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TexasTowelie

(116,301 posts)
Thu Jul 27, 2017, 01:43 AM Jul 2017

Former GOP official: suggestion to "disembowel" columnist was "figurative"

A prominent Garfield County Republican told me that he was being “figurative” when he wrote on Facebook this week that “someone should disembowel” Mike Littwin, a columnist for the Colorado Independent, a progressive news outlet.

“You Mike Littwin, are such a nefarious, full of mendacity individual, someone should disembowel you on the stairs of the State capitol,” wrote Ron Roesener, who gave up his position of GOP Garfield County Chair this year.


“Well, it was figurative,” he told me when asked about the Facebook post, which was obtained from a source. “I am not going to come down there with my gun and shoot him. Don’t worry.”

That’s good news, and I believe him.

Roesener, who ran for state house in 2012, went on to toss out more commonly heard verbal assaults, calling Littwin a “spineless person.” He alleged that Littwin refused an invitation to come to Garfield County to debate a local Republican. Roesener called Littwin a “1960’s hippie” who should get a “promotion to CNN.”

Read more: http://www.coloradopols.com/diary/97424/former-gop-official-says-his-suggestion-to-disembowel-columnist-littwin-was-figurative
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Former GOP official: suggestion to "disembowel" columnist was "figurative" (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jul 2017 OP
Uh huh. But a unhinged Republican could have taken him literally. emulatorloo Jul 2017 #1
Exactly! Rhiannon12866 Jul 2017 #2
It just occurred to me as I read this description of what this GOP rep wants to do is exactly what Pachamama Jul 2017 #3

Rhiannon12866

(220,277 posts)
2. Exactly!
Thu Jul 27, 2017, 02:10 AM
Jul 2017

And after supporting violence during the campaign, he could have assumed that Trump would defend him.

Pachamama

(17,000 posts)
3. It just occurred to me as I read this description of what this GOP rep wants to do is exactly what
Thu Jul 27, 2017, 04:19 AM
Jul 2017

....a member of Congress wanted to do to Murkowski for voting against the McConnells healthscare bill when he described something that suggested "snatching a knot out of her..."

I have been trying to figure out exactly what that meant and how it was being proposed....as a sailor, I'm all about "knots"...the word snatched (and "snatch&quot have multiple meanings and it wasn't clear what orifice he was suggesting it be done through (mouth, anus, other?). I believe it was a reference to disemboweling and I don't want to imagine the knots reference (stomach, bowels...worse?).

Bottom line - these GOP men are suggesting violent acts and are starting to get into descriptive ones at that....

This is scary

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