Civil War

The modern day Tea-Publican Party in Arizona has forfeited any claim of right to refer to itself as the “Party of Lincoln.” The anti-federal government Neo-Confederate secessionist bills recently passed by these Tea-Publican insurrectionists, see Thank God it’s Sine Die!, demonstrates that they are the very antithesis of the “Party of Lincoln.”

The “Party of Lincoln” is dead. It’s dead carcass has been hollowed out by the far-right fringe parasites of the Neo-Confederate secessionists, John Birchers, and theocratic Dominionists. The pundits have yet to come to accept this obvious fact, and to write the obituary of the Arizona Republican Party.

And yet Arizona Tea-Publicans dare to hold Lincoln Day Dinners, and to thereby dishonor the name of the president for whom they feign admiration. The Republic’s E.J. Montini reported that “Maricopa County Republicans invited has-been rocker and right-wing blowhard Ted Nugent to speak at their annual Lincoln Day dinner last Saturday.” Ted Nugent Goes On Unhinged Rant About Shooting Immigrants, ‘Crushing’ Democrats:

Ted Nugent was just getting started in his Saturday address to the Republican Party of Maricopa County, Arizona, when he blamed veterans’ suicides on President Obama.

Nugent suggested that people shoot immigrants who illegally cross the southern border, fondly recalling a time he threatened to shoot a trespasser on his property.

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“Let’s not just win, let’s crush the enemy,” he said, before saying of Nancy Pelosi: “Bitch ain’t in jail yet?” Nugent added that he and Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio — who introduced him at the event — should arrest former IRS official Lois Lerner and declared that whoever thought the U.S. compound in Benghazi “had adequate security is the devil.”

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Later, Nugent said the GOP should be more aggressive and finally put Hillary Clinton in jail.

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