Reply #20: H20 Man, Peter King to me is nothing but a low life, pandering [View All]

POS... He saw an opportunity in the 1990's and ran with it...

He appealed to the "erstatz" Irish Republicans that live in his district on Long Island. I'm sure you know the type, the ones that get misty-eyed at a rendition of "James Connolly", "The Men Behind the Wire", or "Joe McDonell". People that never even set a foot in the Six Counties yet with a few drinks in them claim to be in the "know" about everything that ever happened in the history of that place.

When Mr. King made his comment about "counting the votes" in 2004, he reminded me of Ian Paisley and the rest of his cohorts in the Democratic Unionist Party of Northern Ireland. Yes, the Rev. Dr. Ian Paisley who still refers to the Pope as the "Anti-Christ".

In my Irish-American family all of us were raised with this warning: 'never forget where you came from'. I never forgot that my great grandparents were forced to leave their homes because they were poor and Catholic.

Mr. King in embracing the ideology of the current Republican Party and all that it stands for has, IMHO, definitely forgotten where "he" came from.