August 06, 2004

Unabashed Racist Wins GOP Primary in Tenn. People foolishly say it isn't important to go vote. These people are stupid.

With 86 percent of the primary vote counted Thursday, write-in candidate Dennis Bertrand had just 1,554 votes compared to 7,671, or 83 percent, for James L. Hart, a believer in the discredited, phony science of eugenics. In November, the GOP candidate will oppose Rep. John Tanner (news, bio, voting record), a Democrat who has represented the northwest Tennessee district for 15 years. Hart, 60, vows if elected to work toward keeping "less favored races" from reproducing or immigrating to the United States. In campaign literature, Hart contends that "poverty genes" threaten to turn the United States into "one big Detroit." "I didn't expect to win," Hart said. "I thought their network would beat my ideas."
posted by Sullivan 20 years ago
  • Yes! Score another PR home run for my state of birth!
  • it's like another world out there...and to think it's only a couple of states away... WOW black people should shoot his ass with BB guns or something
  • Can eugenics be separated from politics?
  • Why didn't the black Republicans vote against him? Oh, yeah -- there are no black Republicans. This event just goes to show that more black people should be Republicans so that they can prevent something like this from happening.
  • Embarrassing.
  • bernockle, I do believe that we are all responsible for preventing this sort of thing from happening.
  • southern republicans racist? GASP!! actually if you read this carefully, the reason he won is he ran basically unopposed. The only opposition was a write-in candidate. So a fairly admirable 15% of republicans took the trouble to learn the name of a write-in candidate and vote for him.
  • I enjoy that the author of the article said, "discredited, phony" as if saying one or teh other wasn't sufficient to get the point across.
  • Of course we are. I was joking. I was just (as usual) remarking on how white the Republican party is. This says less about the views of those who voted for him than it does about the danger of checking all of the boxes just to fill out your scorecard when voting. At least I hope that's what it says.
  • I've been studying Islam for over twenty years, and let me tell you, there is no peace in that religion.
  • I hope Karl Rove shat fire when he heard about this. While it's admirable that 15% of the voters in that district wrote in someone else, on a national scale, he's a Republican Chernobyl. Expect him to drop out sometime before the convention.
  • I've been studying Islam for over twenty years, and let me tell you, there is no peace in that religion. Password changed; I can't be bothered dealing with this.
  • Hey! My password's been cha *click*
  • OK, I've been researching Wolof since late 2003, and there is no peace in his posts. Please spend a few minutes looking over his comment history before becoming an "outraged citizen of the world."
  • I just don't believe Wolof is compatible with civilisation
  • Yeah - and while we're on the subject: as far as I'm concerned the jury is out on Wolof. If Wolof is a peaceful member who as a whole does nothing in particular to propagate hatred and violence, then that's fine. Other members are sources of hope and comfort to lots of people, and there's no reason why Wolof can't be too. But if it turns out that hatred and violence are fundamental tenets of Wolof - then Wolof is gonna have to evolve or vanish.
  • Also, Wolof smells
  • I was on a flight recently with nineteen Wolofs who claimed they were members of an Irish boyband. They took LOTS of trips to the toilet, and they often spoke togther in their own bizarre language.
  • As an aware Briton, did you write a series of articles for Panic Monthly about your disturbing experience, quidnunc?
  • As the Wolofian ambassador to the UK, I have a few choice words for Mr Quidnunc.
  • How did the media miss the link between me and Al Qu'aeda? The liberal press is my tool!
  • The reports actually linked you to Al'nedra.
  • John Kerry flip-flops! Michael Moore is fat!
  • Move along, move along. Nothing to see here. Move along.... *surreptitiously hits Zemat unconscious with 100 Ton Hammer*
  • As the Wolofian ambassador to the UK, I have a few choice words for Mr Quidnunc. Gulp! I think I will have to remove all my troops stationed in Wolof, and allow him safe passage out of quidnuncia. Wolof alert level: puce.
  • You're sidestepping the whole Wolof cell research issue. Does it follow that the Wolofology of a few should be allowed to forestall the health and Wolof-being of the many? Won't somebody please think of the Wolofs?
  • To all the people criticizing Wolof, I say: Why do you hate MonkeyFilter?
  • If you prick a Wolof, does it not bleed? If you tickle a Wolof, does it not laugh? If you poison a Wolof, does it not die? And if you wrong a Wolof, shall it not revenge itself?
  • If you prick a Wolof, does it not bleed? Actually: no. Take it from me. *makes mum's-the-word type gesture*
  • Nobody here but egotisitcal nitwunts trying to get that +1 post.
  • I laughed so hard I drooled. No lie.
  • Hey you guys, you should be thankful that you don't have to avoid Wolof on the streets and at your workplace! Not to mention the various Wolofites that carry out unspeakable deeds in the name of Wolof. Scary times indeed.
  • Meanwhile, back on topic: Here's the moron's website.
  • Meanwhile, back off topic: Goetter, you too can never speak to Wolof again. Any future posts by you will be ignored. Little boys can just keep their comments to themselves. And what the fuck is a "nitwunt?"
  • You all treuly deserve each other!
  • You all treuly deserve each other! It's funny 'cos it's true.
  • you sick Wolofs.
  • Oh, pete_best, you don't have to read on any of Wolof's comments. Didn't you realize that?
  • Read on? My punishment for copying and pasting, I reckon.
  • Monkeyfilter Hall of Fame: #1. Cock #2. daisy_may #3. willienelson_mandelaWolof
  • *fecks off, dies*
  • Just a bit taking off your attention from thoolou/wolof to rerail and derail in another direction. The trainwreck over MeFi is both entertaining and informative.
  • No, I will be submitting other interesting links I happen to find. What, like goettse? on preview: wow.
  • From his website What if they had integrated? There would never have been an electric light. There would never have been an automobile. There would never have been an airplane Fucking hell. Why exactly have the Republican party not kicked him out?
  • Yeah, and the 8th Congressional is a pretty big district. I'm just glad I live in the 9th.
  • So I have a Godwin question (inspired by the metathread). Does it count as Godwinising if the thread is actually about eugenics? I mean, because not mentioning the Nazis in that context would be just weird.
  • The reflex cry of Godwin is one of the things I would love to see disappear from the internet.
  • Well, it's important that when discussing, say school discipline, people don't start ruining the discussion by comparing the teachers to Nazis for wanting to ban heavy metal shirts. But I was thinking of discussions on eugenics (the mefo post was labelled a Godwin directly), or on racial cleansing and genocide - and thinking, this can't possible be Godwinisable, because it is related to Nazism!
  • Here's the Godwin's Law FAQ for all your law usage needs. Basically what it says is that you can have a civilized discussion on Nazism and related subjects (ie. eugenics) without invoking Godwin's Law as long as you don't use the terms to start accusing someone esle of being a Nazi or related to (flamebait). troutfishing broke the rule from the start by stating that there was a "longstanding association of the Republican Party with a resurgent American Eugenics Movement deeply linked to Nazi racial ideology" without giving decent sources (including two google searches for cripes sake!). Even if everything he says is the truth that FPP is pure axe-grinding.
  • I'm more then a little disappointed in the trainwreck that has become the MeFi thread. While I often disagree with troutfishing and amberglow, I at least considered what they had to say. In light of recent events, however, I'll just have to add them to the list of blowhards I regularly ignore. Man, that list keeps getting longer and longer. :: Back to the issue at hand: As noted before, this is clearly a case of a local chairman being asleep at the switch (Much like Bloomberg becoming a Republican here in NYC ... *rimshot*). Crackpot saw an openning, and plowed right through it to insta-fame. What would be nice to know is the total number of votes. While 1,554 took the time and effort to learn to properly spell a write-in candidates name in the proper box, I'd be interested to know how many put in another alternative. How many voters wrote in "Cold Day In Hell", or "Mickey Mouse", or "Howerd Stern"? And I think those 1,554 should be applauded, for it is all too easy to just not care. I mean, there were only approximately 10,800 votes total. I can't believe that this counts for less then 10% of the district (parish?) population. As for possible taint on the GOP, I don't think this is anything worth paying much attention to. While he might be an unabashed racist, he's also an unabashed loser (electionwise, I make no comment on his life in general). And if there's anything I've learned from my brief life here in the good ole' USofA, it is that we don't care about the loser.