Republican Embarrassment
August 10th, 2007 by Dan GaffneyIt seems odd that the Delaware Republican Party would not be troubled by the sometimes offensive public writings of a State District Chair. John Allison known in the blogoshere as Kilroy, often peppers his writings with the “fâ€-word,  “sâ€-word “pâ€-word etc. He has a recent post about two Delaware Democrats sniffing each others rear end. Only he didn’t say rear end, he used a more locker room term. Slang words to describe the size of male anatomy have also been used recently.  I understand this public image is allowed by all standards of free speech, but it still reflects very poorly on Delaware Republicans when Kilroy identifies himself as 19th District State Chair, while jumping into the gutter with language. Republicans in the First State would be well served if Mr. Allison were asked to tone it down, resign or at least stop identifying himself as the Chair while writing such garbage.
August 10th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
Dan ,
As I said on your show I agree that I do not see the need for this.
One thing I thought of later was the fact that this is a deliberate act.
We have all, I’m sure been somewhere , where this language is not acceptable and while excitedly describing something, let slip a word or words that we wouldn’t use in front of our mother, and we say excuse me didn’t mean to say that. And while that still says something about who we are when not in polite company it was an accident.
Now think about the act of blogging. You set down , get your thoughts together, you type them out , I at least read over what I have typed to see if it says what I was trying to get across, though my spelling skills do lack from time to time I rarely leave in words that I didn’t mean to use. Then you have to make the decision to submit the post. Now I count four times in that process to edit out words that others may see as unnecessary to make my point.
So the question is why do this . More than likely it is used as an intimidation tactic somehow trying to show how stronly they feel about the point they are trying to make , feeling because it is the written word they can not project the emotion they would using tone of voice or hand gestures. While this person may be someone who speaks well in person this may show a lack of skill in the written word.
It would be interesting to see this person give a speech in public and see if they chose to use these words.
August 14th, 2007 at 6:38 am
I agree, Dan. Republican chairs should be held to a higher standard. If he was just a random blogger, I would not care. But he has a resposibility to project a good image of the party to the public. As a Republican, I am disappointed at best. Keep up the good work.