“8/18/2010, 6:02pm EST”
“Senate District 56 Republians [sic] exist to promote our Republican principals [sic], to help elect Republician’s [sic] to the various offices which represent our area and reflect our beliefs. We in the district support each other and our neighbors to have government enable us to succeed, and not us enabling government to grow.”
—The Republican Party of Minnesota Senate District 56’s mission statement, as presented by its official website. (Update: They’ve fixed the misspellings since somebody who isn’t a Republican actually noticed. Knowing they would, I took a screenshot.) Naturally, the mission statement is poorly worded, with little regard for grammar and syntax — even forgiving the typos and misspellings. You might be asking: why is anyone talking about a local chapter of the GOP in Minnesota? Their executive, Joe Salmon, posted a video claiming that Republican women are more attractive than Democratic women. The evidence for? Mentally incompetent GOP icons like Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann, and Michelle Malkin. The evidence against Democrats? Just a few self-made women with law degrees and earned achievements, like Michelle Obama (Harvard), Hillary Clinton (Yale), and Janet Reno (Cornell). As Minnesota Democratic chairmen Bob Melendez responded, “The day when a woman was judged by her looks rather than her competence and intelligence should have passed three generations ago.” Even after taking the video down due to the outrage of marginally decent people everywhere, Joe Salmon had this to tweet: “It [is] really unfortunate to relearn that the other side is severely lacking a sense of humor.” Time for you to go to your room and let the grown-ups do the talking, little Joey.
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