Kansas GOP Candidate Removes Tweet Attacking Indian-American Challenger As An ‘Evil’ ‘Turban Topper’

[Joanne98]

Yesterday afternoon, Mike Pompeo, the Republican congressional candidate for KS-4 and RNC committeeman, tweeted out to his supporters an article he thought would be a “good read”:

Here’s a good read about the Team Pompeo campaign: http://bit.ly/cF05mp

That link goes to a post on Newsvine by ret. Gunnery Sgt. Bob Pinkstaff USMC, who rails against Pompeo’s Democratic opponent, state Rep. Raj Goyle (who also used to work at the Center for American Progress). In the post — which the Pompeo campaign endorsed by sending out to its supporters — Pinkstaff calls the Indian-American Goyle a “turban topper” who “could be a muslim, a hindu, a buddhist etc who knows”:

As I was listening to radio station 1330 about a week ago, the radio station did an interview with goyle and should be on tape and available to the public. The interviewer asked him what religion or faith he belonged to and this guy mumbled and stumbled around the question, never directly answering it. Like his comrad obama, he wouldn’t give an answer, only that he was not a Christian. This guy could be a muslim, a hindu, a buddhist etc who knows, only God, the shadow and …goyle knows! One thing’s for sure … goyle is not a Christian!

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/08/12/turban-topper/

Is there anybody left they haven't insulted. LOL

[SpiralHawk]

1. Was he tossing his RepubliCon fear & hate at Bobby Jindal (R)?

Or just letting his RepubliCon hate & fear & prejudice thingy splash all over the freaking place - smearing even his own Republicon Crony FAIL artistes - as is typical?

[Richardo]

2. A guy named 'Pinkstaff' is making fun of someone's religion and ethnicity?

Gee, no material there. :evilgrin:

[Joanne98]

4. BWHAHAHAHA!

[SoxFan]

8. ...

:spray:

[DavidDvorkin]

3. No religious test for office

How they love the Constitution!

[mistertrickster]

5. Goyle's my guy! I volunteer for Turban Topper. His dad is my cardiologist.

This is funny . . . Raj will have a good time with this.

He was born and raised in Wichita, Kansas. You can't get any more mainstream America than the heart of the heart of the country . . .

[CakeGrrl]

6. So much for MC Steele's big tent

But we all already knew that. Mike just doesn't get it.

:rofl:

[Enrique]

7. at least he didn't call him macaca n/t

[Stevepol]

9. I think Raj is Hindu, but he's also ultra-competent and hard-working.