When Republicans Go Stupid

Unfortunately, there have been a couple of examples here in Orange County in the past couple of days:

An Orange County Republican Party official is under fire after sending an email with an altered photo depicting President Barack Obama as an ape.

The email, sent Friday afternoon by party central committee member Marilyn Davenport, depicts a family portrait-style image of apes with Obama's face superimposed on one of them. The photo is accompanied by text that reads, "Now you know why no birth certificate."

Scott Baugh, chairman of the Orange County Republican Party, has called on Davenport to resign and said the party's ethics panel will hold a hearing into the incident if she does not do so. The panel will make findings, and a majority vote of the entire 73-member committee can oust her.

"It's just highly inappropriate, it's a despicable message, it drips with racism and I think she should step down from the committee," Baugh said. "It undermines everything we are doing to reach out to ethnic communities."

I completely agree, and it would have been nice if Baugh had said the same thing about the dummies waving the Confederate flag at the Mission Viejo Tea Party Friday...and event where Baugh was one of the featured speakers.

UPDATE:  The monkey email story has now gone national with reporting on Fox News.  This idiot woman needs to be off the Republican committee NOW.