PA county GOP chair: Obama supporters retarded

[mominatrix]

Charming.

[charminglife]

So klassy. ugh.

[marie427]

So funny I forgot to laugh.

[Melissa W.]

ick!

[llama]

This guy takes the already offensive colloquial usage of retarded and makes it even more ableist and ugly by specifically referencing people with disabilities/handicaps in his little "joke." What a tool.

[teflep]

Most know how I feel about that word. Some on this board see it as nbd. Ick to both.

[teflep]

Aug 8, 2012 10:32:49 GMT -5 toledo said:

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Allegheny County's GOP chair and former county executive Jim Roddey has long been known for being quotable, and he added to that reputation tonight in a joke equating Obama supporters with the mentally disabled.

Roddey as usual acted as MC at the election night party for state Rep. Randy Vulakovich, R-Shaler, who won the special election to fill convicted state Sen. Jane Orie's seat in Pittsburgh's northern suburbs. Vulakovich beat Democrat Sharon Brown at about 74-26%, which Roddey said "is the largest margin we've had in 50 years!"

That got a huge response from the partisan GOP crowd of about 200 people at Vulakovich's party, whereupon Roddey went into his Obama joke.

"There was a disappointment tonight. I was very embarrassed. I was in this parking lot and there was a man looking for a space to park, and I found a space for him. And I felt badly -- he looked like he was sort of in distress. And I said, 'Sir, here's a place.' And he said, 'That's a handicapped space.' I said, 'Oh I'm so sorry, I saw that Obama sticker and I thought you were mentally retarded."

The crowd hollered and clapped, and then Roddey went into the the usual thanks at political events for grassroots supporters of the winning candidate.

Roddey has long been a vocal supporter of Mitt Romney, even before the GOP presidential field was settled, and has joined GOP voices supporting the state's strict new voter ID rules -- at a Romney event last month he joked he had re-done is will so he could be buried in Philadelphia and vote from the grave.

[ringstrue]

horrible

[meshaliuknits]

I feel like once you're elected to Congress you revert to the 5th grade.

[AJL]

Ugh. Gross.

[dylanite]

Aug 8, 2012 11:06:32 GMT -5 teflep said:

Most know how I feel about that word. Some on this board see it as nbd. Ick to both.

Ya but those people don't give a fuck. Lol.

ETA: sorry I should've clarified. I'm offended by this douche because he's the retard here.

[MrsDL]

Aug 8, 2012 11:22:09 GMT -5 meshaliuknits said:

I feel like once you're elected to Congress you revert to the 5th grade.

I know many 5th graders who know better. WTF

[bqbride]

So offensive on so many levels.

If a vote against "let's keep throwing money at the rich people while telling the middle class and the poor that some of it might eventually stick to them but, in the meantime, they should pay more" is retarded, well then, color me retarded.

[emmybean]

Eh. I loled.

[secretlyevil]

::sits back and waits for the shit storm::

Mental handicapped advocacy groups are going to get out their pitchforks.