TNGOP Reacts To The Tullahoma Terrorist Fistjab

By Kleinheider Posted on June 13, 2008 at 2:07 pm

From a TNGOP release:

Cracks are showing in the Tennessee Democrat Party’s claim of being unified behind their presidential nominee, Barack Obama, this week with the revelation that TDP State Executive Committee member Fred Hobbs has said publicly that he believes Obama “may be terrorist connected.”

Fred Hobbs was quoted in the Nashville City Paper saying this about Obama:

“He’s got some bad connections, and he may be terrorist connected for all I can tell. It sounds kind of like he may be.”

Echoing Hobbs’ comments, Beecher Frasier, chief of staff for Tennessee Democrat U.S. Rep. Lincoln Davis, a superdelegate to the Democratic National Convention, “said he doesn’t know for sure if Obama is ‘terrorist connected’ but he assumes he’s not,” the City Paper reported.

Rep. Davis has refused to endorse Barack Obama. Democrat voters in Davis’ congressional district - typical rural often God-fearing and gun-owning moderate Democrats - went overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton in the Feb. 5 presidential primary rather than for Obama, the choice of the party’s urban liberal elitists.

“The Tennessee Democrat Party has a long history of making unfounded accusations calling political rivals racists and smear artists,” said Tennessee Republican Party communications director Bill Hobbs (no relation to TDP party leader Fred Hobbs.)

“Perhaps before they fire the “racism” charge at others or claim their own party is unified behind Barack Obama, they might want to explain to the Obama campaign why one of the leaders of the Tennessee DemocratParty is accusing Obama of having terrorist connections, and why a Democrat Tennessee congressman and superdelegate is refusing to endorse the party’s presidential nominee,” TRP spokesman Hobbs said.

While the TDP deals with its internal split over whether or not to support Barack Obama, the Tennessee Republican Party notes that the majority of Tennessee Democrats didn’t back Obama in the February primary – and invites them to consider voting for the Republican nominee this fall.

“For Tennesseans who want to keep their hard-earned paycheck rather than see their wages go to pay for a bloated government, for those who don’t want to appease terrorists but see the war in Iraq come to an end in victory and for those who want health care access increased but not at the sacrifice of losing their personal choice of a physician, there is only one choice, and it isn’t Barack Obama,” said Robin Smith, chairman of the Tennessee Republican party.

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