Former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson has been in a little hot water for his response to a question at the GOP Presidential debate:
Question: If a private employer finds homosexuality immoral, should he be allowed to fire a gay worker?
Thompson: I think that is left up to the individual business. I really sincerely believe that that is an issue that business people have got to make their own determination as to whether or not they should be.
Don’t worry, Gov. Thompson can explain. He didn’t hear the question correctly because the battery in his hearing aide was dead and he really had to pee.
I was just hanging on. I could not wait until the debate got off so I could go to the bathroom. I didn’t hear the question. All I was thinking about was getting off the stage.
Incontinent and deaf. Exactly what America is looking for in a President.
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As a hearing impaired individual, I take exception to your “deaf” comment.
There’s plenty of reasons to oppose Thompson. There’s no reason to make that cheapshot.
It’s no less offensive than if you had cxracked about Obama’s skin color, or FDR’s disability.
A little bit of rhetoric - a cheap shot against Thompson, is no a cheap shot against hearing-impaired people in itself. — — — At any rate, trying to cover what he said during the debate is pretty ineffectual (geez, I almost said “lame”).
The bottom line is that theses dopes got out there & really haven’t any grasp of their own world views, because in reality, they are willing to say anything that will co-opt a base.
To appear an authority figure - and to con those he needs, he had to say something with conviction. even though he will later back off on what he said.
I will have to see the video to see if he was so stressed that he had to cross his legs. To say something like he did - does that mean that everything else he said on that stage was equally ill-advised?
…is it only the stuff he got called on
- or are there other things which we should assume Thompson will later want a right of retraction on?
This debate is part of what he is being weighed on.
He shoulda gone before he left the house?
Thompson:
“I think that is left up to the individual business.
I REALLY SINCERELY BELIEVE
that that is an issue that business people have got to make their own determination as to whether or not they should be.” — — — -
When should we REALLY, SINCERELY believe Tommy?
(I suppose it would be unfortunate to make a joke about “Tommy can you hear me, Tommy can you see me” at this point. — — — -
Yeah, maybe the original has a little bite that could be taken as an undue slam of hearing impaired people as less than full citizens.
That can be said about many things. Kucinich doesn’t get his due, partly because he doesn’t fit the fantasy people have in their head about WHO looks like them - and thus dismiss him for his height.
(Though contrary to Minnesota sensibilities - Paul Wellstone was not much taller than Kucinich was he?)
It’s also offensive for Thompson to try and use being hearing imparied as an excuse for a bigoted answer.
People may joke about Kucinich’s height, but I haven’t seen anyone claim that it makes him unqualified to be President or hold other elected office as the originial comment implies.
Agreed that it was offensive for Thompson to try and pass it off on on a lame excuse after he got called on the comment.
Well, Thompson wasn’t going anywhere even before he started putting his foot in his mouth on a regular basis. Give the guy credit, though, at least he retracted his bigoted comment.