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ProSense

(116,464 posts)
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 04:00 PM Sep 2012

Romney wants as partner Congressman who compared immigrants to dogs

GOP Congressman Tells Voters That Comparing Immigrants To Dogs Was Really A ‘Compliment’

By Adam Peck

Congressman Steve King (R-IA) participated in a radio debate with Democratic challenger Christie Vilsack last night, and was given a chance to explain a comment he made in May comparing immigrants to dogs.

But instead of apologizing, or even explaining how he simply misspoke, King told the audience that the comment was really meant as a compliment, and that anyone who interpreted it as an insult — namely, everyone — was simply motivated by partisanship and incapable of cooperation:

VILSACK: Frankly, he’s been a bully, and he’s an embarrassment to the people of Iowa when he talks about immigrants as animals. If my mother were here she would say to Congressman King ‘show some decency.’

KING: …This American vigor that we have that comes from legal immigrants who came to this country with a dream — we get the cream of the crop of every donor civilization on the planet — and people that can take a compliment and turn it into an insult are not going to be constructive working across the isle. But that’s what that was, was a compliment. And everyone who was there that heard that knows that.

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http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/09/07/812831/gop-congressman-tells-voters-that-comparing-immigrants-to-dogs-was-really-a-compliment/


Romney: I want Rep. Steve King 'as my partner in Washington'

by Hunter

Mitt Romney, speaking on the campus of Northwestern College in Iowa:

"And I'm looking here at Steve King, this man needs to be your Congressman again. I want him as my partner in Washington, D.C."

You want Congressman Steve King as your partner? We're talking about Iowa Congressman Steve King? The guy who is against laws against dogfighting, boasts that his laws allow more animal cruelty, blasts "multiculturalism" as "victims groups," gives long sermons on how the demon government is oppressing his God-given right to slightly less efficient lightbulbs, says that some Americans just don't need health care, flirts with birtherism, hangs out with racists, pines for the time when only male property owners could vote, says that high American unemployment is caused by a "nation of slackers," and just recently was opining to a reporter that he just plain never "heard of" anyone getting pregnant from incest or statutory rape? Steve King the sociopath?

That Steve King?

Well, I guess King wasn't just blowing smoke when he said that the Romney/Ryan campaign comes to him for advice on what Iowans are like. Have fun with your "partner," Mitt. My advice is that you embrace him just as much and as often as you can, because there's no way that could ever go wrong.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/07/1129050/-Romney-I-want-Rep-Steve-King-as-my-partner-in-Washington


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Romney wants as partner Congressman who compared immigrants to dogs (Original Post) ProSense Sep 2012 OP
I was thinking "Steve King" as soon as I read you OP title. Guess Anders Breivik isn't available. pampango Sep 2012 #1
We should embrace Willard's choice of Steve King as his partner Angry Dragon Sep 2012 #2
If being compared to a dog is a wonderful thing, King should let Romney strap him to the roof of his aint_no_life_nowhere Sep 2012 #3
that is a good one Angry Dragon Sep 2012 #6
Is it so... Xyzse Sep 2012 #4
And he wants to see dogs kill each other get the red out Sep 2012 #5
Unles your ancestor was a Native American, HockeyMom Sep 2012 #7
I'd like to see Steve King (R-Psycho) neutered meow2u3 Sep 2012 #8
"Psycho" is a good word for him. n/t ProSense Sep 2012 #10
nice post! bigtree Sep 2012 #9

pampango

(24,692 posts)
1. I was thinking "Steve King" as soon as I read you OP title. Guess Anders Breivik isn't available.
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 04:07 PM
Sep 2012

I know Breivik is Norwegian and in jail, but romney shouldn't hold that against him.

Guess romney hasn't given up appeasing the teabaggers after all.

Angry Dragon

(36,693 posts)
2. We should embrace Willard's choice of Steve King as his partner
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 04:08 PM
Sep 2012

now all that Willard needs to do is embrace others choice of partners ......... that is only fair

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