Maine Governor Paul LePage is a bigot and an idiot.
In the afternoon, LePage reiterated his message about energy costs at the Ellen Leach Home in Brewer, a residence for seniors. There, he spoke to over 30 people about a range of issues.
The audience was receptive, laughing at his jokes and nodding and clapping when he made comments about his no-holds-barred style and his stance on undocumented immigrants.
He insisted on calling them illegal aliens and explained that “what most people in Maine don’t want to acknowledge is that the ‘il’ makes it unlawful,” referring to the spelling of the word “illegal.”
“They are going to our schools, and that’s a real problem for me,” said LePage, who is running against Democrat Mike Michaud and independent Eliot Cutler.
“If we can’t build a fence high enough … we ought to go to China and see how they built a wall,” he said, which got laughs.
Because the Great Wall of China was so successful in keeping out foreigners.
220 AD – 960 AD
The Feudal Dynasties saw China again break up into disparate, warring states. During this period, northern invaders were successful in breaching the fortifications in an extended fashion for the first time in the history of the Great Wall of China. The nomadic armies learned to concentrate on specific weak points along the wall bringing to bear all their war engines on that one spot.
960 AD – 1279 AD
In the Song Dynasty, the Jin, a Manchu-speaking group from the north, was able to breach the wall and conquer northern China. The emperor fled the northern capital and based his empire in southern China during this dynasty. Despite the downfall of the north, China flourished during the Song Dynasty by expanding trade over the South China Sea.
1271 AD – 1368 AD
For the first time in the history of the Great Wall of China, the entire nation was conquered by foreigners during the Yuan Dynasty. The Mongol armies not only swept through China, but they conquered much of Asia reaching all the way to central Europe with their horse-driven armies. As they were from the north themselves, the Mongols made no effort to maintain or improve the wall wanting instead to facilitate communication between the two regions.
I grow weary of the Stupid.
LePage’ll be re-elected, too — because Eliot Cutler didn’t leave the party, his party left him, and all the people who know that the real problem with politics is that there are parties, and politicians, in it, will put LePage back in the Blaine House.
According to TPM, Michaud is polling ahead of LePage at the moment. But what the hell is wrong with the citizens of Maine if a moron like LePage can be polling at 40%?
Did that excerpt just forget the Tang Dynasty? WTF.
Tang China wasn’t conquered but the wall was ignored for massive trade and cultural exchange and uncontrolled immigration leading to China’s most magnificent and prosperous era. The wall failed again in 1644, though, when the Manchu founded the Qing dynasty that lasted until the 1911 revolution.
Apparently he doesn’t have any problem with brown people who are here legally, so how does that make him a bigot?
Just because he doesn’t agree with you on open borders doesn’t justify calling him names.
Cons choosing a group of seniors as an audience is almost as reliable as a president choosing a group of soldiers for an audience – makes for a good show.
Seniors have seen enough Stupid to be very weary, but they are generally polite no matter what.
Speaking of worthless, why did the Massachusetts Democrats run Coakley for Governor? Did she not fuck up the Senate run badly enough? She should be in political exile for eternity on account of that alone.