Democratic Rep. Retweets — Then Deletes — Romney Is a ‘Heartless Douchebag’
- Posted on April 20, 2012 at 2:05pm by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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Democratic Congressman Keith Ellison, who has repeatedly called for a civil political discourse, retweeted — then deleted — a message Wednesday calling Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney a “heartless douchebag.”
Ellison, a representative from Minnesota, took to Twitter to pose the question, “‘… even if you have a child two years of age, you need to go to work’ Who said it?,” the Washington Free Beacon reported:
The heavily edited quote comes from Mitt Romney, who discussed the right of women with children to work at a January campaign event.
“I wanted to increase the work requirement,” Romney said at the event, according to MSNBC. “I said, for instance, that even if you have a child two years of age, you need to go to work. And people said, ‘Well that’s heartless,’ and I said ‘No, no, I’m willing to spend more giving daycare to allow those parents to go back to work. It’ll cost the state more providing that daycare, but I want the individuals to have the dignity of work.’ ”
Among the Twitter replies to Ellison was one from user @respectperfect who wrote: “A heartless douchebag who doesn’t like animals or small children. At least that‘s what I’ve heard.”
Ellison subsequently retweeted the message.
Image source: Washington Free Beacon
Ellison has since removed both the retweet and his original Twitter query.
Jennifer Porter Gore, Ellison’s communications director, subsequently told the Free Beacon: “As with all Twitter accounts a retweet is not an endorsement. The congressman removed the tweet because it appeared to endorse use of a nasty term, which is not what we wanted.”
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Comments (110)
ZepShepley
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 3:13pmBeing called a “douchebag” by a Communist should be something of a badge of honor for Mr. Romney.
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 4:29pmNot really. Romney is a Progressive Socialist.
Let me ask you something – when was the last time you went to work to earn dignity? Are you paid in dignity scripts?
How many important jobs are often seen as “undignified” by the general public, yet people perform them anyway?
You can’t buy dignity. People work for money, so they can feed themselves and their families.
No one in the world “works for dignity”.
Jaycen
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 4:36pmI guess none of you can read very well. Mitt Romney wants the government to subsidize child care so mom’s can get back to work “for dignity”.
That doesn’t bother you? Man, oh man, that sure is a far cry from Barrack Obama and his spending habits. Hell, that’s totally different from the philosophy of Barrack Obama, isn’t it?
People really do get the leaders they deserve.
Blackhawk1
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 5:20pmJaycen
Right now those mothers are getting free child care for sitting at home so if they go and get a job it would be a big improvement.
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 6:46pm@ Jaycen…I have never heard this before about Romney. Where did you get your info? Please provide source
Report Post »ICEDRAGONNITE
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 7:20pmHe and Farrakhan have to be best buds!
Report Post »spirited
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:51pm@JAYCEN: “No one in the world “works for dignity”.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ context, context
American Heritage Dictionary:
dig·ni·ty (dĭg’nĭ-tē)
1. The quality or state of being worthy of esteem or respect.
2. Inherent nobility and worth: the dignity of honest labor.
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~>What Mitt Romney meant ? (rhetorical question)
“No race can prosper until it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. It is at the bottom of life we must begin, and not at the top.” – BookerTaliaferro Washington
Report Post »(‘TheAtlanta Exposition Address’, in Up from Slavery (1901), ch.14.)
disgustedAmerican
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 4:00amJaycen… I don’t care who gets in after odumbass. If mickey mouse was on the docket, I would vote for him over what we have now.
Report Post »Delta D-5-3
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 12:35pmCommunist, Marxist, and TRAITOR to his country. This man should be jailed and tried for treason. I’m sick and tired of these marxist duchebags spewing there hatred to our country. How long are we going to allow these people to do this?? VOTE THEM OUT PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »Oldbutnotsenile
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 6:02pmI would like to know why our elected officials, including the President has so much time on their hands to constantly be tweeting messages all day long. I thought they were sent to Washington to work for WE THE PEOPLE. Social Networking has become a total disgrace to our society.
Report Post »Karl Hungus
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 7:25pmEllsion is the ouche in Douche, but at least he isn’t named Jaycen.
Report Post »Grey Eagle
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 9:29pmEllison is also a Muslim. I would not engage in name calling if I was him. Boy they really have some classy Democrats in Congress. NOT!
Report Post »Maximus_Delta
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 3:10pmI bet he is a loyal member of the homie hood caucus….
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 5:21pmHe is one of the 81 Legislators LTC West mentioned in the Progressive/Communist caucus.
Report Post »BrownWaterVet
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 9:54pmSince Congress is holding hearings on everything else (GSA & the Secret Service) to hide investigating their own, why don’t they investigate this fool? It’s obvious to me that the bad behavior & actions of GSA & the Secret Service are a result of the examples set by the people in the Legislative, Executive & Judicial branches of our Govt.
Semper Fortis
Report Post »G-WHIZ
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 11:04amOh K, little jonnie….It’s ” Homie ‘hoodie’ caucus” …You get an award-plastic for being present.
Report Post »BreeZee
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 3:08pmDefinition of a HYPOCRIT ie; noun; = Democrat
Report Post »Usage. Ellison berating Republicans for vitriolic rhetoric when in FACT he uses this language himself make him a HYPOCRIT.
kaydeebeau
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 6:48pmSo here is just an informal poll….how many of you forward emails or tweets to your friends and families that you do not agree with without some commentary like “can you believe this idiot would say this (or something to that effect)”??
Report Post »G-WHIZ
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 11:09amAnd the Union-thug said he would kik my a**s…so I pointed him toward my neighbor who is a Democrat..[ ba-dump-bum!]
Report Post »drbage
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 12:26pmSince he is a Democrat, the media will use the “mis” defense. He “mis”typed and then tell us that there is nothing to see here, so move on. Re. work, even Biden said that he became a senator 30 years ago, so that he wouldn’t have to work.
Report Post »WashingtonIsMyHero
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 3:07pmHey Mitt, quit promoting the work ethic in America. Someone may get offended.
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 4:30pmDon’t worry, Mitt wasn’t.
Mitt was promoting nanny state support of families. Go to work and we’ll pay more for your child care. Sure, it’ll cost more, but as a politician, I’m happy to spend more of the taxpayers money supporting your efforts.
God, but you people can be gullible.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 3:04pmHey Keith, like all good MuSlime, how often to you beat your wife….???
Report Post »Dismayed Veteran
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 4:14pmThere is this question also:
Have you stopped beating your wife?
Report Post »KyleD
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 3:03pmThis is all getting to be very strange. Where did this animal thing come into play? Isn’t it obama that ate dog? It seems like everything democrats do they accuse republicans of doing even if it’s completely random and unwarranted.
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 3:02pmHello Minnesota…Vote this creep out.. maybe his next job will be cleaning toilets! Typical Democratic swill… foul mouthed and filthy minded… Lord help Mitt.. protect him!
Report Post »elosogrande
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 2:58pmIf anyone knows about douche bags, it would be Ellison. Elected by The Marxist Left of Minneapolis & St. Paul – not the rest of Minnestota.
In The Twin Cities, the liberal government and law enforcement communities openly allow blatant drug use and sales to go on in their public parks every night of the year. Decent Taxpayers are risking their lives if they walk through a public park after dark in these two crap holes.
Report Post »LetsBeSmartAboutThis
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 2:57pmDemocratic Congressman Keith Ellison… what an immature and childish person.
And he’s a U.S. Congressman ? ? ? Time to grow up, Keith Ellison!
Report Post »LouC57
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 2:56pmWhy is the fact that Democratic Congressman Keith Ellison is a muslim relevant? Because muslim’s are “allowed to lie” to cover their sorry asses.
Report Post »LouC57
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 2:54pmDemocratic Congressman Keith Ellison IS a Muslim. Just FYI
Report Post »lisa2994
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 2:54pmI now know why Rick Perry wanted Texas to secede! Call him what you want he got that right!!!
Report Post »SEPARATENOW
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 5:00pmFrom myself in an earlier post (and everyone henceforth):
We have nothing in common with these people. They are in continual revolution against the Constitution. If we don’t get away from them, they will be the end of us. Separate Now.
Report Post »Skee
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 2:52pmIt’s ironic a democrat calls Romney a douchebag
Report Post »when the democratic party is infested with a
majority of vag. I think in a round about way
the dem is saying Romney is the solution too the
odorous problem that would be the democratic party.
spirited
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 2:46pmJennifer Porter Gore, Ellison’s communications director, subsequently told the Free Beacon: “As with all Twitter accounts a retweet is not an endorsement. The congressman removed the tweet because it appeared to endorse use of a nasty term”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~> “endorse” WHAT?
;^> Try some oil with that vineger….. “douchebag”
Report Post »Mark0331
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 3:01pm..sad part is someone has to go out and type/say these things..these ‘leftist’ idiots fall on their ‘morality’ sword all day for their bosses…‘spinning’ all the while they plunge headlong into the lie…sad when someone can lie and believe it….evil is more like it.
Report Post »Mutiny
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 3:01pmThis is typical crap from the left. Romney is he is progressive, pro tax hike, pro gun laws, pro NDAA, pro continuing pointless wars, pro choice, created Romneycare, pro bailouts, and is funded by the same big banks as Obama is but he is not douche.
Report Post »Hell if this idiot that called him a douchebag did any research on his own he would realize they could be political allies.
Conservitive and Proud
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 2:42pmMinnesota picks some winner don’t they? This guy is a duche bag! Just goes to show that you can lead the man to Islam but you can’t make them stop being a biggot
Report Post »Goldenyears22
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 10:34pmGo figure, so does California and that lady from Florida and several others. If only the people would wise up that they are enemies of the US and vote them out.
Report Post »welovetheUSA
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 2:35pmI will take such a thing……….over a comrade Obama…..200 days till you are all gone.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 2:34pmI don’t know if he has a heart or not, but he is a douchebag. Of course, so is the douchebag calling him that.
Report Post »DaveIn84
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 2:29pmKeith, did the Nation of Islam approve you communications first? You piece of crap.
Report Post »chickster
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 2:24pmEllison is not only a douchebag, he’s also a coward. If you have conviction, stand by it.
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 2:24pmDemocratic Congressman Keith Ellison is just another example of the black racist in congress. Its a shame his mother didn’t abort him. The race problem is fuled be the blacks in congress, obams, Al Sharpton, Rev. Wright, Jessie Jackson Sr. Eric Holder, as well as Louis Farrakhan’s radical Nation of Islam
Report Post »Stephen Markovich
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 3:50pmellison should be pi ssed on
Report Post »truthsayer53
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 2:20pmI am so sick of the blacks that have position in this country to run down caucasion people. If we weren’t so stupid as to elect a black muslim as president all these comments would go way. Obama is an idiot, totally out of touch with America, yet blacks in power continue to degrade anyone who challenges the idiot.
Report Post »Diablo4965
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 3:07pmI didn’t vote for the muslim POS, don’t say WE elected him!
Report Post »Tri-ox
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 2:16pmOh, THIS Keith Ellison? – - – ‘CAIR’s Congressional Candidate’ –
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=2650
“…Ellison has received financial and other help from executives at CAIR, which has deep connections to supporters of Islamic terrorism. Also among those who have contributed money to the candidate are an official from a group that participated in a “tribute” to the Iranian despot Ayatollah Khomenei and leaders of what is considered the political front in the U.S. for the Muslim Brotherhood…”
Report Post »Mark0331
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 2:32pmGreat link…thanks TRI-OX !!
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 2:15pmThat candyass racist punk should be recalled,the dems are always trying to recall republicans constantly so recall the idiot.
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 2:34pmYeah, SLAYER… but he (Ellison) can’t be ALL bad in the eyes of a Paul supporter like you… as he (Chief-co-sponsor) along with 22 other (Democrat) co-sponsors re-introduced H.R. 1831, “The Industrial Hemp Farming Act” back in 2011.
Hemp/Dope (and the hemp/dope related) tend to bring all the dopes together… lol.
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 2:35pmLeft out… “Ron Paul” was the Chief Co-sponor…
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 2:48pmYou almost made it without invoking the name of Ron Paul,there was a glimmer of hope but at the end your nature took over and you invoked his name.Paul occupies a lot of real estate in your tiny brain too bad for you.
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 3:05pmSLAYER. It’s my job YOB some of you have written, so I might as well earn my pay right? Lol.
I figure if Paul’s going to insult America, our Military, Conservatives and the GOP while he plays patty cake with this country’s fringe… he’s got his comeuppance due, even if it is only me reminding you of that fact.
Report Post »Mutiny
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 3:07pm@time
So what is so bad about that bill?
Report Post »Mutiny
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 3:12pm@time
Official Summary
5/11/2011–Introduced.Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2011 – Amends the Controlled Substances Act to exclude industrial hemp from the definition of “marihuana.“ Defines ”industrial hemp” to mean the plant Cannabis sativa L. and any part of such plant, whether growing or not, with a delta-nine tetrahydrocannabinol concentration of not more than 0.3 percent on a dry weight basis. Deems Cannabis sativa L. to meet that concentration limit if a person grows or processes it for purposes of making industrial hemp in accordance with state law.
So you are anti business, Time? Your posts are progressively getting worse. Dont stop posting. Your posts help me to remember that this country is full of idiots and I need to continue to make sure my kids are smart free thinkers and not sheep.
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 3:26pmMUTINY… I guess nothing‘s wrong with the bill if you’re a Ron Paul Democrat, lol.
Report Post »Mutiny
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 3:31pm@time
You do realize hemp has other purposes correct?
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 3:49pmMUTINY. Yeah, yeah… heard it all. And even a Ron Paul supporter on here went on a rant about how George Washington endorsed dope indirectly because he used Hemp to calm his funky gums… lol.
Using a Founder to rationalize drug use IS pretty lame. But with the exception of those who might REALLY need let’s say…. “medicinal marijuana”… the rest is a bunch of pot head BS.
What some will do to rationalize the legalization of drugs. They’ll even talk up Ron Paul if there is hope… lol.
Happy 420 Day all you Obama and Ron Paul Liberals out there…. lmao.
Report Post »Mutiny
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 4:17pm@time
Well I for one have never done drugs. I know you always think Ron Paul supporters are drugged out college students but its not true. I look at it from a money issue. We are broke.
Has the “war on drugs” worked?
Report Post »Our prisons are full of dope sellers. Prison costs are a drain.
Are you also for prohibition?
You do understand dropping the war on drugs Federally gives the power to the states to decide right?
TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 4:37pmOne more time….
[…] a man, not having the power of his own life, cannot, by compact, or his own consent, enslave himself to any one, nor put himself under the absolute, arbitrary power of another, to take away his life, when he pleases. No body can give more power than he has himself; and he that cannot take away his own life, cannot give another power over it […] But though this be a state of liberty, yet it is not a state of licence: though man in that state have an uncontroulable liberty to dispose of his person or possessions, yet he has not liberty to destroy himself […]
Report Post »Mutiny
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:45pm@time
Who determines what can “destroy himself”? Is that you Mrs Obama?
Report Post »Mark0331
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 2:14pmWith all the ‘mistakes’ , ‘retractions’ and ‘apologies’ the left has made in recent weeks…I think they are truly losing their minds because the veil has lifted and everyone now sees them for who they truly are and, more importantly, see what an abject failure Barry has proven to be…it is great watching them collapse.
Report Post »SEPARATENOW
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 2:31pmDoes anyone here really believe that rational thought or any real sense shame exists on the left? Barry’s getting 44-48% of the vote no matter what he or the left does.
We have nothing in common with these people. They are in continual revolution against the Constitution. If we don’t get away from them, they will be the end of us. Separate Now.
Report Post »Mark0331
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 2:41pm@Separate…Sadly, you may be right…I’d like to think that educating our fellow citizen about True Amercan values may be the only way…or out and out bloodshed in which we wipe the earth clean of that ideology once and for all… I say if the ‘left’ wants to violently take our Freedoms, Identity and our right to bear arms…Molon Labe
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 2:10pmThis racist pig needs to be removed from office… He is a disgrace to this country. Minnesota should be embarrassed to have voted this idiot into office.
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 2:43pmMinnesota should be embarrassed about a few things..Al Franken comes to mind…wasn’t he cometic actor at one time…in other words, a democrat.
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