Idaho Republican candidate jokes about buying 'Obama tags' to go along with wolf hunt
By David Neiwert Thursday Aug 27, 2009 5:00pmMuch of my family still lives in Idaho, and my dad is fond of hanging at the gun range. He says he hears guys talking casually about how easy it would be to shoot President Obama with a long-range rifle. And how they'd really like to do it. Jokes like that are becoming common there, too.
So it really didn't surprise me when one of the wingnuttiest wingnuts in Idaho (this is really saying something) joked about how he'd happily buy a hunting tag for shooting President Obama:
Rex Rammell, a long-shot gubernatorial candidate seeking the Republican nomination, criticized Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter on Wednesday for not making good on a promise to buy the first wolf tag. Tags for hunting the gray wolf went on sale Monday.
Rammell's remarks on Otter came in an interview Wednesday after the Times-News asked about comments Rammell made Tuesday night at a local Republican party event.
After an audience member shouted a question about "Obama tags" during a discussion on wolves, Rammell responded, "The Obama tags? We'd buy some of those."
Rammell, a veterinarian and former elk rancher from Idaho Falls, said his comment was a joke and he would never seriously talk about President Obama that way, although he doesn't support anything Obama's done as president."I was just being sarcastic. That was just a joke," Rammell said. "I would never support him being assassinated.
"She kind of caught me off guard, to be honest with you."
Sure, just a joke. Except that to find it funny, you'd actually have to harbor that wish.
Rammell, as we said, is something of a wingnut's wingnut. He got into politics when the state shut down his elk-ranching operation for his disastrous mismanagement of the facility. So he ran as an Independent in last year's Senate campaign in Idaho, won by James Risch (Rammell finished a distant third, with 5.4% of the vote).
Just a few months ago, Rammell announced he was running for a House seat as a Republican. Then he shifted gears and is now running for Idaho governor as a Republican.
He's also written a wingnut tome that, as Randy Stapilus explored recently, is a real piece of work. Just like its author.
[H/t Julie F.]
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to support Obama being assassinated.
Way to stay classy, long-shot gubernatorial dipshyt.
The Republican party in my view appears the political wing of the KKK and the Militia movement.
Just like Sinn Fein appeared the political wing of the Irish Republican army so appears the Republican party.
The 'gang of six' has less than 1% of the USA population! Repub stupidity...and inciting crazies should be actionable ...Enough already---they are showing the kind of insenitivity that gets people killed!
Shameless...
Bush's CIA , FRI or Secret service personal put these people in jail , just for thinking this..
Now we have people OPENLY and Laughing about assassination of the President...
I see neither the humor or reason for these types of statements.
But , I guess this is the difference between Progressive democrats and the right wing republicans..
We believe in our constitution , democracy , bill of rights and they believe in none of these..
conspiracy to me. He'd better hope no one takes him up on his carefully worded challenge, as should all these outspoken, soulless psychopaths. I have a really hard time believing these are the same people who blindly followed the Bush administration over a cliff. NOW they get angry?
Isn't it amazing?
As long as some stupid fucking evil asshole white guy is srewing the shit out of them - everything is just okey dokey.
But if someone tries to actually make their life better but has a different skin color, well...........,
These stupid bastards make me sick! I hope I live long enough to see them become a demographic minority in this country.
Man that will be fun to watch!
Sounds like you need health care.
I have oustanding health care fortunately, otherwise I would have checked out years ago.
But I really do hope I am around to see gay marriage legalized, while evangelical baptist marriage is outlawed. That, plus the demographic changes that will be so much fun to watch.
According to the latest estimates, white Americans will no longer be a majority by 2050. I hope I am still alive then to see it. Since I turn 33 on Sept. 12, that would make me 73-74 in 2050!
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just patiently waiting for some of the "what goes around, comes around" karma to kick the efftards in the a$$!
Bush's CIA , FRI or Secret service personal put these people in jail , just for thinking this..
Now we have people OPENLY and Laughing about assassination of the President...
I see neither the humor or reason for these types of statements.
But , I guess this is the difference between Progressive democrats and the right wing republicans..
We believe in our constitution , democracy , bill of rights and they believe in none of these..
I believe they are that already ,,,,, But They are just louder and have more right wing radio talk shows and corporate news coverage... The problem democrats are having is that the republicans have been resorting to method to delete voters and run their republicans on the democrat ticket as they have with the blue dogs..
Obama is showing us that there is no laws against crimes and corruption for the republicans.
Obama is protecting Bush administration's crimes and corruption by censorship and illegal telling the attorney general NOT to prosecute any one of them...
Unfortunately, they have Murdoch's multi-billion dollar media conglomerate giving them a loud voice.
Murdoch tags? We'd buy some of those.
If Glenn Beck has deflected all the nuts he's riled up on Obama so far, the rest of the birthers are safe.
What's wrong with grey wolves anywho?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q4Wn63uof8
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of a hunter. Fishing is okay but even there I'm more of a catch and release kind of guy. This seems to be a reasonable answer to winguts of this nature. Catch and release in a couple of years.
White supremacists, racists, bigots, gun nuts, homophobes, religious zealots and domestic terrorists.
bingo
The party of Lincoln has turned into the party of George Lincoln Rockwell.
And I guess that makes the Dems the Republican Party of Gerald Ford !!!!!!!!!!!
low blow huh?
the party of losers...
Don't even try to mask their true feelings. Just like the bitch earlier with her Great White Hope comment, they just open up their mouths and let the shit fly everywhere.
During last year's campaign, every word that Obama (and his wife)spoke was scrutinized for weeks and treated like some veiled attack against America. But now, hey, if you're part of the wingnut community, anything goes.
At what point does the Secret Service step in? After the fact, these guys always say it was a joke - I thought it was a crime to threaten the life of the president.
Obama needs to hire NOI guys to be his security detail - the SS has been lagging waayyy too much for my liking.
The SS actually indicated their lagging when they allowed that Iraqi journalist to hurl his Cole-Haan loafer at Gee Shrubya last year.
The SS still has yet to live down how Jack Kennedy got taken out on their watch in 1963...if anything happens to Obama because they weren't getting the job done...GOD HELP THIS COUNTRY.
Even Senator Country Last put a disabled woman out of his Town Hall meeting today because she got in his grill about not supporting the public option:
http://www.ktvl.com/articles/mccain-1191751-t...
I want Jesus to come down and Rapture these wingnut asses already.
Maybe Jesus will come down and rupture them. The wing nuts, I mean.
Jesus and Mossad working together? Could happen.
Check out the clip on YouTube of the SS men getting pulled off Kennedy's car moments before he's shot. The SS guys are visibly dismayed that their boss has pulled them off the car's bumpers. Tweren't an accident.
Jesus, your kids are driving us nuts! Come get these little bastards now!
they should shine the laser spot once in a while, just for chops.
but i gay-ron-fuukin-TEE you chers, if there's some cracker packing in the audience, the Secret Service knows where they are...
of, and with a decent shot at the hubristic son-of-a-bitch who takes it upon him (or her) self to exterminate the last of a 'competetive' species: lupine, feline or ursine (wolf, tiger, bear). No one gets away from that kind of karma scott-free...
dice here, where to begin...
A vet that shoots and kills animals.
People that think it's funny to joke about assassinating the President.
I guess if I said that it would be funny if someone "neutered" Rammell that would be fine because it's just a joke. This is the same way they've rationalized Rush for years, it's just humor, he's just an entertainer.
He becomes a vet and kills animals for sport? He had his elk farm shut down for his "disastrous mismanagement?" Don't serial killers usually have histories of killing defenseless animals before they graduate to killing people? This guy doesn't seem to have any boundaries, except an instinct not to go too far in front of other people. If he says things like this in public, what does he do in private? I wonder how many unsolved murders there are in his area?
killin for food ain't.
I've killed a deer or two in my time...and I don't have any trophies hangin on my walls.
Un-fucking-believable. So this is what we are reduced to.
I can't imagine how fucking crazy right-wing Republicans would have been if a Democratic lawmaker had said something similar about King George the Lesser. Such hypocrisy on the Right!
to bushevik appearances in 2004.
what happens to a black man--even the president--if he's threatened by a some cracker asshole with a big family and a militant church...
Give him a call
http://rexrammell.com/
Rex Rammell
rammellrex@msn.com
Rex Rammell for Governor
367 Talon Dr
Rexburg, ID 83440
http://rexrammell.com/jointhecause.aspx
Idaho GOP
802 West Bannock, Lower Plaza 103
Boise, ID 83702
Phone: 208-343-6405
Fax: 208-343-6414
info@idgop.org
Let them know how you feel about Rex.
how about the one where i run over rex with a bus....now that is funny
nah...they aint all racist bastards
name. He tells people, "My father always wanted an Irish Setter."
busted me up with that one, I'll be laughing for days.
about the GOP looking for their great white hope. Is there anyone stupid enough to actually believe these people are not one gene away from neanderthals? They fucking make me sick.
;)
to neanderthals...they were a much more peaceful species, than are the repugs...
......I just saw some pictures on the Internet of your wife having unprotected sex with a gray wolf.
Actually, I was just being sarcastic. That was just a joke. I would never support your wife having unprotected sex with a gray wolf.
"Sure, just a joke. Except that to find it funny, you'd actually have to harbor that wish."
Or be living in a time confident in the knowledge that no one would ever really open fire on a group of Liberal church goers for example.However sadly,that isn't the case.
EVERYONE loves a good assassination joke! LOL murder!
He needs to be arrested for this. Where's the FBI? Where's the media?
To be sarcastic you must possess a sense of irony.
Does this guy happen to have a wide stance and enjoy visits to public toilets in airports? 'Cause the voters of Idaho have standards.
The truest things are said in jest.
He may be clearly joking, that doesn't mean he's not sanctioning that line of thinking.
heir rammell. Now here's a Rush-Bot Regipizan Zombie for you. Easy to spot. Hard to stop. If you see one call a cop.
SEDITION.
REX - "In my opinion, there is no greater hypocrite within Idaho's elected Republican leadership than my presumed opponent, Mike Simpson," said Rammell. "Rep. Simpson's yes vote to spend 700 billion dollars to bailout greedy banks and their CEOs is inexcusable. His unabashed support of the unconstitutional process of earmarking is evidence that he does not represent Idaho Republican values. It is time for Idaho to elect a real Republican to the United States House of Representatives."
VS
Mr. Constitution... Calling all porkers, your trough is ready.
Snip - And once again, conservative Ron Paul, is passing out the pork like a dyed-in-the-wool politician. Here are just a few of the projects Paul has requested using tax payer funds to finance. As far as I know none of them are within the Constitutional scope of government.[ http://freestudents.blogspot.com/2009/08/call... ]
Have you ever seem do or say anything which was constructive for this country!
Bush said ,,,,, The terrorist are finding new and better ways to destroy us... "And So Are We."..
Looks as if Bush was right ,,, he could do more destruction to our country then the terrorist could ever dream of...
I guess it would be a good idea to call this "human" out on this garbage..but he's just playing to his "voter base". I have a feeling his voter base consists mostly of people whose family trees are stumps.
GEEZ, lighten up! IT'S JUST A JOKE......
Sort of like the three or four meth-heads with high-powered rifles that were picked up in Denver just prior to the Democratic Convention? And were called out as just some crazy young kids by the local (like-minded) police?
Or the incitement to murder (really, just kidding?) John Beck made on repeated occasions on his Rupert Murdock-sponsored TV program?
Or Bill O'Reilly repeatedly castigating Obama as a Muslim, a foreign usurper to the Presidency, a Nazi -- accusations designed to bolster (sedition?) the worst possible instincts of knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing, Neanderthal throw-backs who are either programmed Corporate shills OR the truly racist base of the RethugliKKKlan Party. I'm just so certain that BOR is merely "playing to his base", and would be shocked, shocked I tell you, that some deranged members of his loyal audience might engage in murder. AS IF!
Is it at all possible that you cannot / will not comprehend the connection between psychological warfare, repeated dehumanizing rhetoric, and the programming of a new generation of MKULTRA-type weak-minded assassins-to-be? All done in public, but at a level that doesn't rise to the legal definition of incitement? Like Darth Cheney -- always looking for a comfortable level of "plausible deniability".
It's pretty obvious that the Reich-Wingers / Corporatist Whores will stop at nothing to prevent any liberal progressive agenda, including healthcare, that might threaten the current status quo regarding the obscene profits extracted from the taxpayers and Treasury for the Corporatist Oligarchy -- up to and including incitement to assassinate the President ...
Unfortunately, Obama is not a Socialist, nor a Leftist -- he is a Neo-Liberal who embraces the Corporate State, and therefor not so much an enemy of the current status quo, but might be "an uppity black man."
About the Lee Enfield's Mk.II .303 round's ability to blow through and elephant's skull, and talk about taking down some elephants (who's mascot is an elephant?). But I don't think they're smart enough to get the joke.
Easy to shoot the President with a high powered rifle? I bet there's a couple Secret Service agents who'd like to prove him wrong. And I'd sure like to see them prove him wrong, especially if it involves putting the boots to him.
If anything happens to our President, these nasty people had better watch out. I believe the black community will riot. We are sick and tired of our leaders being killed. If they protected that last idiot that we had for President, then they had damn well better make sure that nothing happens to Mr. Obama. This country will be turned upside down if this happens.
Threats on PREZ…doesn’t surprise me.....
Idaho-is run by POTATO HEADS….
All the rednecks have come out of the woodwork to kill a wolf for fun.
It disgusts me.
This proves how pathetically ignorant the state is.
I'm for population control, but not eradication.
Stop em......
http://animalrights.change.org/actions/view/u...
The Idaho Fish and Game Commission has set a quota of 220 wolves for the inaugural wolf hunting season, scheduled to begin next month.
Tags will go on sale Monday at 10 a.m. at Idaho Fish and Game offices, online and at private outdoor retailers. The cost is $11.75 for state residents and $186 for non-residents. All hunters must also possess an Idaho hunting license, which costs $12.75 for residents, $154.75 for non-residents.
The commission rejected a more aggressive option, which called for a quota of 430 wolves -- 49% of the state's wolf population.
Idaho joins Montana as one of the first Lower 48 states to legally participate in gray wolf hunts. Last month, the neighboring state set a quota of 75 wolves, with hunting season also scheduled to begin in September.
The plan continues to draw protests, though. Several lawsuits by environmental groups regarding the predators' removal from protection under the Endangered Species Act are pending, and could block the upcoming hunt.
"The heavy-handed wolf hunt now scheduled by Idaho, together with the hunt planned by Montana, demonstrates precisely the kind of irresponsible state management that should have precluded taking the wolf off the endangered species list at this point in time,” Defenders of Wildlife president Rodger Schlickeisen said in a statement.
In an article in the Spokane (Wash.) Spokesman-Review, Northern Idaho Wolf Alliance spokesman Stephen Augustine said, "We fear that under the guise of wolf management, what's about to happen is a wolf massacre."
"It is really astonishing that you could have an animal on the endangered species list at one point, and a bare five months later they're being hunted," said Augustine. "To my knowledge there isn't another animal that has had this happen to them."
-- Kelly Burgess
I'm a white dude, and though I can't speak for all the whiteys, I know that I will be out in the streets too.
If anything does, (god forbid) happen to Obama, I think all these teabaggers will be lookin for cover.
Because I got a feelin that plenty of white folks, hispanics, everyone, that isn't a racist POS will be lookin for vengeance.
It's gonna be alot of extremely angry people of different races, religions ,backgrounds, etc. against a small minority of racist whites.
As a white man, I am sick and tired of these neanderthals holding this country back. For you, for me, for everyone. Even themselves.
This country MUST progress, not regress.
I'm Asian-American, rest assured, if Obama get's whacked these moron tea baggers had best steer clear of me for their own safety.
I'm just as sick and tired as everyone else of these morons doing everything in their power to hold the country back while the world leaves us behind.
What gets me about these mouth breathers...is that they're really quite proud of their backward and hateful nature.
Black folks do not say whitey anymore...LOL and thank you for agreeing with me. I do not understand why these people dont get it. We cannot be separated by black and white anymore. We have to solve our problems TOGETHER.
Fear the most. Blacks and whites uniting for the common good.
They have for years successfully kept us suspicious and fearful of one another,(though I admit, alot of white folks got plenty of hate without outside influences) but that's coming to an end...could happen a bit faster IMHO, but it's happening nonetheless...
Once we overcome these hurdles, we'll ALL be better off, and we'll be unstoppable.
It's always a joke until someone gets killed. Then it's, "But I didn't expect someone to take moi seriously...!", pointing at their chests in mock innocence.
In the body politic, these people are the shit stains.
Living in his own private Idaho.
There once was a time when the Secret Service took these sorts of threats very seriously, with NO sense of humor about them. They don't seem to be too alarmed about comments like these now. Neither does the press. And neither do the American people for that matter. We pretty much take it on the chin. Question: What will be the public reaction if someone actually does attempt to take Pres. Obama's life? What if they succeed? I think all hell will break loose.
If a Democratic politician had made the same joke about Bush tags the Secret Service would've paid him a visit by now.
Did his mom name him Rex Rammel because Lex Luthor was taken? Sounds like another proud right wing terrorist. All of these "jokes" are getting out of hand. I guarantee you that if a Democratic office hopeful had said the same thing about Chimpy, the right wing echo chamber would be on his/her case non-stop about how unpatriotic this person was and how dangerous "loony liberals" are to the country.
In addition to that, the candidate would;
1. have his phone and email tapped
2. be placed on the no fly list
3. have his campaign audited
4. WOULD HAVE APOLOGIZED WITHIN 24 HOURS
We should know what we're dealing with. He may very well win the governorship there. Long before Obama was even a candidate for the presidency, I read a report from the Southern Poverty Law Center about the state with the highest activity in white supremacist organizations. Imagine my surprise that it wasn't South Carolina or Mississippi but Idaho. Rex and all of his ilk can go fuck themselves.
I currently live in North Idaho and constantly hear subtle messages like the ones Rammell made. The other day I was at a small town library and overheard some 10 or 11 year old boys discussing soda bottle shapes for marketing. They decided one shaped like Obama's head would be cool because they could stomp on it and shoot it. Refreshing kids are listening to their parents, eh?
Today on a local radio show in Boise, Sexy Rexy, (well to other nutbags) added to his racist credentials by saying in response to a question about how calls and emails about his Obama wolf tag comments were running said "Well 99% of them don't even call me white."
Rammell a Mormon is from predominately Rexburg Idaho which was momentarily in the national spotlight last November for the school kids chanting "assassinate Obama" as they merrily rolled home. Racism runs long and deep in some religions.
Very disgusting!
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