Posted on 02/21/2006 4:19:14 AM PST by FarmerW
Congresswoman Jean Schmidt is upset with some of her political opponents for slicing up a cake made to look like her.
State Representative Tom Brinkman cut the head off the Schmidt-cake at a meeting of COAST, an anti-tax group he founded.
Bob McEwen, Schmidt's opponent in the Second District Republican congressional primary was also in attendance.
Both say they will not apologize for their actions.
note : There is a longer article on this at www.cincinnati.com that was run in the Cincinnati Enquirer. I am not permited to post the link to the Enquirer article.
leaders need a higher degree of maturity than that
Will there be a beheading video?
Well. I didn't know that Republicans believed in and practiced sympathetic magic. How primitive.
Seems a pretty stupid thing to do.
Oh Pleeeeaaase! The tightassed conservatives on this board constantly B & M about Republicans not being bold enough against their opponents,or some such crap, then they do something like this, and now we have to take a page from the grandured austere prisses because of a legitimate tactic?
Although, in your defense, I don't believe this tactic is called for at this time because of recent activities associated with terrorist...
Being bold against your Democrat opponent doesn't necessarily have to include sophomoric pranks that end up making you look rediculous. Unlike Democrats we can hit them on the issues and not have to resort to cheap stunts.
Schmidt's demand sounds like something a Democrat would do.
Baked in effigy!
The Democrats, on the other hand, would have thrown the cake in their opponent's face.
Recent facts suggest we Repubs don't have to "Hit" them at all we just have to let them speak their mind and they take themselves out.
I don't think that cake was neccessarily "cheap!"
I'm offended you'd call it a cheap stunt.
At least she wasn't tarred and feathered!
The wussification of America continues apace.
Tar and feathers might have hurt her feelings.
I agree - she can mention it when it serves her purpose but making a stink out of it for no apparent reason except her feelings are hurt, is a waste of time.
Save for a better tiime.
Sensitivity doesn't have a place in politics, in general. Except maybe at a funeral.
In this case the so very brave and bold Republicans were bashing a fellow Republican.
I didn't favor Jean Schmidt in the primary last year, but she won and she's a decent conservative, and she doesn't deserve to have a voodoo cake made in her likeness and its head cut off. How juvenile does it get?? I and many others want to see politicians act like adults and not run around playing games.
Huh....... I was looking for the scrappleface link......
Jean Schmidt needs to grow up. If Mean Jean can't handle a cake being cut that has her face on it, she needs to find a new profession. I'd like to see our elected officials worry about real issues.
Mean Jean thinks it's ok to slur a decorate Marine on the House floor, but wants us to shed tears for her because she wins the Marie Antoinette award? She's a Class A hypocrite. If Mean Jean can dish it out, she should be able to take it too.
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