Penn. GOP Official Implies Driver Is ‘Mentally Retarded Person’ Because of Obama Bumper Sticker
- Posted on August 8, 2012 at 6:59pm by
Erica Ritz
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(Photo via the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Jim Roddey, reportedly a long-time Pennsylvania GOP official and county chair, is making headlines after implying that a driver is “mentally retarded” for having an Obama bumper sticker on his car.
Speaking at an election night party Tuesday, the man described by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette as a “Silver Fox [with a] suave demeanor” reportedly said:
“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.’”
According to the Post-Gazette’s Tim McNulty, the crowd “hollered and clapped” in response.
(Photo: mybarackobama.com)
McNulty elaborates:
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.
Huffington Post commenters have gone into a frenzy, with nearly 1,000 comments in just a few hours.
“And these people get to vote?” one wrote.
Another added that, after “attacking women and minorities,“ it is only ”natural” to attack the mentally handicapped.
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Comments (122)
Diane TX
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 7:30pmHe was making a joke, and btw, it went over well with the audience he was addressing.
Report Post »doomytram
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 7:45pmAnd what a funny joke it was… I LMAO just reading it in context. I know the PC thought police will come after this guy, but where is the civility Obamabots? I hate it when Liberal misinformed drones think that people are Right Wing Nut Jobs, because we can’t understand how anyone with anything resembling a functioning brain could support this clown and his side kick bite me. They have decimated this country to the power of Carter destruction times 10. Face it Libs/Progressives this trickle up economy does not work, will not work, and has never worked. The automatic Lib response to what I just said is, but, but but, Romney is rich and worse, and my automatic response to that is LMAO…. I don’t care if he is rich, and No he isn’t worse..Nobody is worse than an America Hating Communist, with Thin Skin Narcissist who lies too much.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 7:50pmRodeo clown with no sense of humor? That’s too bad.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 7:57pmI have my own 0bama bumper sticker. It looks just like my avatar.
Report Post »On another thought, I do understand how he must feel. I get the same feeling sometimes when I see somebody driving idiotically with an Auburn bumper sticker. That’s a joke, son!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTwnwbG9YLE
RLTW
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 8:08pmRJJ today in Washington state I saw a car with an Obama and Auburn sticker, no joke!
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 8:12pmThat would be a fairly good indicator, but dummed down would have been more likely the case.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 8:15pmThat, or more likely a welfare recipient, government worker or college professor……
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 8:18pmRLTW, LOL, I hope you got the hell out of it’s way. On another note, I get a lot of compliments on my 0bama sticker. People want to know where I got it. It was in an email of some hilarious “0” bumper stickers that got about a year ago. This one I moved to Paint, enlarged, and printed it on card stock. Actually two, the length of the card stock sheet. One is hanging above the computer monitor, and the other is sealed in plastic taped to the inside back window of my camper shell. Next to it there is another one that says “This Truck Is Protected By It‘s Owner’s 2nd Amendment Rights.”
Report Post »randy
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 8:23pmI’m still waiting to see the driver of a car with an Obama sticker on it to start licking the windows when I pass them :)
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 8:23pmRLTW, Like what DARMOK AND JALAD AT TANAGRA was saying below, were they on a Chevy Volt?
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 1:06amThe TRUTH HURTS
Report Post »KeystoneState
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 6:54amJoke? Sounds like an honest statement to me. That’s what I would have thought.
Report Post »bigdaddyt46
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 8:01am@RJJ
i use to have a sign up in my apartment back in the day that i “fixed before i hung it in the window.
THIS HOUSE IS PROTECTED BY A RUGER .357 3 DAYS A WEEK. YOU GUESS WHICH 3
Report Post »antrancher
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 11:41amI thought his statement was pretty funny. It would make a great bumper sticker because it is true. Mentally retarded or just plain stupid and uninformed.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 12:14pmBIGDADDYT46, Now that is funny, yet effective. I may have to ‘borrow’ that phrase from you and print some more placards.
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 7:29pmAn Obama sticker on ones car is the same as having one that says, “I’m Stupid”
Report Post »Thankfully I have seen less of them these days.
dublinthewagons
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 7:46pmMost were crushed in their cars. Cash for clunkers. Democrats didn’t know how to unbuckle the seat belts and get out.
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 8:10pmLoL
Report Post »Individualism
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 7:29pmI agree anyone who has an Obamney or Robama stick basically is.
Report Post »GoodStuff
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 7:25pmLeftist = a perpetually offended useful idiot.
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 7:25pmI usually mutter “Idiot” at the ones I see, then stare and shake my head as I pass them on the road……
Report Post »eyestoseeearstohear
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 7:43pmYep!
Occasionally, I will LAUGH & FLIP THE BIRD AT THEM…
Report Post »AND POINT AT THEIR STUPID STICKER AS I PASS THEM.
chips1
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 8:04pmWalking thru the mall parking lot, I have small stickers that I put next to the Obama stickers. It says, “Here’s your sign”.
Report Post »RanScot
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 7:23pmFunny, but I don’t think of Barry voters as having <70 IQs, but either very ignorant &/or , lazy, selfish & immoral to rely on big gov to steal from taxpayers for them.
Report Post »SCREW-WINDOWS
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 12:49amIn reality they do have to be mentally deficient would you hire Obama to run your business ?
Report Post »SCREW-WINDOWS
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 7:31amI would have fired him on day two just for his attitude.
Report Post »txnativeson
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 7:22pmHe just told a joke that I got in my email weeks ago. Sad part is it’s true.
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 8:04pmNo, the sad part is it’s true, even though they believe they are the most intelligent, hardworking, charitable people on earth.
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 5:49pmYou’re right SWAMPY. That makes them even more dangerous.
Report Post »Laus Deo
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 7:21pmHilarious… Please, Mr. Roddey, double-down and piss them off with another painful truth.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 7:21pmJim rock on yes they are as you characterize,just parasites hoping for some crumbs from the all knowing all caring government. The interviews with the citizens of Detroit lining up for ‘Obama cash’ as these fine citizens describe it is the slave mentality,they‘ll take all the ’freebies’ just for existing,no shame involved,they’re way beyond that and feel entitled to money owed them and when the system collapses,hopefully soon we’ll see how they react.
Barry says tax the rich,I marvel that he can say it without laughing because the Marxist POS knows there isn’t enough money in the world to get us out of this and cutting spending? LMAO no that simply won‘t do no we need to spend trillions to get out of this and he also knows that isn’t the answer but will produce the outcome he needs,the total collapse of our economy.
He‘s a Marxist and detests capitalism and he’s purposely destroying it to show you how bad it is.
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 7:21pmI thought That is what those bumper stickers meant? I figured The only reason people had them was to park in the Handicapped parking spaces.Then again I Would rather a Liberal call me Retarded than to have one Wish I died of cancer or choked to death on Chicken.
Report Post »smartgirl
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 7:20pmOh dear, I think that, too. Not so bad if it’s a sticker from 2008 but, in 2012… One wonders if these are, at best, slow learners.
Report Post »BSdetector
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 7:58pmI would have said the same thing. Get over the PC Bull$^@#.
Report Post »Jezreel
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 7:20pmWe understand what he meant. He was not putting down mentally retarded people but expressing a truth that people that vote for Obama are not right in their brains. There is something definitely severely wrong with their thinking that is deformed and backwards and upside down. People who vote for Obama have a mental disorder. There are mentally retarded people that have more common sense than democrats. Liberals have no common sense or wisdom combined with a drive to fulfill all their lusts and indecent desires.
Report Post »drkmagneto
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 7:18pmI have long thought that supporters of Obama had IQs around 75 and were feeble/retarded. No surprise there!
Report Post »chips1
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 7:55pmYou forgot the decimal point.
Report Post »SimpleTruths
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 12:04amI don‘t think you’ll be laughing in November, Obama wins 302 electoral votes to 234 for Romney. Tell your friends you heard it here first.
Report Post »I’m from the future btw.
RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 12:16pmSIMPLETRUTHS, Nah, it just looks like you are smoking something that you can’t really handle. Just look at your avatar.
Report Post »geoteach
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 7:17pmI share this guys humor. I sit in church (Catholic) every Sunday and realize that 54% of my fellow attendees voted for Obama–a total rejection of their faith. Talk about retarded…
Report Post »AzThunder
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 8:20pmI’d find another place to attend church
Report Post »Maxim Crux
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 7:15pmBrain Dead Zombie is more like it. Don’t want to give retarded people a bad name.
Report Post »smartgirl
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 7:23pmIf we have to be PC, I can go with brain dead zombie. But PC is so yesterday. How about the IQ of lint – or would that be an insult to lint?
Report Post »CanDan
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 7:15pmpoor Mr. Roddey isn’t up to date on the latest PC word rules imposed on everyone
Report Post »DIVINEPROVIDENCE1776
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 7:13pmI would say mentally challenged and brainwashed. Also useful idiots, every last one of them.
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 2:47amI think it might have been a poor choice of words especially because it is an invitation for major headlines brought on by the left. Odd since they referred to Palins infant son with such distasteful comments a few years ago. I just hate to give them the opportunity to cause even more conflict.
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on August 9, 2012 at 6:23am@ Pamela…..to the leftists anything we say is fodder – we are darned if we do and darned if we don’t so if I am going to be darned, I am going to go all out. Don’t retreat, reload so to speak
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 7:11pmI agree with him. I thought it was funny. Have people lost their sense of humor. The Progressives say a lot worse about Conservatives.
Report Post »hatchetjob
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 7:22pmRight on!!
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 7:33pmIf he had said that about Bush, that would have been OK. If he said it about Biden, no problem, everyone would have nodded their head. But he said it about our Dear Leader, sorry, his tongue needs to be ripped out and he should be keel hauled.
What they did leave out was the guy was driving a Chevy Volt, Had an Obama Sticker right next to a Free Sandusky sticker, and a Jerry Brown for President sticker. But the most damning piece of evidence he was Mentally Challenged, was the fact he kept saying, “15 minutes to Wapner, I’m an excellent driver.”
Report Post »Oldphoto678
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 7:42pmYes we do, but we’re right!!!
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 8:11pmDARMOK AND JALAD AT TANAGRA, Bwahahahahahahaha! That one made my day, thanks.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 8:40pmJust remember the old saying, If you can’t take a FiretrUCK, Joke you!
Report Post »historyguy48
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 7:10pmSo what’s the problem? The Blaze is supposed to be about truth and the truth is that the supporters of Dear Leader all seem to have either a mental disorder, or God forgot to give them a brain.
Report Post »But don’t worry because there is hope for them yet. The TV series “The Walking Dead” is looking to cast a whole bunch of brainless people so they can gross us all out while zombies eat the Jello that exists where their brains should be,
kickagrandma
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 7:10pmWe stand with this man.
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 7:09pm…
Report Post »If you voted for Obama, you couldn’t possibly be right in the head or the soul.
RANGER1965
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 7:07pmConservative makes a risque joke=crimimal offense, which will be reported endlessly until he leaves in disgrace.
Liberal makes a risque joke=Courageous truth teller to be celebrated.
Report Post »drkmagneto
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 7:05pmSounds reasonable to me! I’ve long thought that Obama supporters had IQs around 75, because how can they not see just how inept, inexperienced, and naive this guy was from the beginning with the “bumper sticker” platitudes and empty promises!
Report Post »rja444
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 7:04pmThere is probably some truth to it. Remember liberalism is a mental disorder.
Report Post »jeann
Posted on August 8, 2012 at 7:03pmI agree with this man..
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