The Texas Republicans held their state convention, where these beauties were for sale. I respectfully request that the RNC denounce these pins and promise that they won't be allowed at the next event.
Before you get all up in arms: I am not arguing that we suppress the speech. You wanna make these pins, go ahead. I just want the other major party in this country to acknowledge how destructive such rhetoric can be and take efforts to remove it from their campaign message.
If I were the dems, I'd be running to the pundits to make this McCain's flag pin.
[EDIT: Per the comments, credit to Flippish for confirming that this is a real pin. http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/06/texas_gop_we_didnt_know_about.php.
Comment away.]
I'd like to make a friendly gentleman's wager that this "button for sale" is a hoax. I say this because the image looks like a fake -- the lettering doesn't look like part of the button at all, but rather like an unsophisticated photoshop job. If not a hoax, it's quite likely the story is inaccurately reported in a similar vein -- e.g. some dude made a bunch of these on CafePress and was selling them, but the RNC wasn't behind it.
ReplyDeleteI hope that's fake.
ReplyDeleteI withhold further condemnation until it's verified, but that is an appalling button.