CNN Poll-itics: Who are the Tea Party activists? College-educated upscale white males!

By GottaLaff

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Surprise! Tea Tantrumers are white male upscale college-educated elitist cranks!

Activists in the Tea Party movement tend to be male, rural, upscale, and overwhelmingly conservative, according to a new national poll.

A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday also indicates that Tea Party activists would vote overwhelmingly Republican in a two-party race for Congress. The party's GOP leanings, the poll suggests, may pose a problem for the Tea Party movement if it tries to turn itself into a third party to compete with the two major parties in this year's general election.

By all means, then, compete away.

Much more here.

From the Dep't. of Gramm-pa's Losing: Florida ‘Gators for McCain’ Resigns, Votes For Obama

By GottaLaff

This is gold:

You know it’s not looking good for Sen. John McCain when the head of the University of Florida’s more than 1,000-strong “Gators for McCain” announced his resignation yesterday and said he had voted for Sen. Barack Obama.

According to The Independent Florida Alligator, the university’s daily student newspaper, Josh Simmons, chairman of the “Gators for McCain,” attended an on-campus rally featuring Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Joe Biden yesterday, not as a protester but as a supporter.

“I wanted to see the next vice president of the United States,” said Simmons.
Simmons said he voted for Obama about two weeks ago.
“I’ve seen a different McCain than the one I signed up to work for,” he said.

Not a good sign for Gramm-pa when one of his most ardent supporters pulls a switcheroo.

College Republicans director resigns over racial post about Obama, the graphic sequel

By GottaLaff

More information about this pathetic excuse for a college student:

Via:
Here are some of the statements made by Adam LaDuca, posted on his Facebook page (unavailable except to his friends), and his blog, where most have since been purged:

From Facebook: Sunday, July 27, 2008 at 6:41pm
Obama and McCain, what a wonderful matchup for this November, right? Wrong. On the contrary, it features one man of honor and intellect, someone who doesn't care WHAT people think of him (that would be McCain) against a man with nothing more than a dumbass with a pair of lips so large he could float half of Cuba to the shores of Miami (and probably would.)

4:25pm on August 1st, 2008
I'm sure his penis is bigger than mine too? Want to discredit the biological fact that blacks have larger lips than a white boy like me, might as well discredit all of them! :) See, now watch. You will say I am discussing such obscene things (blah blah blah)...it's all in humor

August 1st, 2008
Biologially speaking, the larger set of lips can be traced to a few different areas. First of all, it is to be noted that not ALL blacks have larger lips than whites (just like there are some white who actually have quite large lips.)

So here goes: one is that poorer Africans generally have been found to breastfeed. The placement of the lips on the mother's breast creates a larger lip that separates from the gum more clearly than a white's.

Another thought is that, since thick lips are a dominant phenotype to thin lips and that this genetic trait is found more often in blacks/African Americans.

A third still, is that lips are a type of air conditioning for the body. As warm air passes over the moist lips, the air is cooled before going into the lungs. This helps keep the body cool in general. People with ancestors who had come from warmer climates (such as Africa, Cuba, Central America, and the like) generally have larger lips.

I don't remember the source of number 2. I had learned that in a high school biology class. Number 3 I had read in a Western Kentucky Univ. biology lab.

11:42pm on August 1st, 2008
And man, if sayin someone has large lips is a racial slur, then we're ALL in trouble.

Friday, August 1, 2008 at 3:54pm
I made the comment in a prior note "Juuust the Two of Us..." that Obama had "lips so large he could float half of Cuba to the shores of Miami..."

I have had two people now get cranky at me for it, and while I will not flat out retract the story, let me explain this comment. First, a little history on lips and poking fun at people.

While supposedly seen as an insult, it is biologically, physically obvious that blacks/African Americans have lips, of which are larger than a white cracka's like mine.

How this is taken to be offensive, I would not know. Everyone makes fun of McCain for his age and point that he's as shiny as a queball. That would seem like age discrimination to me. Or what about George Bush's ears being so large he looks like Dumbo (and many times takes on the persona of the name itself.)

That is like saying "that man must be Jewish because of his schnoz." I have friends who are Jewish and poke fun all the time. Who cares? So ya have a big nose, it's who you are. And I wore blocks in my shoes when I was little because I had club feet.

Much like I poked fun at a fellow employee for HIS lips (because he was black.) The gal and guy (respectively) couldn't have cared less. Perhaps it's because we are friends and have a mutual understanding we're just bustin' eachother's chops.

6:23pm Monday, Jan 21
There's a lot that many don't see for MLK Jr's hypocrisy. This is why I listed him as a pariah, a fraud, on my facebook status. He supported affirmative action (which does NOT provide equality), he was an adulterous man (as opposed to his Rev. status!)...and the like...see the next few notes (including this one) for more ideas. He stood for a lot, but he also stood for very little.....

6:31pm Monday, Jan 21
MLK had some interesting ideas, but he promoted themin all the wrong ways, for all the wrong reasons, and while being perhaps one of the largest pariahs in American history.

And all of America has fallen for it. Just like those who believe Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson will finally bring together the racial divide in the country. Last time I checked, the reason the racial divide exists is BECAUSE of these two men, the ACLU, and their followers. Just about all of America is not racist. And in human nature, we are all apt to be wary of things (and people) that are different. But to call it, at this point in time, racist, would be a gross misnomer. So if Al and Jesse, the ACLU, and their followers want to change HUMAN NATURE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL INCLINATION, they better look a lot farther ahead than raising millions of dollars for their own sick pleasure

LaDuca threatened to sue the author of the above post. They had a few e-mail exchanges, which he posts along with more Facebook entries by LaDuca, all which can be seen here. And here. And here. And here.

One excerpt from LaDuca:

I'm not a rich faggot like you, you seem to have the authority to try and belittle me.

Per the author, "LaDuca also has said he was contaced by John McCain's presidential campaign to be their point person at Kutztown University".

Perfect.

I asked Mr. LaDuca about this last evening and he denies any contact between himself and the McCain campaign. So was he lying when he posted the above at Facebook or was he lying to me last evening? Recall he also lied about all this racist crap at the beginning of the week. I contacted the McCain Pennsylvania campaign asking if they are using LaDuca but they have yet to respond.

Enough. You can see the rest for yourselves, if you have the stomach for it.

College Republicans director resigns over racial post about Obama

By GottaLaff

Will McCain/Palin denounce and renounce this?

A Kutztown University student who once begged fellow students to forgive the campus president of the College Republicans for making racially insensitive remarks has resigned as the head of the statewide GOP group after posting comments on Facebook about Barack Obama's lips.

Adam LaDuca, 21, of Allentown said he was only trying to spark debate among friends when he wrote on his Facebook page that the Democratic presidential candidate has ''a pair of lips so large he could float half of Cuba to the shores of Miami.''

He also called the late Martin Luther King Jr. a hypocrite.

Now there's an educated university student if I ever saw one.

LaDuca, who is white, resigned last week as executive director of the Pennsylvania Federation of College Republicans after excerpts of his Facebook page were reposted on the PA Progressive blog, written by John Morgan, a Democratic committeeman in Berks County.

So he resigned because he was caught. We see.

''We do not accept racism,'' said [the college group's state chairman, Anthony Pugliese], a senior at West Chester University. ''The Republican party at times gets a bad rap for condoning racism, and that's 100 percent false.''

Let's give ol' LaDuca the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he was drunk. Maybe he didn't mean it. I'm sure he feels some sense of remorse:

After posting the comment about Obama's lips on his Facebook page July 27, LaDuca followed up on the page with the remark ''if sayin' someone has large lips is a racial slur, then we're ALL in trouble.''

Or not. Whaddya want to bet he says some of his best friends are black:

LaDuca admits the comments Morgan reposted were his, but denies that he is racist. He says economist Thomas Sowell, who is black, is one of his heroes.

''I have eight of his books and I think he's brilliant and he's a black man,'' LaDuca said. ''If I were racist, would I be reading this stuff? If I were racist, I wouldn't idolize Colin Powell and Condeleeza Rice.''

Gosh! We must have misjudged this young man!

Earlier this year, LaDuca also posted an article about King on his Facebook page that said black people historically have lower IQ test scores than white people.

Oh, LaDuca-a-a-a.... I'm still waiting for that remorse:

LaDuca said he doesn't understand the backlash, and doesn't regret another post about King being a ''hypocrite,'' nor his comments about Obama's lips.

''I don't use racial slurs unless I'm on a rant,'' LaDuca said. ''[Obama] has puckered lips. I made fun of [Republican John] McCain's hair and no one excused me of ageism.''

I don't call racists like LaDuca pinheaded, hateful, braindead little dicks unless I'm on a rant. I have no remorse about having just ranted.

Responding to the resulting backlash:

''The [McCain] campaign doesn't need that kind of attention,'' [LaDuca] said.

Too late.