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guruoo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 10:50 AM
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GOP scrambling to muzzle pro-eugenics candidate
"The genes of less favored races are destroying our cities"
-James Hart, GOP candidate for the US 8th Congressional District in Tennessee.
Audio: http://www.jameshartforcongress.com/audio/immigration.wma

James Hart for Congress web site: http://www.jameshartforcongress.com/

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Mar 7, 8:12 PM EST

Tennessee GOP tries to remove eugenics candidate from ballot

By BETH RUCKER
Associated Press Writer

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The Tennessee Republican Party wants to remove a candidate from its congressional primary because of his support for the racist, phony science of eugenics.

James Hart has filed the necessary documents for his name to appear on the Aug. 3 primary ballot as a Republican candidate for the 8th Congressional District.
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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/TN_EUGENICS_CANDIDATE_TNOL-?SITE=TNCLA&SECTION=STATE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT


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shoelace414 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 10:52 AM
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1. Republicans embracing phony science?!
:sarcasm:
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KingFlorez Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 10:52 AM
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2. Please, don't
I hope they let him stay on the ballot just so people see how crazy Republicans are. The only reason they want him off because it makes them look bad.
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Mrs. Overall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 10:56 AM
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3. Prescott Bush was an early supporter of eugenics--
I believe he even supported the forced sterilization of African Americans in North Carolina in the 1940's.
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cdb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 10:58 AM
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4. An openly racist GOP candidate?
Gosh, i am shocked, SHOCKED and appalled!! </sarcasm>
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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 11:06 AM
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8. they have to run on their remaining strengths--expect to see a lot of
confederate flags and Willie Hortons too.
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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 11:00 AM
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5. Amenrica will look like "one big Detroit"
Bwahahahahahahaaaaa!!!

:rofl: :applause:

This guy's voice makes him sound like a cross between Ned Flanders and the Church Lady. Hi-lar-i-ous!!

:popcorn:
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 11:00 AM
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6. Wow, the GOP wants to take a sure winner off the ballot?
They don't want to distance themselves from him because of his beliefs, they want to distance themselves from him because his beliefs are public knowledge.

He's a classic "conservative" candidate, who would surely wrap up the insane vote.
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jwirr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 11:01 AM
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7. Old Time Religion! Eugenics the way it was practiced
in 1890-1932 (when FDR was elected) is alive and well in the right wing religions and the bush family cabal. Edwin Black's book "War Against the Weak" is a irrefutably documented use of these ideas in many of the red states (and also blue states) then and the direct connection it has with Hitler's death camps. The people of America should take these guys seriously. They are not fringe - they are just more honest about what the GOP stands for than most GOP politicians.
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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 11:08 AM
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9. See, they are trying to get rid of him because...
he's letting the cat out of the bag regarding the GOP's 08 platform.
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guruoo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 12:26 PM
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13. Yes, he's spoiling the big 'surprise'!
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BR_Parkway Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 11:13 AM
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10. Even worse is the number that voted for the guy
Hart received about 60,000 votes in the 2004 election, and that shows voters want him as a Republican candidate.
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bobthedrummer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 11:47 AM
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11. Don't say that there wasn't plenty of attention and concerns voiced
about this and other things noted by those that know history and understand what fascism entails.

It isn't just the South, and it isn't limited to political affiliation imo.

Wisconsin figures into this intentionally and internationally.

Philanthropists supported the ideology using cover and deception.
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=404463

So does Tommy Thompson and his eugenicist friends like Charles Murray. FWIW, Wisconsin was the home of 38 WWII POW camps. Madison is a world center of genetic "research".

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=404311

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=404308




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MrBenchley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 11:53 AM
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12. Hart's also a spectacular champion of "gun rights"
who trudges from door to door on the campaign trail toting his gun.
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izzybeans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 12:39 PM
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14. "Icksnay on the biggotry k?
Save the "intellectual pluralism" for GOP fundraisers. We only speak like that in secret clubs. In public we use words like big tent and freedom instead."
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