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Off the deep end: Chuck Rangel calls Sarah Palin, “disabled.”

It is past time for him to resign.

By: Mark Kilmer (Diary)  |  September 19th, 2008 at 08:17 PM  | 

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In a CBS 2 HD exclusive interview, Rep. Rangel called Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin “disabled.”

The question was simple: Why are the Democrats so afraid of Palin and her popularity?

The answer was astonishing.

“You got to be kind to the disabled,” Rangel said.

That’s right. The chairman of the powerful House Ways & Means Committee called Palin disabled — even when CBS 2 HD called him on it.

CBS 2 HD: “You got to be kind to the disabled?”

Rangel: “Yes.”
 
CBS 2 HD: “She’s disabled?”

Rangel: “There’s no question about it politically. It’s a nightmare to think that a person’s foreign policy is based on their ability to look at Russia from where they live.

Rangel, a tax cheat who pays up only when caught, has become so addled that he confuses a candidate for the vice presidency of the United States with Tina Fey. Ground control to Chuck…

He meant “disabled” as an insult, in the childish, “cooties” sense, but it was the wrong insult for Rangel to toss around. And it could well have been directed at Governor Palin’s youngest son.

Chuck Rangel is a sick, sick man. Maybe the pressure is getting to him. The House Ethics Committee is eyeing him, and he’s had his car towed from a Congressional lot.

It is past time for him to resign.

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  • TomOConnor

    You’re joking right?

    He will probably get a promotion from Nancy, or Barack.

    What is above Ways and Means?

    Maybe John McCain and Sarah Palin could make Rangel their “Special Needs Czar”.

  • simpson316

    Following Rangel?s own answer as to why he didn?t claim income from a rental unit in the Dominican Republic (they were speaking Spanish), wouldn?t it be fair to apply the same standard to Rep Rangel. So, from here on out, let?s not make fun of the Congressman for his myriad of ethics violations or his gaffes. That would be unfair to the ?disabled?.

  • janis

    apart from the trolls these days. They are exactly the same: mean-minded, bigoted, power-mad freaks who will say any disgraceful thing if it might get them a vote or deflect unwelcome attention on who they really are.

    “Reform Washington” is a concept I am praying for, longing for….I can’t stand watching my country be sullied by nasty little thugs anymore. They are not worthy of governing the same country that the best, most honorable military in the world lays down their lives for daily.

    Sarah Palin and John McCain know more of honor and service than people like Rangel, Pelosi, Reid, Schumer could imagine. And George W. Bush has been so reviled by people such as these because he is also a person of honorable service, a man who gave a flip what the world and the press thought. And more, he didn’t care what the Lefties said either–and if it’s one thing that they cannot ABIDE on the Left, it is to be ignored.

  • Mayu

    I can’t believe anyone would say this especially considering Palin is the mother of a special needs child.

    Leave it to the left to be so insensative. I mean, Aren’t liberals suppose to be lovey dovey, huggy wuggy, let’s love not war kind of people? Yet they will spew these hateful, hurtful things because of political differences.

    Forget she’s a loving mother, a good woman, and a human being. She’s conservative! She must be destroyed!

    What is very scary is that THESE are the type of people who support Barack Obama. Those who would commit felony acts hacking into private computers, those who would PRAISE someone who committed an illegal act, hoping to get something over on the victim, those who threaten riots if “their man isn’t elected”…

    It is very scary that if Obama makes it into office, these will be the type of people running our country.

    God help us all. Our only hope is McCain/Palin ’08!!!

    (Sorry this is so long. I’m just getting very frustrated by the left’s disturbing actions.)

    • gopraines

      Remember, Republicans resign when a scandel breaks out, when democrats are embroiled in a scandal it’s a career enhancer.

  • Bluegrassman

    Maybe he’d like to explain his candidate’s foreign policy experience…I mean other than giving campaign speeches to Germans.

  • Bluegrassman

    Maybe he’d like to explain his candidate’s foreign policy experience…I mean other than giving campaign speeches to Germans.

  • ColoradoRedSt8

    You would expect more adult language from our representatives. He clearly put his foot in his mouth. Whether this – in addition to his recent adventures in tax evasion – warrants his resignation from government is less clear.

    • lonebeagle

      Don’t apologize for your well thought out response to the mean-spirited left attack dogs. Hopefully there are millions of Americans who share your sentiments.

      Throughout this campaign you haven’t seen conservatives or Republicans rioting in the streets, intimidating convention delegates, hacking into the candidate’s email accounts or taking cheap mean shots at the personal lives of ANY Democratic candidate.

      I have yet to see one GOP member disrupt a political event of the Dems.

      The Democrat Party is out of control and truly represents a frightening picture of what this country could become oneday–and that’s a shocking similarity to “1984″.

      McCain and Palin have to win this election. For the first time in my life I donated money to a political campaign. I donated to McCain/Palin and will donate some more to the RNC.

      These people must be stopped!

  • nobob

    anyone who responds here is smarter than Palin. May McCain live forever! I am totally not neocon.

  • magnum1

    from a man that’s ethically disabled.