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Yesterday the Internets revealed that a vendor at the Texas state GOP convention was selling dumb racist buttons. So today the state party sent out a sternly worded press release letting everybody know that Hate has no place in the Party of Lincoln: “This vendor [of the goofy button pictured left] need not apply to another Texas G.O.P. State Convention. The proceeds from their booth space will be donated to charity. We will tolerate nor profit from bigotry,” said Hans Klingler, a spokesman. We hope that NAMBLA appreciates all the hot dollars it gets from the terrible vendor’s forfeited booth proceeds. Full press release after the jump.
Republican Party of Texas to Donate Proceeds from Disgraced Vendor
Sends Message that Bigotry Will Not Be Tolerated
Austin - The Republican Party of Texas on Wednesday announced it will donate the proceeds from a vendor who attempted to sell a disgracefully insensitive button during the just completed 2008 Republican State Convention in Houston. The vendor RepublicanMarket.com is a Florida based outlet who sells political paraphernalia via the internet and at state conventions all over the nation.
“This vendor need not apply to another Texas G.O.P. State Convention. The proceeds from their booth space will be donated to charity. We will tolerate nor profit from bigotry,” said Hans Klingler, Texas G.O.P. Spokesman.
Dallas Morning News Journalist Christy Hoppe appropriately brought the issue to the attention of R.P.T. officials on Tuesday. R.P.T. officials will be alerting the vendor today via letter about their intent and suggesting they clean up their act.
“Our state convention was energetic, unifying and positive. We will not allow any dishonor to be brought on our hardworking grassroots leaders by the actions of a misguided few. The Republican Party of Texas is proud of its principles, record and diversity,” Klingler continued.
When you married your sister, did you keep introducing her as your sister?
The Texas Republican Party, dishonored by buttons, but not by the crazy.
Hans Klingler?
“We will tolerate nor profit from bigotry
So that’s Tolerate bigotry - yes, Profit from bigotry - No.
…and who said that the Republicans where the party of American business.
The Nathan Bedford Forrest Charitable Trust appreciates the donated proceeds.
“This vendor need not apply to another Texas G.O.P. State Convention, for he is pre-approved from now until eternity and the end of time!”.
just to be clear, i know hans klingler. his parents are from argentina. what does that tell you?
Ha! Next they’ll denounce the southern strategy. The technical term is bothus-sidus-of-the-mouthus disease.
Hope this jackassery makes it to O’s smears page.
If they can’t figure out a way to make a profit off bigotry, they must not be very good Republicans.
…they “wont tolerate or profit from bigotry”!? How are they going to make money then?
vicuna: Yeah, he took over for Ivana Feelurup.
How very Republican to attempt (and fail yet again) to put the toothpaste back in the tube.
The Republican Party of Texas has about as much soul as a German jazz band. Feh!
How about donating the money to James Byrd’s family, you fucks.
Here’s another nice button from their site. I love the irony.
guerilla-nation: That he’s on strike?
Sends Message that Bigotry Will Not Be Tolerated after it has been discovered by the media and widely ridiculed. Discreet and politically advantageous bigotry unaffected.
Anyway, I am presently calling it the “Fleshy Pink with Liver Spots House”, so I guess after Obama gets elected I can call it whatever I damn want.
“Misguided few” ??? are they fucking kidding?
Excellent. I see all those Hilltards who force rejections and denunciations are warping the Republican party now too. The plans are all falling into place…
So does that mean they’re also sold out of purple bandaids?
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/01/politics/campaign/01swift.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1208801044-AaBKW3oERrvL7qOZYEOF9g
gjdodger: that his grandparents were fucking escaped nazis!!!!!
If McCain is President, can we start calling it the Albino Hut?
No comment on stringing blacks up on a wire yet?? Huh. I guess they REALLY HATE those buttons.
“The Republican Party of Texas is proud of its principles, record and diversity.”
How can you be proud of something that doesn’t exist?
“I’m really proud of that day I invented hangover-free alcohol.”
DoctorCulturae:
Their “side-by-side comparison” of Democratic Party and Republican party platforms conveniently starts with the pre-abolition era and stops at FUCKING 1964.
http://www.texasgop.org/site/DocServer/civil_rights_platform_comparison.pdf?docID=103
MathewBrooks: Republicans: The last bastion of egalitarianism and tolerance. Not like those goddamned libs.
We will tolerate nor profit from bigotry,” said Hans Klingler, Texas G.O.P. Spokesman.
Hans Klingler, Nazi Quarterback.
As they say in Texas: Fuck them. And the elephant they rode in on.
The RPT also announced tht the Obama monkey-and-bannana T-shirts were 25% off, all day.
Nasara: I think of McCain as less of an albino and more of a Morlock.
Whut? Is this some kind of perverted trend? Does this mean no more public policy based on dimwitted bumper sticker slogans?
No. we’ll call it the Victim of White Rape House. Yours truly, Malcolm
guerilla-nation: i’m from Argentina…what DOES that tell you?
Botswana Meat Commission FC: But if there was profit, tolerance would follow.
I wonder when we’re going to see whining from the extra-chromosome crowd along the lines of “you can’t say anything in America without those damn PC libs hunting you down”, while the national RNC is hilariously trying to stay on message…
And next on the agenda: donating to NOW the $300,000 sucked by McCain out of Clayton Williams’ cock.
hang on, what do you mean, “That would actually be a meaningful reversal of policy and not an empty gesture”?
Aw, shucks.
jjgittes: Brilliant documentation Mr. Gitz. My point exactly. They get to have the buttons and deny it at the same time. Very conveeeeeeenient.
“The Republican Party of Texas is proud of its principles, record and diversity, now how many buttons you want?” said Klinger.
Botswana Meat Commission FC: is your picture Maradona? i can’t tell by clicking it since Wonkette revamped it’s profile
jjgittes: Ha…that is hilarious…it’s kind of like how when my friend worked at AGFA, the German film company that also was part of the Nazi industrial complex, and he showed me a pamphlet that outlined their company’s history. They conveniently left out any mention of what happened between 1935-1945.
PoliticalGraffiti:
Yep.
I think there’s a typo there. It should read “We will tolerate AND profit from bigotry.”
“We will not tolerate nor profit from bigotry..”
continues:
“but we’ll sure encourage ‘em to donate their profits to PACs or to the Col-ee-rado PO-leece outside the Democratic convention, to help ‘em pay for them fancy shit-yer-pants ray guns!” *wink* *wink*
Great, they’re from Florida. I can look forward to all the flea-market shopping morans sporting these buttons in the coming weeks.
loudmouthredhead: “We will profit only from tolerated bigotry”
Q2: Yeah, I think he purposely mumbled that part to the reporter, or inserted about 20 negatives that mathematically end up yielding something offensive AND profitable. Win!
“This vendor need not apply to another Texas G.O.P. State Convention. The proceeds from their booth space will be donated to charity. We will tolerate nor profit from bigotry,” said Hans Klingler, Texas G.O.P. Spokesman.
Gee, that’s mighty white of them. The RPT might choose not to profit from bigotry, but the guy selling the buttons seems to be okay with it. He probably made a lot more in hatebutton revenues than he paid for the booth space.
The ironical goldmine here is the RPT denouncing this guy for making money on intolerance while ignoring the fact that the racist d-bags who buy his stuff happen to the rank and file members of the RPT. Dizzying.
obfuscator: Hatebuttons. I like that.
Really people! This can’t possibly be the most offensive, obnoxious, and hatefull thing at a Republican gathering!…and it was in TEXAS for cryin’ out loud! That right there is worse than the racist botton… that they accidently let some vendor (best friend of one off the state party rep’s) sell… at the state convention. I’m sure it will never happen again. I mean, we have their word on it, right?
Whiskeybaby: Hateware
Be good to know how big a Landlord’s over ride they got on these sales. Because I bet they sold more than one.
‘We will tolerate nor profit from bigotry’ Well, leave to the good old GOP to not have good grammer. This says they will tolerate bigotry, but not profit from it…
PoliticalGraffiti: do you have full-blooded german grandparents who settled there in, say, 1945?
I’ll say it again:
We should kick the Confederacy and all the red states out of the union. Again, yeah, we won the war, we slapped them around, we made them our bitches (they still are) but, who are we kidding? They’re not like us and we cannot be serious about the idea of those hillbillies being part of our country, can we? After all they don’t like our four-seasons climate, they like that country music thing and they just don’t understand our urban culture.
So, let’s do the sensible thing and kick them out. They can revive the Confederacy, join Canada (I doubt they would take them), or do whatever; who cares? And it’s not that were going to miss them anyway. We’ll still have New Jersey and Delaware to make fun of.
Um, they’re going to donate the profits made from the empty booth space…?
I’m sure glad THESE guys are the Economics party cuz they’re too smart for me to follow!
kudzu: wow, for that last statement you have dropped yourself to their level. I use ‘their’ very loosely. I am from arkansas. And i hate country music.
When you’re in the hate business, there’s no such thing as bad publicity.
kudzu: Agreed. TX and FL should definitely go. They behave as if they are another country already. Even CA is more US. And that seasons thing? That’s change red staters cannot believe in.
PLEASE give me a reason not to give up on Texas!
(And don’t bring up Austin. I’ve heard that before, and it’s not enough.)
kudzu: The largest KKK rallies in recorded history were in Cicero, IL and some bumb-fuck Indiana town, I think.
kudzu:
I’m originally from the part of CA that’s most like Oklahoma. It’s where everybody went when they were fleeing the Dust Bowl. Major parts of Five Easy Pieces (and yeah, Any Which Way But Loose… sigh) were filmed there.
True, the area regularly sends certifiable, corrupt idiots to Congress and is a regular stop on the campaign trail for any Republican visiting CA.
But it didn’t have large-scale busing and race riots like my adopted city, Boston.
And if you won’t listen to old Hank Williams or the Man in Black, I got no use for you.
(I’m more into electronica than anything else, to tell the truth. But your blanket condemnation rankles the piss out of me for what should be obvious reasons.)
kudzu: And they’re a tax burden on top of everything.
as long as the ‘Big O’ and his posse don’t sit on the front porch, its all good.
No, it’ll be “Victim of White Rape House” since he’s mixed race, right Uncle Malcolm? Oh, wait a minute, his mother was white which means that it was not a white rape which made him “high yeller”, right Uncle Malcom? Only, he’s not really yeller, either. He’s more of a taupe so it’ll be the Taupe House. Are the O-tards “OKKK” with that or am I missing the point, altogether?
Congrats to the GOP for their upright and moral determination
that public endorsement of racism is not a winning electoral strategy.
tr1ck: Then you’re welcome to immigrate to the US.
NAMBLA appreciates nothing!
shortsshortsshorts: Let’s kick them out too unless they deport the KKK to the South. I know the KKK was not born in the South but there’s where it flourished and thrived the most.
jjgittes: Yo, I dig the Johnny too, man.
so yeah, the guy in the nail salon today
(yes NAIL SALON AND FUCK YOU ALL I NEEDED A PEDICURE AS I’M STUCK GOING TO JAMAICA OFF-SEASON AND IZ HOT AND AM WITH TEETOTALLERS SO I NEED PEDICUR BARAK OBAMA MUZLIM PAYZ AND THIS IS OK CAUSE HILLARY WAZ ROBBED AND JAMAKA VOTED 4 HER!!!!!!11!!!)
was quoting this stupid thing as a joke.
this occurred in an up and coming, liberal neighborhood in chicago. and dude was vietnamese.
i was forced to make a scene.
This story released by the Republican Party of Texas is a fake. I went to the website where it was said to be sold and could not find the button. I also could not find any statement of apology from the company for their blatant racism.
I then did a search for the button and could not find it anywhere, only articles about it and how the Republican Party of Texas was quick to condemn such a “disgracefully insensitive button.”
This leads me to believe that this is just an attempt to say, “Hey, look at us. We’re not racist!” Clearly, if this button was sold at the convention, it was with the intent of making a media spectacle.