mouths and pens — not to mention the fact that most of these endorsements have been warmly received, and none have been rejected. There’s also a peculiar dichotomy of styles represented: They either hail from the priggish, uptight wing of the party that loathes popular culture as coarse and sinful, or they represent that coarse and sex-laden culture. The thing they have in common? Hatred — of somebody who’s not like them.
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Sixteen years ago, Pat Buchanan’s presidential campaign had to let go of campaign co-chair Larry Pratt, president of the Gun Owners of America, just because Pratt once gave a little lecture to a gathering of white supremacists. Today, Mitt Romney shows no intention of rejecting the endorsement of a racist who said that President Barack Obama should “suck on my machine gun.”
It seems there is no uproar these days as these “unsavory” endorsers are exactly the kind of people the GOP constituents love so much.