Posted on 04/06/2014 6:48:34 PM PDT by progunner
A Congressional candidate running for the nomination to unseat House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) ignited an Internet firestorm when he appeared to go on a tirade against conservatives and the National Rifle Association Saturday night.
Mike Dickinson rejected support — on a Twitter account appearing to belong to him — from anyone who supports the NRA, is pro-life or participates in “Obama hating.”
Immediately following the string of tweets, Dickinson received immediate backlash online, with individuals turning to Twitter to offer their thoughts.
Despite the overwhelming reaction to the tweets, the self-described “liberal Democrat” did not appear to issue any apologies. In fact, on Sunday morning he appeared to respond to some criticism by continuing to mock the intelligence of those questioning him.
“I went to engineering school and I support the NRA,” one person tweeted him.
“Went or graduated? RW has large college dropout rate,” a tweet on the Dickinson account replied.
Methinks Cantor doesn’t have to give this guy a second thought.....
Actual title of article: Congressional Candidate Appears to Have One Harsh Message for the NRA & Its Supporters
As if I needed a reason not to give him any money.... He may not take the donations of decent people now, but should he get into Congress, he will rob us all blind.
> Despite the overwhelming reaction to the tweets, the self-described “liberal Democrat” did not appear to issue any apologies. In fact, on Sunday morning he appeared to respond to some criticism by continuing to mock the intelligence of those questioning him.
Thanks progunner.
Looks like a smaller Chris Christy.
If there is one thing I can’t stand, it’s a freeloading, public servant wannabe calling me “pure trash”.
Smarmy.
Thanks for posting the picture neighbor, I didn’t realize I used the wrong link.
I hear ya my friend,,,, when my daughter and I first read that article we both rendered him a rather colorful sermon shall I say????
Probably because one of the purposes of this, and other such tweets, is for his left-wing handlers to record the Internet addresses and Twitter identities of the people posting opposing tweets. Then the real identity of those posting opposing comments can be traced and determined. These identities will then be stored in a database until such time as they are needed. Then, at a convenient time in the future, Conservative opposition can be dealt with in the same way that the CEO of Mozilla / Firefox was just dealt with (or worse).
As the government's and the left's ability to identify people on the Internet steadily improves, I am mindful of what I post or say anywhere online, even anonymously (well, not ALL of the time obviously, otherwise I would not be writing THIS - one still has to have fun, after all!!).
sounds like a highly qualified Democrat candidate, for dog catcher.
Do we really need vile language to get a point across. I remind you that there are ladies present.
He has more chins than a Chinese phonebook.
Senator Yee said the same sort of thing over the years.
With this, he just rubbed out any chance he had of winning against Cantor. He must have realized he was behind and figured he would give it a try. Too bad!
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