Unbelieveable!

I used to think that North Carolina would be a nice place to retire. Not anymore.

Here is a report by Jim Morrill of the Charlotte Observer.

"N.C. Republican Party Chairman Claude Pope said Monday that Sen. Bob Rucho should apologize for a tweet that compared the Affordable Care Act with Nazis and terrorists.

“The tweet is highly offensive and he should apologize,” Pope said in a statement Monday.

On Sunday, Rucho tweeted, “Justice Robert’s pen & Obamacare has done more damage to the USA then the swords of the Nazis, Soviets &terrorists combined.”

The tweet created a firestorm online and in the Twitter-verse. Rucho, reached Monday, was unrepentant.

“I have no need to respond to Claude Pope because I don’t owe him and he doesn’t owe me,” said the Matthews Republican.

“What I stand on is the truth. The bottom line is I still believe fully that the negative impact on the finances of North Carolina and its people is going to be significantly impacted even in comparison to any of those wars that occurred. …People need to open their eyes. This is a serious problem.”

Rucho, who co-chairs the Senate Finance Committee, said the tweet was referring to the cost of American conflicts, but called the program known as Obamacare a “socialist” system like that of the old Soviet Union.

But critics were quick to respond.

“Sen. Rucho’s comments are outrageous, but this is exactly the type of theater we’ve come to expect out of him,” said Democratic Party spokesman Micah Beasley. “It should be made clear that Sen. Rucho is not some fringe ideologue. Rather, a fixture of Republican leadership in the N.C. Senate.”

Rucho called his critics the “socialist elite.”

“The people that are the socialist elite that want to make people dependent on government are criticizing me for telling the truth,” he said. “The elitist liberals out there that get concerned when someone starts to question their beliefs, I’m embarrassed for them.”"

I’ve often asked in my blog posts about the prejudice dolts that are elected to public office, “Where do them come from?” NOW I KNOW.