Florida GOP group says it rescinded Roger Stone invitation after attack on Barbara Bush

[laserhaas]

Source: The HILL

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President Trump's longtime friend and former adviser Roger Stone was uninvited to an annual dinner by a Florida GOP group after attacking former first lady Barbara Bush.

The Okaloosa Republican Executive Committee told Northwest Florida Daily News on Thursday that the invitation was rescinded after Stone called Bush "a nasty drunk."

Stone reportedly also said she "drank so much booze, if they cremated her ... her body would burn for three days," according to media reports.

The GOP committee's chairman, Mark Franks, said the organization "ended our contract" with Stone, who was scheduled to be the keynote speaker for their Lincoln Reagan Day Dinner in May

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[catbyte]

1. They should be ashamed of themselves for inviting that vile creature in the first place.

One of my proudest Internet moments was when he blocked me on twitter, lol.

[laserhaas]

5. Congrats

Being blocked by a twirp is a badge of honor.

[Nitram]

2. I'm afraid this is the first time I've agreed with Stone.

Barbara Bush was a fake "nice person." In real life she was a mean racist.

[laserhaas]

6. IMO she was the wife and mother of mass murderers

Just sayin.....

[Nitram]

9. Yes she was. And she supported them all the way with eyes wide open.

[Scarsdale]

20. "nasty drunk"?

Nasty sober, too. Remember "Who CARES how many body bags will be needed today?" Not Babs, since she knew her vile clan were safe from harm. Donating to charities, but stipulating her donation had to be spent on son Neil's "educational software" I wonder if Jennifer Fitzgerald, GHW's long time companion attended or just celebrated elsewhere?

[slumcamper]

3. SNAKES--ALL.

With every passing hour and new incident it becomes clearer that those who continue to wear the "REPUBLICAN" label are snakes. As far as the fact they are people goes, they are challenged in every way, shape, and form when it comes to human decency.

At this point--this late stage in the game--those who still cling to that deplorable and increasingly DESPICABLE party despite all the awfulness that seeps from it are LOST.

There is no place in the Democratic Party for these sorts. WRITE THEM OFF. Don't spend any time trying to court them. It's time to overrun and vanquish them.

SNAKES. VERMIN. A blight on society. A POX on our nation's house!

[Mr.Bill]

4. Well, if she lived to be 92,

I'll have whatever she was having. Make it a double.

[Honeycombe8]

8. Yeah...I'll have what SHE'S having!

I never heard a rumor she's an alcoholic. If she liked to drink a bit and get drunk, that means she's human. We all have our vices. She smoked, too, I think.

[Nitram]

12. She was a mean drunk, not jolly one. 'Nuf said.

[Honeycombe8]

13. The time of death is not the time to criticize someone. It's disrespectful and hurtful.

It reflects on the one speaking more than the decedent.

[Nitram]

25. Thanks for your opinion, Honeycomb. There are many here among us who feel the when someone dies

is the most important time to remind each other of the good and evil they contributed during their lifetime. It is a quaint conservative notion that we should only remember the nice stuff after someone's death. I would call that revisionist fake history.

[redstateblues]

10. Hear hear! Ive said a few stupid things in my time on the planet.

I don’t think she was a bad person. Somewhat privileged but she was born into that.

[Nitram]

11. Living to the age of 92 isn't all it's cracked up to be. My parents both lived to that age, but

their quality of life deteriorated to the point they no longer felt they had any reason to live. Barbara Bush, for all her motherly and grandmotherly charm, was a mean racist. Don't wish that on yourself.

[Honeycombe8]

14. I don't think she was a mean racist. nt

[Nitram]

17. Which kind of racist did you think she was?

Perhaps Bush’s greatest, or at least most infamous, racial faux pas came in the days following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The deadly natural disaster affected millions of people, most of whom were Black. That fact was not lost on her when she told the media that how grateful the “underprivileged” Katrina victims should be for being displaced to Houston, where Bush has called home since leaving the White House in 1992. “And so many of the people in the [Houston Astrodome] here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them,” Bush said. As if they would prefer to live in an arena-turned-homeless shelter instead of their own homes.

https://newsone.com/3793002/barbara-bush-health-quotes-race-black-african-american/

[Honeycombe8]

18. You need help.

1. That's not exactly what she said.

2. One statement does not make one a racist...esp what she said.

3. Going by your rule (one statement that could be interpreted as unthinking and mean - sort of like your multiple statements), everyone is a sorry excuse of a human being.

Chill. It'll be fine. She was a nice person with a good sense of humor, with an interest in conservation and literacy, and had a strong inner core. She was beloved by her large family, which bespeaks of someone who is genuine and loving.

May you go forward and see people for how they really are, in all their complexities. Hate doesn't get you anywhere or answer anything.

[Nitram]

23. Identifying someone as a racist does not mean I hate them

What, exactly, did Bush say? Did you know her memoir she also defended the use of the Willie Horton ad? Look, I can acknowledge that Ms Bush did a lot of good in the world and still accept that she was a racist. I can hold two thoughts in my head at the same time. May you go forward and see people for how they really are, in all their complexities. And you can forego the patronizing advice about chilling and "needing help." I doubt you know enough about me or my options to consider yourself qualified to make those judgements (while criticizing the judgements I've just made).

[flying rabbit]

26. +1

You have made some excellent points in this thread.

[Mr.Bill]

16. I'll bet living to 92 is somewhat better

if you are filthy stinking rich.

Sorry to hear your parents had a rough time.

[Honeycombe8]

7. Well, he's a crude, trashy, vulgar little man. So what do they expect?

Everyone has faults. The time of death is not the time to speak disrespectfully of the dead and focus on the person's flaws. It's disrespectful to the dead and hurtful to the family. But that's the way this sorry excuse of a person is.

[Nitram]

15. I beg to disagree. If someone lived a life that denigrated the disadvantaged and criticized

people who suffered the consequences of being born into poverty, that needs to be said upon their death if many others re extolling their virtues as if they had done no wrong. You can criticize me all you want if I die after a life of cruelty, privilege, and entitlement.

[keithbvadu2]

19. Has Dotard denounced his supporter, Stone?

[JHB]

21. Mr. Franks, he's the same now as he was when you invited him...

...and you knew it. That's why you wanted him.

You wanted him to talk like that, just about people that you like despising. But you guys have a soft spot for ol' Bar, and he despises her too.

BTW, he hates you and your members too. Just see his response:

Stone, however, contradicted Franks and told the Florida outlet that he was the one who ended the contract.

"I cancelled my appearance as the sponsors wanted to censor my public comments, which is unacceptable," he said in an email.

Stone said the day an "officious country club Republican in Fort Walton Beach" tells him what he can and cannot say is the "day that hell freezes over."

Stone reportedly emailed a committee member and said "most Americans, most Republicans HATE the Bushes," the Daily News reported.

Stone is an extremist political vandal and has been practicing his vandalism with your support for 50 years. And you're just noticing now that he's not housebroken? That as far as he's concerned you might as well be Thurston Howell III?

So, Mr. Franks, are you just going to go along to get along, letting this pass as a little "unpleasantness"?

Or are you take this incident as a wake-up call about what really goes on in your party, and maybe reconsider some of your assumptions about people in the opposition who had Stone pegged long ago?

I consider the answer to that an extremely safe bet, but I'd actually like to lose that bet for once.

[SWBTATTReg]

22. Roger Stone (this post is NOT about B. Bush) ...

is a gutter snipe and a worthless POS, who wouldn't hesitate about throwing granny under the bus to win an election. If you saw the documentary on Netflix about him (Stone), he's an attack dog who mouths off about stuff even though it's not true, just to win an election.

He intentionally confuses and misdirects people about issues and really truly doesn't care about the typical American voter, but instead, thinks of All of us (repugs, indep, and democ.) as cows or sheep to the slaughter.

This guy would be a person of interest to look at closely being that he's advocated dirty means of running elections in order to win, even though things put forth by him aren't true, or are a shadow of the actual truth.

We don't need someone like this in our political system that clearly doesn't care about the American voter, of any creed. A piece of trash that we don't need around any longer. Time to retire him to the trash heaps of history.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

24. Oh well

He still has his Nixon tramp stamp

[GWC58]

27. I failed to watch coverage yesterday.

That wasn’t an oversight. It was intentional! No disrespect to the late Mrs. Bush. I didn’t care for her while alive and that hasn’t changed. 🤔