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  • MEET YOUR 2010 CANDIDATES: “HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. β€” A GOP candidate in South Florida says it was a mistake to shoot at a target with a Democratic congresswoman’s initials … Robert Lowry, a Republican vying to replace Democratic U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, fired at a full-body silhouette with her initials written next to its head.” It was a joke! [AP]


1:49 PM on Fri October 9 2009
By Jim Newell
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  1. Humpback says at 1:54 pm, October 9th, 2009

    He made a mistake when he called it a joke.
    Then he shot himself in the foot.

  2. V572625694 says at 1:55 pm, October 9th, 2009

    “Lowry first told the Sun-Sentinel it was a joke, then that it was a mistake.”

    Right both times!

  3. chascates says at 1:56 pm, October 9th, 2009

    Dead monkey cartoon signifying Obama - joke.
    Drawing of watermelons on White House lawn - joke.
    Escaped gorilla from zoo compared to Obama relative - joke.
    Question on how so many blacks could get to inauguration but not out of New Orleans - joke.

    GOP is tolerant - joke.
    Very bad joke.

  4. Lascauxcaveman says at 1:56 pm, October 9th, 2009

    Heh. When I was a good lil’ nascent Republican kid, well indoctrinated by my folks, we had a picture of George McGovern on our dartboard.

    I mentioned that to my youngest daughter when we were tossing darts one day, and she asked, “So are we going to put a picture of President Bush up on ours?”

    I told her I like to think I’m a little more mature than that nowadays.

  5. ManchuCandidate says at 1:56 pm, October 9th, 2009

    Yeehaw! Gonna shoot me my opponent!!!!! Yessuhree!! Great idea, Slim! Fucking Demoncraps!

    Great to shoot a silhouette of Jewish, ulp, lady… Um… In South Florida where Northern Bubbies go to retire… Er… Who remember when some folks took target practice on their families… And might have the booby cancer… Oh crap… I think I just shit the bed…

  6. SayItWithWookies says at 1:57 pm, October 9th, 2009

    I thought it was okay to shoot liberals. That was the whole theme of that awful Fourth of July Carol movie last summer, wasn’t it? They’re not real people, so it’s okay.

  7. Mr Blifil says at 1:58 pm, October 9th, 2009

    Just another NY Jew in South Florida. Expendable! Why not get some practice in?

  8. Broward County, it’s so wonderful to live here!

  9. bfstevie says at 2:04 pm, October 9th, 2009

    Assault rifles? Pussies! Everyone knows the gold standard for shooting shit at Republican fundraisers is full automatic machine guns.

    Why wasn’t this Lowry guy nominated for a Nobel prize?

  10. bureaucrap says at 2:04 pm, October 9th, 2009

    Although he’s pretty hot for someone his age. If he were face down in a pillow, I’d do him.

  11. Extemporanus says at 2:07 pm, October 9th, 2009

    Maybe he just really hates letters.

  12. Extemporanus says at 2:12 pm, October 9th, 2009

    Mr Blifil: They are the snakehead fish of South Florida.

  13. bfstevie says at 2:16 pm, October 9th, 2009

    A little searching on the intertubes and we find out that Newell got it all wrong.

    “Upon discharging their weapons, the members that I spoke to not only felt a sense of empowerment and relief of pent up frustration the Socialist Obama administration has instilled in them, but these members have found a new respect for the weapons themselves.”

    http://www.redcounty.com/se-republican-club-takes-aim

  14. magic titty says at 2:17 pm, October 9th, 2009

    At least he didn’t jack off on it, as I assumed he would have.

  15. GDuvall says at 2:17 pm, October 9th, 2009

    Another winner, brought to you by the NRCC.

  16. bitchincamaro says at 2:19 pm, October 9th, 2009

    Stay sassy, Florida.

  17. freakishlystrong says at 2:21 pm, October 9th, 2009

    He just had his Macoocoo moment.

  18. shadowMark says at 2:23 pm, October 9th, 2009

    Maybe the Right is testing the waters, flirting with the idea of going public with their embracing of the Cthulhu agenda of shouting and killing and revelry and reshaping the earth with flame and a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom.

  19. Another one bites the dust…

  20. Norbert says at 2:25 pm, October 9th, 2009
  21. donner_froh says at 2:26 pm, October 9th, 2009

    magic titty: That’s creepy. And accurate. And funny as hell.

  22. Snarkalicious says at 2:28 pm, October 9th, 2009

    Nothing I can say about hate-fucking in effigy, at least while remaining sincere, will pass the ban-hammer. But you all have such wonderful imaginations and access to craft shops, so I’m sure you can come to your own conclusions about what to bring to the flash mob outside your local RNC office.

  23. ttommyunger says at 2:34 pm, October 9th, 2009

    I love the smell of moron in the morning.

  24. problemwithcaring says at 2:35 pm, October 9th, 2009

    magic titty: I mean, it is Cocktober.

  25. Minnie Mean says at 2:44 pm, October 9th, 2009

    bfstevie: Those wacky republicans are a stitch, aren’t they?

    Here’s one of the comments from a fine redstate reader:
    “When is the next field trip? How about we go to the White House?
    Submitted by D.B on Wed, 10/07/09 - 06:48 PM”

    Funny funny jokers, those republicans. Their humor kills me, also.

  26. SayItWithWookies says at 2:48 pm, October 9th, 2009

    Lascauxcaveman: Soooo…Cheney then?

  27. S.Luggo says at 2:50 pm, October 9th, 2009

    Mr Blifil:
    More:
    http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/broward/hallandale/sfl-republicans-guns-politics-100809,0,6074272.story
    β€œThe aims, said club president Ed Napolitano, were to have fun, educate club members who were new to shooting β€” and send a political message.”

    As for receiving the message, rather than sit through all of that shooting and yee-hawing, I would prefer to just rent “The Triumph of the Will”.

  28. Lascauxcaveman says at 3:04 pm, October 9th, 2009

    SayItWithWookies: I can’t say I wasn’t tempted!

  29. thefrontpage says at 3:23 pm, October 9th, 2009

    Yet another confirmed, certified, and documented case of RMS, or Republican Moron Syndrome. Health officials report dozens of cases today at Republican National Committee offices throughout the country, and at Fox News outlets across the nation. And several dozen confirmed cases were documented in Florida.

  30. loupgarou says at 3:23 pm, October 9th, 2009

    Aw hell, I wonder what sort of targets are used at the gun fests Sarah Palin attends. Her people are the original teabaggers–they were far-gone teabaggers even back during the presidential campaign, when the term hadn’t yet been coined!

  31. Darkness says at 3:34 pm, October 9th, 2009

    AND . . . Florida makes a bold move in the ongoing battle with South Carolina and Arizona for the title of most fucked up politicians.

  32. Mahousu says at 3:41 pm, October 9th, 2009

    Wasserman Schultz is being treated for breast cancer [true], so these were just his symbolic “magic bullets” wishing for a cure for her.

  33. natteringnabomb says at 6:20 pm, October 9th, 2009

    When cardboard cutouts and cancer stricken women threaten our great socialist experiment I want these mother fuckers protectin us with dos big guns.Do cardboard cutouts ever shoot back?Sometimes al ya got is hope.

  34. zhubajie says at 6:48 pm, October 9th, 2009

    Send him a voodoo doll with his name on it and a pin through the head. Bless his office with the flaming bag of dogshit a couple times. His sense of humor needs some education.

  35. zhubajie says at 6:50 pm, October 9th, 2009

    shadowMark: civil war of some sort is on the way. That’s been obvious for years.

  36. What would have Charlie Crist would have done?

  37. Unlearned Hand says at 10:06 am, October 12th, 2009

    Um, I’m not a legal expert, but couldn’t some people construe this as, I don’t know, a criminal threat? Just askin’

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