Alan Grayson: "So, I had a lady call me up at home at 8:30 on a Sunday....."

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Alan Grayson: "So, I had a lady call me up at home at 8:30 on a Sunday....."

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Alan Grayson at the Florida Democratic Party annual convention, Orlando, October 10, 2009

Video at his web site, and don't miss it. His sense of comedic timing is icing on the cake.

(As transcribed)

Welcome to my home.

I look around this audience and I do not see a single, not one single foot-dragging, knuckle-dragging Neanderthal. Not one.

I had a lady call me up at home at 8:30 on a Sunday a couple of weeks ago. I answered the phone. She said to me, �Is this Congressman Grayson?� I said �Yes.� She said, �Get off my TV.� I said, �What do you mean?� She said, �You�re on my TV. Get off my TV!� I said, �Have you thought about changing the channel?� She said, �You�re on ALL the channels!�

So, I said to her, you know, when I�m on those channels� I can see you. And I think you better either turn off the TV or put on some clothes. I would really appreciate that. She hung up.

I want to say a few words about what it means to be a Democrat. What it means to be a Democrat. It�s very simple. We have a conscience. We have a conscience. Everyone in this room with a conscience, get on your feet. Get on your feet!

You know, scientists have studied for years this difficult question of why some people have a conscience and some people don�t. Some people are called Democrats, and some people are called Republicans.

When we see someone in need, someone who needs to see a doctor, someone who is hungry--- adult, a child� when we see someone in need, something within us says we need to do something to help that person.

That spark within us is what makes us good people. And that�s something they need to nurture.
That�s why I humbly propose that we change the name of the Democratic Party to The Conscience Party.
We�ve known for over 3000 years that a good society, a civilized society, is one that shelters the homeless, feeds the hungry and that HEALS THE SICK.
Now, the other side may disagree.

They actually read books with titles like �The Virtue of Selfishness.� I didn�t make that up. �The Virtue of Selfishness�. They think that it�s good somehow, that you have a hard heart. Well, WE don�t have a hard heart. We look around and see another fellow human being in need, and we care.
WE CARE. That�s what it means to be a human being.

So my other humble proposal today, just to make this clear to all the voters, is that that other party also change its name. And they rename the Republican Party to The Selfish Party. Every single day, I think this is becoming clearer and clearer to America. Every single day. The times, they are a-changing. People look around, and they see that the other party are these nattering nabobs of negativism.

These NO-mongers. These people who know, that if the president has a BLT sandwich tomorrow, the Republicans are going to try to ban bacon. Well, you can�t be against everything. Not when our needs are so great. And things are changing, and people are seeing that. I�ll give you one example:

Since 8 o�clock last night 1500 people have come to the Grayson For Congress website and made a contribution. Just since 8 o�clock at night, and by the way, it was past my kids� bedtime, so I�m sure it wasn�t them.

But once we get past this point, once we get past this point of entrenched no-mongering, we�re going to see a great America. Because when you get down to it, the country reflects it people.
America reflects us.

And when you get down to it, people have a good heart. That�s why the American people chose the Democratic Party to LEAD America, because we have a good heart. All of us do.

And when I say the things I say on TV or on the floor of the House, those are not my words, those are your words.

I�m simply saying the things that all of us are thinking. And it�s because of you, because of YOU that I have a chance to do that. Thank you very much!

No, Representative Grayson, THANK YOU. Courage and unabashed truth-telling are a fine combination.

Well, well, looky here... two more Republicans have chickened out from running against Grayson next year.

Orange County Mayor Rich Crotty and now, State Rep. Stephen Precourt.

October 11, 2009

Last Monday, Crotty took his name out of the running. And today, Precourt, R-Orlando, declined the challenge, too. But Precourt still threw a few punches -- calling Grayson a "raving liberal lunatic" -- even as he begged off a federal run, to focus on his current state post instead.

"Central Floridians and the nation deserve better than that egomaniacal, socialist, loose cannon," Precourt wrote in a e-mail this afternoon.

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