Former wife says Planned Parenthood terrorist is conservative, religious and anti-abortion

[uhnope]

Source: Raw Story

People who knew the suspected gunman in the Colorado Springs shooting described him as a loner who was “weird” but had given few signs of violent behavior, US media reported Sunday.

Robert Lewis Dear, 57, is believed to have entered the Planned Parenthood clinic with a high-powered rifle on Friday and fire on police and civilians outside the building.
...
In 1997, Dear’s then wife, Pamela Ross, once called the police to accuse him of domestic violence, The New York Times reported. Ross said that Dear could have flashes of anger, but usually he would later apologize.

Dear was politically conservative, religious, owned guns and believed that abortion was wrong — but he was not obsessed with any of these issues, Ross said.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/former-wife-says-planned-parenthood-shooter-is-conservative-religious-and-anti-abortion/

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

1. B-b-b-but Teddy Cruz says he was a "transgendered leftist activist"

Are you telling me the Canuck is full of shit?

[Tarc]

3. Is there some basis for the "transgendered" accusation?

Not that I in any way think there is something wrong or negative about transgendered people, I'm just wondering if this is a genuine attack on something in the shooter's past, or if Cruz is just using it as a generic liberal slur?

[TipTok]

4. Something along the lines that his voter registration, at some point, had him listed as female...

I haven't heard anything beyond that...

[kydo]

24. Well Jeb is Hispanic according to his voter reg....

What's wrong repugs can't they fill out forms correctly?

[Volaris]

29. No they just cheat

I don't care about his voter registration card.
I care that he engaged in an act of blatant domestic terrorism during which he killed 3 people for doing something legal.

Everything else is propoganda, and Cruz can go fuck himself if he thinks otherwise.

[kydo]

31. Of course they cheat ....

They are after all, repugs... they also lie,and steal.

[Brickbat]

5. Dear's voter registration lists him as "F" instead of "M," apparently.

[zazen]

6. one of Dear's public records (voter registration?) listed him as a female n/t

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

7. Facts? We don't need no stinkin' facts!

Has any RW idiot blamed Obama yet? Obama Care? Hillary Clinton? Just waiting...

[underpants]

15. He is referencing a nonsense tweet/post from the Gateway Pundit

Washington Post has the details here

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/11/30/ted-cruz-cites-reports-that-planned-parenthood-shooter-could-be-transgendered-leftist-activist-what/

[Tarc]

16. Ugh, these people are repugnant

Cruz's campaign later said he was not making this allegation himself...

This is what Trump pulls with the "I didn't say I wanted to register all Muslims, the journalist broached it and I agreed..." schlock.

The worst part is that there are now ~30% of the voting populace who will forever regurgitate this Cruz transgender meme because the only body that can reliably fact-check this sorta stuff, the media, they don't freaking trust!

Ugh ugh ugh, what horrid human beings.

[underpants]

20. Following the script - say it, it's reported, by tonight they will consider it the truth

And there will be no way to tell them or even show them that it's nonsense.

[Gore1FL]

17. I err on the side of assuming Cruz is being an idiot. n/t

[FrodosPet]

25. No error there that I can see

"Cruz is being an idiot" is a phrase I suspect is heard frequently at the Capitol.

[Oneironaut]

9. I remember laughing at Newsmax bullshit years ago.

Now a Presidential candidate is parroting it. Amazing.

[Tarc]

21. It is sad that we miss the SLIGHTLY saner Republicans, eh?

Newsmax and worldnetdaily were the two big wingnut outlets, and we could always at least say that the GOP candidate of the year...Mittens, Dubya, McCain...at least wasn't THAT crazy.

Sigh...

[SunSeeker]

2. Just another right wing terrorist. nt

[NoMoreRepugs]

8. Textbook ReichWing defense being built

'Loner' 'Weird' 'Religious' the fact he owned a high-powered rifle and killed people doesn't really matter, because white males in the USA cannot possibly be described as terrorists

[randome]

10. Let's not jump to conclusions.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]“If you're not committed to anything, you're just taking up space.”
Gregory Peck, Mirage (1965)[/center][/font][hr]

[Blue_Tires]

30. Of all the RW memes, I loved

"He was a bank robber on the run and he just happened to flee into PP" the best...

[ChairmanAgnostic]

11. "later apologize?"

uh huh. How many dead?

[uppityperson]

12. He's still a terrorist

Weird, religious, loner, conservative describe him as well as mentally ill but he is also a terrorist.

[Thinkingabout]

13. A person who is guilty of domestic violence should not be able to possess guns.

[JDPriestly]

18. The Raw Story article does not say he was "guilty" or convicted of domestic

violence. His wife accused him of it, but the article does not say he was tried for it or convicted of it. Apparently, according to the article, his divorce was "amicable."

So a background check would have shown that he was "difficult" but not that he was violent enough to be deprived of a right under the Second Amendment as not interpreted by the Supreme Court. That's my guess.

[1StrongBlackMan]

14. I'm curious to hear what the woman he was living with has to say about him? ...

I kind of doubt, she would think dear was not obsessed with any of those issues.

[n2doc]

19. Listening to RW hate Radio and TV will make you crazy

Every day they spew the most horrendous lies and fear mongering. I am amazed that more aren't set off by them, honestly.

[Kaleva]

33. Easy access to guns leads to tragic results.

[world wide wally]

22. I always thought that the American people would be repulsed by people like Cruz and Trump and laugh

them into oblivion when they spout this kind of hateful idiocy.

Wow! Was I wrong

[sinkingfeeling]

23. What makes an ex-wife think she knows him better than Ted Cruz?

[olddad56]

26. I think he can better be described as a terrorist

[Warren Stupidity]

27. Oh Dear.

Pun intended. Whatever will the theocrats do with this? My guess is that they will plow forward with their alternate universe 'splains.

[patsimp]

28. just like cruz, cruella, and the other imbecile republican candidates

[Ilsa]

32. Contrition is part of the Abuser's cycle.

They are contrite, do something sweet, lure their victim back in, and begin again.