Home Despot

The moguls and nobility of Corporate America can usually be counted on to be diehard defenders of right-wing politics. Worse, they support capital punishment for not favoring their causes.

Home Depot (the home improvement retail chain) was founded by Bernie Marcus and several others. Marcus left the company years ago and no longer owns any stock in it. But like a true corporate head honcho, he's not shy about telling the world what he thinks about political enemies.

What does Marcus think about closely contested Senate races like the one in Minnesota? He says that anyone in the retail biz who hasn't donated money to the campaigns of Norm Coleman and other right-wing Republicans "should be shot, should be thrown out of their goddamn jobs."

Lovely. A founder of one of America's largest store chains supports assassinating or illegally firing people if their political views disagree with his.

This mentality has defined talk-shit radio and has helped contribute to the thuggery that's pervaded the Far Right in recent years. This is one of the reasons their followers start fights at campaign events, attack rallies, burn opponents' campaign signs or dissenters' houses (as what happened in Virginia), and lie about it.

The well was long ago poisoned and has yet to be decontaminated.

(Source: http://oxdown.firedoglake.com/diary/1872)