The Need for Studs

 

Photo J. Scott Applewhite for AP

Whoever's in charge of the Twitter feed for the Forsyth County Republican Party (@FCNCGOP) tweeted this shortly after 9 p.m. last night following an appearance by Matt Gaetz at a dinner:

Big thank you to @mattgaetz for headlining our Lincoln Day Dinner tonight!!! 

The man is a stud and as American as it gets (hence the recent run on new underwear in DC). 

Thank you Matt!

That actually explains a lot! But what was the run on underwear in DC?

This is the Forsyth County GOP

 

Reaffirming its brand as a tone-deaf political party very comfortable associated with gun violence, the Forsyth GOP is holding -- yep -- a raffle for 30 firearms of various descriptions, including automatic weapons:

Here are the Forsyth County Republican office holders and candidates running under this brand:

Rep. Jeff Zenger
NC House Dist. 74

Rep. Donny Lambeth
NC House Dist. 75

Rep. Kyle Hall
NC House Dist. 91

George Ware
Candidate, NC Senate
Dist. 32

Sen. Joyce Krawiec
NC Senate Dist. 31

Rep. Virginia Foxx
5th District NC

Lies, Assault Weapons, and Public Education in Forsyth County

It passeth understanding.

But the leading Republican contender for appointment to the Republican Board of Education in Forsyth, an appointment to be made by the Republican County Commission, sure as hell got himself off the top of the list as soon as people started asking questions about his Uzis and other toys of that ilk and how he got them.

Another Republican Who Hates the Student Vote

Jeff Polston, the losing Republican candidate for Forsyth County Clerk of Court, wants the election results overturned because students at Winston-Salem colleges voted in the election.

Where have we heard this complaint before? Oh yeah.

Mr. Polston, in singling out "college students," was apparently really targeting a particular group of college students, mainly those at Winston-Salem State University, an historically black college.

Mellow Man

Nathan Tabor, the right-wing Republican battlebot of yore (he came in fifth in the Republican primary for U.S. Congress that Madam Foxx ultimately won in 2004), says he's now "gentler, softer, more agreeable" in his new role as chair of the Forsyth County Republican Party.

Groovy.

He was the cleverer-by-half candidate who did things like buy up all the domain names he thought his opposition might want to use. According to John Railey, "Tabor has the Facebook savvy and youth [Republicans will] need to [sell themselves to voters again] -- if moderates aren't scared off by his past stances."

Tabor graduated from the Rev. Pat Robertson's Regent University, and has been endorsed, if not enabled, by both Robertson and the late Rev. Jerry Falwell.

He now says that, though he still listens to Rush Limbaugh, he doesn't always agree with him. (For that slip of the tongue, he might want to keep this website bookmarked on his computer.)