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GOP Challenger Responds to Grayson‘s ’Taliban Dan’ Attack Ad

From the re-election campaign of Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., comes this controversial new campaign ad, accusing his challenger, Republican Daniel Webster, of being a religious fundamentalist comparable to the Taliban:

In comments to Mediaite, a Grayson campaign spokesperson defended the ad, saying, “The Taliban is an extremist government regime that forced its crazy right-wing views on the populace it governs. If elected, Dan Webster would force his extreme crazy right-wing views on Central Florida.”

In response, the Webster campaign has fired back, calling the ad “ludicrous.”

“Alan Grayson is simply trying to distract voters from his record of higher taxes, increased debt, and rising unemployment.  Central Florida deserves better than Mr. Grayson’s gutter-politics and dirty mouth.”

Editor’s note: Stu Burguiere, of The Glenn Beck Program, has looked at Factcheck.org’s analysis of the Grayson ad. He examines  the remarkable context of the original remarks.  Click here to read the astounding report.  Meanwhile, Grayson is sticking by his ad.

Comments (144)

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  • beullar
    Posted on September 27, 2010 at 11:25pm

    I live in this psycho’s district and he was elected over a descent congressman in the last election (Ric Keller) by using these kind of personal attack ads. This man is truly sick. Hopefully we will vote him out, but I see a few Grayson signs in the local yards. Loons live in every community.

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  • NIS
    Posted on September 27, 2010 at 11:23pm

    He needs to go back to his therapist, then his mother to get a hug.

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  • anyonebutgrayson
    Posted on September 27, 2010 at 11:23pm

    Please help Mr. Webster fight this gutterball by donating. He is good man with a great family that shows that his values work.

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  • CatB
    Posted on September 27, 2010 at 11:20pm

    Link to the YouTube video (lower righthand corner)… they have cut off comments but you can rate it .. go give Grayson a thumbs down!

     
  • anyonebutgrayson
    Posted on September 27, 2010 at 11:19pm

    Thanks for sending a donation to his campaign. All of us in the 8th district are trying as hard as we can to get this wing-nut outta here. He has so much money, it is going to be a tough race. Please help if you are able.

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  • VM
    Posted on September 27, 2010 at 11:04pm

    Grayson is the dirtiest man ever represented Congress in recent years and the people of Florida should kick this jackass in November. Ask what this idiot has done for his constituents? He is the poster boy of ultra liberals and America will be better if goons like Grayson are kept away from the decision making.

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  • BRAVEHEART
    Posted on September 27, 2010 at 11:02pm

    Grayson is an example of extreme arrogance spewing out of the mind of an Ultra-liberal Elitist. The arrogrance of such demagouge’s rivals that of some of the worst political tyrants and Dictators of the past 100 years. The good people of Florida better get a clue and give this clown a one way ticket to Cuba or the south pole!

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    • Balladeer
      Posted on September 28, 2010 at 2:34pm

      Hope you are right…just remember Socialists are installed into power by a military coup….they are VOTED in by a populace too stupid to know they are rubes being conned

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  • Dddriver
    Posted on September 27, 2010 at 10:50pm

    Once again: Vote the bums out!!!!
    If they are incumbent odds are they are part of the problem
    Honor & integrity are the only solution

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    • Balladeer
      Posted on September 28, 2010 at 2:32pm

      Ahh BUT may I remind you of a bit of Realpolitik? I call it ‘The Other Guy Syndrome” since collectively people are sheep they will be herded into the booth to vote as to whatever they are told to vote….the ones that actually think will say ‘YES Congress is a cesspool..but my guy is all right IT‘S THE OTHER GUY THAT’S THE PROBLEM” and you thought a political blame circle ended with Boss Tweed?

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  • Okpulot Taha
    Posted on September 27, 2010 at 10:48pm

    Best way to counter smear campaigns is with truth. I looked around, googled around, I did not find evidence supporting those claims of Grayson. However, I did find sources which Grayson is twisting around to fit his agenda.

    On Vietnam service, appears Webster has or did have a medical condition disqualifying him from service. I have not found details on this other than his wife citing this. An old issue of this sort is simply not worthy of discussion.

    This “submit to your wife” thing is a sound byte from a speech by Webster. Easy to see how Grayson is twisting this around. Here is the original Webster quote which includes the sound byte provided by the Webster campaign staff:

    “I have verses for my wife. Don’t pick the ones that say, um ‘She should submit to me.’ That’s in the Bible, but pick the ones that you’re supposed to do. So instead, ‘love your wife, even as Christ loved the Church and gave himself for it’ as opposed to “wives submit to your own husbands.’”

    The Orlando Sentinel sheds light on the other sources of the Grayson attack ad:

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    One says “Dan Webster wants to MAKE DIVORCE ILLEGAL,” a reference to a bill Webster sponsored in 1990 that would have given couples the option of entering a covenant marriage, which would have allowed divorce only in cases of adultery. The legislation failed.

    Another says “Dan Webster voted to deny abused women health care,” referring to a vote against legislation that would have prevented insurance companies from listing domestic violence as a pre-existing condition.

    And a third says “Daniel Webster wants to force raped women to bear their attackers’ child,” citing a 1990s newspaper story in which the then-state representative said he opposed abortion even in cases of rape and incest.

    http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2010-09-26/news/os-grayson-webster-taliban-ad-20100926_1_grayson-tv-campaign-ad-women-voters

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    This “option…covenant marriage” is not making divorce illegal, this is an option.

    This “pre-existing condition” issue is actually protecting abused women from being denied medical coverage.

    This “abortion issue” is Webster stating his personal opinion, not writing legislation.

    Quite obvious Grayson is twisting truth to deceive Americans.

    Best method to defend against attack ads like this is search for and find truth, then spread this truth. This is information which should be shared in political blogs all over the web. Rather than rant and rave about Grayson, go out there on the web and share truth with readers. Truth is a weapon which can never be defeated.

    Okpulot Taha
    Choctaw Nation

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    • Deutscher
      Posted on September 27, 2010 at 10:58pm

      It’s nice to read a thoughtful comment. Thank you.
      There is far too much one-dimensional thought here.

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    • Okpulot Taha
      Posted on September 28, 2010 at 12:10am

      DEUTSCHER comments, “It’s nice to read a thoughtful comment. Thank you.”

      Not needed. I am only citing what I believe to be truth.

      DEUTSCHER adds, “There is far too much one-dimensional thought here.”

      Yes, quite a bit of shallow thinking. This is true of almost all political blogs but this type of thinking does seem a concentrated version here. Adding some cold water might thin out this fever pitch a bit.

      Webster states he intends to run a clean campaign and, so far, he is. I admire this. Participants here sitting in front of their computers typing out invectives about his opponent, is not helpful. What is helpful is spending some time visiting political blogs and sharing truth, with respect.

      One of my objectives here at the Blaze is to encourage people to think better, to become more knowledgeable and to organize for power. This is the way to win our war to have our America back.

      There is my splash of cold water to wake up single dimensional thinkers.

      Okpulot Taha
      Choctaw Nation

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    • BetterDays
      Posted on September 28, 2010 at 12:51am

      Taha,
      one thing we would like to illustrate you on is that we really don’t want our Government to have eneormous power. At least not like it does today. We would prefere a small federal governance footprint on our lands, not this large regressive one.
      I can watch my own self, I can and am prepared to answer for all my wrongs as well as my correct actions. I despise any authority that tries to manipulate or intimadate me, and will always rise up in word to speak my heart on the matter. Perhaps it’s the Cree in me that makes me do so, but even the Cree knows that the “tourists” are hear to stay. I could count coo all day long and what would that gain me, This warrior needs to run the path of a sucessfull hunt. I desire to allow the system to be what it was ment to be, for in it I CAN be the best me I can be. The regressive party wants to hand me out “blankets” for my own good, I remember the last bunch of “Blankets” and the ancestors still cry out. The “system” is far from perfect, and we can sit in the sweat for days awaiting a totem of clarity, but the real meaning of the dream is simple. The system that was started to end, after the “lo\ng walk”, and the pale ones didn’t even see it, have never seen it. The “system” today is but a contrary child riding mother backwards,and is not the system that the “man who could not be killed” brought into life 240 odd years ago. At least “father of nations” held up a system that will allow the people to grow as people, the regressives want to do your growing for you. Are you so weak sister that you can not run the red path by youself?

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    • PatriotComeLately
      Posted on September 28, 2010 at 1:22am

      Truth is available

      http://www.orlandopoliticalpress.com/2010/09/27/video-grayson-ad-shown-to-be-a-fabrication/

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    • Okpulot Taha
      Posted on September 28, 2010 at 2:09am

      BETTER DAYS comments, “one thing we would like to illustrate you on….”

      Who is “we”? Have those others step forward and reveal themselves. I will not speak with those standing in shadows.

      BETTER DAYS asks, ” I could count coo all day long and what would that gain me….”

      “coup”

      During battle, touching your enemy and not killing him is amongst the greatest acts of bravery and earns one of the greatest honors. You claim to be of Cree. I expect you to know this and expect you to know how to correctly spell this word.

      I will suggest a book for you so you can learn more of my peoples with emphasis upon “my”.

      “Counting coup: becoming a Crow chief on the Reservation and beyond” – Joseph Medicine Crow

      BETTER DAYS closes, “Are you so weak sister that you can not run the red path by youself?”

      Rather clear I am not weak. I am not your sister neither by blood nor by spirit. I am the red path, a path you will never walk.

      Okpulot Taha
      Choctaw Nation

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    • Okpulot Taha
      Posted on September 28, 2010 at 2:29am

      PATRIOT COME LATELY speaks of truth, “Truth is available”

      From your web site link:

      “With the truth now apparent for all to see, it’s very clear that honesty and integrity mean little to Alan Grayson. This effort by his campaign is designed to intentionally mislead the public and Grayson needs to be held accountable for this.”

      There is no weapon more powerful than truth. I appreciate your researching and sharing truth. This is what is needed to return our America to honor and integrity; truth. We are to speak truth even when truth hurts.

      In my native Choctaw tongue:

      aiali – “truth”, reality, virtue, fulfillment, justice

      keyu – “not”, no, negate, lacking, without

      Grayson hatak alali keyu – Grayson truthless man.

      Well done, Patriotic Come Lately, thank you.

      Okpulot Taha
      Choctaw Nation

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    • Okpulot Taha
      Posted on September 28, 2010 at 2:59am

      I find ironic comedy in a Stephen Vincent Benét play, “The Devil and Daniel Webster”.

      Might make a catchy political slogan for Webster, yes?

      Okpulot Taha
      Choctaw Nation

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    • mutt
      Posted on September 28, 2010 at 7:46am

      Thank you!

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    • PatriotComeLately
      Posted on September 28, 2010 at 10:01am

      Okpulot Taha
      Yokoke

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  • nan1133
    Posted on September 27, 2010 at 10:41pm

    Liberalism is a mental disorder

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  • 13thGenerationAmerican
    Posted on September 27, 2010 at 10:32pm

    Grayson is correct, we are sick you people ramming their right wing nut beliefs on this great country.

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    • frjimt
      Posted on September 27, 2010 at 10:54pm

      talk about a mistake being a truism: “we are sick”………. you certainly present yourself appropriately enough as that

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    • Bob_R_OathKeeper
      Posted on September 28, 2010 at 4:59am

      13 Generations of inbreeding, that’s not a good thing bro, but hey….. at least you think your American. Semper Fi.

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    • capitalideals
      Posted on September 28, 2010 at 10:31am

      13th, Dan Webster actually made a really sweet point which was taken COMPLETELY out of context. Do you not wish to honor and love YOUR wife? THAT was the point he was making. He was NOT trying to ram ANYTHING down your throat, for goodness sake. What is WRONG with you???

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    • Jackson
      Posted on September 28, 2010 at 1:34pm

      13th generation? Hmmmm……. When did oyur ancestors come over? Hopefully more than 130 years ago……

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  • 8nray
    Posted on September 27, 2010 at 10:29pm

    how could this guy get elected as dog catcher?

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  • LastManStanding1
    Posted on September 27, 2010 at 10:10pm

    Dispicable. Grayson is a spurious representative and has no record to stand on, so once again the leftist playbook is pulled out….let the name calling begin

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  • poverty.sucks
    Posted on September 27, 2010 at 10:07pm

    The health of traditional marriage has an economic impact on America’s future. Mr Webster should bridge the concept that an unhealthy marriage to seek help to heal indifferences to keep more families together.

    Children raised in married households do better on every significant measurement of personal well-being and attainment. They perform better in school, commit fewer crimes, engage in fewer risky behaviors, experience less poverty, and have fewer marital problems as adults. The annual cost of means-tested welfare alone for single parents is $300 billion. Over the past 40 years, out-of-wedlock births have gone from 10 percent of all births to 40.6 percent in 2008, which is straining our system. The Heritage Foundation has a four-point plan to counter this trend and strengthen the foundation of our socio-economic health.

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  • Rich Brinkmann
    Posted on September 27, 2010 at 9:59pm

    You just have to shake your head and say, is this the best we can do? While we were working, tending to our families and building this great nation, we unfortunately took our eye off the ball. Look what we got! No more, pass it on, the Americans are coming…….

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    • QweeQwa
      Posted on September 27, 2010 at 10:25pm

      We are already here bright eyes.

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    • Balladeer
      Posted on September 28, 2010 at 2:27pm

      Actually I beg to differ the people awake and know what is what is a VERY small minority VS the America sitting slack jawed and drooling watching ‘foo’ball’ , ‘Dancing with the Stars”, ‘American Idol’ and other such pablum. Most of the people…IF they vote at all…will simply vote with idiotic emotion usually created by the last political ad they saw on TV or heard on the radio

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  • nono524
    Posted on September 27, 2010 at 9:55pm

    How could anyone want this guy to represent them?

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    • cap0ne
      Posted on September 27, 2010 at 10:09pm

      Liberals aren’t as smart as you and me??

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  • Butifarra
    Posted on September 27, 2010 at 9:55pm

    Remember that to idiotic liberals a conservative is more dangerous than an islamo-fascist terrorist.

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  • helena
    Posted on September 27, 2010 at 9:54pm

    Doesn’t he look like Shriek?

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    • Buck Bagaw
      Posted on September 27, 2010 at 11:57pm

      Maybe you mean Shreck?? If you do, I ask why you would want to insult Shreck like that. Grayson is actually a piece of toilet flotsam that learned to walk and talk. Great shame on those who’s mindless votes thrust this abomination upon the rest of the nation.

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    • Okpulot Taha
      Posted on September 28, 2010 at 3:14am

      BUCK BAGAW asks, “Maybe you mean Shreck?”

      Helena’s use of “Shriek” better fits Grayson.

      Okpulot Taha
      Choctaw Nation

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    • capitalideals
      Posted on September 28, 2010 at 10:28am

      He actually does look more like shriek than shreck.

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  • poverty.sucks
    Posted on September 27, 2010 at 9:54pm

    Reminding people of their partisan loyalties makes them more likely to buy smears about their political opponents. Reminding people to think about their own race prompts them to buy smears about someone from a different race. Reminding people to think about their own age prompts them to buy smears about someone much older. If you can remind people about their own political allegiance and their race at the same time, they are extra willing to buy a smear about someone from another party and another race.

    Our willingness to believe in smears is intricately tied to our internal concepts of “us” and “them.“ It does not matter how the ”us” is defined—it could be everyone belonging to a political party, everyone of a certain age, race, or nationality, everyone wearing blue shirts on a particular day. The moment you prompt people to see the world in terms of us and them, you instantly make their minds hospitable to slurs about people belonging to the other group. (I know it sounds like this gives ammunition to political operatives, but, believe me, they already know all this stuff—and how to use it.)

    When we look back at smear campaigns of the past—some of which have led to genocidal campaigns of extermination—it can seem mystifying how large numbers of people could have believed absurd things about those from other groups. That’s because we do not viscerally feel the allegiances that divided the world of, say, Nazi Germany into “people like us” and “people like them.”

    Unfortunately, we are just as blind to the consequences of our own allegiances.

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    • Deutscher
      Posted on September 27, 2010 at 11:13pm

      Why is Nazi Germany always the comparison? How about rival high school, any other example. That example has a ton of implications that are not necessary to make the point(overkill)

      Bitte :-)

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    • poverty.sucks
      Posted on September 28, 2010 at 12:13am

      Socialist manufactured, with success, a depression so that the ideology of Nazism would be easier to implement here in the U.S., similar to failed Nazism in Germany. These people are insane. You may be sick of seeing all this rhetoric. They think they have a bill of goods we need. The Democrat Party is amazingly close and similar to the words and utterances of some of the world’s foremost radicals when the subject is the United States of America. When the subject is this country, Obama, Hillary, the Democrats, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, it’s hard to tell them apart. New World order was discussed at U.N. recently, that’s Nazism. Don’t be ignorant. Stop the insanity. Vote the Republican ticket 2010.

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    • uhadenoughyet.com
      Posted on September 28, 2010 at 12:48am

      Very well put my friend. I would however point out that their are more of “US” than there are of them

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  • plunderpower
    Posted on September 27, 2010 at 9:52pm

    That settles it. I’m sending Webster a donation for his campaign. That nutjob with the disgusting loudmouth, Alan Grayson, is another poster child for Liberal crazies. He needs his butt kicked.

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  • broker0101
    Posted on September 27, 2010 at 9:50pm

    Mr.Webster should spend all of his campaign money buying Representative Grayson more air time. The guy is a complete America-Hating, Lunatic Buffoon and is incapable of hiding it, even while seeking re-election. Quick, hand him more rope!

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    • broker0101
      Posted on September 27, 2010 at 9:55pm

      Just to clarify, Rep. Grayson is a complete America-Hating, Lunatic……..
      Don’t want to be accused of being a “Lefty” again. Lol!

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    • psst
      Posted on September 28, 2010 at 12:18am

      Would you say he was elected by a lunatic electorate?
      Most of the time, you get exactly what you vote for.
      The majority voted for Hussein.. there are two things here.
      One, they had to be completely stupidly ignorant,he did not hide who he was.
      Two. the majority did not care he was a marxist. He’s doing exactly what he said he was ging to do.
      So! The majority of voters are marxists
      or
      The majority of voters are stupidly ignorant.
      Either way.. US are in deeeeep sheeeet.

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  • Mike777
    Posted on September 27, 2010 at 9:46pm

    Please Florida I beg you to vote this guy out.

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on September 27, 2010 at 10:03pm

      He is not in my district but I pray everyday that he is voted out. He is an embarrassment to his district and to the entire state of Florida. Please pray for the people of Orlando that they are tired of his rants and will vote for Webster.

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    • rightwingwacko
      Posted on September 28, 2010 at 7:46am

      He’s not in my district but I several people I know are and none of them are voting for him. I can’t repeat their
      exact words when asked if they were going to vote for Grayson because I‘m not even sure I’m old enough to know these words.

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    • vicar7
      Posted on September 28, 2010 at 8:10am

      Just moved to Grayson’s district last winter from Minnesota. I knew of him before moving here though. I am not sure we can get rid of him but he is a vile embarrassment. Webster is an honorable man and a good candidate but underfunded and not a get down in the mud guy apparently. I am concerned he may not have the funds nor stomach to fight. Webster beat 8 other very good candidates in the primary very easily though.

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  • Psychosis
    Posted on September 27, 2010 at 9:46pm

    AND THE REEDUCATION OF OUR POPULATION CONTINUES Wake up America go vote, and stay there. watch the voting process be vigilant. there was rampant voter fraud across the nation for years and its not going to stop unless WE stop it. This is why nancy pelosi and many democrats say they know the democrats will keep both houses………..they know the ballot is no longer sacred or honest

    I AM TOO POOR TO BUY GOLD………………..SO I BUY LEAD PROTECT OUR LIBERTY, OUR CONSTITUTION AND OUR COUNTRY…………BECAUSE THAT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY

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    • Alvin691
      Posted on September 27, 2010 at 11:20pm

      Lead, I can respect that.

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    • Mithra
      Posted on September 28, 2010 at 12:50am

      And we know that voter fraud can work wonders – 2002 anyone?

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    • Mithra
      Posted on September 28, 2010 at 12:53am

      Whoops, 2000. How soon I forget.

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    • BlueStrat
      Posted on September 28, 2010 at 3:38am

      @Psychosis

      Of course, we know you meant lead sheets to block the new X-ray vans they’re deploying to watch people in their houses.

      I keed, I keed!

      Well, kinda…and that alone is creepy.

      I’m creating little supply caches scattered in certain discreet, out-of-the-way-but-accessible locations as well as having a decent ammo/weapon/food/water supply handy. I pray every day that I never need any of it, but with the crazy-town looking political & economic landscape these days, who knows?

      Strat

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    • docvet
      Posted on September 28, 2010 at 4:43pm

      I have another use for that lead, but Glenn said no violence.

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  • Sicboy
    Posted on September 27, 2010 at 9:46pm

    This guy is so unbelievable it’s nearly crazy. The only thing I can come up with is he says radical things just to get attention. But he is “Very” dangerous.

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    • carrera
      Posted on September 28, 2010 at 10:32am

      Sicboy-What’s crazy is that our Administration is aligned with him. Our Government has refused to designate the Taliban as a terrorist group. Our own President has described the Taliban as “moderates” Yet, Homeland Security writes a report that our returning Veterans are potential extremist, that those who object to abortion which is grouped with infanticide and the brutality of partial birth abortion under the guise of a women’s right to chose, and of course, those extreme tea partiers, the most dangerous group in their eyes, who seek personal responsibility, smaller Government, who want our Constitution be upheld,and a free market. Yes, it is crazy, I don’t believe for a moment it was simply to get attention, he believes it, we can only speculate on whether it is a mental illness that drives him or hard core liberalism.

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  • wingedwolf
    Posted on September 27, 2010 at 9:46pm

    Let them rant. They are scared witless, as well they should be. We here at The Blaze, however shouldn’t engage in a battle of wits with unarmed people.

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    • CatB
      Posted on September 27, 2010 at 11:17pm

      It’s just so embarassing … this guy is from Florida …. thankfully he is not from my area …. but please do not re-elect this idiot!

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    • Ahcma
      Posted on September 28, 2010 at 3:32am

      Alan Grayson is not really from Florida. He is a carpetbagger from New York and DC and like others of his ilk, is not for the people of his area but for himself. He is rude and crude.

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    • JD Carp
      Posted on September 28, 2010 at 11:47am

      Grayson is using the typical progressive scare tactic because he is terrified of loosing his seat. Taking comments out of context is an accepted strategy used by both sides, more so by the left, but both sides do it. In this particular case it is more than just a lie, it is out and out propagandist. We need to hold their feet to the fire and expose the elitists for what they are.

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