The real meaning behind Uncle Barney Frank comments of Palin (Palin a homophobe crapola)

TPM ^ | 10/26/08 | ALstott

[pissant]

This is a question that Josh Marshall asked at the main TPM web site.

First, the idea that government is working as a nanny state making all our decisions. This is a standard conservative argument. I do not have a problem with it. Here is an excerpt of what Palin said yesterday about "Uncle Barmey Frank" yesterday

http://gretawire.foxnews.com/2008/10/25/governor-palin-talking-about-congressman-barney-frank-and-the-wardrobe-controversy/

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That philosophy of government taking more, which is a misuse of the power to tax. It leads to government moving into the role of taking care of you and government and politicians and kind of moving in as the other half of your family to make decisions for you. Now they do this in other countries where the people are not free. Government as part of the family, taking care of us, making decisions for us. I don't know what to think of having in my family Uncle Barney Frank or others to make decisions for me. I and John McCain tend to want to trust the American people with their income, their businesses, their things. With a pro-tax, bigger government mentality, and that's what you would get if we had unchecked powers there in congress and the white house, if liberal leaning, bigger government persons were in charge of the house, the senate and heaven forbid the white house too.

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The Uncle Barney Frank rhetoric works on a subtle and more disgusting level.

Barney Frank is a high profile Gay Democratic Congressman. In cases of child molesting, the term funny uncle is a derogatory term for a family member who molests children. Conservatives believes gays are predatory child molesters and what better way to make that point than to make gay Congressman Barney Frank the uncle.

[pissant]

How old was the gay prostitute that Barney was buggering that was running his bizness out of Barney house?

[VR-21]

A pious degenerate. How’s that for a paradox?

[CanadianMusherinMI]

these people are out of their minds. do they read into every single word? was it not obama that made a similar comment about the rev wright?
how about pious poofter!

[incredulous joe]

“A pious degenerate. How’s that for a paradox?”

Good start; A Sanctimonious Pervert!

[Rudder]

...gays are predatory child molesters and what better way to make that point than to make gay Congressman Barney Frank the uncle.

I can't think of any.

[onedoug]

I dont't see it as a paradox but as an absolute.

Barney Frank would just as soon drive everything - principally anything American - into the ground, evidently to tear apart American society, even to his own demise.

[TheFourthMagi]

Let’s openly acknowledge that gay conduct is hazardous to health, immoral, and destructive to society as well as an indication of other problematic conduct.

[calcowgirl]

Barney Frank as the crazy uncle.

That is just too perfect.

[SuziQ]

Barney just ain’t into chicks, in ANY way.