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The meltdown of the GOP as a respectable national party continues apace

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Yes, they’re just county-level GOP chairs in South Carolina.  Still, the more this kind of thing happens around the country, the less seriously the GOP can be taken as a national player.

This appeared in “The Times and Democrat” (ironically enough), a newspaper in Orangeburg, SC.  It’s a letter to the editor — these guys actually wrote this down and sent it out, hoping that it would be published.

Recently your newspaper published a letter from state Rep. Bakari Sellers attacking U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint and his opposition to congressional earmarks.

There is a saying that the Jews who are wealthy got that way not by watching dollars, but instead by taking care of the pennies and the dollars taking care of themselves. By not using earmarks to fund projects for South Carolina and instead using actual bills, DeMint is watching our nation’s pennies and trying to preserve our country’s wealth and our economy’s viability to give all an opportunity to succeed.

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– Edwin O. Merwin Jr., Chairman, Bamberg County Republican Party, Denmark

– James S. Ulmer Jr., Chairman, Orangeburg County Republican Party, North

Even more hilariously, it appears that the “saying” referenced by our good friends Edwin and James dates back at least to William Lowndes, an English Treasury Secretary from the 17th century who, I think it is safe to say, was not Jewish.  That part got grafted on later, and most likely only in some places.  The mind boggles.

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  1. AP.  Seems DeMitt is not welcoming the accolades by his supporters.  They have since apologized.

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    p>Only in SC.

  2. These two statesmen attempted to write out a serious, well thought out defense of their Senator.  They refered to “onerous testing” and got all fancy by writing “to whom” and such things like that. At first blush they seemed like intelligent fellows who were plain anti-semitic but then I asked myself, What would Huck Finn Say?  I think Huck Finn would say that these two polecats were putting on airs, like the King and the Duke and that they really aren’t that smart.  

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    To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life; For who would fardels bear, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane, But that the fear of something after death Murders the innocent sleep, Great nature’s second course, And makes us rather sling the arrows of outrageous fortune Than fly to others that we know not of. There’s the respect must give us pause: Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely, The law’s delay, and the quietus which his pangs might take, In the dead waste and middle of the night, when churchyards yawn In customary suits of solemn black, But that the undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler returns, Breathes forth contagion on the world, And thus the native hue of resolution, like the poor cat i’ the adage, Is sicklied o’er with care, And all the clouds that lowered o’er our housetops, With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action. ‘Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished. But soft you, the fair Ophelia: Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws, But get thee to a nunnery- go!

    • … a valid interpretation, but what does it say about the context of the culture they surround themselves with that such an insult could be missed… by people trying to go out of their way to be diplomatic no less?!

    • Party membership enrollment to ignorance.

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      p>Please don’t ask me what percentage of Democratic enrollment I attribute to ignorance.

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