Maybe it was just a bad joke to a right-wing audience. Still, GOP gubernatorial candidate Ken Canfield of Overland Park (and originally from Wichita) didn’t elevate the political debate when speaking recently to the Kansas Republican Assembly. Canfield, founder of the National Center for Fathering, recounted a third-grade Sunday school class he led a couple years ago in which the children were studying the meaning of “hypocrite,” The Topeka Capital-Journal reported.
“(What do) we call those guys that say one thing and do another?” Canfield asked.
“Democrats,” a child said.
“I said, ‘Yes.’ ”
Is this really what Canfield thinks, that all — and only — Democrats are hypocrites? Did he really reinforce this view to children in church?
Posted by Phillip Brownlee
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Nah . . . too easy.
I forgive him.
He may want to get right with the Heavenly Mother though . . . before it’s too late.
Why should we be surprised?
Canfield is Brownback’s choice for governor. That should tell us all we need to know about this guy.
http://www.theantisam.com/archives/2006/01/25/ken-canfield-brownbacks-choice-for-ks-governor-enters-race/
Of course he is talking politics in a church setting. WWSD? What would sam do? He is god’s senator. Maybe ken will be god’s governor.
So again, if pat is bush’s sentator, and sam is god’s senator, and now ken wants to be god’s governor….
WHO LOOKS OUT FOR KANSAS?
hee hee
Hank is gonna really be sorry he was too busy to post today when he sees how much fun we had without him.
I think I’ll make some potato salad to make him feel better about missing all the fun :(
And speaking of fun… where’s boy wonder?
Sounds all too typical of these holier-than-thou Righties. THEY are the hypocrites.
Takes one to know one? Hypocrite, that is.
Deputy Press Sec for the dept. of HLS just got busted on child sex sting. Guess that not hyprocrisy
RD,”Dear Lord, I apoligize …. and bless the pygmies in New Guinea”
If you don’t think like I do and belong to the true churce you must be a Godless hypocrite!
Democrats aren’t hypocrats, they are the dark side of the Force. ;P
Democrats aren’t hypocrites…they’re proud to be evil.
hehehe
That may be the lesson THOSE kids are getting.
My son gets the opposite.
Precisley BECAUSE of those kids.
I don’t see politics getting any less divisive any time soon.
“If you don’t think like I do and belong to the true churce you must be a Godless hypocrite!” -Ken
Ramen Brother!!!!
Why did he capitalize “godless?”
Without mentioning Clinton, name one thing that Dems have done recently that is “evil.”
I’d like to hear what you think is evil compared to the Pre-emptive War President.
Ol’ BloJo thinks anyone who doesn’t toe the GOP line of pre-emptive war is evil.
So, how does motherless f*ck Canfield square:
a) the testimony by Scooter Libby that President Bush authorized the leak of Valerie Plame’s name with
b) the Administration’s criticism of leakers?
Hint to motherless f*ck Canfield: falling back on IOKIYAR makes YOU a hypocrite
Methinks the chronically evil (i.e., skeptical, nihilist, revisionist, relativist, iconoclastic, multicultural, grasping, masculinity-hating, anti-family, ivory tower elitist) Democrats doth protest too much.
Anyway, here are more stereotypical zingers on political evil (found on the web):
Republicans are often the lesser of two evils.Democrats deny that evil exists. Besides, good and bad are 100% subjective, right?
Republicans think marijuana is evil.Democrats think it’s evil if you don’t share your marijuana.
Republicans received low Cs in Economics.Democrats think Economics is an evil cult.
Republicans won’t be nice to you unless you’re a WASP, went to the right school, and have lots of money.Democrats won’t be nice to you unless you’re a poor, opressed, differently-abled, athiest, transgendered person of color and victim of this unjust, uncaring, fascist, white male dominated society.
Republicans think the release of classified information is OK as long as it helps the GOP.
Republicans think that multiple marriage/divorce cycles shows a person is pro-family – a person celebrating his 35th wedding anniversary to the same woman is anti-family.
Evil?Oh-oh…they’re taking us seriously again :)
Will,
You want relativism and subjectivism? Look no further than the modern GOP, for whom ‘if it wins election, say or do it’ is the ticket. Winning elections isn’t a problem when you have the temerity to deny what everyone knows, and to boldly deny what you’ve been caught red-handed doing.
That relativism charge isn’t going to fly here, pal, particularly in light of the White House’s denunciation of the ‘reality-based community,’ as reported by Mark Suskind and others.
Oh, and calling somebody who’s correct ‘hateful’ doesn’t make them not correct.
You may want to send that puny Wingnut brain of yours to intellectual boot camp before you try throwing around those fancy concepts and make-believe arguments.
Good old Joe Goebbels had it right as it applies to the Wingnuts:
“If you repeat a lie often enough, people will begin to believe it.”
Bad news, Wingnut. The GOP lies are so egregious now that even the idiot American voters who put your boy in office twice know he’s a liar.
“even the idiot American voters who put your boy in office twice know he’s a liar.”
heheh… and that is “going some” as they say out here jungle jim
and CF…
“when you have the temerity to deny what everyone knows, and to boldly deny what you’ve been caught red-handed doing.”
You forgot to add that the next step in the routine is passing a law that makes what they denied and then were caught doing, legal!
WOWWhat a post Will! Aside from a few of your own big words at the start and finish you came and shared some zingers you found on the web.
Hey, why not? CF even got to use his favorite nut word over it. I see he still has no idea what Suskind was actually referring to, but CF isn’t into nuances. He’d make a great pachyderm.
Anyway, glad to be helpful!
I’ll be back in a few months.
BTW, whatever happened to that world class egotist, Galahad?
Right here, douchebag, where I can kick your sorry ass.
Apparently, the post above about the difference between Repukes and Democrats is what passes for funny among the conservatives.
Sad . . .
“Egotist” implies I think I have all the answers. I don’t think that.
However I do understand that one doesn’t solve problems by continuing to do the same things that caused them in the first place.
As for coming back “in a few months,” thanks for the warning and there’s no need to rush it. Make it a couple of years, why doncha?
Someone told me about your blog. The joke is really on Brownlee cause the Topeka Capital reporter wasn’t even at the meeting. His information was really skewed because Canfield said anyone Republican or Democrat who says one thing and does another was a hypocrite. I was there. What do you call reporters who don’t get the facts right? Hypocrites or bloggers.
Pretty serious but interesting allegation there John.
Got any proof?
Being Republican means not having to have proof–have you forgotten so soon, JR?
For instance, the mushroom cloud appearing above an American city delivered by remote controlled Iraqi aircraft . . .
Hey, it could happen!
By the way, it’s been 24 hours and no further comment from John. Guess he’s still doing “research,” hehehe.