Posted on 09/15/2011 4:08:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The behavior by some members of the audience at the most recent Republican presidential debates has at least one campaign staffer concerned about the future of the GOP.
Sarah Reidy, the national director of scheduling for Jon Huntsman's presidential campaign, had some stern words for her own party after the audience at a debate in California applauded the number of executions during Texas Gov. Rick Perry's tenure, and then some in the crowd at a debate in Florida cheered when the moderator asked if a sick person without insurance should be left to die.
In a post on her Facebook page, Reidy, who joined Huntsman's campaign in August but was not speaking on its behalf in this instance, said the behavior made her "sick and sad" for the Republican party.
"For years I have tried to prove that the GOP isn't the Party of elitist, stereotypical people that lack compassion," Reidy wrote on her Facebook account Tuesday. "When did creativity and growth become secondary to hate? Hearing the debate crowds go crazy over things like executions and the uninsured dying makes me sick and sad for my Party that I devote my time and efforts."(continued)
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Btw, why is this news?!?!? Does anybody give a rat’s azz what this woman thinks? Oh, nevermind, it is because it is an attack on Tea Party voters.
My take on the "execution cheer," is that it was an expression of support for a ultimate justice actually being carried out. The debate was in CA where only 17 of over 700 have been executed in over 30 years, fewer than died from suicide or natural causes. There's phrase some use: "justice delayed is justice denied." CA has condemned prisoners waiting for execution from the Carter era.
Speaking of Carter, he likes Jon Huntsman.
Go back to your temple and ask for Joseph Smiths intervention...
I think casting him in one of the vampire movies would be perfect...just add fangs..
Obviously, the “staffer” missed the fiasco in Tucson after what’s her name was shot. I don’t think the GOP celebrated death and the bounce in the polls and votes it was going to get them during the GOP debates.
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