GOP candidate calls Parkland student 'skinhead lesbian'

The GOP keeping it classy AF.

"That sort of stupidity really turns people off."

But sadly it seems to turn on roughly 35% of Americans.

More power to the young woman and all young people who want to grow up in a society where they don't have to worry about getting gun downed at school or a concert, or in church or a movie theater. Or have a gun 'accidentally' discharged somewhere they happen to be.

Though the young lady he's attacking does have short hair, she's far from having the mentality of a skinhead. Mr. Gibson should look in the mirror to see what a skinhead, regardless of how much hair he might have, looks like.

Greatest nation in the world...!

Can the bar go any lower?

Can the bar go any lower?

It can, but Trumo hasn't drained the swamp yet, he's clearly turned it into a cesspool. All these bigoted conservatives are just pieces of whstbyoud find floating around a cesspool.

Not really the need to call anyone a "skinhead lesbian" and "bald-face liar" but even more so when both were victims and survivors of the tragic mass shootings and mass murders.

No different, name calling is name calling. What is more important is how the person that was attacked perceived the insult.

In the wake of the shootings Florida State introduced some very minor gun laws increasing the age of ownership to 21 and and a 28 day wait when buying a new gun, Not much really considering this deadly tragic killings in a public school with young students. But the NRA feels so threatened by those minor changes its taking legal action against the state.

And with good reason.

Regardless that the candidate is GOP I would say the same if it was the democrats too.

Exactly.

There is no defense of his potty mouth language and gross lack of compassion for these young victims.

I agree.

Can the bar go any lower?

Never underestimate the GOP.

Oh I’m sure he meant that in the nicest possible way:-/

The party of morality. Classy as always.

No different, name calling is name calling. What is more important is how the person that was attacked perceived the insult.

Unless your husband was a marine killed in action in Africa, or your son was killed in Iraq. Then you're just "fair game," right?

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https://japantoday.com/category/world/trump-attacks-muslim-fathers-convention-speech

I’m sure the official press secretary will clarify this latest case of foot in mouth ness as just another misunderstanding and make it somehow the fault of someone else.

it is the fault of someone. The person who said it, no one else. None of this "well its the culture that Trump created that allows this" nonsense. Its the person who said it who is accountable.

Now using those "kids" as partisan political pawns is wrong, They are suddenly speaking out with all the Democratic talking points, even ones unrelated to guns and schools. But still, you cant call someone that.

Or the like when a liberal said to Senator Scalise on the shooter that almost ended his life. “If KKK support Steve Scalise dies, the shooter deserves a holiday, true leadership. Now the trumps, kush, & miller need to be transitioned.

Oh, we're quoting random tweets now as evidence about the other team? Is that a game you want to start playing? Start thinking of the tweets that people who identify as your team are putting out there. Do you think it's fair to associate your team with all those tweets? Do you think every tweet is representative of your team?

Tweets by the president or actual leaders are valid in a discussion. Tweets by some random dude who may not even be what he claims to be on Twitter - not valid.

Maybe she is a skinhead lesbian. Even if she were, what does that have to do with her argument that schools should be a place of learning, not a place of fear; scarce school funds should go for improving materials and facilities, not "hardening schools"; teachers should be teachers, not security guards - and that for this to happen, drastic changes must be made in the US gun culture, in particular banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.

Blacklabel, just like the Dems create a home for people to speak freely about certain topics, so do the Repubs - and denigrating minorities and blindly upholding gun "rights" are two areas many Repubs feel free to speak about (heck, Trump does all the time), while Dems would not.

None of this "well its the culture that Trump created that allows this" nonsense. Its the person who said it who is accountable.

Nobody can blame Trump for creating the crackpots in the GOP. These lunatics have been making insane comments long before Trump added his own brand of stupidity to the mix.

Trump makes some of these isolation ward inmates look reasonable and balanced.

None of this "well its the culture that Trump created that allows this" nonsense. Its the person who said it who is accountable.

I'm with Jimizo, you can't blame Trump for the crackpots in the GOP.

But you can however blame the GOP for the crackpots. If it was the occasional one, then sure, they would be rogues (or should I say rouges?). But ridiculous comments like this are a staple of the GOP, and we can see from the election of Trump that a lot of their party loves this.

Oh, we're quoting random tweets now as evidence about the other team?

Not just that, but it’s the fact that whichever side does it doesn’t make it necessarily right.

Tweets by the president or actual leaders are valid in a discussion. Tweets by some random dude who may not even be what he claims to be on Twitter - not valid.

That’s your personal opinion, whether it’s a leader or a person on either side of an aisle, if people do this, it is not always a good thing, but then again it depends. I don’t believe in name calling, but if you hurl insults at me, you have to expect some coming back your way. The left always think they can just insult people, get away with it, but when the right does it, hold their feet to the fire. Hypocrisy at its worst.

Nobody can blame Trump for creating the crackpots in the GOP.

One GOP idiot compared to the dozens of moonbats posing as Democrats.

These lunatics have been making insane comments long before Trump added his own brand of stupidity to the mix. 

I think if we make a side by side list of insane comments, the awards go directly to the Democrats.

I think if we make a side by side list of insane comments

Just give me anything as bad as women can’t get pregnant through rape, a US president was the anti-Christ and birtherism.

Now using those "kids" as partisan political pawns is wrong, They are suddenly speaking out with all the Democratic talking points, even ones unrelated to guns and schools.

You guys and your conspiracy theories.

The kid just watched their classmates get murdered in the halls.

And you somehow think that they are being forced to dislike guns by some external power. Ever consider that maybe their beliefs came into line with the democrats due to their experience with guns?

You have confused correlation with causation. The causation was their friends being murdered in the halls of their school, not team blue. If team red was anti-gun, then the kids would be speaking with the Republicans.

But hey, don't let reality get in the way of your rhetoric, right?

The Parkland students are able to mobilize and articulate their voices quickly because the young generations today are more media savvy borne out of growing up experiencing social media

Social media, in a sense, is public media - they're more prepared for the public spotlights and how to use the media for their purposes