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| Oliver North - time has not been kind | | | |
I met Oliver North several times roughly 20 years ago when he was running for U.S. Senate. While the man had a charisma that is hard to understand unless one has met him in person, I joined with former U.S. Senator John Warner in backing Democrat Chuck Robb rather than North. About the only redeeming thing I can say is that he was wonderful with my two younger children - at one GOP mass meeting, my youngest daughter strayed away from my campaign table and low and behold I find her in earnest conversation with Ollie North. My son at the time (he'd be horrified now) was equally entranced by North. Unfortunately, North is now pandering with all his might to the Christofascists in the GOP base apparently in a pathetic effort to remain relevant at least in that crazed circle of religious extremists and racists.
Right Wing Watch looks at North's latest demagoguery:
In an appearance at CPAC today,
Oliver North denounced President Obama for treating military service members
like “laboratory rats in some radical social experiment” and “apologizing” for
America. North insisted that the US “has nothing ever to apologize for, not
once” in its entire history.
Later, North said that the GOP must remain firm in working to
ban marriage equality and abortion rights just as abolitionists fought to end
slavery, warning that “if we as conservatives cease to be a place where people
of faith and those who believe in strong moral values can come, we will cease
to be a political force in America.”
Here's a video clip:
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