Anti-Gay Anti-Muslim Campaign Mailers in Virginia
PageOneQ h/t Group News Blog:
Jill Holzman Vogel is a nationally recognized lawyer in Republican political circles. She has held senior posts in the Republican Party and in the Bush administration, including Chief Counsel to the Republican National Committee and Deputy Counsel at the Department of Energy. Call it a payoff for her work during November and December of 2000, when Jill served as counsel in the Florida Presidential Recount, acting on behalf of the Bush-Cheney campaign in West Palm Beach and in Osceola County.
She's running for Virginia State Senate, and during this last weekend of the primary campaign she has unleashed an anti-gay, anti-Muslim campaign flyer, with little to no time left for a rebuttal from her opponent.
The flyer is here, and it quotes advertising used by the image consultant hired by Vogel's opponent.
There is no earthly reason to do this except to point out that this consultant is proud of its record getting a Muslim candidate elected, as well as a lesbian candidate. Playing the anti-gay, anti-Muslim cards is the reason for this flyer, period.
Ironically (?) Vogel's husband is a lobbyist for Viacom. Viacom, which airs Queer as Folk, The L Word, TransGeneration, and the cartoon Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple In All The World, some of the most gay-friendly programming on TV today.
Really, this is such a stinking hypocritical and typically Republican cesspool you really have to read it for yourself.
this sucks republican politics as usual. Oh, and.........first!
Profit always excuses hypocrisy, didn't you know that?
kinda makes you long for the day when supremacist assholes wore armbands or white hoods, doesn't it?
No surprise, the whole of the GOP is a Cesspool. Every month another Gay-bashing Neocon falls or is pushed out of the closet. Poor Self-Loathing twits.
Florida may elect this hypocrite, it wont be the first.
Feh. Shameless.
I don't know how these people live with themselves. The ultimate in The Ends Justify The Means, I suppose.
What Zenrage said. I find this more reprehensible than the Phelps Family Trainwreck tm. At least they let their forked devil's tail fly high for all to see exactly what they are.
The hypocrisy of the the rethuglicans.... I wonder when its revealed that Gannon was sleeping under Darth Cheney's bed, or he likes to use his man sized safe for his "wide-stance" routine.
Don't they realize yet that when they bash gays, they're bashing their own?
I can't read it... my eyeballs will feel like acid has been poured into them if I read one more hypocritical screed from yet another republican)t)... These lying disgusting avaricious people will go down one day and it can't be soon enough for me...
Awww...c'mon...put up a post about Katherine Harris...her rack is waaaay better than this chick's.
Shocking! A Member of the GOP Screaming "LIBERAL!" *AND* acting anti-gay and Anti-Muslim!!
Unheard of...
yeah, this is pathetic.
of course i am still reeling from the DiFi/schumer decision to OK torture. and the dems promise to change the tone in DC post-06 election. hyopcritical opportunists, the lot of them (with a few notable exceptions; i.e., dennis kucinich).
Zenrage @ 3:
Yeah would it easier to get them in the crosshairs.
Ummm...
I MEANT to say...it would MAKE it easier...
The website for the Virginia Republican Party is vagop.com.
Sounds like slang for a gender re-assignment surgical procedure.
What amazes me
not ONE HONEST (oxymoron I know) will think that this mailing is bad.....Those republicans that have I have run across seem to think that gays and Muslims are 2 groups that should be done away with
quite sad
Quite Rovian, isn't it?
I say--thank God she's helping to bring an end to the most monstrous presidential conspiracy of all time!
I love Virginia. Everyone is in lock step with the 'war on terror' but the jury is still out as to who won the 'Civil War".
What a sweetheart. Ship all these a-holes to Gitmo already!
I think this says it all quite nicely!
http://www.cafepress.com/buy/gay%20virginia/-/pv_design_prod/p_storeid.8...
So,
Did she attend that paragon of legal preparation, Liberty University?
Heh heh heh!
S
she is also running on the anti immigration platform too, she is out there in the shenandoah vally, warrenton area. her firm advises non profits and the like, she worked on the Dole campaign, and lived in San diego, went to william and mary and got the law degree from Depaul..
let's hear it for another victory for hypocrisy, ignorance and the right wing house of cards.
What's with these reichwing fembots and their little pink tops?
Has anyone yet said: Putrid In Pink?
The repugnacan party is the party of racists and bigots, it's not a secret they have been very vocal about it in the last several years. There is no disgusting behaviour they can not excuse.
ysbaddaden @ 24:
Sweater sets, pearls and a little racism with your tea?
Seriously, though, were these quotes actually part of someone's business plan for their image makeover company? Seems like they need and image consultant for the image consultants.
I tried to go to the link posted on the flyer and the page doesn't exist. Where did these quotes come from?
Site Monitor: You can see the flyer at both PageOneQ and Group News Blog. Check those links.
ysbaddaden @ 24:
Remind me of Jackie Kennedy wannabees without the class or intelligence.
As a grammarian I must object to the use of the tag "Republican hypocrisy" for this post
I loathe redundancy (and I don't like repitition either!)
Consider this: if the voters in her district agree with the sentiments expressed in her flyer doesn't it speak volumes about where many in this country remain - i.e., intolerant, bigoted, xenophobes? We know for a fact that at least 30% of the electorate is so-inclined, and based on my informal polling of self-described Democratic "moderates" at cocktail parties, probably another 20-30% of people who should know better have succumbed to similarly benighted thinking.
So, my rule of thumb is this: GOP candidates go down this path for one good reason - it resonates with enough voters to make it worth the risks. History to date has proven them right. As soon as Americans rally behind the war against Iran, while Democrats in Congress cower under their desks, you'll see the GOP back in action.
29 bmw 528 Says:
I agree, but I always thought Jackie had a funny sounding voice.
But then I'm Texan.
I always thought Laura Petrie was patterned after her.
And Marge Simpson's mom Jackie Bouvier.
Too bad she's never run for office with her humongous pink top.
http://www.simplydumb.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/pamela-anderson-goo...
Here's our candidate's ActBlue page. Don't get mad, get even! We still have time to send a message and help retire debt, I figure.
Does she happen to mention Dubya's homosexual prostitute Jeff Gannon's visits to the White House?
Just another hateful, homophobic, Reslug. lying Whore.
Hmmm, that was careless. Try this or this:
http://www.actblue.com/entity/fundraisers/17865
Are reichwing women in the throes of passion like Grandpa Simpson's English girlfried, "Oh...nice"?
You know, this is where everybody plays gotcha. Vogel is being unfairly targeted here because she's a woman. Its just another case of the Politics of Pile-on.
I sure hope her degree from William and Mary has prepared her well to compete in the all boys club of State Senate politics.
ysbaddaden @ 38:
I find people with real rigid facades like that are always the freaky ones.
I'm just so disgusted with these people that I just want to scream. They have no humanity in them. Why do they have to tear other people down? They are nothing but the bullies on the playground.
The chickenhawk man-cowards of the republican party are sickening to the stomach.
However, these republican bitches (and that's what they are) who, in their own way, demonize minority groups for political gain are intolerable.
If the people of Virginia have an ounce of integrity, they'll challenge her and be IN HER FACE over this. And while they're at at, ask her about the 196 visits to the White House by a male WHORE, and the rampant sexual perversions of the men in her party who wear women's clothing, dress in diapers, chase after boys, etc.
Damn! I hate these people.
dennis
You're being sarcastic, right?
“I shall give this to the Bishop tomorrow. Where are your guts — no name — well you poor sad creatures — don’t you know anything about your religion? Dah — sex outside marriage is a sin!! Try reading the catechism and actually learning about homosexuals — learned behavior — I am fed up with twerps who don’t have the brains to come in out of the rain. Try studying before you shoot your little ignorant mouths off. This will be given to the media and the supt. and the principal and maybe they can actually teach you something. Your (sic) are really sad people and I would be so ashamed as a parent if I had not done a better job rearing children to know that anal sex, disease, multiple partners, rimming, fisting, etc., were wrong!”
Thank you Worcester MA for putting up with her when she was here and for sending her on her way to the macaca state (h/t former Senator Wasizface (R-VA).
No doubt about it, it's time to get a news babysitter.
Man, this smacks of a lawsuit.
How many gay Muslims were going to vote for her anyway?
39 dennis Says: You know, this is where everybody plays gotcha. Vogel is being unfairly targeted here because she’s a woman. Its just another case of the Politics of Pile-on.
I always prefered the intramural boudoir sport of pile-on.
maybe she can reach out to the folks on www.godtube.com
I'm sure she's anti-gay muslim as well.
Fanon @ 43:
I think there's just this vast left-wing conspiracy to try to take down VA state senators.
Actually Fanon, there was a Republican state senator here in my district of VA two years ago that mentioned his opponent's accepting donations from a wealthy gay benefactor, and it backfired on him big time. I really don't think this advertisement would help her; I would hope not. Maybe up in Warrenton, but I doubt it.
Been getting calls all weekend for Devolites Davis. Today it was from Brady campaign supporting her. I'm not calling them and JMDD campaign, since they've tied up my line, it's time I tied up theirs.
This gal's tactics don't surprise me one bit, especially since I saw this article in the WaPo a couple weeks back:
2 GOP Lawmakers Allege Democrats Have Ties to Terrorism
RICHMOND -- Two Republican state legislators are accusing Gov. Timothy M. Kaine and other Democrats of embracing radical Islamic organizations that support terrorism, an allegation that has outraged the governor and Muslim leaders, who say the GOP is resorting to fear-mongering to win votes.
As Republicans work to retain their majorities in the General Assembly, the two delegates from the Shenandoah Valley say they are conducting an investigation into Democrats' ties to the Muslim American Society and Dar Al Hijrah Islamic Center, both in Falls Church.
Dels. C. Todd Gilbert (Shenandoah) and C.L. "Clay" Athey Jr. (Warren) allege that the society and mosque have links to terrorism, even though federal officials have found no such connection.
The delegates have been trying to connect Kaine and other Democrats to prominent Muslim leaders affiliated with the organizations. On Friday, Gilbert and Athey released a photograph of Kaine speaking at a Muslim American Society dinner this spring.
"It is clear to me that the leadership of the Virginia Democratic Party has compromised the best interests of the citizens of Virginia by cozying up to organizations and individuals that have radical agendas," Gilbert said in a statement Friday. "I am appalled by the utter lack of judgment that Democrats at the highest levels have shown in joining forces with a radical element of the Muslim faith for the sole purpose of filling the ballot box."
Kaine and other Democrats accused the GOP of trying to smear all Muslims.
"Politics and campaigning have stooped to a new low when the governor of Virginia's effort to reach out to people of all faiths and races is characterized as an association with terrorists," said Delacey Skinner, the governor's communications director.
Several political observers predicted the GOP effort to link Democrats to terrorists will backfire and cost the party votes in the Nov. 6 election, when all 140 seats in the legislature are on the ballot.
"The idea is such a stretch, so beyond the realm of believability, this just strikes most people as either ridiculous or just political desperation," said Mark J. Rozell, a political science professor at George Mason University. "The people doing this risk alienating a growing segment of the population and don't really gain anything substantial in return."
Do you suppose that the VP Cheney's lesbian daughter Mary and her partner Heather reside in this candidate's district?
53 Val Says: Do you suppose that the VP Cheney’s lesbian daughter Mary and her partner Heather reside in this candidate’s district?
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Hell, chainey's lesbian daughter Mary probably resides in this candidate's whoosis.
Was the picture of the lipstick on the flier supposed to indicate her makeover? Or were they trying to insinuate that she is a lipstick lesbian?
Southern Strategy always in fashion in GOP circles
Ricky Bones @ 48:
Okay, now that's fucking scarey! It is Virgina folks!
Freudian slip, Virginia.
I love the fact that the Virginia republican party website is vagop.com.
Is it a black op?
No, it's a vag op.
Okay, come on folks. I am a transplanted Virginian living in South Carolina for 29 years. Virginia is the most enlightened southern state, electing Democratic governors (Warner and Kaine, and electing many Democrats into Congress, such as Senator Webb). They can see through this s***. Virginia usually leads the way for the other southern states. However, South Carolina, whose motto is "thank God for Mississippi", will be one of the last to realize they have been snookered by the Repub party because it is hard for them to admit they could ever be wrong (see the statistics for highschool dropouts).
ysbaddaden @ 32:
Yep, but I'll take a funny sounding voice over a bankrupt philosophy anytime.
why does Vogel hate Mary Cheney?
"Holtzman-Vogel"....need I say anything more. STINK!
I live in Virginia. Send help...and vodka.
Here's a comment for billO, "Thanks for helping ruin my country you c*nt".
Since when is having a liberal record a bad thing? I'd consider that a compliment. And about the the rest of the stuff... well it sells to the people willing to vote for someone like this so of course they'll use it. It's all about self interest, and the current political culture doesn't follow any other guidelines. Some of us have lost perspective of history and honor and therefore so have our representatives. Was there ever a time that we could look to our leaders and be proud? If so, unfortunately, I'm too young to have witnessed that.
People like this are just scum. Instead of outlining a plan for the future, they appeal to the basest of emotions and fears. There is nothing productive or honourable about it. Sadly it woks with some segments of the population.
From one of my favourtie journalists, William Pfaff: ...Take the current Republican party candidates for their party’s presidential nomination. The level of intelligence, emotional and intellectual maturity, and simple information about the subjects on which they discourse, would disqualify them from mainstream political rank in any other major democracy.
Ain't it the truth?
This is his website if you want to read the entire article: "The Impossibility of American Empire ". Another good article he has posted now, is: "Atheism, Religion and Nationalism"
http://www.williampfaff.com/modules/news/index.php?storytopic=1
What I find interesting is the assumed context for this advertising. The two quotes used are only impressive if it is assumed that there is anti-Muslim and anti-lesbian hatred in the voters' hearts that is so overwhelming that the uniquely skilled efforts of this PR company are needed to overcome them. The Republicans continually oppose hate crime legislation and tolerance education that would help curb this kind of hatred, saying that it doesn't exist, that it's not a problem. Yet when acknowledging that it is real helps their cause, they are perfectly willing to do so.
I wouldn't worry too much. This sort of tactic didn't work for Macaca Allen in Virginia and I doubt that it will work for this wingnutty douche!
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