Don't throw stones from a glass house

Bob Wynhausen announced in his latest piece of propaganda that “intolerance is the real problem of the Republican Party.”

I guess Bob has never heard of the Log Cabin Republicans, the National Black Republican Association, the Republican National Hispanic Assembly, the Asian Republican Network, prominent black republicans Renee Amoore, Martin D. Baker, Jennifer Carroll, Larry Elder, Ryan Frazier, Ted Hayes, Jean Howard-Hill, Wallace B. Jefferson, Lenny McAllister, Simone Cherie Perry, Frances Rice, Paul H. Scott, Clarence, Paul H. Scott, Clarence Thomas, J.C. Watts, Condoleezza Rice, Charles Evers, civil-rights leader in Mississippi, brother of Medgar Evers, and many others, and prominent Latino republicans Gustavo Barreiro, Linda Chavez, Rudy Garcia, Marcelo Llorente, and many others, and prominent Asian republicans like Janet Nguyen and Curtis Oda, and many others.

Perhaps it’s the MSNBC trough he’s getting his kooky ideas from, or maybe it’s the equally distorted talking points of the Democratic Party. But the aforementioned folks and organizations have less problem being inside the GOP, an imperfect party to be sure, than Bob has outside of it. However, they may have to dodge those scurrilous stones hurled by his beloved brethren from the Democratic Party’s house of glass, steeped in their own brand of intolerance. 

STEVE HATCHER

Clark Fork