Wednesday, 18 October 2006
2nd District Update
« 4th District Update | Main | A Democratic Response to Steny Hoyer's Remarks »The only reason I am talking about this race is not because it is competitive, but because I want to offer some advice for Mr. Weaver. If you are a "conservative" who happens to be a Democrat, you may want to think about changing parties. That way you don't have to make the following stupid and ignorant remarks trying to defend your party.
"They have tolerated things that they should not have tolerated," Weaver said. "And it is far worse than what Bill Clinton wanted to do with Don't Ask, Don't Tell because this has to do with 16-year-old boys. So they covered that up, and that showed a very liberal tendency from some of the leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives."
When asked to clarify whether he was equating predatory behavior toward children with being liberal, Weaver said that had Foley been a Democrat, the entire party would have been branded as liberals.
"I think that is despicable conduct and that if anybody in the Democratic Party had done that, it would be: 'Those damn liberals are doing it again. We can't trust them,'" he said.
At one point, his campaign manager, Robert Kellar, interrupted the interview to interject that Weaver was "not saying liberals are pedophiles."
Of course those remarks set off the fringe lefties over at DailyKos and allowed Ron Lewis to make Weaver look juvenile.
"He's got a confusing message going there," Lewis said Tuesday afternoon. "I don't know where he's coming from."
Lewis said he rejected any idea that liberals are more apt to be socially deviant or to cover up such activity. "I have liberal friends who are very decent human beings," he said.
Again, let me advise Weaver. Switch parties after you are beaten this fall. That way you can be conservative without saying stupid remarks that make you look like a bigot. Besides, the Democratic party is no longer a party that tolerates conservative members. Ask former Georgia Senator Zell Miller if you doubt it.
