Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Politics Zach Wamp Denounces 'Sissy Wannabe' Governors
Posted by Jeff Woods on Wed, May 26, 2010 at 3:50 PM
This all came up at this weekend's tea party debate. (We just finished watching the video.) When the moderator asked about gun rights, that's when Wamp stuck out his chin and started talking like Clint Eastwood:
"I sleep with a gun next to my head and I'm not going to tell you what it is or frankly who it's titled to. To me it's like a right that we have and I'm a no exceptions, no excuses kind of guy. I think governors, as this separation takes place in our country between good places and bad places and as long as this nanny state federal government is going in that direction, this is one of those things we may have to meet them at the state line about. And I"m just telling you Tennesseans because there are some tough times coming. Don't elect some sissy wannabe as your governor. It's time for tough people standing up to protect what we have left in this country. We're going to need those kind of tough people. This is one of those issues we're going to have to buck up on."
Then he handed the microphone to—guess who?—Haslam, who mumbled something about how he agrees there's a right to bear arms. He also said he would have signed the guns-in-bars bill if he had been governor, but he didn't sound all that enthusiastic about it. Then, looking relieved, he handed the microphone to the next guy. But the tea partiers weren't letting him off the hook.
- Wamp's night light
"We had shooting in a church, a school, a mall" in Knoxville, he said, and he wanted to try to do something about gun violence (presumably something besides arming every single man, woman and child in Tennessee).
"We understand that criminals with guns are a problem in our society and we have to stand up and do something about it. We can't keep ignoring that problem. That's a real problem. Now that group, to be honest with you, took a different turn and went for advocacy of things that I'm not for and, to be honest with you, I'm glad I'm not in the group, shouldn't have signed it to begin with. But it came out of a real honest, heartfelt concern about the number of criminals on our streets with guns."
That was a good answer, but we doubt it endeared Haslam to the tea party. We bet he'll be happy after he wins the primary when he can start talking to voters who don't hold it against a candidate if he's against illegal guns.
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Who is the bigger sissy, the one who's so skeered of every bump in the night that he has to sleep with a gun next to his head or the one who doesn't?
Boggles the mind.
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jesus tapdancing christ. thi guy is basically a walking caricature of a wing-nut GOP candidate.
if this guy slips through and becomes our next governor, woe is Tennessee.
We checked with the Wamp campaign about the night light, Barry. Indeed, he keeps one in his bedroom, and we've posted a picture of it above.
If you want to stop gun violence and/or reduce crime, you have to start the first time a person ever gets in trouble. If a kid does something bad enough to get arrested, arrest his parents too. That way parental responsibility becomes a whole new ball game. And if a place for care has to be provided for other children in the family while the parents are in jail, so be it. A parent's first responsibilty should be to raise a child to be a responsible citizen and if a parent can't do that then they should be made to suffer as much as their children's victims.
I hope we can all pretend we're in a foxhole, so everyone prays Wamp loses (everything and the sooner the better).
I think a man or woman should take personal responsibilty for his/hers family safety.
What do the rest of you do? Cower in the corner? Beg the bad guy not to hurt or rape you wife or daughter or son? Call 911 and hope they get there in time, and then blame everyone else because this happened to you?
Unless you take some personal responsibility for stopping the bullies/bad guys in this society--you are as much of the problem as they are.
Zack Wamp is running under the GAY OLE PARTY, you can't get much more sissy then that!
You don't know Haslam the way we know Haslam. Last week he rigged a ballot referendum in Knoxville so that twice the number of people that voted have to sign referendum petitions. It is illegal and unethical. But Haslam is above the law. Be careful what you wish for.
I keep picturing the opening scene in Apocalypse Now, Martin Sheen in his Saigon hotel room, but it's Wamp this time. Pistol to head, sweating and shaking...
"Soddy Daisy.... Shit"
Zach Wimp a friend of Ferry Freddie Thompson, Steve Gill the wanna be Woman, Phyliss Valentine the LESBIAN, and Lush Scumbaugh the pill head.
Welcome to Washington Wamp crazies, a never ending stream of silliness. Also Welcome to my world in Chattanooga, where Wamp has been our congressman for 16 years, still waiting on the promised Chickamauga Dam lock project, at the same time he is promising Tenn Care funds to a Memphis hospital and a new road called Corridor K. Lots of promises with no delivery, promise.
