Democrats call on Virginia GOP Chair to resign over ‘Obama is so close to death’ remark

December 9, 2013

By Anomaly

Three Democratic state lawmakers on Monday called for the state chairman of Virginia’s Republican Party to resign over highly inflammatory and provocative remarks he made.
Democrats are arguing the statements would damage already frayed relations between the parties going forward.
The chairman, Pat Mullins, in an attempt to get some 450 activists and elected officials in a frenzy, at a weekend GOP retreat at The Homestead resort on Saturday, accused Obama of lying to the American people on issues ranging from health care to National Security Agency eavesdropping to the benefits of stimulus spending.

He said, ”Our president was elected on a series of lies. The American people are finally seeing the emperor without his clothes…Obama is so close to death that Terry McAuliffe is about to buy a life insurance policy on him.”
Politico reports, “The latter part of the comments, which drew laughs and scattered applause, referred to the revelation in the home stretch of the governor’s race that the Democratic nominee received $113,000 from an investment in a death-benefits scheme that preyed on the terminally ill.”
State Delegate Bob Brink said, “His rhetoric shows he’s unwilling to work in a bipartisan manner and set the kind of tone that we need going forward.This is the same vision that the voters rejected in 2013.”
State Sen. Donald McEachin compared Mullins remark to the Mecklenburg County, Va., Republican Party who posted photoshopped images in 2012 depicting Obama as a Neanderthal and witch doctor, as well as a 2011 Halloween mailer from the Loudoun County GOP that showed Obama as a zombie with a bullet hole in his head.
McEachin said, “Saying that President Obama is close to death is unacceptable in our discourse.This is just another example of how unwilling to change and how unbridled in their opposition to President Obama the Republicans are.”
The ‘misspeak.’
Politico reports: “Virginia GOP communications director J. Garren Shipley said Mullins misspoke and meant to say that McAuliffe was going to take out a life insurance policy on Obamacare, “not the president personally.”
Shipley said in an email, “This is just more manufactured outrage from Virginia Democrats. But the Democratic hyperventilation is unsurprising, since Obamacare is on life support, and our newly-elected governor is a Democrat who made money by betting on terminally ill patients to die. They’re desperate to talk about anything other than their failed policies that are hurting hard-working Virginians.”
Yeah that’s it. Imagine if President Obama said something like this. The outrage would be deafening. As if our political discourse isn’t already at an all-time low, this dummy tries to work up his base by suggesting the President of the United States is close to death.