Jane Norton, GOP Senate Candidate, Sits Silently As Obama Called A Muslim

[kpete]

Former Colorado lieutenant governor Jane Norton, one of the five candidates competing in the Republican primary for the state's 2010 Senate race, is distinguishing herself with her full-hearted embrace of the tea party crowd.

Appearing at a recent coffee-shop event with Colorado voters, Norton sat silently while a female attendee declared twice that President Barack Obama is a Muslim and while a male attendee insisted that the president -- who he deemed "an idiot" -- wanted to let babies die on the side of the road "with the garbage."

"Well as you can tell there is a lot of passion around what is happening in our own country," Norton responded to the crowd, rather than correcting either individual. "And how we can channel that into positive constructive ways that will get our vote out it is going to be absolutely critical."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/23/gop-senate-candidate-sits_n_401739.html

[TwilightGardener]

1. A class act, she.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. …and the greatest tragedy, passing unmarked, is that "Muslim" has become an epithet.

These brainless clods can say what they want, and they will still be irrelevant. Too many otherwise decent Americans, though, have thoroughly screwed up prejudices about Muslims.

[NJmaverick]

3. It could have just as easily been a good number of DUers instead of Norton

they would even use the same passion excuse