Rep. Ralph Norman jokes about Ruth Bader Ginsburg's being 'groped' by Abe Lincoln

ABCNews ^ | 9/21/18 | Meghan Keneally

[LibWhacker]

Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., used his opening remarks at a Thursday debate for South Carolina's 5th Congressional District to make an off-color joke about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

"Did y’all hear the latest, late-breaking news from the Kavanaugh hearings? Ruth Bader Ginsburg came out [saying[ that she was groped by Abraham Lincoln," he said to some laughs and applause.

Norman, who has been endorsed by President Donald Trump, later defended his remarks on Twitter, saying they were "meant to add a bit of levity to a very serious debate between me and my Democrat opponent and to point to the circus-like atmosphere that Washington, D.C., has become."

"People really need to learn to lighten up,” Norman, 65, wrote in a string of three tweets. “Clearly my opponent understood it that way since for the next hour we engaged in a substantive discussion about our many differences without mention of my comments.

"Once again, the Democrats and the media have taken an event that was newsworthy for so many substantive reasons and are now only adding more clowns and distractions to the current circus," he wrote.

[Hildy]

Off with his head!

[SharpRightTurn]

Great line. If the leftists are squealing, you know you’ve hit a nerve.

[DannyTN]

[webheart]

Once you learn that the left and progressives have no sense of humor you will be much better off. They hate when people laugh and have fun.

[DoodleDawg]

"Once again, the Democrats and the media have taken an event that was newsworthy for so many substantive reasons and are now only adding more clowns and distractions to the current circus," he wrote.

So then what better response than to add our own clowns to the circus?

[Snickering Hound]

He could do anything in that warp drive equipped chair.

[buckalfa]

"Great line. "

Humorous in a humorless society. Unfortunately Norman is running for election to Congress in a district that is slowly turning purple (the South Carolina suburbs of Charlotte). He should not give the enemy any ammo in what could be a tight race.

[Red Badger]

It wasn’t Honest Abe, it was Grant...................

[SaveFerris]

I remember Captain Kirk at the O.K. Corral!

Not to be confused with Rosie O’Donnell at Golden Corral, mind you.

[laplata]

Too bad it wasn’t Atilla the Hun.

[Red Badger]

Or Caligula................

[Brilliant]

That is incredibly demeaning... Where does Lincoln go to get his reputation back?

[Red Badger]

They would go bankrupt!.................

[Covenantor]

[Covenantor]

[vette6387]

I know that this is true because someone just sent me a photo of Lincoln at Gettysburg, and Ginsberg is standing right next to Lincoln!

[txrefugee]

It could have happened, if RBG embraced it as “her truth.”

[SaveFerris]

I would have figured it was Obama groping at Sodom and Gomorrah.

Maybe that's why it took 3 years to produce a long form birth certificate. They had to excavate around the Dead Sea.

Or look at Yigael's Wall.....(no, Omen II was not Biblical - the series had interesting bits and pieces but was fiction)

[SaveFerris]

Imagine if she and Mooch were there on Crab Legs night....