# "If anyone can go and harass it would be appreciated." **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 11, 2004, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-anyone-can-go-and-harass-it-would-be-appreciated/264086 "2004-09-11T23:46:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [September 11, 2004, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-anyone-can-go-and-harass-it-would-be-appreciated/264086/1 "2004-09-11T23:46:28Z")
[http://www.kare11.com/news/news\_article.aspx?storyid=69223](http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=69223) > [@](#): > > In a news release, the DFL Party included an e-mail that Rep. Bill Kuisle had sent to Olmsted County Republicans, urging them to attend an event in Rochester on Friday featuring singer Carole King and the group Minnesota Women for John Kerry. > > Kuisle provided the details of the event and said, “If anyone can go and harass it would be appreciated. Bill.” How very Republican. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2004, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-anyone-can-go-and-harass-it-would-be-appreciated/264086/2 "2004-09-12T00:10:31Z")
The Minnesota Republican party really has been taken over by an extremely juvenile and petty gang. This isn’t the first example of it I’ve seen, and I’m sure it won’t be the last. ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2004, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-anyone-can-go-and-harass-it-would-be-appreciated/264086/3 "2004-09-12T00:22:00Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > How very Republican. What does this have to do with being Republican? ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2004, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-anyone-can-go-and-harass-it-would-be-appreciated/264086/4 "2004-09-12T00:27:48Z")
> [@ParentalAdvisory](#): > > What does this have to do with being Republican? I’m guessing it’s the OP’s opinion that it’s typical behaviour of a republican. To be pedantic. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2004, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-anyone-can-go-and-harass-it-would-be-appreciated/264086/5 "2004-09-12T00:28:58Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > To be pedantic. (me. Not the republican) ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Lao](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@Dr.Lao](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Lao)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2004, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-anyone-can-go-and-harass-it-would-be-appreciated/264086/6 "2004-09-12T00:31:11Z")
Actually, the Republican thing to do is to get the word out, but never, ever put it in an e-mail. It just blows your plausible deniability out of the water. ---
**Author:** ![cheddarsnax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@cheddarsnax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cheddarsnax)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2004, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-anyone-can-go-and-harass-it-would-be-appreciated/264086/7 "2004-09-12T00:56:07Z")
This isn’t very nice, but I think there’s an even better recent story about Minnesota Republicans. Apparently, at a recruiting event, College Republicans displayed the names of all the 9/11 victims with a sign saying: “The Result Of Eight Years Of DFL Foreign Policy.” And when asked if they were blaming 9/11 on Dems, the CR chair said… Yes! ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2004, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-anyone-can-go-and-harass-it-would-be-appreciated/264086/8 "2004-09-12T01:04:35Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > How very Republican. Yes, all Republicans, everywhere. Which way to the SDMB, BTW? I seem to be lost. ---
**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:** [September 12, 2004, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-anyone-can-go-and-harass-it-would-be-appreciated/264086/9 "2004-09-12T01:13:48Z")
> [@ParentalAdvisory](#): > > What does this have to do with being Republican? Because Republicans have let their party be taken over by right-wing “Win at any cost, Lie-Lie-Lie, then Lie some more, Democracy-be-damned, the Republican Noise Machine will save our ass” types, and it’s on their heads. Not all Republicans are like that, and good for them, but they choose to remain in the party. Until they take their party back and throw the right-wingers out on their ass to form their own damned party, good, decent, democracy-loving Republicans are going to be associated with this crap, just as they were when Nixon was President. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2004, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-anyone-can-go-and-harass-it-would-be-appreciated/264086/10 "2004-09-12T01:16:33Z")
> [@Una Persson](#): > > Yes, all Republicans, everywhere. > > Which way to the SDMB, BTW? I seem to be lost. I am sure that the OP meant “Almost all Republicans except for a few who should be Libertarians and Democrats anyway.” To be nuanced and all. Anyway, I thought we were in the Pit. Fucking Republicans, they’ve really fucked up the country. I hope they’re all reincarnated as toilet paper rolls. ---
**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:** [September 12, 2004, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-anyone-can-go-and-harass-it-would-be-appreciated/264086/11 "2004-09-12T01:16:45Z")
> [@cheddarsnax](#): > > This isn’t very nice, but I think there’s an even better recent story about Minnesota Republicans. Apparently, at a recruiting event, College Republicans displayed the names of all the 9/11 victims with a sign saying: “The Result Of Eight Years Of DFL Foreign Policy.” And when asked if they were blaming 9/11 on Dems, the CR chair said… Yes! I am so not surprised. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2004, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-anyone-can-go-and-harass-it-would-be-appreciated/264086/12 "2004-09-12T01:19:43Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > Because Republicans have let their party be taken over by right-wing “Win at any cost, Lie-Lie-Lie, then Lie some more, Democracy-be-damned, the Republican Noise Machine will save our ass” types, and it’s on their heads. > > Not all Republicans are like that, and good for them, but they choose to remain in the party. Until they take their party back and throw the right-wingers out on their ass to form their own damned party, good, decent, democracy-loving Republicans are going to be associated with this crap, just as they were when Nixon was President. Hear fucking hear! ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2004, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-anyone-can-go-and-harass-it-would-be-appreciated/264086/13 "2004-09-12T01:33:45Z")
Pretty scummy… But not all that different from what some groups of democrats have been doing, is it? Seems to me I’ve seen plenty of people disrupting or attempting to disrupt republican to-dos recently… and I’m almost certain that most of them weren’t republicans (possibly _should_ have been, but there ya go!). 😛 ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2004, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-anyone-can-go-and-harass-it-would-be-appreciated/264086/14 "2004-09-12T01:36:22Z")
> [@Astroboy14](#): > > Pretty scummy… > > But not all that different from what some groups of democrats have been doing, is it? Seems to me I’ve seen plenty of people disrupting or attempting to disrupt republican to-dos recently… and I’m almost certain that most of them weren’t republicans (possibly _should_ have been, but there ya go!). 😛 Were they acting as individuals, or responding to a call from a representative of the Democratic party? ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2004, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-anyone-can-go-and-harass-it-would-be-appreciated/264086/15 "2004-09-12T01:41:12Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Were they acting as individuals, or responding to a call from a representative of the Democratic party? That’s a good question. I don’t know… I doubt that they were simply acting on their own without any organization, but I have no evidence saying that they weren’t either. _shrug_ ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2004, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-anyone-can-go-and-harass-it-would-be-appreciated/264086/16 "2004-09-12T01:43:31Z")
> [@Astroboy14](#): > > That’s a good question. I don’t know… I doubt that they were simply acting on their own without any organization, but I have no evidence saying that they weren’t either. _shrug_ The organization of a group of likeminded individuals is one thing; instructions from an elected official is entirely else. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2004, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-anyone-can-go-and-harass-it-would-be-appreciated/264086/17 "2004-09-12T02:34:47Z")
> [@Astroboy14](#): > > That’s a good question. I don’t know… I doubt that they were simply acting on their own without any organization, but I have no evidence saying that they weren’t either. _shrug_ So then you’re a child molester. I mean, I have no evidence saying that you are, but I have no evidence saying that you aren’t either. _shrug_ Didn’t we _just_ go through this like, a week ago with Hastert pseudo-labeling George Soros as a druglord? Perhaps you should refrain from making accusations with no information to back them up? ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2004, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-anyone-can-go-and-harass-it-would-be-appreciated/264086/18 "2004-09-12T02:44:15Z")
**Otto** , have you lost your goddamned mind? **Astroboy** made no accusation–he said that he didn’t know if the activists were acting on their own or on orders. For you to respond with your hysterical hyperbole, _especially_ that child molestation shit, is despicable. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2004, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-anyone-can-go-and-harass-it-would-be-appreciated/264086/19 "2004-09-12T02:45:53Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > So then you’re a child molester. > > I mean, I have no evidence saying that you are, but I have no evidence saying that you aren’t either. _shrug_ > > Didn’t we _just_ go through this like, a week ago with Hastert pseudo-labeling George Soros as a druglord? > > Perhaps you should refrain from making accusations with no information to back them up? Astroboy is a child molester? Boy, I’m glad I found out about that! ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2004, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-anyone-can-go-and-harass-it-would-be-appreciated/264086/20 "2004-09-12T02:47:04Z")
> [@gobear](#): > > **Otto** , have you lost your goddamned mind? **Astroboy** made no accusation–he said that he didn’t know if the activists were acting on their own or on orders. For you to respond with your hysterical hyperbole, _especially_ that child molestation shit, is despicable. I thought Otto made his point very nicely. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-anyone-can-go-and-harass-it-would-be-appreciated/264086.md?page=2)