# Alabama gubernatorial candidate Tim James is a loathsome shit. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 10, 2010, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-gubernatorial-candidate-tim-james-is-a-loathsome-shit/538871 "2010-05-10T02:43:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-gubernatorial-candidate-tim-james-is-a-loathsome-shit/538871/1 "2010-05-10T02:43:50Z")
The man oozes hate and anger out of every pore. He doesn’t like brown people, and he wants to make sure everybody knows it. Yeah, we know he doesn’t like Mexicans, and is desperately concerned that the filthy wetbacks will destroy good, white, Southern Amurkin culture with their rampant Catholicism and funny language. Or something. But I’m pitting him for being such a blatantly manipulative right wing shill that he’s willing to outright pander to the worst xenophobic, racist common denominator to get elected, even if it means that he actually hurts the state of Alabama. [Look at this smarmy turd and tell me you wouldn’t like to slap his dick off.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9ohsvJHkbY) In essence, his campaign promise is that if he’s elected governor, he’s gonna make sure that the driver’s license exam is given only in English. His attitude is the typical rightie swagger. He exudes “wronged white man syndrome”, and damn it, he’s mad and not going to take it any more. Never mind that the state of Alabama would actually lose federal funds if he did this, since we get money for having multilingual programs in place. No doubt he would characterize it as weaning the state off the teat of the federal gubmint. This, of course, makes him doubly a scumbag politician because he’s perfectly aware that despite his God-n-Guns protestations, the state would be in deep, deep shit without federal funds. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-gubernatorial-candidate-tim-james-is-a-loathsome-shit/538871/2 "2010-05-10T02:59:00Z")
No puedo entender. O, ¡él es demasiado tarde para mí! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-gubernatorial-candidate-tim-james-is-a-loathsome-shit/538871/3 "2010-05-10T03:02:58Z")
Thank you, I would rather not slap his dick. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-gubernatorial-candidate-tim-james-is-a-loathsome-shit/538871/4 "2010-05-10T03:03:21Z")
Some scrotum-cupper I grew up with posted this on Facebook and gave the typical righty party-line and about a billion people “liked” it and posted supporting comments. Xenophobia will be one of the last major prejudices to die in this country. It’s powerful. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-gubernatorial-candidate-tim-james-is-a-loathsome-shit/538871/5 "2010-05-10T03:06:30Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > Some scrotum-cupper I grew up with posted this on Facebook and gave the typical righty party-line and about a billion people “liked” it and posted supporting comments. Xenophobia will be one of the last major prejudices to die in this country. It’s powerful. Isn’t every prejudice a form of xenophobia? Even male chauvinism? ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-gubernatorial-candidate-tim-james-is-a-loathsome-shit/538871/6 "2010-05-10T03:18:34Z")
Is Alabama really being swamped in a tide of illegal immigrants? Wikipedia has an estimate of 24,000 illegals in the entire state. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-gubernatorial-candidate-tim-james-is-a-loathsome-shit/538871/7 "2010-05-10T03:19:16Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Isn’t every prejudice a form of xenophobia? Even male chauvinism? I’m using it in the sense of fear/hatred of foreign people or things. ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-gubernatorial-candidate-tim-james-is-a-loathsome-shit/538871/8 "2010-05-10T03:21:38Z")
I hear ya: my Alamance county sheriff ran on a “They’re takin’ our Joooobbbbss” meme, concerning NC’s considerable new Hispanic immigrants. OK, well, then, you just take that job. In reality, Mexican immigrants take the jobs that most people here don’t want, now that the Black Folk got educated and all :rolleyes:, and work hard at it. If the La Migra bus were to pull up to take everyone brown-backed to Mexico, all restaurants, landscapers, cleaning services, probably child care: it would all grind to a halt. It’s just stupid blame of someone used to entitlement, when the slave labor of yore has disappeared. I’m not blaming the South, either. I’d say a greater portion of Southerners now have got beyond race, and, have, in fact been exemplary in understanding and being an inclusive society because of proximity understanding. But, the old turds are really mired in their mud, and, I don’t know that any manner of slap would dislodge it. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-gubernatorial-candidate-tim-james-is-a-loathsome-shit/538871/9 "2010-05-10T03:24:53Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > Is Alabama really being swamped in a tide of illegal immigrants? Wikipedia has an estimate of 24,000 illegals in the entire state. Yeah, but there are about 135,000 Hispanics in Alabama, and hey, all them Messcans llok alike, right? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-gubernatorial-candidate-tim-james-is-a-loathsome-shit/538871/10 "2010-05-10T03:30:20Z")
Damn typos. ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-gubernatorial-candidate-tim-james-is-a-loathsome-shit/538871/11 "2010-05-10T03:37:23Z")
Double L is a Y sound, right? Te llamo Ogre. Buenos Noches, Amigo. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-gubernatorial-candidate-tim-james-is-a-loathsome-shit/538871/12 "2010-05-10T03:58:24Z")
> [@elelle](#): > > Te llamo Ogre. “You I call Ogre.” Were you going for “te amo” - “I love you”? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-gubernatorial-candidate-tim-james-is-a-loathsome-shit/538871/13 "2010-05-10T04:04:40Z")
> [@elelle](#): > > Double L is a Y sound, right? Te llamo Ogre. Buenos Noches, Amigo. Hola! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-gubernatorial-candidate-tim-james-is-a-loathsome-shit/538871/14 "2010-05-10T04:17:36Z")
[Ha, Sampiro beat you to it.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=12432792&postcount=72) I too would not want to go anywhere near his bigoted dick, not even to slap it. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-gubernatorial-candidate-tim-james-is-a-loathsome-shit/538871/15 "2010-05-10T04:27:57Z")
> [@elelle](#): > > I hear ya: my Alamance county sheriff ran on a “They’re takin’ our Joooobbbbss” meme, concerning NC’s considerable new Hispanic immigrants. OK, well, then, you just take that job. In reality, Mexican immigrants take the jobs that most people here don’t want, now that the Black Folk got educated and all :rolleyes:, and work hard at it. If the La Migra bus were to pull up to take everyone brown-backed to Mexico, all restaurants, landscapers, cleaning services, probably child care: it would all grind to a halt. > > It’s just stupid blame of someone used to entitlement, when the slave labor of yore has disappeared. I’m not blaming the South, either. I’d say a greater portion of Southerners now have got beyond race, and, have, in fact been exemplary in understanding and being an inclusive society because of proximity understanding. But, the old turds are really mired in their mud, and, I don’t know that any manner of slap would dislodge it. Tim James doesn’t look all that old. ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-gubernatorial-candidate-tim-james-is-a-loathsome-shit/538871/16 "2010-05-10T04:46:56Z")
If you look just a peep beyond the bigotry, and a scad hair to the right of hatred, yep, he’s pretty Old. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-gubernatorial-candidate-tim-james-is-a-loathsome-shit/538871/17 "2010-05-10T12:31:37Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > Yeah, but there are about 135,000 Hispanics in Alabama, and hey, all them Messcans llok alike, right? :rolleyes: And let’s not mention all them _other_ immigrants. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-gubernatorial-candidate-tim-james-is-a-loathsome-shit/538871/18 "2010-05-10T12:53:01Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > In essence, his campaign promise is that if he’s elected governor, he’s gonna make sure that the driver’s license exam is given only in English. His attitude is the typical rightie swagger. He exudes “wronged white man syndrome”, and damn it, he’s mad and not going to take it any more. > > Never mind that the state of Alabama would actually lose federal funds if he did this, since we get money for having multilingual programs in place. No doubt he would characterize it as weaning the state off the teat of the federal gubmint. This, of course, makes him doubly a scumbag politician because he’s perfectly aware that despite his God-n-Guns protestations, the state would be in deep, deep shit without federal funds. Your argument makes sense: as long as Alabama gets federal funding, cutting the multilingual test program is not a smart idea. With you all the way. But I get the sense that your feelings run deeper; that you believe the program itself has value. So suppose his campaign slogan, or better yet, suppose you had a senate candidate whose slogan was: send me to Washington, and I’ll end this federal subsidy requirement for multilingual tests. I take it you’d be opposed to that? Why? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-gubernatorial-candidate-tim-james-is-a-loathsome-shit/538871/19 "2010-05-10T13:03:17Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > [Ha, Sampiro beat you to it.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=12432792&postcount=72) > > I too would not want to go anywhere near his bigoted dick, not even to slap it. I would, but not with my hand. I’d slap it with a salmonella infected cactus covered in angry badgers. Edit: of course the badgers wouldn’t be inoculated against salmonella, and disgusting bigot slime. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-gubernatorial-candidate-tim-james-is-a-loathsome-shit/538871/20 "2010-05-10T13:19:10Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > Your argument makes sense: as long as Alabama gets federal funding, cutting the multilingual test program is not a smart idea. With you all the way. > > But I get the sense that your feelings run deeper; that you believe the program itself has value. > > So suppose his campaign slogan, or better yet, suppose you had a senate candidate whose slogan was: send me to Washington, and I’ll end this federal subsidy requirement for multilingual tests. I take it you’d be opposed to that? > > Why? Meh. You’re out of your tree if you think you’re going to bait me into a debate about this. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alabama-gubernatorial-candidate-tim-james-is-a-loathsome-shit/538871.md?page=2)