grandma marilyn

A California Republican official who sent out an e-mail picturing President Barack Obama's face on the body of a baby chimpanzee issued an apology late Monday after a weekend of criticism that ended with a strongly worded public rebuke from the local Republican Party chairman, who also called for an ethics investigation into the incident.

Marilyn Davenport, a 74-year-old elected member of the Orange County Republican Central Committee, sent an email Monday afternoon asking for forgiveness for her "unwise behavior," just before the local Republican committee met for its monthly summit at a hotel in Irvine.

Tim Whitacre, a longtime conservative activist in Orange County and representative of the county's 69th Assembly District, spoke in support of Davenport and said he had visited her on Monday afternoon.

He said the "petite grandmother originally from Kansas" who taught Bible study classes and had a heart condition was terrified by the outcry and had taken her phone off the hook after receiving angry calls. He asked committee members to forgive her and accept her apology — but said she didn't intend to resign (msnbc)

So now we are to believe because this is a "petite grandmother originally from Kansas" who taught Bible study classes and had a heart condition we are to forgive actions that could not have possibly originated from someone so pure and innocent and she is NOT a racist! We are now told that as a Christian, teaching morals and ethics from the Bible, from the heartland of America, a grandmother raising her slew of God fearing kids who is petite and ill she should not face any consequences for her unwise actions for being a racist. We are told that someone as good an American as Grandma Marilyn really, really, really had no racist, bigoted intentions in defaming the President, nope she was just making a light hearted joke for her close cadre of American racist bigoted friends, who because they are Christian Republicans actually love America more than anyone else. We are told Grandma Marilyn will not resign because, well because she really, really, really did nothing THAT harmful and besides soooooooooooo many people without a sense of reality enjoyed the joke and could all of them be racists?

Grandma Marilyn is neither unique nor extraordinary and does not even stand out among the crowd of self appointed bigots and racists in this country who have little regard for truth, value or honesty. Except she got caught! She feels empowered by the Tea Bag Brigade, the raving and rants of Bachman, Palin and Trump, the prophesying of false prophet Beck, and a general malaise and misalignment from a group of Americans who pretend that their religion permits hate to ferment as a means of embracing their God.

Grandma Marilyn was bold and proud when she sent the pictures of a monkey family with the President as their child, but now, like most cowards when caught she is suddenly described as ill, old, sickly and petite and a victim herself. Grandma Marilyn had a whole week to consider her “unwise” email, but not until enough people found his/her own conscience and complained did she then come to the fore and apologize. How come when a coward commits an act of violence against another, after the act, they then think how “unwise” the action was? Wonder if they didn’t get caught if they would give their actions a second thought?

Grandma Marilyn is a racist and a phony. She is the manifestation of fiction overcoming fact, of fear triumphing over truth, religion gone amuck, and American values being replaced with greed, gluttony and general disregard. She sadly is not alone. And she, so it seems, wields more power and prestige and seemingly is embraced by lemming like dupes who love to point out differences, deny equality and blasphemies God’s word to define their actions as just and valid.

Go away Grandma Marilyn; your politics are not what makes America great, and we need one less racist in politics.