Post your favorite reThug moment.....

[AmandaRuth]

I am leaving for my first Dem picnic in a few moments and want to reflect on the path that lead me here-----

Two particularly ugly moment stick out in my pre political (other than voting) days.

1. when Mrs. Clinton was doing here national tour in support of her health care plan, local hate radio whipped up an protest of massive thug proportions. i was working in an office, and had gotten off work, and cut thru a hotel in order to avoid climbing a hill to my bus stop. when I came out of the hotel, it was liking walking into a firestorm. It was ugly, people were milling around, all ramped up, calling Mrs. Clinton every name in the book. I ended up standing next to this women, who with veins bulging, all red in the face, who yelled out "B**ch" I was truly appalled, and had this been now, i really really would have just knocked her on her ass.

2. a bunch of years ago, my family and I went to the state fair. We were walking down the main thoroughfare, when we noticed that a group (like 10 or so) of very young rethugs. (and I mean very young) were marching in front of the Dem table in a very very threatening manner, chanting and carrying stupid repug signs. The Dem table was manned by a extremely elderly man, he must have been in his 70's. It was just so nazi like. My husband and I stopped by the table and just hung out for an hour or so, because it appeared he was going to get mugged if we didn't. He was delightful to talk to, and I often wonder what happened to that man after we left.

Those are my stories, whats yours?

[ewagner]

1. whne I was 22 or 23

Attended a Repub campaign school......the lady teaching the school, who later became a nationally known name, told us how to get manpower. She said to hand out titles such as East-south-central-deputy-vice-director of operations. She said titles are free and "the little people" love it.

I realized that I WAS ONE OF THE "LITTLE PEOPLE".

[PittPoliSci]

6. who was this nationally known figure?

divulge please :-)

[Ghetto_Boy]

2. My favorite moment was when Bush I and Goldwater went to the

White House and told Nixon "you have to go" He resigned the next day

[TlalocW]

3. Mine are long

1. When I was kicking around grad school (Oklahoma State), I was involved with all the Hispanic/Latino clubs. We entered the homecoming parade for the first time my first year there. Our "entry" if you can call it that was marching/dancing behind a truck with a big jambox playing Latin tunes. We were snaked around a neighborhood with the other floats and were #98 to go out of 140. I had gone over to the Young Democrats float to get a Clinton/Gore sticker (it was 1996), and five minutes later, our troglodylic senator Jim Inhofe rides by on a horse. I tell our advisor that I'm going to lure Jimmy-boy out into the street, ask him for his autograph, and while he was distracted remembering how to spell his name, I was going to put the sticker on his saddle blanket. Alas, there was a kid waiting to hand me an Inhofe sticker after getting my picture taken with him so I couldn't put it on that side and get a picture of it. So I put it on the other side when no one (I thought - more later) was looking. I hoped he would ride through the parade campaigning for Clinton/Gore on one side. Just as we were called up to take our place in the parade, some people found the sticker and alerted him to it. He rode over and stood up in his saddle with a scowl on his face looking for the one white guy in the Latin Dancing Club. I was on the other side of the truck, ducked down and looking through the cab windows at him, laughing my ass off. Two years later, I had moved to Tulsa, and some woman I met asked me if I had ever put a democratic sticker on a republican horse. I said yes and asked her if she had gone to OSU. She said no - that she had just moved there from Florida and had remembered seeing me in a paper there. :)

This event gave me my new hobby of getting pictures with republicans while making a face or doing something else. I've got shots with Pat Buchanan and Ted Nugent as well.

2. Fred Phelps of GodHatesFags fame came to Tulsa in 1998 I believe to protest a gay pride parade. We ran into them a year or two ago when my brother graduated from KU law school, and I regret not being able to think of anything to do to them then so I made up two signs - "God Is Love" and "Fred Phelps Is a Wanker." I went to the park where they had a slice of one corner of the park to protest and got across from them in a business' parking lot and brought out my signs. I got the evil eye from them, and two of the guys were about to cross the street to come talk to me - two because I was bigger than anyone on their side :) - when I brought out my juggling torches, lit them, and started juggling - staring at them with one eyebrow raised. They thought better of it and stayed on their side. I did that because the worst thing you can do to them - other than be gay and have sex in front of them I'm sure - is take attention away from them, which I did. :)

3. Speaking of Fred Phelps, I met his grandson in a political chatroom. When I joined, I got several private messages to turn on the "TlalocW charm" and get rid of the guy (I had a reputation). So I asked him if he thought AIDS was God's scourge on gays. Of course it was. Then I asked him if he knew that lesbians have one of the lowest infection rates of any groups, and because of that, using his logic, it appears that God really, REALLY likes lesbians. He started sputtering out damnations, and then I told him maybe God really is a man since every man I know really likes the idea of lesbians. He condemned us all one last time then left the channel, of which I was the hero for the next hour. :)

TlalocW

[69KV]

4. Favorite?

Let's see...

1. I stop at a truck stop, some guy comes in a little later and asks the clerk "do you know who's driving that pickup out there", clerk points to me, the guy threatens me and calls me an Iraqi. It was a truck driver who I don't even know who I had seen in another town and who followed me all the way - 50 miles or so - so he could stop and harass me. This was back when I had a Howard Dean bumper sticker on the truck.

2. Early 2002, a forum I was posting to, there were a bunch of us discussing the Patriot Act and Bush's assault on civil rights. We all agreed that "Bush has to go in 2004", in just that wording, nothing more. New RWer comes on the forum to inform us that he has just reported all of us to the Secret Service for threatening the president during wartime, and gave the SS transcripts of all our posts to the forum. He posted details of which SS office he called and which agent he talked to which makes me think he really did report us and wasn't bluffing. None of us ever heard from the Secret Service.

3. I also remember the local RW radio whipping up a protest when Hillary Clinton came to town. I think they did that all over the country and it was a coordinated thing straight from the Repuke Natl Committee. Hillary's bus is met with crowd of protesters holding signs accusing Hillary of being a lesbian, a witch, a b*tch, a bunch of other things. One sign I remember seeing was "Why take the bus Hillary? Use your broom!" (Seattle, in case you're curious.)

4. While out of town for work I stop in a barbershop. While cutting my hair the barber asks where I grew up. I told him which state, it's in the south. His face lights up and he stats talking about the Ku Klux Klan and how he liked that state because there weren't a lot of (the n-word) there. I was about ready to punch his sorry face into oblivion. Leaving the barbershop I go into a circle k. The clerk is talking to a customer about environmentalists, and the customer says "They should all be lined up and shot", and the clerk AGREED. I leave without buying anything. Same town, same day, within less than an hour of each other. (Pinetop-Lakeside, Arizona in case you're curious.) I decided to spend as little money there as I could and get the hell out for some fresh air. I wound up staying 40 miles away in another town while on that job just so I wouldn't be putting any money into their ecomony.

Those are my "favorites". I have had a hard time being able to assume that anyone with a W04 or BC sticker is a decent human being because of such incidents.

[PittPoliSci]

5. spring time, at the mall...

I was just minding my own business picking up some lunch after class and before work, a guess some shithead noticed the "donkey" pin on my jacket and had assumed (correctly) that I was attending one of the universities in town.

He made the comment, though not to me, but loud enough for me to hear that "the goddamned liberal democrats control all the universities, and brainwash the students. they won't hire conservatives, and blah blah blah, all they do is indoctrinate our children into their way of thinking."

After about five minutes of that, after every sentence he turned to me and smiled with this disgusting gold tooth glaring at me and his nauseating greased back hair, and typical douchebag businessman garb, I lost it. Hell, here I am sitting around just trying to enjoy lunch and not be bothered, when this asshole has the nerve to pick a fight with me.

I happened to be the wrong person to pick a fight with. I had just finished my slice of pizza when I walked over to the guy and said:

"have a problem with all the liberal professors huh?"

he exasperated out a "yeah."

so i SCREAMED "THEN WHY DON'T YOU GET YOUR FUCKING PHD AND TEACH YOURSELF?"

he tried to cut in to give some excuse, but before he could I fired back:

"OH YEAH, I FORGOT, PROBABLY BECAUSE YOUR TOO FUCKING STUPID!!!!!!!!"

I just walked away, he seemed shocked, but I doubt he'll ever antagonize another total stranger again.