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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Politics Silence of the Lambs: Why Won't GOP Leaders Rebuke Womick?

Posted by on Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:41 AM

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The Murfreesboro Daily News Journal denounced the entire Tennessee Republican Party and its leaders today for failing to rebuke GOP Rep. Rick Womick for saying Muslims ought to be purged from the U.S. military. Where's the outrage? We've been wondering that ourselves. Womick made his remarks, on Veterans Day no less, at a conference for Muslim haters. If Womick went to a Klan rally, would this state's Republican leaders break their silence then? The DNJ called on Womick to apologize or quit his office.

"Short of Womick's resignation," the newspaper wrote in an editorial, "we call on the state and local Republican Party to rebuke him for his extremist remarks. If nobody speaks up, we consider them complicit by their silence."

For an elected official to say these things is reckless and indefensible, and for elected leaders to sit quietly is embarrassing to Rutherford County and all of Middle Tennessee. This is discrimination at its worst, no different than what America did to black Americans in treating them as second-class citizens. Will Womick try next to take away Muslim voting rights?

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