Apples don't fall far from the tree, nor do "nuts."

From members-in-good-standing of the "Family Values" party......

The pyramid sticker suggests that he learned all too well from his dad's escapades with the Northern Mariana's sweatshops.

All I have to say..CHARMING!

This should be the end of his father's career, and also his own career in politics. By their fruit, we shall know them.

This is way worse than macaca. You have to take affirmative steps to (1) register as a facebook user; (2) find objectionable content; and (3) post said content on the page. By any and every reasonable standard, this brat is guilty of intentionally promoting the worst kind of racism.

What did we do last time 'round to make sure Allen didn't get a free pass? We should do it again, whatever it was...

Great to see those Republican Christian values at work!

Geez, do they even know what the word HYPOCRITE means?

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"The son of Colorado GOP Senate candidate Bob Schaffer is causing his dad a little embarrassment on the campaign trail this week."

I didn't know that a politician who's knee deep in scandal and possibly facing indictment could actually feel embarrassment.

that kind of mentality and attitude was accepted in that family. he was raised like that.

the gop criticizes obama for being in a church w/ rev wright as pastor? when obama hasnt done anything that is contradictory to his christian faith?

this kid is a product of a home where values of doing right by your fellow man was not encouraged at the very least. the schaffer family are hypocrites.

He said he doesn't agree with his own sentiments.

Oh and he apologized.

That's good enough for me, I'm sure his family is very very very upset with him.

The idea of "firm and severe discipline" for a nineteen-year-old is at least as stupid as anything he posted on his Facebook page. Probably more so. Do his parents think he's ten years old????

And disciplining ANYONE for posting stupid pictures that are basically harmless, no matter how offensive? RIDICULOUS.

The slavery poster will help with the black and Jewish votes.
Oh, right. They won't vote for his dad anyway.
Must have been fertile ground at home for this kind of thing to take hold in the kid's mind and creative output. He probably hangs out with a bunch of knuckleheads who agree.
Mistakes were made. He apologized. Anyone bringing this up with Bob is playing the race card.

I do not agree with the sentiment or content of the offensive material...My Facebook page is solely my responsibility...

I can't figure out if this guy's future is in Cable News ("Later tonight, so-and-so discusses whether Americans focus too much on trivia. After the break, we'll find out if Scott Petersen is trying to contact Lacy beyond the grave"), or as a PR flack.

Some other little nuggets from the facebook page:

"Justin wrote on the wall for the group Democracy Bad, Republic Good. 12:11am"

"Justin left the group Pole Dancers for Jesus. 12:08am"

One of his favorite TV Shows: I Love Tila Tequila

His favorite quote:
"The heart of the fool inclines to the left, while the heart of the wise inclines toward the right." (Its a passage from the Bible i forget which, but it proves God is a republican)

And dont tell me nobody saw this beauty: http://www.schafferfamilyvalues.com/index_files/01AwcAX3d_z2cAAAADAAAAAAAAAAA.png

Gotta love how swine like this swarm Facebook, and just yesterday I had my account terminated for god-knows-what after having it for 4 years.

I mean, this is off-topic, but even when a kid was making death threats against Hillary for months straight, Facebook never stood in to take care of the problem. Hate sites and those which advocate violence and even raise money for groups like Hezbollah are allowed to thrive, and yet you can be banned for showing a nipple.

OMG, 19 yr-old makes obnoxious joke!!! Who cares. He is young and has a right to put up obnoxious jokes on his facebook site. Get over yourselves. You guys have no right to parent or censor someone else's son's facebook page. And some of that stuff is funny. I'll laugh at an obnoxious joke even if I don't agree with the underlying premise. I'll laugh because someone had the audacity to make a truly outrageous joke. Did Shaffer raise his son to be a racist? Doubt it. Did Shaffer's son grow up to be a rich arrogant a-hole? Probably. But, really, who cares? The only lesson here is: don't allow public access to anything on facebook that you don't want the public to see. Should be obvious by now. (anyone applying for jobs knows this well) Everytime it embarrasses someone famous it's a news story. Don't be that news story.

Yeah, Justin's an idiot that forgot what his daddy does for a living and as jlinquist notes isn't smart enough to restrict his Facebook page to his personal elite group of racists, bigots and general all-around jackasses.

Shame,shame, shame. So much for family values. There ypu go James Dobson, that is what focus on the family is raising these days.

I never understand how some people get all the wrong lessons from their own history. In the case of Schaffer Jr. was probably caused by taking too much drugs from his father's bathroom cabinet - stop that or you will end up offering your 50 something wife for a bikini "beauty" contester in front of a crowd who already got drunk with beers and hot dogs while all of their kids watching.

Am I the only Obama supporter who actually thinks the Count Chocula one is funny? Look at their chins! Almost identical.

Also, 19 year old son of politician is a douchebag and has an obnoxious facebook page: Film at 11.

I'm not surprised or outraged or anything. He's just not sly enough to be polite about holding his cards close to his vest yet.

This guy's the same age as my daughter. Thank god she's a lesbian.

Not surprising coming from some well to do over privileged white boy who got everything he ever wanted in his life.

Just like the frat boys in "Borat", they have the whole world at their disposal, but yet it's the 'blacks and mexicans' that are getting all the breaks in life.

I wonder what other self described Roman Catholics, as justin describes himself, think of the WWRJD picture of "Jesus with assault rifle." I guess this is the sort of stuff we should expect from "America's Next Generation of Conservatives."
Also the complete failure of Liberty Common School to instill its mission statement of "the development of mature literacy and critical thinking, for growth and communication in a diverse society."

Yet further proof that the Republican Right is getting dumber each generation.

I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you . . . To find that inbreeding is happening in the Schaffer family.

So. This kid was a dumbass, and Schaffer a tool, and many of those bumper stickers racist and/or homophobic and should never have been put on anyone's web site. That said, this article reads like it came out of the mouth of a Victorian matron, not a 21st-century liberal (even an American liberal, pretty puritan by everyone else's standards).

"Cap'n Bootyplunder," as one friend referred to the younger Schaffer in a wall post, is just 19, yet a number of his "bumper stickers" refer to drinking games and alcohol. His interests include "being cool, girls."

Jesus Christ, I suppose he probably dances in public too, the godless fornicator. My dollar says a goodly percentage of the TPM staff got their drink on in college, and those among them that were so inclined probably thought girls were pretty sweet back then, too (though naturally they limited themselves to chaste hand-holding, and even then not in public). Also, he's pretty considerate for the "being cool" comment, seeing as that immediately alerts people of his douchebaggery so they can A) avoid him or B) start a d-bagging team.

Also, while it's it's somewhat applicable in judging the elder Schaffer's morals and such, ultimately, a 19-year-old is an adult and allowed to do their own shit. My mom's a staunch Catholic and I'm a bitter atheist--does that apply at all if she runs for public office? And judging a leader by his or her personal life (i.e., parenting) is a little suspect to begin with--Hitler was perfectly faithful to Eva Braun, didn't drink or smoke or eat meat, treated animals well, but he's not exactly well remembered, now is he? And JFK was a hard-partying sex fiend, but most Dems remember him quite fondly. Hell, Ted Kennedy killed a chick and look at all the good he's done politically!

God this was an incoherent post. To summarize: Schaffers 1 and 2 are douches, though for different reasons; TPM apparently has morality of a sexually repressed Briton; and I like to babble.

Finally--don't historians sort of think now that the pyramids were built by professional contractors? Which is probably why it took so long. Haha, get it? Humor. Develop a sense thereof, TPM.

"Upon careful reconsideration of the unfortunate actions of our former son, my wife and I have instituted legal and religious proceedings to terminate our relationship with whats-his-name. Since the elimination of a family member would create a void in the heart of a family-values family such as ours, we have also instituted adoption proceedings to fill this void. It is our intent to adopt David Duke."--Bob Schaffer

I commend him for exercising his freedom of speech. Guys hes also apologizing for embarrassing his father not what he said, why would he say hes sorry, heck I'm gonna copy and paste the stuff to my myspace! You guys are all silly let the boy say what he wants, he signed up do defend your right to do so. So you might as well shut your pie holes!