IA-05: King calls Obama "socialist," pushes fake ACORN fraud

by: desmoinesdem

Sun Oct 26, 2008 at 18:00


Last weekend my fellow Iowa blogger 2laneIA published a comprehensive diary on Congressman Steve King's "greatest hits." Click the link to read about King's suggestion that we electrify the border fence with Mexico like we do "with livestock," his prediction that terrorists will be "dancing in the streets" if Obama becomes president, and his pride in working to scale back funding for the State Children's Health Insurance Program (which he calls Socialist Clinton-style Hillarycare for Illegals and their Parents). I mentioned a few more low points for King in this post.

Yesterday the man Ann Coulter calls "one of my favorites" helped warm up the crowd at a Sarah Palin rally in Sioux City.  
desmoinesdem :: IA-05: King calls Obama "socialist," pushes fake ACORN fraud
According to Iowa Independent, King suggested that electing Obama could be a step toward totalitarian rule:

"When you take a lurch to the left you end up in a totalitarian dictatorship," King said.  "There is no freedom to the left. It's always to our side of the aisle."

Sioux City Journal political correspondent Bret Hayworth wrote on his liveblog,

10:12 a.m.: King gives the first of what will be two speaking opportunities, this one the longer, for nine minutes. He lays out several versions of the words "liberal" and "socialist" in describing Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. He mentions the ACORN group and earns a big "Booooo." King said a Google search of "Acorn Fraud" gets you 2 million hits of possible stories.

King said it's not a stretch to link Obama to the ACORN group, since he worked for them in voting matters. "Obama is ACORN... When I see Obama, I see ACORN branded on his forehead," King said.

King has embarrassed Iowans with his bigotry and extremism for too long.

If he is re-elected, he won't just be an irritant for Iowans. King severely disrupted the House Judiciary Committee's efforts to question Douglas Feith in July, and I'm sure there will be more where that came from in the new Congress.

Iowa's fifth is an R+8 district, but Rob Hubler has a real shot in this race, for reasons I discussed here.

Send a message to Steve King by donating to Hubler for Congress.

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what's the chances (0.00 / 0)
of him losing his district in 2011 after redistricting? Hasn't most of the population decline occurred in western iowa?

I know redistricting in Iowa is non-partisan, but just wondering if he get combined into Iowa-4 or 3.  

the problem is (0.00 / 0)
no matter how you carve Iowa into four districts, there will always be a predominantly Republican one in western Iowa.

Already there are 33 counties in IA-05. Presumably the new IA-04 will have most of those, plus parts of what is now IA-04 or IA-03.

If Latham (IA-04) doesn't get beaten by Becky Greenwald next week, it's possible that he and King could get thrown into the same district, in which case Latham would probably win the primary.

But it's more likely that Latham would run in the new IA-03 against Leonard Boswell (if he's still around) or whoever takes Boswell's place in 2010.


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yeah I figured (0.00 / 0)
just wondering what his long-term prospects are.

Slightly off-topic....I wonder if at some point we'll add more representatives to Congress. With the continued population growth in this country it's getting kind of ridiculous for a congressperson to have to represent over 700,000 constituents. The attention to them is obviously going to suffer. I think 500 representatives would be a nice round number for the house. Of course, it would lead millions of school children to erroneously believe that each state gets 10 representatives.

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I know I should consider the source, but... (0.00 / 0)
"When you take a lurch to the left you end up in a totalitarian dictatorship," King said.  "There is no freedom to the left. It's always to our side of the aisle."

Where has this a-hole (pardonez mon français) been for the last 8 years?

he has zero interest in Congressional oversight (4.00 / 1)
of abuses of executive power under Bush. He tries to disrupt attempts to hold Bushco criminals accountable.

He has quite the authoritarian mindset, actually.

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Figures. (0.00 / 0)
This is exactly the reason I should have considered the source. It was from a guy who supported the closest thing to an American totalitarian dictatorship.  
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dancing in the streets (4.00 / 1)
rep king i will be dancing in the streets if obama becomes president, am i a terrorist, i am a vn vet as you must be or maybe not, denigrating someones patriotism is beneath contempt but par for the course for republicans that are void of reasonable arguments and ideas for the american electorate.

ps - thanks for the opportunity to express my views to you on your extreme views on my patriotism and your anti-democratic agenda.

King didn't serve in Vietnam (0.00 / 0)
He's a grade A chickenhawk.

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