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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHouse Candidate Called Female Senators "Undeserving Bimbos in Tennis Shoes"
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/08/minnesota-gop-congressional-candidate-jim-hagedorn-mr-conservative-blog-tim-walzThis guy is pure class...
Republican congressional candidate Jim Hagedorn could face a major obstacle in his race to unseat Minnesota Democrat Tim Walz: conservative blogger Jim Hagedorn.
Hagedorn, the son of retired congressman Tom Hagedorn, was a surprise victor in last Tuesday's GOP primary. But he brings some serious baggage to his race against Walz, a four-term incumbent. In posts from his old blog, Mr. Conservative, unearthed by the Minnesota politics blog Bluestem Prairie*, Hagedorn made light of American Indians, President Obama's Kenyan ancestry, and female Supreme Court justices, among others, in ways many voters won't appreciate.
Hagedorn deleted many of his old posts prior to his 2010 run for Walz's seathe lost in the GOP primary. But some of his writings can still be found via the Internet Archive or in screenshots taken by the Independent. These were not mere juvenile ramblings, either: Hagedorn was a Treasury Department official at the time.
"Turns out half-aunt Zeituni is an illegal alien from Kenya who has illegally contributed money to her half-nephew's campaign, which should make Americans half-pi$$ed," he wrote in a typical missive during the 2008 election cycle. "The migration from Barack Obama's second country to the United States during the next four years is going to look like a low-budget remake of Eddie Murphy's hit comedy 'Coming to America.'"
"Senator McCain's campaign was all but flat lined before he brought the feisty Caribou Barbie into our living rooms."
Hagedorn also reveled in the type of gay innuendo you may have heard in high school courtyards in decades past. (Kids these days know better.) He referred to former Wisconsin Sen. Herb Kohl as an "alleged switch-hitter" and a "packer." Former GOP candidate Mike Taylor, the target of a homophobic attack ad during his campaign against then-Sen. Max Baucus, came out even worse: "[T]he ad really bent Taylor over with rage and caused him to go straight to the bar and get lubricated," Hagedorn wrote. "It must have taken all Taylor's power to refrain from fisting err using his fists on Max Baucus, or at the very least ream him inside and out."
In an entry on the Supreme Court's 2003 Lawrence v. Texas decision, which ruled that state bans on sodomy were unconstitutional, he wrote: "Butt (sic) never have winners lost so dearly. The Court's voyage into uncharted, untreated cultural bathhouse waters was designed to offer a gentle push from behind to generate a small skip forward for the pink triangle class to throw them a bone, so to speak."
Lest anyone challenge his bona fides, Hagedorn wanted to make abundantly clear he was a straight white male. "Senator McCain's campaign was all but flat lined before he brought the feisty Caribou Barbie into our living rooms," he wrote in 2008. "Which reminds me, on behalf of all red-blooded American men: THANK YOU SENATOR McCAIN, SARAH'S HOT!"
Former White House counsel Harriet Miers was nominated "to fill the bra of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor."
Not all female politicians were viewed as favorably. In a 2002 post, Hagedorn referred to Washington Democratic Sens. Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray as "undeserving bimbos in tennis shoes." Former Bush White House counsel Harriet Miers, he wrote in 2005, had been nominated "to fill the bra of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor."
Hagedorn, the son of retired congressman Tom Hagedorn, was a surprise victor in last Tuesday's GOP primary. But he brings some serious baggage to his race against Walz, a four-term incumbent. In posts from his old blog, Mr. Conservative, unearthed by the Minnesota politics blog Bluestem Prairie*, Hagedorn made light of American Indians, President Obama's Kenyan ancestry, and female Supreme Court justices, among others, in ways many voters won't appreciate.
Hagedorn deleted many of his old posts prior to his 2010 run for Walz's seathe lost in the GOP primary. But some of his writings can still be found via the Internet Archive or in screenshots taken by the Independent. These were not mere juvenile ramblings, either: Hagedorn was a Treasury Department official at the time.
"Turns out half-aunt Zeituni is an illegal alien from Kenya who has illegally contributed money to her half-nephew's campaign, which should make Americans half-pi$$ed," he wrote in a typical missive during the 2008 election cycle. "The migration from Barack Obama's second country to the United States during the next four years is going to look like a low-budget remake of Eddie Murphy's hit comedy 'Coming to America.'"
"Senator McCain's campaign was all but flat lined before he brought the feisty Caribou Barbie into our living rooms."
Hagedorn also reveled in the type of gay innuendo you may have heard in high school courtyards in decades past. (Kids these days know better.) He referred to former Wisconsin Sen. Herb Kohl as an "alleged switch-hitter" and a "packer." Former GOP candidate Mike Taylor, the target of a homophobic attack ad during his campaign against then-Sen. Max Baucus, came out even worse: "[T]he ad really bent Taylor over with rage and caused him to go straight to the bar and get lubricated," Hagedorn wrote. "It must have taken all Taylor's power to refrain from fisting err using his fists on Max Baucus, or at the very least ream him inside and out."
In an entry on the Supreme Court's 2003 Lawrence v. Texas decision, which ruled that state bans on sodomy were unconstitutional, he wrote: "Butt (sic) never have winners lost so dearly. The Court's voyage into uncharted, untreated cultural bathhouse waters was designed to offer a gentle push from behind to generate a small skip forward for the pink triangle class to throw them a bone, so to speak."
Lest anyone challenge his bona fides, Hagedorn wanted to make abundantly clear he was a straight white male. "Senator McCain's campaign was all but flat lined before he brought the feisty Caribou Barbie into our living rooms," he wrote in 2008. "Which reminds me, on behalf of all red-blooded American men: THANK YOU SENATOR McCAIN, SARAH'S HOT!"
Former White House counsel Harriet Miers was nominated "to fill the bra of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor."
Not all female politicians were viewed as favorably. In a 2002 post, Hagedorn referred to Washington Democratic Sens. Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray as "undeserving bimbos in tennis shoes." Former Bush White House counsel Harriet Miers, he wrote in 2005, had been nominated "to fill the bra of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor."
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House Candidate Called Female Senators "Undeserving Bimbos in Tennis Shoes" (Original Post)
geardaddy
Aug 2014
OP
Glad to see Republicans are still "reaching out" to womem voters. Keep it up.
Viva_Daddy
Aug 2014
#2
northoftheborder
(7,572 posts)1. Yuck, what a jerk
calimary
(81,320 posts)8. Couldn't have said it better!
Viva_Daddy
(785 posts)2. Glad to see Republicans are still "reaching out" to womem voters. Keep it up.
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)3. I think Walz will win again.
He's been a great rep.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)4. Kick....
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)5. Mysogynist, Homophobe, Republican.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)12. What are synonyms, Alex?
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)6. Thank you conservative blogger Jim Hagedorn,
if it wasn't for you many people wouldn't know conservative candidate Jim Hagedorn is a misogynistic homophobic creep.
wheniwasincongress
(1,307 posts)7. I don't understand the tennis shoes quip?
Is he saying they should be wearing high heels?
calimary
(81,320 posts)9. Welcome to DU, wheniwasincongress!
Glad you're here! Perhaps it's a reference (a rather INSULTING reference) to Patty Murray's original campaign for Senate - when she referred to herself as "a mom in tennis shoes." Cheesy jerk, that hagedorn putz. Long may he live in total and well-deserved obscurity.
wheniwasincongress
(1,307 posts)10. Thank you!
Cha
(297,317 posts)11. Hagedorn is called "mr conservative" in the report.. I say he's mr
teabagger, sociopathic a$$hole.. more descriptive of his "baggage".
thanks geardaddy.
47of74
(18,470 posts)13. Dubuque has it's own version
The Dubuque, Iowa version makes Hagedorn look like a kind, upstanding gentlemen.
geretogo
(1,281 posts)15. Rethuglicons reveal their true nature every day . It's too bad Joe Six pack can't see these
defective creatures as the dangerous thugs and gangsters they truly are .