Former GOP Rep. Joe Walsh: The American people are ‘stupid’ and ‘lazy’

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Raw Story

Former GOP Rep. Joe Walsh: The American people are ‘stupid’ and ‘lazy’
By Eric W. Dolan
Monday, March 11, 2013 17:40 EDT

Former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL), a tea party favorite, said Sunday that Americans were embracing big government because they had grown stupid and lazy.

At a townhall meeting to promote his new organization, Walsh said the country was currently in a war between the proponents of big government and the proponents of freedom.

“I believe that not since the civil war has this country shaken like it is shaking now,” he said. “And I believe that not since the civil war is this country prepared to crack like it was prepared to crack in the civil war. That was a fight about freedom, slavery. We are fighting now about freedom.”

Walsh explained that he hoped to gather 100,000 people in Illinois to support tea party candidates. His organization, the Freedom Movement, intends to fight back against groups like the Conservative Victory Project, which plans to defeat what it sees as unelectable tea party candidates in GOP primary races.


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[Enrique]

1. I see Joe Walsh refuses to get a real job

he's holding out for Wingnut Welfare.

[southernyankeebelle]

12. He is another Sarah, Newty, Sandy all having PACs and wondering how much of the money they

are keeping for themselves? I'm so sick of hearing about freedoms when its the republicans that are taking away our freedoms of choice.

[kelliekat44]

50. Yeah, most stupid and lazy Americans vote for the GOP...it's called their base. nt

[hobbit709]

2. And Joe is an asshole and a deadbeat dad.

[adieu]

3. Go Joe Go!

Drive that big o' GOP bus into the pits of Khazad-dum. And go along with it, please!

[Aerows]

4. Project much, Deadbeat Joe?

What are you doing these days? Oh, looks like nothing.

[City Lights]

5. Hey Joe! Look in the mirror!

You are the stupidest man to ever be elected to Congress. You are a joke of a human. Pay your child support and quit lecturing the rest of us!

[Coolest Ranger]

6. We were smart enough to vote you out of office

[denverbill]

7. Yes in the same way the Civil War was about freedom: The freedom to own slaves.

That's why the South revolted. Because the North was imposing on their freedoms.

Republickers want freedom as well: The freedom for corporations and exorbitantly wealthy people to virtually enslave the rest of us.

Republickers don't give a shit about freedom. Only the freedom to own guns and accumulate the biggest pile of money however they can. I no other respects do they care about freedom.

[atreides1]

14. So what you're saying?

Is that this current Republican party wants to reverse what the Republicans of the 1860's did, with the only difference being that the corporations will become the slave masters, the Republicans will become the overseers, and those of us who survive their "Stalinist" style purges will become the slaves?

Would that be a fair definition?

[denverbill]

63. That's about it.

That's the ultimate outcome of letting corporations run the state, which is what Republicans completely support.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

8. Says the Deadbeat Dad #1 who doesn't pay his bills! Go to hell, asshole!

[Politicalboi]

9. And without the "stupid' and "lazy"

He never would have held office. I guess there are more "stupid" and "lazy" in Minnesota because Bachmann got re-elected. LOL!

[struggle4progress]

10. "Hey! Ya stupid lazy fuggers! Ya vote fer me, Joe! Ya hear me, ya stupid lazy fuggers?"

It's one of those big unsolved mysteries just why Joe lost last November

[lobodons]

11. Stupid and lazy Americans

I see Walsh has been visiting Tea Party Red States again.

[Flashmann]

13. The American people are ‘stupid’ and ‘lazy’

He's mostly right....Almost half are exactly that,and they tend to vote for shitstains like Joe Walsh.....

[Drunken Irishman]

15. I am so tired of so-called American lovin' Repubs hatin' on Americans.

As Sydney Ellen Wade said in American President: How do you have patience for people who claim they love America, but clearly can't stand Americans?

[BumRushDaShow]

16. I wish the media would ditch reporting on this lunatic. n/t

[leftynyc]

56. Not me

I want the stupid up close and out loud. It's like the pubs refuse to learn any lessons from the 2012 election - that suits me just fine. That party needs to be crushed, obliterated and destroyed.

[corkhead]

17. Or as bygone Detroit weatherman Sonny Eliot would call them: Stazy

[Swede Atlanta]

18. Well Joe, you are an asshole....

I am an American and FLAMING liberal. Let's see how I have "milked the system".

(1) With the help of my parents and my own summer jobs, etc. I paid for my undergraduate and graduate degrees without grants or student loans

(2) I have been gainfully employed since 1978 without ever being unemployed or on public assistance

(3) I work on average 50+ hours a week and sneak in work even on vacations

(4) I would match my intelligence against his any day. I am not a brainiac but am far from being stupid

(5) I only take the standard deduction and therefore contribute a significantly higher percentage of my income to federal and state governments that most "moochers" such as those that have government subsidize their home purchases.

Note: I support the home interest tax deduction up to a certain point but needed to be clear that I am not even taking advantage of that dedication.

So, Joe, let's meet somewhere. I will figuratively duke it out with you any day, any where, with both hands tied behind me. I will still come out the victor because you are are sniveling petulant child.

[olddots]

34. you read my mind

How these maggots fart out of their mouths is astonishing .

[xtraxritical]

45. One term in Congress and perks for life eh Joe?

[leftynyc]

57. No - you have to serve at

least 5 years before you get a pension:

http://www.aarp.org/work/employee-benefits/info-12-2010/benefits_what_does_congress_really_get.html

Could be why he's so pissed.

[xtraxritical]

64. That's good to know, I can eat my breakfast now!

[RevStPatrick]

19. Takes one to know one.

What a maroon!

(Without meaning to insult maroons...)

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

20. The fucking balls on this guy

Can someone....ANYONE....confront this fuckwad and ask him why he's a deadbeat?

[tanyev]

21. Yeah, and some of them don't even pay their child support.

[Hulk]

22. Why do we care what this ding-bat thinks or says at all?

I know, he reaches the lame, ill-informed and angry white voters in his area and across the country. But the honest truth is, they are ALREADY lost. He is preaching to the choir, and he is a total idiot and clown in the first degree.
Like Michelle Malkin, Anne Coultier, rush limpballs, vannity, etc.....forget it. NOT WORTH posting their nonsense drivel. That is exactly WHY they say their outlandish bull shit; so you'll post it and we can all read it, and they continue to be relevant. They are NOT.

[xtraxritical]

46. Voters are pretty sophisticated in his district, they were duped once and then got rid of

the douche in favor of Tammy Duckworth.

[pampango]

60. Now that is the real source of his frustration with voters.

[sheshe2]

23. No Joe,

You are the one that is stupid and lazy!

As a Rep. you collected a hefty salary for "working" less than half the year. Then you cried cried cried, that you were to poor to pay child support to your ex wife. For the safety and well being of the children that you fathered, you became a delinquent dad. You abandonded your children. Family values? Oh I think not.

Do not dare to condesend to us. You are nothing, you are a boil on the butt of hard working American's. We are not the "takers" Joe, you and your party are!

Youy are the party of Lazy and Stupid!

[xtraxritical]

47. Ashley, Ashley, Ashley, Ashley, Ashley, Ashley Ashley, Ashley, Ashley, Ashley, Ashley, Ashley ...

[sheshe2]

49. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[BlueStater]

24. How did this butthead ever get elected in the first place?

Who was his opponent in 2010?

[alp227]

67. Melissa Bean, incumbent Democratic Rep.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Bean

[obama2terms]

25. Haha

When will repukes learn that going bat sit crazy and calling voters lazy doesn't win an election. Hopefully they never will learn though, they are the party of stupid!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

26. Fuck you Mr. Deadbeat dad

[Kalidurga]

27. So Mr. Walsh are you...

stupid or lazy? I think both since you can't seem to find money to support your children.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

28. The only stupid and lazy Americans vote for scum like him

Inexplicably, otherwise.

[Politicub]

29. Is this how you make money as a failed GOP pol?

Just go around calling everyone stupid and lazy because they didn't vote for you?

Sounds like a winning formula for bringing people to your side.

[Cha]

30. Said the Stupid Lazy Asshole.

[chollybocker]

31. Hey Joe, what part of "Former GOP Rep" do you not understand?

I love the fact that his new "group" (is three a group?), Freedom Movement (how original! - sounds like a laxative), is fighting against... the GOP!

Joe doesn't realize he's the punchline of the world's worst joke.

[truthisfreedom]

32. What's stupid and lazy is letting a batshit crazy teabagger do your thinking for you.

What a wack-job.

[WinstonSmith4740]

33. This is getting better and better.

His organization, the Freedom Movement, intends to fight back against groups like the Conservative Victory Project, which plans to defeat what it sees as unelectable tea party candidates in GOP primary races.

. These guys really are in a circular firing squad. Easily a 2 bagger.

[NoGOPZone]

35. That would explain how he got elected. nt

[muntrv]

36. ...And Joe is too lazy to pay his child support.

[GoCubsGo]

37. Just the ones who gave you that one term in Congress, asshole. n/t

[Skittles]

38. redmeat for his racist, teabagging fans

he's a piece of SHIT

[olddad56]

39. If the country had grown stupid and lazy, Mr. Walsh would still be in Congress.

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[RVN VET]

40. Guys and Gals

You've nailed it!

'Nuff said.

[daybranch]

41. Walsh is a little off on his analysis

He is correct that the people are often ignorant and he is correct that they are not as motivated politically as they should be. The key thing is it is the ignorance welcomed and spread by Teaparty types, Fox News, and other republicans in order to hide their obedience to big corporate donors that is so impossible for most of the country to believe that has led to the lack of political involvement on behalf of Walsh and other republicans.
Walsh will really enjoyy the next 4 years if he wants activism only. But I fear most of the activism is already coming from Progressives who rightly challenge Obama's centrist inclinations. Walsh will get action, not lazioness. The problem for he and the other corrupt politicians that dominate his party is that as ignorance is removed , the people become more and more progressive and as they become more and more progressive they begin to act out of the compassion developed through their empathy. Walsh has a lot to learn and calling voters stupid and lazy sure indicates a lack of understanding. Bye Bye Joe. Cursing your own team is not a good idea.

[SCVDem]

42. Hey Walsh!

Fuck off!

[Snarkoleptic]

43. I still grin each time I drive down Rt. 31 on the North side of McHenry, IL

and see the tattered "Walsh for Congress" sign on the old abandoned silo.

[Historic NY]

44. He ought to know about the stupid part.

[mikekohr]

48. From The "Blame America" Crowd comes Joe Walsh nt

[Turbineguy]

51. Big government versus freedom

civil war seems to be the solution he wants.

What is it with these people? Why do they want to kill so many people?

[freshwest]

52. Well, there he goes again...

[Rain Mcloud]

53. If i can pay child support while working two full-time jobs for minimum wage

then,You Joe,can pay to support your children while grazing at the public trough at the expense of the tax payer.
I will repeat some knuckle-dragger favorites here as long as i am giving Joe Walsh some advice:
Get a real job!
Work is good for You!
Hard work never hurt anyone!
Pay up deadbeat!
Be a Man!

[6000eliot]

54. I don't know about lazy, but the ones who voted for HIM weren't too smart.

[left is right]

55. He certainly convinced me

I will definitely vote for him the next time he runs for anything, even if i have to move to do it

[Javaman]

58. meh, his opinion didn't matter before and it certainly doesn't matter now. nt

[Arkana]

59. I know everyone's going to hate me for this, but Walsh isn't wrong.

His reasons are completely wrong, but his conclusion isn't. One American may be informed and engaged. Hell, even a group of them may be informed and engaged.

Americans as a whole, however, are lazy, stupid, and easily scared.

He's still a stinking deadbeat and an asshole, though.

[SCVDem]

61. That's the stopped clock being right twice a day. nt

[JoePhilly]

66. That was how he was elected initially.

[L0oniX]

62. Why would he attack his own base???

[aggiesal]

65. I think he meant to say that . . .

The American people, [font color=RED]who watch FOX News[/font], are ‘stupid’ and ‘lazy’.

In this case, I believe he's not far off!