Maine GOP Candidate Drops Out After "Lesbian Skinhead" Stoneman Survivor comment - Polidicks

SABATTUS — Controversial Republican candidate Leslie Gibson, who drew fire for insulting several teen survivors of the Florida school shooting, is abandoning his effort to win a state House seat this year. “I am not walking away with my head hung low. I am walking away with my head held high,” Gibson said Friday. “It’s the best thing for everybody.” Gibson has been under fire this week for comments he made online about the teens in Florida who survived a school shooting in Parkland, Florida. He criticized two of them who were leading an effort to increase restrictions on gun sales in the wake of the Feb. 14 killings, calling one a “skinhead lesbian,” and another a “bald-faced liar.” The 18-year-old student whom Gibson singled out, Emma Gonzalez, is among the students speaking out from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. In the wake of the Feb. 14 massacre there that left 17 of her classmates dead, she emerged as a leader in students’ fight to make assault rifles harder to come by. “There is nothing about this skinhead lesbian that impresses me and there is nothing that she has to say unless you’re a frothing at the mouth moonbat,” Gibson wrote. Gibson said in another tweet that calling her a survivor, as many have done, is disingenuous because she “was in a completely different part of the school” when students were gunned down. Gibson apologized in a later tweet, saying, “I would like to extend to you my most sincere apology for how I addressed you. It was wrong and unacceptable. You are doing work that is important to you. I would like to extend my hand in friendship and understanding to you.” Gibson said that during his career in the military, he took an oath “to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States.” “Because of this,” he said, “I am very passionate about protecting our constitutional rights from those who seek their elimination. It was not appropriate to single out the Parkland students, but I stand firm in my defense of our constitutional rights.” __________________________________________ The trash is taking itself out

Now if only the rest of the GOP could follow suit, that would be pretty great. What even has to happen in your life for you to publicly call someone a "lesbian skinhead" and then defend yourself saying "lol i just love our constitution so much"

“I am not walking away with my head hung low. I am walking away with my head held high,” Gibson said Friday. “It’s the best thing for everybody.” I love the bullshit PC reply he gives

Do these people ever learn what's appropriate to say in public or not? Or are they so out of touch that they think everybody secretly thinks the same things that they do.

We live in an age of "I say what i want no filter for you liberal cuck snowflakes" which basically means these dipshits think they have free license to be shitty awful people.

The sad truth is, it worked for "some people" because the soldier in question was Muslim. :/

Dude somehow got away with a 10 year old's offensive mockery of a disabled person. Who the fuck are these people

People get elected now because they "Tell it like it is!" and "don't bow down to the PC Police". This is the kind of stuff people want to hear.

The worst part is that people eat it up, even though it's not actually "telling it like it is", it's "let's push my own prejudice and bias while hiding behind a 'telling it like it is' shield of patriotism". It's pathetic on both ends of it, pitching and receiving.

The idea of not being a cunt is now seen as a sign of weakness. So you if you want to prove how big and strong you are you just say the first ignorant thing that comes into your brain. You know, like a 10 year old would. Or the president.

I don't know why you say people eat this up because clearly the backlash was bad enough for him to drop out, so public opinion is clear. Good riddance.

He's neither the first nor the last in this cycle to spew hate recently. It's more of a general statement that nowadays this commentary is seen as good by a certain group of people.

I don't think its quite gotten to the point where you can discredit a victim of a school shooting by saying they weren't im the vicinity of the shooter, and expect to actually be elected to public office. If my school gets massacred should I run towards the shooter so I can be called a 'survivor' in the eyes of snowflake trumpservatives?