The Democrats in the current Congress are all former members of Hee Haw, aren't they?

What a bunch of bigots! No surprise that these are Dems. Tha same anti - NASCAR bigotry came up in the Washington State legislature. Dems again. There are no bigger bigots than the Democratic party. Hands down. There are countless examples.

AWWWWW...poor little DEMOCRATIC staffers worried about catchin' a FEE-VAH!

Well isn't this just marvelous. Democrats AFRAID of catching a disease from NASCAR Dads and Moms.

No wonder most NASCAR fans vote for real Americans, er Republicans.

WHY IS MY TAX MONEY PAYING FOR STAFFERS TO ATTEND NASCAR????

So, these "staffers' won a free trip to NASCAR and a chance to participate in an early HillaryCare preventive medical plan by getting immunized for free? You can bet that none of the "staffers" paid for any of it. Ain't the political life sweet?

BTW, I wonder if immunization will be required by all the attendees of the Democratic National Convention next year?

Democratic staffers, not Democrat staffers.
What the hell's wrong with you people? Was your first language Korean?

I was just about worked up into a good snit over this. Democratic staffers getting immunized prior to attending a NASCAR event as if they were travelling to a foreign country? Then it occurred to me that the real America that can be found surrounding any NASCAR track during an event *IS* a foreign country to them. Now we have a new form of entertainment to play at Martinsville when we go down there in a couple weeks... Spot the DEM. I do hope they won't be wearing surgical masks as this will make it too easy. Hey burdhurd, I like it! Where can I get my FEE-VAH hat? :)

the requirement that the Democrat and Republican staffers attending first be immunized against Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, tetanus, diphtheria, and influenza.

You idiot only see the word Democrat. What asses you are.

I would love to see the outcry if these same requirements were issued before staffers attended an Al Sharpton rally.

What are shoes for!?!?

There is no bigger biggot than those who practice racism under the veil of tolerance and diversity.

No wonder they feel we need all these govt programs! They think America is third world...

Haha stupid hicks

And people wonder why Congress approval ratings are so low...

Can the approval ratings get any lower?

People who get married in t-shirts and baseball caps with a beer in hand might not be too worried about cleaning out the trailer. I dont mean to sound bigoted but it's a reality.

I detest Democrats but even I didn't think they were this far off the deep end.

The article said that it was homeland security that put out the notice.

No, the actors on Hee-Haw were trying to be funny, Scrap.

I cannot believe this crap. NASCAR has the second largest fan base in the United States. WE ARE NOT REDNECKS!!!

MAYBE THERE SCARED OF THE BOOGITY BOOGITY BOOGITY

Not surprising. Typical bigoted, small-minded, hysterical Lefty crybabies. What a pathetic bunch of fools.

Has anyone educated themselves that Dems and Reps really are not as different as they would like to think? Just two different teams fighting for more control of the pie. Its a story of DC arrogance, not Rep/Dem.

I'd like to know more about this - who's the writer of this and the origins or reason for this congressional directive. Why was NASCAR in particular, mentioned?

Why are the taxpayers paying congressional staffers to go to Nascar?
This is misappropriation of funds.
Under Hilliary care I guess you will be punished for not getting your vacinations, no NASCAR

hey, nothing these people could catch at a NASCAR race is as bad as the democrat tag they are already carrying!

If they are so concerned about "public health issues" they need to focus on public restrooms frequented by members of Congress.

Hmmmm...I wonder what shots the Democrats get when they travel to low income neighborhoods?

The NASCAR fans are the ones who should be immunized. No telling what social diseases the Democratic staffers are carrying since their last visit to the politically correct places they go to.

Democrats are showing their true elitist attitude......we know what is good for you.... that is why we want to control you low lives

Funny, I don't recall any such advice given to Dems attending Gay Pride parades...

I'd be more concerned about communicable diseases at pretty much any Democratic Party gathering.

Yeah, lets go watch a bunch of guys drive their fancy gas guzzling cars around in a circle. That sounds like time and oil well spent. Oh yeah, give me two of each shot.

Those inbred NASCAR freaks are scared of their virus getting out before it's properly incubated to it's maximum potential. NASCAR is for losers, real men watch Gran Prix.

There's no difference between Republicans or Democrats anymore. This is just a Pharmacoms way of dumping excess drugs into the populace.

I'm not really a Dem, but I lean left and I find this disgusting and frightening at the same time. Is Washington so far out of touch with their constituents that they feel they need to protect themselves from disease? Three words: Boston Tea Party!!!!

What a telling turn of events. No one should be surprised at this little fiasco. The Dems. have been responsible for many problems in this country. Now they want us to elect Hillary? I wonder what she has been vaccinated for, maybe allergies to cigar smoke.

With a ticket price of $130 per race, there aren't many 'red necks' that can afford it.

WTF article did those people read?!?! And I quote "The rub: the requirement that the Democrat and Republican staffers attending..." I read Rebublican and Democratic staffers, not just Democratic staffers and that's DEMOCRATIC staffers not "Democrat" as some have taken to referring to Democrats. I'm not surprised that some chose to leave out the republicans. Tsk, tsk, tsk

WTF article did those people read?!?! And I quote "The rub: the requirement that the Democrat and Republican staffers attending..." I read Rebublican and Democratic staffers, not just Democratic staffers and that's DEMOCRATIC staffers not "Democrat" as some have taken to referring to Democrats. I'm not surprised that some chose to leave out the republicans. Tsk, tsk, tsk

Target them and vote them out! We are nice enough to let them have a chance to make a differance and now they show their true colors.

No surprise uneducated redneck car watchers vote Republican. they do tend to cling to the simple binary answers this administration gives. "Your either with us or against us" I guess there is NO possibility of a 3rd option. Then again I guess sitting there drunk watching 40+ cars drive in a circle for 4 hours really draws the best and the brighest!

If I had to sit through a NASCAR event amongst a bunch of sweaty, fat-ass redneck slobs, I too would want to be immunized against all the nasty stuff they're no doubt carrying. Then again, there's no way in hell I'd waste my time and money watching cars drive in a circle.

Why was tax money going to pay for congressional staffer junkets to a sporting event in the first place? That alone sounds fishy.

The Dems can stay home. More room for me at the races I attend.
Nascar fans are some of THE most considerate, freakishly loyal sports fans on the face of the earth. Stay home Dems..

I wish I could say I was surprised, but I'm not.

In the early 70s, there was a BMW driver in the old Trans-Am named Nick Craw (may have the spelling off on that one). In the late 70s, he was nominated to be head of the Peace Corps. He had troubles in the confirmation hearings because Congressional staffers had noted in the Congressmen's briefing materials that he participated in "questionable activities" i.e. auto racing.

I love how Dems are refered to as the anti-crist

NASCAR is not only a joke of a sport...but the rank and file Republicans who worship identical billboards going in a circle are no doubt in need of a good bath.

Another shining example of the party of "tolerance" and "compassion" in full swing again. Their endless litany of hypocrisy will go unanswered once more as the sheep that drink their koolaid put Billary back in office. When are the people with common sense going to take back this country?

No one is seeing the BIG picture...the Government is planning a full blown attack against the republican base (NASCAR FANS are republicans) with a biological attack of the above mentioned strains while we're all at the races. One car can be loaded with hepititis and spray it into the air as they circle the track.
I smell a conspiracy... LOL!

I wish the Dems at ESPN and ABC had stayed away from NASCAR.

Maybe we should have Quarantine sign around the track.

Do you think the open wheel guys got their shots as well?

Hey Dems, don't worry about catching anything at a NASCAR event, but if your going to San Francisco, there might be reason for concern.

You have got to be kidding. I'd suggest staffers be immunized for rap concerts, Hollywood premiers, the Democratic convention, or haunts where liberals gather.

Didn't you know anthing outside of the east coast and the left coast is foreign country? Rush's theory holds water.

So should Democrats get STD vaccinations when they attend gay pride parades or obortion rally's? Lord knows those are bastions for Democrat votes!

Who cares?!?! It's neckcar...

Another reason NOT to visit the south! heh heh heh they're just nasty!

Who cares?

The way you NASCAR dolts whine, you're worse than soccer fans. Now it's the Democrats' fault you have the hep?

I would be much more afraid of catching a life threatening illness from anyone in congress than ANY proud American NASCAR fans. What a crock.

NASCAR fans (as well as the rest of us) need to be immunized against beltway bandits who have NO brains and bad agendas. Most of DC needs to be generously sprayed with BS repellent.

What do you expect from the fragile DC folks siting up in DC having wine and cheese parties. Of course they need protection from us regular taxpaying citizens who pay their salaries. I'll stick with Boones Farm and Velveeta and they can stay in their little glass houses.

That thing in the middle or end of your trailer home, its called a shower,use it and maybe the vaccinations would not be needed!

Starting to see the hypocrisy of the "ruling party" aren't we. . . .

What do the Dems do before they visit AIDS victims? oh, oh I forgot...it's the Republicans who visit and help AIDS victims...the Dems just fight for the right to activity to get the disease -- then they scatter.
Republicans are the ones who have heart.

I think everyone, in the midst of bipartisanism, is overlooking the fact that these immunizations are really a good idea for ANYONE to get if they are able to do so.

Lets not become a culture who supports such insane ideals as "I'm too manly or cool to need vaccinations".

Stay away from North Carolina! Love will love it and we don't need anymore people from the North much less Democrats. Dems are ruining the country.

Are they also required to get the shots before they go to the Redskins game, or baseball, basketball, hockey or a concert?

Are they also required to get the shots before they go to the Redskins game, or baseball, basketball, hockey or a concert?

As much as I hate to say it, these folks are right to take precautions. My little girl caught the syphillis off a toilet seat in Daytona last year. It was very painful for all of us. But with God's help and some Cipro, she recovered fine.

How insulting. Are they going to suggest immunization from the diseases at the Democratic Convention?

Even so, probably a good idea. When I was at Daytona 500 this year it certainly didnt seem like Dads and Moms. Cigarettes for sale in the name of charity and Catholic schools. Fried Bologna and mayo sandwiches. Drunks everywhere. Real family stuff. No need to be angry at the Democrats take a look at your own house and clean it up. I dont think you have heard many issues with Democratic senators getting caught in bathrooms at airports lately. No wonder Democrats want to protect themselves from your diseases.

These Democrats have a FEH VAH alright. And the only prescription is MORE COWBELL!

Let's see here folks. When were the last stats taken on income levels for the race attending NASCAR fan?
I'd venture to say they far exceed the average dem voter. Most dem's stand around with their hands out looking for the government give away freebie. Where the average NASCAR fans are the ones footing the bill for the democratic give away programs. So now it is implied that we the NASCAR fan are carriers of diseases?
I'd suggest it's the other way around! WE THE NASCAR FAN need them immunized to be free of the illnesses they may bring to US!! Look at how the diseases they carry have effected their ability to think clearly or is that inbreeding?

Sad, but typical. Washington insiders who don't have a clue about the people they are working so hard to save.

Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Nashville and other booming southern cities are not the third world, guys. Nor are our small towns.

Bennie Thompson, the brain-trust from Mississippi, would scream bloody murder if a Republican were to suggest this process. Bigot would be the word of the day.

Maybe he thought Talladega was in South America?

How does this article articulate that Democrats are responsible? The bigotry here in the article is certainly classist, but the bigot(s) is not shown.

The comments made about the article however show bigotry AND the side it's coming from.

Propaganda Brainwashing by TPTB...all to get the congressional working staffers "immunized" and protected from the "Diseased herds of NASCAR Fans"
I need a shot, I need a shot zombies.

Come'on...Didn't their Homeland Security Mommies kiss their boo boos when they skinned their knees enough as children?

Did the ghost of Howard Hughes arise from the Dead and visit these Homeland Security bozos at their bedside at night and offer a hankie so they wouldn't get germs?

Oh nooo AAACHHOOO I sneezed! Evacuate DC!

Leave the good people of NASCAR alone, and quit spreading your weak minded BS Germ Propaganda onto
the what's left of positive in American Culture.

The dems need protection from prayer before a race, saluting the American flag and showing respect for our outstanding military. WAKE UP AMERICA! Democrats should NOT be in charge of anything more important than a Christmas card list.

Well I guess no Dem staffers will be attending any Gay or Lesbian events since an AIDS vaccine is yet to be developed.....uh oh, that's a PC trap.

Immunization for Dems before going to a NASCAR event? What an abysimal insult!!! Consider those "Northern" football games? Thirty thousand people in a stadium drinking, farting and peeing in corners? Not to mention painting half naked fat bodies in their favorite football team's colors. Healthier? Puleeze!!!!

The reality is that you need those shots to travel to Washington DC and San Francisco.

Keep in mind that these are "inside the beltway" people. They probably assumed that Nascar is a foreign country.

Sounds like the beginnings of a "two four" episode. Enter Jack Bauer armed to the teeth with syringes.

Nice

Do they need passports to visit the NASCAR nation as well?

Maybe all that praying they do before that start of NASCAR races is only meant to protect the drivers from having accidents. They need to expand the before-race prayers to include spectators, and include specific wording asking God to protect them from "Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, tetanus, diphtheria, and influenza."

You know what is the funniest thing about this is?
That the reality (key word here-REALITY) is that the one place where these Democrats would be most likely to catch Hepatitis, Diptheria etc, would be amongst their constituents.

Maybe the liberals do think that the South, and the NASCAR Nation in particular, is a third world country. It's foriegn to them. It says a lot when you read that the Dems took the shots and the Republicans declined.

Only thing a nascar fan would give a dem is a sense of fear when they bow their heads for the convocation and place their hands over their hearts for the national anthem.

Whooooweeee democratic snobbery rears its ugly impoverished head.
According to CNN.com, the average ticket price for a NASCAR event in 2005 was $88. That’s more than four times as expensive as the average ticket price for Major League Baseball, which according to the group, Team Marketing Report, was just $21.17 in '05. TMG listed the average ticket price for the NBA at $44.68 a year ago, and the average ticket price for an NFL game as recently as 2003 was $52.95.

Remember, those figures are for tickets only. NASCAR fans spend much more on hotels, gas and meals during the course of a race weekend.

I think there is more chance of NASCAR fans catching some sickness from inner city, welfare Democrats .... than the other way round. After taking care of their health needs and costs, NASCAR fans obviously have much more disposable income. Makes sense that they would take care of their health far better.

Read the first line of the article. Those who started this scare are the House Homeland Security Committee staffers' run by Republicans picked by Bush. Try sticking it to the source rather than those who are following the reccommendation of a Republican-run committee.

And the Democrats wonder why ......

If a Dem staffer went to one of these events and caught cold, then they'd have to go to the Doctor. Then, they would see the medical system in America actually works. Then, they'd be left without one of their tent poles. With all those shots, at government expense, they are left with the impression that the government provided health care prevented them from all those nasty bugs and therefore, "Government healthcare works!"

The Dems are concerned that their staffers may catch the dreaded spirit of performance based competition. That could destroy their entire belief system.

Etek, real Republicans like Mark Foley? or maybe Larry Craig? I guess you like the wide stance?

ONLY Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, tetanus, diphtheria, and influenza? ONLY?! Nascar events (and the entire south for that matter) are cesspools for various digusting diseases. Just look at who goes to these events!

The Demicans and the Republicrats are all one and the same. Sick and tired of know-nothings who still tout the tired and stinky left/right paradigm.

Now we know how our rich political elite tend to view we, the unwashed masses of the Nanny States of America. Do not walk amongst these unwashed hillbillys unless ye have been vacinated against their infectious plagues!

I don't get the desire to sit along with 100,000 other fleshbags in the hot sun watching the cars jockey for position. Better to goto the local tracks and watch some real racing.

The only thing you'll catch is the addiction to SEE MORE RACES!!!!!

I wonder if the Dem staffers got shots before going to the Panther's game in Charlotte. After all, the track in Concord is named the Charlotte Motor Speedway. Personally, I feel it's appropriate to get shots prior to entering Charlotte.

Hey, Ya'll! Why don't get the facts before ya'll lynch the Democrats? Any ya'll ever had Hepatitis, tetanus, diphtheria, or influenza? 'Course not! Decent God fearing Christians never get them there things! Specially from crowds of strangers!

I'm sure they've been innoculated against patriotism as well.

"real Americans, er Republicans."

I didn't realize fascism was an American value.

You idiots are missing the point.

Bush's Homeland Security Dept.? THEY'RE THE ONES WHO ENFORCED THE IMMUNIZATIONS AGAINST NASCAR.

Who cares that two democrats took the shots -

The POINT is that YOUR HOMELAND SECURITY, APPOINTED BY BUSH, ENFORCED THOSE IMMUNIZATIONS.

GET IT?

You should be angry at Bush TELLING them they had to get the immunizations - HIS IDEA.

Understand, now?

I go into Washington DC for Delaware about twice a week and I sure as hell keep my immunizations up to date!

Once again, the Dems show their true colors - which in this case is prejudice and bigotry. I grew up in Georgia and attend several NASCAR events a year. I guess they would be REALLY mad to know that this redneck has a higher net worth than most of those idiots on Capital Hill. Then again, that would be impossible since - being one of the 70+ million NASCAR fans in this country - I could not possibly be capable of earning more than minimum wage!!

This is why Democrats lose elections...stupid petty issues that make them look like limosine liberals ..even though there is a core of working middle class in this country that would defeat ANY candidate - they are constantly insulted ..and you expect us to vote for you? A real conservative dem would win every time

Just another attempt to smear white people which is totally accepted by brainwashed white society.

Congressional Hoof & Mouth disease abounds in our nations Capital these days. No wonder surgeons have a hard time operating on our congress and senate representatives; they have only two movable parts, the rear end and the mouth, which are both interchangeable.

I heard that this morning and it's about on of the dumbest things I've ever heard. This just shows the Democrats think they are above everyone else. That should show people how they REALLY feel about their fellow americans.

Hmmm...do you think that the Dim staffers would get those shots if they were going to something like the NCAA Soccer Finals? I mean, hey, being close to all those SOCCER Moms and Dads...you never know what those folks have done or where they've been, right?

This is probably the funniest article I've ever read. Pretty efficient tactic though, you never know what kind of disease you'll pick up at those things.

Its not just Democrats, its a growing fungus that sticking to normal Americans minds. Monkey See Monkey Do...DNC will surley pass it on... NASCAR is America and people need to wake-up.

Consider the ensuing uproar if the staffers were told to get immunizations before attending a pro-immigration rally. La Raza would be screaming for blood. I'm so sick of the holier than thou Dems.

The Democrats blame the Republicans, the Republicans blame the Democrats; meanwhile the country is quite literally tearing itself apart.

Perhaps this committee knows about bio-terror risks that are unknown to the general public.

What the? Stay away and let us enjoy one of the greatest sports in the country by ourselves. We in the south are neither dirty or disease ridden, as these narrow minded dimwits would imply. But believe me, we'll remember this come voting time.

It seems to me that when John Rocker suggested something similar to this about riding the subway in New York, he was lambasted.

Yeah, well don't bring any of those trendy oral diseases with you, either

Probably because they feel that toothless inbreed losers are most likely to have some kind of disease. Can you catch Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, tetanus, diphtheria, and influenza from your sister , err I mean wife?

Funny, I have never seen a nationaly known democrat at a NASCAR event

Funny, I have never seen a nationally known democrat at a NASCAR event

The party that did more to transmit AIDs to the world is worried about catching something at a NASCAR event? Unbelievable.

The need to protect yourself from hillbilly igorance is most imporant. Maybe we should tax this waste of fuel.

Tham Dims need tewe git one of tham vaccine thingys for the "toe-tappin" flu. Probably the one thing they'd decline to take.

Seeing how Washington DC has the highest death rate for HIV infections in the country, perhaps the NASCAR community should be innoculated from Democratic staffers.

Awww, the Rednecks are in a huff. I am no Democrat (not a Republican either, thank GOD!), but even I have to admit that some of the people that frequent these races look like they need to be hosed down, de-loused and sanitized. Sorry if the truth hurts, but there it is. Also, do you think your precious Rep. Robin Hayes watches a race from the stands, with the common folk? No siree, he is in a luxury box, eating and drinking for free, with ice cold ac.
Face it guys, NASCAR is a Redneck sport, and some Rednecks would scare Linda Blair. Oh, and recognize that NASCAR is not a sport...its car racing. Its driving around in circles at high speed. Not much athletic ability required there.

Clearly, it's meant to guard against this 7-year epidemic of stupidity, the spread of which is evident in the comments posted thus far. That's why Republicans don't need the shots -- it's way too late for them.

Hey Scott, where in the above article does it say that it was only Democrats who issued the requirement. I believe it says House Homeland Security Committee staffers. Nothing about them all being Democrat. Check your facts before mouthing off.

If the democRATS would refrain from licking the public toilet seats, they wouldn't get sick.

Obviously Mr. Hayes hasn't been in the grandstands at Concord recently, only up in the VIP suites. Thousands of illegal aliens run around his 'hometown' and our infectious disease rates are up significantly. That's what happens when you passively allow 750,000 invaders to squat at your front door.

Who goes to these NASCAR "REDNECK" Events anyway. Waste their money & time watching those ansestorist "Bootleg Moonshine Runner" family drippings today. Round & Round They Go. In Circles just like the people who watches this CRAP! Deserve to catch a disease for the trailer trash spectciles, whoops spectators! All need to crash & burn!

Poor Democrats,gotta rub shoulders with the hoi polloi. Who is it that votes for these people anyhow?? I mean there is Massachusetts and San Francisco,but, really everywhere else I go the majority of folks seem to be able to think for themselves and keep up with their rabies shots.Frankly if I were to visit D.C. , I would bring my own water just to be safe, there is obviously something in the water up there tat turns you into an elitist,self serving,shameless snob, not to mention the treason and bribe reciepts. When are we going to reclaim our country??

This is a good idea. How about the same if you shopping at Wal Mart ? Better idea - ban race car driving since our soldiers are dying over oil. NASCAR fans have blood on their hands, so immunization makes since.

I know several NASCAR fans and although I am not afraid of them, I can certainly see why immunizations are recommended.
I am not a Democrat or a Republican. I just know trash when I smell it.

Tyical.

Democrats in Washington think that the rest of the US is a third world country.

This is the funniest thing out just now...hollycow!!!! I would agree that this is bigotry hands down. Bunch of dumb dumbs in the demoratic party. Who was the person that started this assult? Perhaps that person needs to leave office NOW! Next thing you know we will all have to gets shots just to see our kids play a game or go food shopping!!!! Funny stuff!

Meanwhile, back in Nancy Pelosi's home district, homosexuals will soon probably be given back their "right" to donate blood.

Be it Grateful Dead concert or NASCAR race - any time you get tens of thousands of people together the risk of spreading communicable diseases is increased. Vaccines and education are our best means to address disease - public health is not a political issue.

I wonder what the reaction would have been if this had been a recommendation for those attending the million man march or these latest rallies that involved hundreds of thousand of illegal aliens.

This is the funniest thing out just now...hollycow!!!! I would agree that this is bigotry hands down. Bunch of dumb dumbs in the demoratic party. Who was the person that started this assult? Perhaps that person needs to leave office NOW! Next thing you know we will all have to gets shots just to see our kids play a game or go food shopping!!!! Funny stuff!

I've never been a big fan of NASCAR, but I've never felt that fans of NASCAR were anything but good folks enjoying a true test of endurance. To think that someone would actually think they needed vaccinations to rub elbows with these folks is ludicrous and embarrassing. Shame on the Dems.

Classic Spend-O-Crat case of Reverse Discrimination. How about we find a serum for these belt way idiots to immunize them from making any more acts of stupidity.

I think I would have to recommend geting shots to attend the Democrat National Convetion, come to think of it, any gathering of dems is a health threAt to nation.

...and if you are going to a Democratic convention, you're going to need penicillin and hand sanitizer.

Pardon me, but is it not the Bush Administration's Homeland Security team that is proposing these immunizations?

Appears that the issue is: Why does Bush want to immunize homeland security staffers against NASCAR?

See?

Why cant this "sport" take after my father and die.

I cant blame them for wanted to protect themselves from Nascar and its fans.

I was plan a family vacation to Washington D.C. next year. Is their a vaccine available for STUPID?

the rub: the requirement that the Democrat and Republican staffers attending first be immunized against Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, tetanus, diphtheria, and influenza.

READ THE ARTICLE PEOPLE!!! jump on the Dems when it clearly states that ALL staffers were required to do it and TWO (out of how many hundreds) actually dud.

Jeez. I wonder why people think Republicans are a bunch of morons.

I've been to a Nascar event. Have you? There ARE some dirty people at those events and I wouldn't be against immunization.

This wasn't meant to be public. Republicans made it public to gain political points.

They (Demacratic leadership) have no concept of how normal, healthy Americans live. To them we are basically fodder. Why on earth do you think they stand for the things they stand for. Go NASCAR! Get 'er done!

Man, who believes this tripe? Oh, I see...

Can you catch it watching NASCAR on TV or do you have to go to democratic conventions. Get'er Done NASCAR. I love it and have never gotten anything but NASCAR fever from attending or watching it.

silly liberals

READ PEOPLE....it was Homeland Security that ordered the immunizations. As usual you NEO CONS try and blame a liberal for all of your short commings. I believe Homeland Security is headed by a Republican. Looking at these comments makes me belive that the US is surely going down the tubes along with Bush's legacy

i wear a hazmat suit when i drive through the south

Just another example of liberals out of touch with the Real America -- outside their liberal big city enclaves.

Typical Democrat bullsh**! Idiot's, the lot of them!!

As a Doctor I know just what type of disease transmission can be spread at a event such as this NASCAR. The Democrats have every right to be worried about catching something from the type of people who gather at such an event. As a Doctor you would never catch me at a place where I would have to worry about catching something that could get me infected.

Gol dang democrats, how does they manage to git about with their foot in their mouth, and their head up their a(* ?

Proving yet again how elitist the left truly have become. They make ME sick.

I'd get a shot too, can't imagine what these people bring with them after they leave their double wides on their way to , what, NASCAR, don't you know they've left their roots for Hollywood, Rednecks Need Not Apply. .

It's the darn global warming fer crying owtlowd!

I find this incredibly hypocritical. Isn't it the dems who think the fear of terror is all "hype"? what a bunch of elitist pigs. I'm from the Pacific NW and I am EMBARASSED at the treatment of my southern brothers and sisters. Please don't think we all think like those holier than thou pricks.

This is funny listening to a bunch of redneck republicans call democrats "bigots", seeing all the scandals in the Republican party. After seeing so many gay sex scandals in that party, I would get immunized, too. Gay sex in public bathrooms, and this from one of their "leaders"?

I think before you all bring out the nooses and tar & feathers, maybe you should hear the whole story, which was probably something about getting immunizations for the flu before going to large gatherings, which of course, has been twisted into some "insult" by the GOP, which most of you morons take as scripture and quickly start mud-slinging.

So I guess the Repubicans can just sit at home and watch. This way they can experience first hand the way our media twists events that actually happen. Who knows, maybe the they'll find a WMD in one of the cars?

We should be more concerned about the coming problems arising out of middle class people being turned into poor people!!!

You could pick out the Democratic staffers in the NASCAR stands because they were the ones with surgical masks, ear muffs, goggles, biological hazard suits, bodyguards, and teams of civil rights lawyers and post-traumatic stress therapists. They came prepared.

lol, look at the rednecks using computers, isn't that cute....

Nascar is a silly sport.

I mean, it is an absolute fact that Formula One is a more accomplished discipline, and that the engineering/technical aspect is second to none(even outside the realm of motorsport) and that the cars brutally outperform a stock car, and that it has a far larger fanbase, but that really means nothing to someone who likes Nascar more.

Nascar fans tend to vote Republican as their smaller minds are blind to the simple truths.
All Nascar fans can do is go round and round a oval circuit totally incapable of naviagting the twists and turns of every day life.

Keep wearing those blinkers and keep embarrasing your Country.

You don't understand. The immunizations are to prevent the staffers from getting disease and carrying them to North Carolina. They ought to be checked for STD's too.

Is it just my imagination, or does it seem like some folks in congress have WAAAAAYYYY to much free time? Maybe that's a good thing though. If they were actually being productive, our taxes would be going up, crime would be getting worse, our kids would be getting dumber in their government schools, and we'd be offering Mexicans bonuses to relocate in the U.S.

It's okay if you discriminate as long as it's against whites... make fun of them... mock the way they talk... call them names... claim they have coodies... but don't you dare say nappy headed ho...

These are people who live in fear every day, all their lives. Fear dominates every decision they make in their personal lives, and in their politics. This is just a small example.

They're worried about tetnus at NASCAR? I'd be more worried about impregnating my cousin.

Typical liberal hypocrisy and racism. I wonder what would happen if a bunch of republicans recommended these vaccinations prior to an NAACP rally? You get where I'm going? Also, do these brilliant minds even know how hepatitis B is transmitted?

good we can keep nascar pure no dems

Next the Dems will suggest immunizations prior to dialing up Rush Limbaugh....What a bunch of idiots!

They really do fear us, don't they, seeing us as something below normal - sometimes I feel like a stranger in the land of my birth, an alien though born and bred in the USA - they shouldn't worry so. We are barbarians compared to their city-slicker butts but we take baths at least once a week and we got in door toilets at least an year ago!
I wonder if they will check for head lice when they get home?
They say we don't read, have less education and are ignorant robots because we still believe in God and we are supposed to be the bigots?

Isn't this as arrogant as it could be. Just don't sell them any tickets. If they're afraid to get out amongst the people, they should stay home. Y'all stay your asses back home in "your own country," and don't come back down here any more. We never did need any of you and don't now.

One would think that Democrats would be immune to all sorts of illnesses by virtue of repeated exposure to their constituents and fellow Democrat party elected officials.

Go figure. There isn't much more AMERICAN than stock-car racing. You just know the Dems are gonna be against it.

If that was intended as a put down for those of us who live in the Great State of North Carolina, well, byte me!

God help us if these idiots get the White House too.
This insane type of loss of freedom will probably mean that all Southern Baptists will have to get immunize prior to attending "Mega churches" next.

maybe you all should read the article a bit more clearly - it says democrat & republican staffers! though the republicans declined, if it was a requirment that means the only way you could attend the event was to take the shots so the dems did because they wanted to attend - maybe the republicans didnt like NASCAR enough to stop being babies and just take the shot!

should be real easy to spot the 2 democrats at any race .........................

Myself and a group of friends attend a couple of races every year. One owns a software company. One is an I.T. manager. One is an attorney. One does corporate aquisitions for GE. I own a Marine business and am married to a doctor, and all are married with children. Quite a disease ridden lot we are!

Well, I see their point. I like to get a shot against dumba$$ before getting around Yankees.

All the Republicans at NASCAR will be hanging out in the Bathrooms looking for Gay Sex!

Perhaps the Dems are trying to immunize themselves from the Rational Virus, which would eliminate their Emotion Disease and make them think logically. It could spred and wipe out their whole party.

Too bad there isn't an immunity for missing teeth or for actually having to sit through a NASCAR event.

Oh yes....
I have been to these cesspools of disease!
It can be QUITE dangerous-
The RELIGIOUS FERVOR presenting with prayer before every race... this one spreads fast, you should see ALL THE HEADS BOWED IN UNISON!!!
The RABID PATRIOTISM what with flyovers, the National Anthem and constant mention of "our troops".
I can see the cause for concern. It's enough to make any yellow blooded american SICK!
Come to think of it... I do come down with two things gauranteed at EVERY race I go to:
My eyes tear up and I get goosebumps as everyone prays before the race and as our men and women in uniform present our colors, sing our anthem and those magnificent jets, defenders of our freedom SCREAM overhead.
Pass the purell for the House Homeland Security committee and
GOD BLESS AMERICA!
(go 24 ;)

I think you rebels are looking for something that's not there. The Dems will win in November and they will finish up the job of cleaning up the South!

I'd cry if it wasn't so funny!

Last year CBS sent an undercover crew dressed as Arabs (women in Bourkhas etc.)to Martinsville Speedway. Intent was to document how America was prejudiced against Moslems. Problem for CBS was EVERYONE there treated them with respect and courtesy-vendors, spectators everyone.Even when the actors put on like they needed an ass whippin really bad-everyone was nice. I was there as consultant for a Homeland Security contract and saw it all. Local law were on them like a fat kid on cake shadowing them to protect them-not harrass them. Local law quickly saw what was up and had a real hard face to face with CBS reps onsite. What if this get a shot crap was done for an NAACP meeting or a JENA 6 rally? They'd scream like gut shot rabbits.

This will be the first October race (at Charlotte) that I miss in 9 years. It's always been "boys weekend out" where we go down on Friday and come home Monday. I've never gotten sick. O.K., there was one Sunday that got rained out and we didn't have anything better to do than drink a lot of our beer rations and.......oh well......;-]

This is discrimination? On the other hand, I would suggest getting shots before attending a Bruce Springsteen concert? dohh..

I wonder how they'd feel about going to an NHRA sanctioned drag race to smell the fumes of nitromethane and an 8,000 H.P. funny car or top fuel dragster?

What in the world is wrong with people? What makes them think that going to a NASCAR race will make you get all these certain diseases. What a bunch of spoiled bastards. They should stay home and not go to any events that involved alot of people.

Maybe they were actually given shots to prevent their infecting anyone at the races? I think there is a much better chance that would happen than that the fans would infect them. Heavens, if the fans knew they were Democrats, most probably wouldn't go anywhere near them!

Could you imagine the outrage if the Repubs told staffers to get immunization shots before going into inner-city schools. The "racist" accusations/comments would be flying all over the place. Good thing we have the mainstream press, though, to inform us of this type of stuff...oh, wait. I won't be holding my breath for Katie, Brian, Timmy, Chrissy or any other "phony reporter" to fill us in on this.

Yep, lemme tell ya, life's a bar outside the beltway. Why hellfire, we'un's heah nevah herd of "earmarks" tuther than bein' used on markin' sows, maybe a few heifers. Jest 'tween us country folk, whut few times we'un's make it to Warshinton, naw, I ain't talkin' 'bout apple pickin, we'un's take a heap of lye soap with us, jest in case those slicked-up polalishions git tew close fer comfert. Nowadays, yew can't be tew careful. I heah tell, they got more durty skelitons in they closets than Aunt Perl back in "cut 'n shoot." I wouldn't trust 'em as far as I could toss they next pay raise! Heethens, ever danged one of 'em!

Democrats are convoluted. They will let illegal aliens in by the millions with all sorts of diseases - just for the votes. But they freak at normal patriotic racefans.

Who cares abou tthe shots? Don't they have anything better to do than watch guys drive in a circle? A new standard for governmental waste.

How telling of the goody to shoe socialist who don't understand regular Americans. No wonder regular people see these fools as not being the sharpest pencils in the box, not to mention being aluff and arrogant.

everyone knows you can't catch anything from cars, only toilet seats and gypsies.

Consider the things you could contract on a visit to San Francisco that have NO vaccination.

oh, please. when will nascar fans stopping seeing things as blue and red, liberal and convervative, republican and democrat? my god, this is about protecting innocent people from the diseases you're all carrying.

Yeeeeee-Hawwwww I got me some hepatitas A! Now that's country!

NASCAR is for idiots

It's funny to see all these NASCAR loving hicks so up in arms. I wonder how their sisters, er wives, feel about it.

I just hope they also get their cootie shot before visiting an elementary school . . .

Does not surprise me. The Dems have sunk to an all time low. They will target any population that has a little common sense left and are a majority of Republicans. They are still crazy after all these years! Talk about rednecks!

What if they know something about biological weapons being released in mass gatherings?

People in NASCAR states are so dumb. They vote republican then send their kids to war to die for the rich people they vote for, yet they themselves have no money, no education and no sophistication. Why are white people who like NASCAR so poor, diseased, dumb and disgusting?

Biggest health risk at NASCAR is dying of boredom. Honestly, oval tracks? Come on...

do they need to be immunized at a code pink rally after all it to is against america and the american citizen. this might be a G. soros order after all he owns the dems partynow that he paid so much to so many. this all looks fishy to me but I am just a tax payer.

Guess this will dispel the myth that it's Quaker State or Pennzoil that Charlie Rangel uses to slick that hair back.

Maybe those democrats should've gotten immunized against Patriotism too. That's something they could definitely catch from NASCAR fans..and we wouldn't want any democrats to get patriotic on us now, would we.

What's next ??? Democrats getting inoculated for cootees ?

Every time a liberal thinks, they weaken the nation.

I think it's great. This just means Dems will alienate more southern votes. Way to go DNC.

Hmm? Another case of actions speaking louder than words? Can the Dem's seriously think they can win in the south with attitudes like this?

i am afraid of catching redneck fee-vah too! ya know them rednecks scratch themselves and then smell there fingers. They smell funkie, are inbred, rotten tooths, and dum like a rok.

A perfect example of what the left thinks of the unwashed masses.

I moved from California to Alabama. I have attended the Talladega race since 2000. The only thing I caught was Southern hospitality so we moved here! I'd rather work alongside a Southerner than a wacked out Calfornian like Pelosi or Nevadan like Reid. Two head cases. Department Homeland Insecurity is what it should be called. Can't control the border but let's insult the NASCAR crowd and the Southerners. Maybe we should tell the Feds to go home again!

this is the sort of prejudice i saw when i went north to college...however the smarmy sorts from the prep schools had to take remedial english and math....me, from a farm town in the south did fine..go and figure. as stan freiberg famously exclaimed "smart assed yankee drummer" and so they are..

Shoudn't the Nascar fans be warned to bring condoms and hand wipes in case they come into contact with these birds. DON'T FORGET YOUR WEAPONS

Why is everyone missing the real point here. Mass gatherings of people can be studied all over Washington D.C., just step out to the mall.

So why did we taxpayers have to fund some staffer's road trip to Talladega?

In reply to scrapiron, I think you have insulted the people at HeeHaw. They might be rednecks but I don't think they belong to Communist Party of the United States of Anerica.

Those dirty Christian conservative no nothing hicks in flyover country, who can't be depended on to vote intelligently, probably don't even wash their hands after going to the bathroom or slopping the pigs.

Maybe they will be so frightened they will stay home in their AIDS-infected bath-houses.

The Dems welcome illegal alliens that carry all manner of strange diseases to infect us. This is clearly just to insult real Americans. The Dems are not concerned about our health. Third world diseases are rampant in Southern California due to the illegals.

My co-worker, Frank P., has been to NASCAR races, and he believes the immunizations are not such a bad idea. This is not to say there is anything wrong with the representative's constituents, only that a gathering with so many people is likely to include at least some individuals with infectious agents. He has an extensive background in infectious agents, and suggests that, for example, airports would be an ideal place for terrorists to spread disease in a rapid fashion. Likewise, a NASCAR race could easily be a staging ground for a terrorist "biological" attack. Laugh now if you like, but it won't be quite as funny, on the front page...

Are you kidding me? Have you seen the folks that attend these events? The public sex that goes on there? Outdoor bathrooms. And you and I both know that everybody is not going to use the porta potty. Heck yeah there's the possibility of disease there! I don't blame'em!

You guys are idiots.

The Dems were probably just afraid that Patriotism was contagious.

Scott,

You may want to look up what "bigot" means. I hardly think they are being intolerant of the "NASCAR lifestyle." They simply are uninformed about NASCAR and its fans.

As a liberal NASCAR fan, however, I do have to say that this is very embarrassing.

This is how the libs see America. They should have better things to worry about. GOP in '08!

Do not be dismayed, this is just Democrat SOP, arrogance, condescension, and a large dose of paranoia. Par for the course.

hum...sounds about, no, sounds right! Democrats think everyone but themselves are covered in fleas while they themselves are the biggest parasites...

THEY SHOULD HAVE WORN BIO-HAZARD SUITS TO PROTECT NASCAR FROM THEM!!!

"House Homeland Security Committee staffers are on a peculiar mission to study "public health issues at events involving mass gatherings,"

Peculiar? I'll say. Aside from the Democrats afraid of Nascar cooties, why is health inspecting a priority of the congressional HS committee and why are our tax-dollars being wasted on this nonsense?

It is the NASCAR event attendees who should be immunized against the Democrats.

Yes, you are all inbreds and ignorants. Go back to the swamp.

I agree... I'm 23 and I guess I would lean to the left more than the right but the Democratic party is nothing but a bunch of wussy cry babies. Don't get me wrong, I would be considered a "tree hugger" but come on. Its really quite funny...

I bet these same Dem staffers would jump at the chance to attend the Academy Awards in La La Land without batting an eye, and I suspect there's a lot more disease floating around that crowd than anywhere else in this country at least.

I guess they expect us to believe the bath houses in San Fran are cleaner???

figures, southerners with their bad schools and hillbilly hygiene, transmitting diseases to each other in a drunken budweiser stupor.

This is the issue should be the one that you choose to base the future of the country!

Its a good thing they did get immunized. Less chance
that way of them comtaminating the NASCAR crowd with
any of the slimey diseases they bring with them
from contact with the DNC or DLC.

The full story was explained that this was a precaution because they would be inspecting emergency services areas for crisis situations, such as a terrorist event. But that really isn't a good explanation. A good explanation would be that the immunizations were offered prior to any or all such inspections at anykind of event, not just NASCAR races. Were inspections done at Madison Square Gardens or Yankee Satdium? And if so, were the staffers offered shots before that? If not, it is an overt slight toward NASCAR fans in my opinion. And foolish, as all educated people know germs and viruses can be anywhere, like in the food we buy in upscale gorcers, or the lice and scabies found in clothes in department stores after others have tried them on. They can claim it was a standard or needed safety precaution, but unless it is was done or offered before every such "inspection," that argument is tripe.

Nascar is for idiots anyway! The south needs to get its a** kicked again like the last time!!!!

I'd be more concerned about catching something from Bill Clinton or Barney Frank

Just wanted to say I've gone to many NASCAR events and have stayed very healthy throughout each event and afterwards.

I would be more worried about what I could catch from the bathrooms in the Halls of Congress with all the weirdos that are up there.

Another proof of the "disconnect" there is from the "real world" and those who insulate themselves in Washington and who don't work real jobs!

No one hates human beings more than Democraps. They just THINK Socialist... they don't act that way.

HRC has just lost the South.

Ummm... are you sure the the directive is correct? Perhaps they were suggesting that the NASCAR fans need to be immunized?

Wow, you people just can't pat each other on the back fast enough, can you?

The people who took these shots are *stupid*, and they also happen to be Democrats. Not the other way around.

If this is the reason that you vote Republican, please don't vote. You obviously aren't informed enough to remove emotion and make a rational decision.

No wonder most NASCAR fans vote for real Americans, er Republicans.

Define real American please. Oh, you mean the kind that slashes taxes for the rich, starts wars based on faulty intelligence, kowtows to corporate interests, and spies on other Americans. Good job there. Maybe the next batch of real Americans will tell me what to read, who to listen to, and what to think.

This comes from an Independent voter. This isn't college football; vote for the person, not the party.

Sounds like the dems would like to put an end to filthy nascar

LOL. "anti-Nascar bigots"? No wonder y'all have the reputation of being stupid.

I agree with the immunization shots to go to a NASCAR race.

Why doesn't this surprise me? These people are so far out of touch with real America it is mind boggling. There is a scene for a sitcom in here somewhere. Wait a minute .... the next time I visit the nation's capitol maybe I had better get some shots to protect me from whatever virus it is that causes blatant, snobbish, arrogance. Unbelievable.

THE DEMS ARE DOING ALL THEY CAN TO RUN EVERY BODY OFF, AREN'T THEY, IN PAST YEARS A LOT OF THEIR VOTES CAME FROM NASCAR FANS , NOW THEY ARE RUNNING THEM OFF BY THE MILLIONS ....
LET THEM KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK

I went to a Nascrap race once, in Texas, spring 2003. One of the most boring, wastes of time I have ever endured. The first 30 laps were pretty cool... almost 4 hours later; zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...

I got sick from eating a cheeseburger there, I actually got hospitalized over the ordeal. I know how southerners live, these precautions are in no way an exaggeration.

Oh and to Etek, it is a proven fact that Nascrap fans are, on average, 20 IQ points lower than the average non-nascrap fan. THAT is why the vote repugnant, er I mean rupublicant, er well, you know what I mean.

"WUT? Warsh yer haans? Then mar fud wudnt be so yummie in mah mout!"

Like we say..."This is foolishness gone to seed."

Why doesn't homeland security add a rabies shot to the list. Then they can all go hang out with Michael Vick.

Isn't North Carolina where anyone at all can get a driver license, even with a matricular consular card (an "ID" from the Mexican consulate)? People who come here illegally are not subject to a physical exam. Many of them come from poor countries. Many of them have never seen a doctor. Many of them carry communicable diseases. They then infect Americans. Many American children lately are not immunized against certain of these diseases because they've been told that the vaccines are worse than the disease. That is utter nonsense but try changing their minds before they lose a child to pertussis.
Liberals are very multi-culturally tolerant -- unless the culture is "NASCAR." They'll sooner accept shari'a than Bubba.

No surprise the Republicans don't need the shoots-afterall they are rabid dawgs already.

Peace out!

Well of course they would recommend this. Now that SCHIP was vetoed by our "Real American" president, all those communacative diseases will run rampant.

Imagine the backlash that would occur if a Republican Congress suggested that its staffers be immunized prior to attending the San Francisco Film Festival.
Unfortunately, the media wing of the Demoncratic Party will quickly bury this story.

What?! They worried about mixing with the "common people"?

"A phone call to the committee spokesman was not returned."

Of course it went unanswered. Do you really think they want to go on record with something like that? Though to be fair, it would be interesting to see the political affiliation of those who made the decision - just to confirm of course ;)

Hillary in 08...A sure thing? I bet us NASCAR Fans don't think so. Rudy Giuliani or Fred Thompson Both look better to me after that!

Heck, they don't need no immunizations, they just need some of Grannie's Spring Tonic!

Why not the same shots for those who visit the Kennedy Center since the large crowds who are pressed together may in fact pass one of the dreaded deseases?

What a buncha BS! Maybe Hillary should attend the races so she'll catch something? LOL!

LOL Republicans are "real" Americans? HAHAHAHAHAH now that just made my day reading that. Good luck in 2008.

I would also want to get a bunch of shots before going anywhere near you inbred rednecks. We are bigots I guess when we think about you uneducated idiots.

South=Morons

No, no Democrats. When you go to a NASCAR event you may find Cooter, as in a good ole boy. Not "cooties." Big difference. Get to know the people you want votes from. And I think with the number of sex scandals in D.C., you needn't be worried about catching something at a NASCAR event. No, no. You should be worried about shaking hands with your fellow politicians.

I have been to numerous NASCAR races and have contracted numerous diseases. I had fun contracting every single one of them.

Democrats are the biggest pushers (and no doubt investors) of our medical/industrial complex and the "nanny state".

Democracts are bigots? right..

NASCAR fans are dirty.. and so are you.. take a shower and drink a real beer for once..

the dems are afraid they'll get bitten by the NASCAR bug!

Yep, NASCAR cooties have been shown to make typical people turn into mindless sheep who squaredance, put 'cowboy up' stickers on their monster SUVs, and vote for (shudder) George Bush.

The Democrats are afraid of their staff catching a clue and leaving them for a real party!

Sounds like a hoax to me. Check with Snopes.

Sounds like a hoax to me. Check with Snopes.

Begs the question: Just what are the Dem staffers planning on doing down there? I guess it depends on your definition of "study" is....

Don't they have it backwards? The race fans are the ones that should be getting shots to protect themselves against Democratic Disease

Um, yeah...

have you seen how filthy those hillbillies are? talk about third-world country.

NASCAR=NAS TY.

Republicans are lockstepping fascist followers who don't believe in anything America stands for. Pro-spying, pro-theocracy, anti-freedom, just like the Islamic radicals.

They probably aren't very clean.

They're a lot more at risk of catching something at a Code Pink or Daily Kos convention. Have you seen those people? Echhh!

Paternalistic powers being abused even as they are claimed: the Dem-controlled Congress requiring a literal battery of immunizations for domestic-travel to "red state" events.

Meanwhile the dummycrats want to sweep under the rug the countless reports of their beloved illegal aliens bringing once-eradicated diseases into the US.

democrats hate America

Just how long before the voters of the US figure out what a bunch of elitist the Democrats really are. All the while professing to be just the opposite.

Have you seen somne of the folks a Nascar? I went to the race at Daytona and there were many, many folks walking around with open sores, probably due to the high meth usage in the southern rural states. There is a huge problem with hepatitis C in the south too. No offense, but I bet may people would head for the doctor. Even the food handlers were gross. No need to apologize for being cautious.
There is also a high propensity for chewing/spitting....anywhere and everywhere. Go ahead, take a chance.

"HAV is usually spread from person to person by putting something in the mouth (even though it might look clean) that has been contaminated by a person with hepatitis A."

Anybody know if Monica or any other interns got their shots? Bill get tested?

Saftey first!

Maybe the Democrats heard that Republicans like Senator Graig will be hanging around the public restrooms and thought it might be safer to get the immunizations.

I can`t say I blame them, I`ve seen some of the people that frequent NASCAR races.

Uh, guys it was DHS that made BOTH parties get the shots. I suppose at seven sentences this article is a bit wordy for the average right winger.

This immunization is also known as the "Gladden Shot," after a former Hill staffer who caught something nasty at a NASCAR race, which ultimately was the impetus for this recommendation.

Another useless Congressional boondoggle trip for staffers. I should be outraged at the whole thing, but I'm just disgusted (but not surprised). Dimocrat wimps - at least the Repubs have a few brain cells - how ridiculous!) Immunizations?! Liberal idiots...

they better add good ol' frisco to the list! san francisco is a living breathing petrie dish!

We need vaccinations against Democratic Stupidity & Bigotry.

They should also immunize against mullets, missing teeth,irritated necks, bigotry and homophobia. These "real" Americans are the problem with our country.

Yes, Scott, you're absolutely right that the Democrats are "a bunch of bigots." Let's not forget that it was the REPUBLICAN party that got the nation out of the Civil War, and it was the REPUBLICAN party that got the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments (respectively, ending slavery; implementing civil rights in the states; and voting rights for former slaves) ratified against the UNIFORM opposition of the Democratic party. The Republicans have a long history of equality; the Democrats, a long history of bigotry. Convenient how the MSM neglects to mention that, isn't it?

I guess if I were going to attend the Democratic National Covention I would need no vaccination since there is not one for HIV. But you wouldn't have to worry about that at a Nascar event!

Is there a shot you can take that will prevent you from turning into total white trash? I'm afraid if I go to NASCAR I will end up living in a trailer and having sex with my cousin. Oh, I forgot, NASCAR fans are intellectual Republicans.

pffft - anyone who doesn't have these innoculations is a fool. Anyone who does any work in public health or on public heath issues has to have these innoculations.

Whether they attend a NASCAR event as part of a research study, work in a lab or hospital, or what not, they should have these innculations.

This is just more pointless bluster from politicians and 'journalists' who dont have the balls to deal with real issues.

I'd much prefer the demoNazis DIDNT get the shots and DIDNT bother to come to Concord for this weekend's race.
That would raise the IQ and lower the classlessness ratio considerably.
Remember 'hillary has a million ideas for America, we just can't afford them."

that's absolutley logical and smart, unlike nascar fans (just look at the comments theyve posted on this site). They advise the same things at concerts and festivals and no one gets offended. Nascar fans are just idiots whom love spending an entire day watching cars go around in circles, dippin, and drinking booze and think that its cool, because their lives are so dull they have nothing better to do

Oh maybe the democrats are smarter than the rest of you, and actually know that NASCAR fans are typically worm and germ-infested white trash?

I believe there is concern for this. We've had a forewarned, self-centered, yuppie-scum-lawyer expose people to a highly virulent form of TB and and a illegal immigrant with the same illness, who also exposed people to the same thing - and he tried to refuse treatment and fought extradition back to his home country. Germ warfare will be disbursed in large public gatherings by someone sitting next you you in order to transport it quickly to the general public. Want to do something to help air pollution - put your hand over mouth when you cough.

As a person who has attended various types of races, from Mud-Bogging to Demolition Derby and beyond :o) I can assure you, the most you might get from anyone attending would be the flu if they happened to cough while talking directly to/at you, i.e., the same possibility during any social exchange, art performance or sports event. Personally, the call for immunization stems from ignorance... my opinion: the ones who created that caveat need 'to get out more' ... the world is not crawling w/'mean' or 'stealth' germs just waiting for bodies to pass by. If a person is so concerned but still wants to attend an event... why not do what's been seen online in world-wide news reports: wear a 'hospital' mask that covers one's nose and mouth. A person could always decorate their mask so it resembles that portion of a person's face covered by the mask :o) May all attendees enjoy themselves immensely at these upcoming events--sounds like *fun*

Is this the kind of stupidy Americans want in leadership positions. Please preserve the America we know and love and answer this kind of thinking at the polls.

Worry what Dems gave us all... Hillaryitis

Maybe NASCAR should ban Congressional Democrats and staffers from NASCAR events to protect their fans.

Heaven forbid that Democrats have to mingle with the "Riff-Raff" (in this case actual Americans) when they leave their Democrat Utopian Thought Bubble (DUTB) in Washington D.C.

Democrats are idiots. I bet you can count on MRS. Clinton showing up soon wearing a NASCAR cap. She is sooooo in touch with America. Queen of the idiots.

Car racing rules.

As a wife of a NASCAR competitor, I am disgusted at this ignorance from DHS. We also compete in Canada and Mexico... but was anyone advised inoculation for this? If they would look at the statistics, they would see that most NASCAR fans are middle to upper class income, college educated, and professional business folks. If they would get busy protection AMERICA from illegal immigrants and forget about NASCAR, we would be a better nation.

Typical Hillbilly assholes.

The dems were told to get the shots due to DHS concerns and now it's a slap in the face to you rednecks?

YEEEE-HUH?

go fast, turn left. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Being that the majority of NASCAR fans are of the caucasian persuasion, and being that I am a NASCAR fan, I wonder how a republican would be treated if they would comment that before Congressional staffers attend Martin Luther King March they need to be immunized. I am offended and this shows why I don't vote for Democrats, ever.

Maybe they should be vaccinated against Republicanism.

And Scrapiron - you shouldn't insult the former members of Hee Haw.

The worst thing that will happen, is you'd lose a few teeth. Maybe gingivitis?

Forget the immunizations - since when does the goverment get to do "studies" on public health so that they can go to nascar races on the public's tab?

Actullly the idea isn't bad, but should be expanded to any one living in any town where
Hillary is going to speak to portect the
residents against her taxitisbullcrappius.

Isn't this just like racial profiling? You only need a shot if you're going to be with NASCAR types? I thought Democrats were against this kind of thing. Where's Al Sharpton when you need him?

I guess there is no law against ignorance. If there were these government staffers would get life imprisonment!

Imagine the lefist outrage if a GOP congressman said the same thing about visiting San Fransisco. Talk about a disease infested event.

Just another way to get the Democrats staff free health care.
Require it before going on a taxpayer funded day at the races, and get free immunizations to boot.

I attended 3 NASCAR races this year (and two IRL races).

If you think that NASCAR is all about poor rednecks drinking beer, think again. Modern NASCAR is more corporate than the old Indy car CART series ever dreamed of being. At $45 per ticket for seats a mile away from the start finish line, $1000 for an infield camping spot, and $2000 or more for some suite tickets for some races, the "redneck mardi gras" is certainly a thing of the past.

Betcha the Republicans catch something and end up being not-so-happy campers - a few less folks supporting Bush's idiocies, however, does give one pause to let them skip the shots if they choose.

No wonder the symbol of the democRAT party is a jackass.

Give me a break! Football game shots are next.

umm, isn't this the repuglicans who are recommending the shots to be protected from you lot?

As a northerner, I am constantly shocked by the bigotry and pretentiousness of some people regarding our southern neighbors, some, but not all of course, from supposedly "tolerant" liberals. Maybe there was a case of illness reported previously, I'm not sure of the circumstances, but surely it would be discounted as an isolated case?

I'm not convinced that this is blatant prejudice, having only heard one part of the story, but regardless of the circumstances bigotry by region should be examined more closely.

I agree with the immunizations for the Democrat staffers as it is much cheaper to immunize them that to immunize the good Americans who were at the race and could possibly have been infected by those democrats!

This is a very misleading story. The reason that the immunizations were suggested was that the staffers would be looking at emergency preparedness locations, such as emergency rooms, and that is a standard precaution for those who will be behind the scenes in such areas.

Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., who chairs the Homeland Security panel"

Since committee staff members are visiting hospital and other health-care facilities available at or near these venues, including areas where groups of people are detained before being transferred to other off-site facilities, I believe that the recommendation (not requirement) that our congressional staff receive these same immunizations was sound," Thompson said in a letter responding to Hayes issued Wednesday.

"I am sure you would agree that providing immunizations to personnel involved in public safety is good public health policy, and there is no need to exclude staff from taking the preventative measures that the public health community recommends -- regardless of why and where mass gatherings are taking place,"

Let's do our homework, guys ...

How come the congressional staffers don't get immunized when they go to pander to a group of illegal aliens? They are the ones carrying the virulent diseases around! They walk right into the country with no health checks at all!

Robin Hayes is poorly informed. It's standard operating procedure to recommend all kinds of precautions and immunizations...they're not required but it's the same thing as giving kids permission slips for field trips (i.e. to avoid negligence liability). Congressional staffers going to the South Bronx, Appalachia, etc. have had similar recommendations and Reps always get peeved.

Still, this particular recommendation came directly from Homeland Security, which as an executive agency (and a newly created one at that) is headed solely by Bush Administration appointees. So, basically, stop claiming this is some sort of Democrats hating on NASCAR. It's just incompetence from the current administration which continues its track record of being divisive and incompetent...from what I can see the defining characteristics of Republicans.

Perhaps they should just wear giant condoms, the big pricks.

Can ANY of you read? The article says:

"The rub: the requirement that the Democrat and Republican staffers attending first be immunized against Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, tetanus, diphtheria, and influenza."

The COMMITTEE instituted the requirement and it requires Democrats AND Republicans to be immunized.

Is it stupid? Yes. Was it something the Democrats came up with? No. The Committee came up with it. Does it apply to Democrats only? No.

Are the commenters to this story incapable of understanding a clearly-written story? Yes.

Who needs FACTS when it's SO much fun to misinterpret things to attack your political opponents?

You've got it wrong!

Those staffers were getting the shots to keep from passing disease on to the NASCAR fans!

I ain't sure it's coincidence that only the Dim staffers took the shots though!

Badbob

Democrats and Republicans...

So many foul things to say about Democrats, but you forget these politicians Republican or Democrat are all out for themselves. Greedy, fighting, arrogant assholes are all supposed to be public servants, which really embarrasses me, because a real public servant is a police officer and firefighter. They serve our public by placing their lives in harms way each and everyday. Politicians with their arrogance and free ticket have over inflated incomes, benefits they should not be allowed and allowances and gratuities that should be illegal.

This entire arguement about Democrats being this and that is redundant, when fact is they are from the very same melting pot of humanity as Republicansd and the rest of us.

Beleiving anything else is plain iggnorant!!!

Based on that logic, are staffers also encouraged to wear a Kevlar vest whilst attending a rap concert?

This just bolsters the view that Democrats look down on rural Americans. You can see the bias against these people in movies and tv shows and now in Congress.

Figures. Congress has an 11% approval rating and do nothing members like this one have time to travel to their home state and spend hours at a NASCAR race. And we pay these jokers?

I was thinking of visiting/sight seeing Washington DC in a few weeks.
What vaccinations would they suggest I get?

Hmm... was this URL scratched on the wall in a bathroom at a NASCAR event? Just wondering from all of the idiotic redneck responses it's received.

Fuck NASCAR. Ooh look, they're turning left!

Couldn't this lead people to beleive that dems are the true bigots in this country. Oh, wait. Never mind.

Dumbasses. Nice P.R. move.

As Jeff Foxworthy or Bill Engvall says "Show me a two year old running around in a diaper drinkin coca-cola from a bottle and I'll show you a future NASCAR fan...

The Dems need to just stay at home. That way I won't spill my beer on them or blow smoke in their face.

OMG you guys truly are a bunch of rednecks

I can't believe they were immunized for all that. They should have been checked for head injuries for going to the race in the first place.

NASCAR??

Give me a break. If people attending NASCAR want to infect each other with those types of deseases, then I say let em! Less crap in the gene pool in the long run.

I wear a surgical mask on commercial airlines, you never know when you might have to sit next to a smelly hippe democrat and breathe the same air, don't know how to protect myself from the lice though.

Dear Readers - you idiots.

These staffers will be looking in waste-cans, sampling trash, and looking under rocks as part of SECURITY research - to save your ignorant asses the next time there's an "event".

The average American is SUCH a DUMBASS.

I'd get immunized before going to San Francisco or Disney Land, but not for racing.

Like NASCAR or not that's just ignorant

Sounds like the little republicans were scared to get their shots to attent Talladega, although the real fans (Democrats) took their medicine.

The Dems will probably insist on immunizations for anybody attending the Republication National Convention next!

Well the Dems just lost the South again!!!

Go Rudy Go!!!

I'm a republican who was raised in the south and I'd want to be immunized too. Anyone who's ever been to a NASCAR event knows about the lack of personal hygiene that the crowd seems to wear as a badge of honor.

Quit whining, representative from North Carolina.

All the listed immunizations are good to have, regardless of where you're at, and especially if you're in a place with lots of people sitting around for long periods of time. Heck I was just mildly injured recently from apparently innocuous cleaning protocol at a mass public gathering not 2 weeks ago.

No party is more bigoted than the other. Please, get off it.

Wow, Ive actually been to a race there in N.C. And i didn't catch aids from the rookie (Tim Richmond) even though i was in the entourage of that team(musical entertainment of the party).I just got my 50th b'day medical physical and Im in PERFECT health-really!There was some serious drinking and smoking going on there. I choose not to do those things,but what could a southern white male POSSIBLY know!?Northerners and beltway bucks are smart due to the INBREEDING of their British backgrounds,but it makes for warped individuals (like thinking lawyers are smart enough to legislate).

GOP staffers should be up to date on their shots before they go toilet cruising.

donks are worried if they go to NASCAR there boys may become MEN & their girls may become WOMEN.

Statistically speaking, NASCAR fans are more likely to be carriers of communicable diseases than middle/upper class democrats. Chew on that with your hotdog and big gulp.

these are good shots to get in any case...
we live in a darwinian world ...

Great illustration of the arrogance of the liberal democrats. All of you who voted for these nitwits are the ones whom they think are afflicted and infected.

The Democrats are they that think the Mountain Men in Deliverance were just "misunderstood".

Moreover, I have known Democrats that think fast food is hitting a possum at 65 mph.

I'll personally give them all five shot at one time, That would be a gift of a lifetime to get to put Five needles in a Donkey's rear.

I always knew there as something wrong with people who watched NASCRAP! LMAO

j/k

This is really stupid. Our government at its finest.

As much as they try to portray middle America, God-fearing, patriotic Americans as rubes and bigots, it always seems to wash right back on them.
No wonder the "committee spokesman" is running for cover. Too bad there isn't a memo to "leak" out telling us whose office this came from. Hhhhmmm. Does the name Pelosi, Reid or Kennedy ring true here?
Our school children in California have to be vaccinated against Hepatitis now because???? Childhood diseases which were wiped out here in the U.S. are now making a comeback because????
That's right. We don't have a health screening process anymore before entering this country and even if we did, the illegals wouldn't have to worry about that anyway. OOPS! Am I racially profiling or is that just common sense. BIGOTRY, thy name is DEMOCRAT!

The dems should already have these immunizations, they shake bill and hillary's hands.

What a bucnh of hypocritical stuff. I think everyone should get those shots when they try to enter the Washington DC area. Members of the Administration, Congress and the press should be move to the head of the line.

I have to laugh at the stupidity of such a thing. Whatever would these people do if they were sent somewhere without indoor plumbing? OMG! How would they survive a camping trip? And this is the thinking of our elected officials...

Where does Drudge come up with these stories and why the red & blowing horns? Who cares? Everything is always Repubs against Dems...enough already, can't we all just get along.

ALL THE FOOLING AROUND THOSE CONGRESS PEOPLE DO!!!HUH, DONT BLAME IT ON NASCAR!!!!

The democratic party has become a freak show of paranoia, conspiracy theories, and a fear of normal everday Americans.

Yep, better get dem der shots before ye be a comin to a Nascar race as we be some totthless tobaccy chwing drunkin idjots fur sur.

Those Dem staffers need a education and some world travel - on thier dime, not my tax dollars.

Maybe they should try getting shots before going to Miami or some parts of LA.

The immigrant population illegal especially has a LOT WORSE diseases...

You know this is perhaps more to protect the NASCAR fans health rather than the other way around!!

Maybe they should try getting shots before going to Miami or some parts of LA.

The immigrant population illegal especially has a LOT WORSE diseases...

Unless I am mistaken, the Democrat's political messiah from Arkansas had Astroturf installed on the flatbed of his pick-up truck and probably gave his mama a homemade fur coat.

Its a fact. In '96 I visited for a month in Harrison AK and came down with a fever everyone said was mumps. Since, it has returned a number of times. Mumps don't recur nor does one get mumps a number of years after being innoculated for mumps. I still have instances of sickening fever with the swellings that go with it. Its painful and debilitating. I wasn't around crowds per se but I did sell Avon so I saw a number of people who were as normal as I am. I don't know how I got the fever nor what it is. I've never seen a doctor for it because they won't hear of it.
The US has done well in eleminating things like Malaria but we are having an influx of people who appear to be well but are carrying low grade fevers and infections. By low grade I mean not obviously debilitative. Its not especially among poor people or immigrants but we don't have a lot of the immunitatives to things they are used to. We also live in a sterile society comparitively. We expect people to wash their hands and dishes we are served to be handled in certain ways. Many people in other societies are used to living around dirt and contamination and their immunititaves are in better shape than ours are. For instance, our water is treated, theirs is not yet they live and even thrive but bring unheard of illnesses to us.
Its no one's "fault" but we had better get in shape because we have sickly among us we love and care for that are unable to fight off such infections and fevers.
The recurring fever I have still returns but it is not so bad as it was initially. It probably won't kill me and in time I will be able to live with it without knowing I have anything. But I know to be careful where I go, keep the mosquitoes away. I don't eat at fast food restaurants, in fact I rarely eat out at all. I cover my face if I can and wear gloves in addition to washing often. I pay more attention, we all need to pay more attention to what we handle and how we keep contaminants away from us.
We live in a society where certain members take steroids and lower their immunities. Then they spread colds to the rest of us that carry a heavy load of infection we're not ready for. Its the world we live in, not the people especially. Its the world in general, not "cooties".

What an insult to the fine people in N.C.!!! The poor widdle, sensitive moonbats in D.C.! Here's a clue for those pansies at HLS...stay in D.C. where you belong and let N.C. take care of the security. They'd do a much better job anyway.

Has any Dem. checked the price of a Nascar ticket lately? I'm sure us "folks" can afford healthcare! They might want to get those shots before their next Dem. rally

This is so unbelievably bigoted!!
On Zogby's Poll I USED to receive there was a question of: Are you a NASCAR fan. I asked my husband why they just don't come out and ask me if I'm a Red Neck. I would have said not only YES but HELL YES!!! I stopped taking their idiotic polls.
Y'all have a glorious day!!

I just got back from Talladega and I didn't get any more diseases than I already had, I might have given a couple out though. I know my pretty eyes are disease free because I use a gallon of eye drops when I travel.

Elitist Democrats are afraid to be out among the commoners, I guess. They are the Royalty, and NASCAR fans (or typical American men and women) are scum in their thinking. Shows who's really out of touch with the common man - the real backbone of this greatest nation! I wonder if they require they same vaccinations before visiting with our brave military men and women?
My guess would be yes.

What all Americans should be terrified of catching is a terrible case of socialism from the nutcase liberal bastards that infest Washington DC . What is more frightening is that you can catch this life threatening malady without even going to DC!!!!!!!

The reason for the Dems getting shots prior to going to a NASCAR event? Maybe they are afraid of learning about In GOD we trust.
Or singing the National Anthem while standing with hat in hand. Or just being plain folks that are thankful just to be an AMERICAN.
Giter Done

NASCAR fans are more patriotic than any crowd of people I have ever had the pleasure to be around.

Who said that? I said that.

as someone who has attended nascar races for the past 10 years i can assure you that we have never gotten any of the named illnesses from attending a race.
glad i vote republican like almost all fans do

Wonder what these North East Liberal Democrats would say if they found out that NASCAR has races north of the Mason Dixon line. Pa, NY and New Nampshire. Plus there are races in Ca, and Illinios.

But then, liberal democrats would never ever think that there are real, normal people in these places.

The two democartic staffers should be fired. But that will never happen... they are domcarats!

What a shame!

I'm a Redneck and I resent those country wreckers in office. If there are vaccinations to be given out then I want one that keeps me from catching the Dem. or Rep. syndrome. It's called the backstabbing, two faced, coward and liar syndrome, better known as the two-party system. Vote Ron Paul for the cure.

wow...surprise, surprise...Democrats acting like total asses yet again. Add this to the newly-proposed TRILLION dollars in new taxes for us Americans. Is there another planet we can ship these idiots to?

Certainly NASCAR events are "Mass Gatherings" so if the same holds true for NFL, Baseball etc. I see no problem. If NASCAR is being singled out, I want answers.

Well, the NASCAR add slogan is "NASCAR, how bad have you got it?" :)

I would be afraid of catching something from NASCAR fans.

I don't think they are bigoted against nascar itself. It's probably that the average educational level and IQ of nascar fans tends to be lower than average. As such, it attracts a higher percentage of people who engage in high risk activities. Most nascar fans are very conservative as the stock car thing originated in the deep South, among the poorest and least sophisticated people in America. Again, most nascar fans are honest and decent people, but let's acknowledge that disease is more prevelant among the ignorant and poorly educated.

The staffers might get a real lesson on DIVERSITY and political correctness when they attend an NASCAR race. Why stop with shots, wear surgical masks and white TYBEK suits for protection.

I am happy the Dems are getting immunized so they don't infect the NASCAR fans. They should all get a colonoscopy too:)

What a manufactured story. Does anyone question where Drudge gets his sludge?

Not sure why you bloggers are making this a political party issue ... snobbery has never been the exclusive domain of either Republicans or Democrats. You say there are "countless examples" of Democrats against NASCAR. Well, count me then because I'm a democrat and a diehard NASCAR fan who would never think of getting shots before a race ... well ok, maybe before Talladega.

They are not going to NASCAR specifically, they are going to examine the effects of the large crowding the area experiences during NASCAR.

Ie: Hospitals, food stands, restaurants, public transport and so on. The places you will expect out breaks of these kinds in the first place.

So to be immunized aint about the crowds, its the infrastructure and whether it can cope.
Besides, most of the stuff they got shots for is food and water related.

I'd be more worried about the mental stunting of actually talking to NASCAR fans than catching a disease from one.

Since this is being used as a Drudge hit piece might as well add an additional link:

http://video1.washingtontimes.com/fishwrap/2007/10/not_nascar_cooties.html

The staffers were on a mission to study public safety at large events.

"Since committee staff members are visiting hospital and other health-care facilities available at or near these venues, including areas where groups of people are detained before being transferred to other off-site facilities, I believe that the recommendation (not requirement) that our congressional staff receive these same immunizations was sound," Mr. Thompson said.

I wholeheartedly recommend immunization prior to spending time in NYC and their nasty subways. Racetracks are outside in fresh Southern air.

I'm surprised that Dems rushed to get their shots instead of waiting for Hillary's Universal Health care program. I guess they consider themselves above those who she would bring under national health program. I'm certain the Dems will have their own personal doctor care under any program that is for the masses.

dang it, our secret plan to infect democrats with republicanism has been defeated. How did they find us out?

It just goes to show that liberals are allergic to the south...

I think House Homeland Security Committee is trying to protect the NASCAR people from the Dem's ill's. If one Demorcat came into physical contact with the NASCAR crowd it would be an epidemic like never seen before.

Would NASCAR fans need to get immunized against "Foggy Bottom Fever"? The outward signs are a lean to the left, an itch to spend taxpayer money, and a blue rash that is caused by exposure to a liberal amount of time watching Michael Moore's "Sicko" movie?

That has got to be the funniest thing I have read in a while. Now being a NASCAR fan and all, I made sure to read it nice and slow so as not to mis something and to wipe the keyboard down after I used it. Don't want the cleaning lady to come in and catch nothing from me since I was using this here computer.

I bet the two Dems that got the shots got skeered by the loud noises from the cars and stayed in the parking lot anyway. Sounds like a waste of immunizations to me.

I wonder if we have to get special shots if we want to visit, oh say...San Francisco or New York City? I have heard that there are some health realted issues there. :)

Thanks, Rednecks for givin it back. If it is free, red blooded, alive, and for real, the Dems run from it. If they can't control it they attack it. You know the rest. Thanks again for sockin it to all the spoiled, overly-educated, hyper-critical, overly-sophisticated, snobby, holier than thou, namby pampies.

Be gentle.

Some people like to watch cars go around and around and around. They get so excited that they might forget to wash their hands properly after using the facilities . . . just so they can return to watch the same cars go around and around again.

So in this, the shots make sense. Maybe it should be part of the price of admission.

What are Yankees so worried about, catching a bad case of patriotism?

all of you. you're no better than the hippies, or the anti-commies during the Scare. Two sides of the same flip floppy coin. Whichever way the wind blows right fellas? ladies? Lets not think this through, lets just take a quick chance to get some gratification out of bashing the 'enemy group'. Shameful.

30 million illegal aliens running around this country that have not been tested or treated for any third-world diseases and now they're worried. I'm surprised they would target Nascar instead of LA or NY. Just waiting for an outbreak, jc

As a native Missippian, I think you're all missing the real irony here. Bennie Thompson (that's Mister Bennie to you) represents the MS Delta. You haven't seen disease in America until you've been to the free clinic in some of those poor Delta counties. I mean they still have cases of pellagra, ringworm and all kinds of 3rd world stuff down there. Forget all those clean Nascar tracks, you ought to get immunized before you go to the MS Delta! (Or at least to Mr Bennie's office)

Narrow minded rednecks.

Tommy T... where's your demographics support for such stupid ASSumptions? That's what bigotry is all about... believing something about someone without evidence to show it's accurate.

Hey Brian K... Wash Times wrote the story. Drudge just posts the links. It seems some of you are afraid when Drudge splashes news links on the Internet and then you get all bent out of shape when your ox is gored. He doesn't seem to care who is in his crosshairs. I've seen Bush stuff and Clinton stuff. Get over it.
PS: Look at his news and editorial links - there's every stripe under the sun.

It is very sad that it is necessary to vaccinate for NASCAR participants. I guess with all the inbreeding going on with the targe audience and the lack of education we have to do this. Most of the NASCAR fans are in need someone to lead them out of the white trash, health hazard stadium that they inhabit each weekend. Anyone dumb enough to watch something going in circles probably needs lots of shots.

Wait a minute, are those the same guys/gals who were rolling around the mud pits at out door concerts? Did those mud pits not have rain water, with run-off from around the area, from which lots of urine/feces poured into said mud pits.

I think the red-neck NASCAR type is a little bit cleaner than those hippy types that are so worried about deseases.

Why are the Dems worried about getting something at a NASCAR race? I would be more worried about getting something that sandpaper wouldn't remove at a the Democratic National Convention.

I wonder what kind of shots they get when traveling to San Francisco.

Too bad you can't immunize against stupidity. Of course, if we could do that, all the NASCAR events would be cancelled and Bush wouldn't be in the white house. We should have let them secede...

Dave, You're the smartest one of the bunch. Many people are not properly immunized and some immunizations wear off as we get older. Large public gatherings are ideal for the bad guys to disperse some nasty bug. Politics aside, if I was sent to do this type of surveillance work, I'd get immunized.

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Yes, you are all inbreds and ignorants. Go back to the swamp.

Posted by non-hick | October 11, 2007 3:28 PM

In breeding protects the gene pool for the degrading affects of 'non-hicks'. We have our feet firmly planted on the ground. We do not bury our heads in the sand then complain about the sand in our eyes. I don't know waht mind altering drugs you are on but they are not welcome here.

the diseases they are being immunized for are not on a list of those that terrorists would use. they have as much chance of getting hep a and hep b at the DNC rather than a NASCAR race. The DEMS are flat out bigoted knee jerk types that believe their own salvation lies in how special,different and caring they are when in fact their caring extends to themselves.

Nancy Pelosi and her Democrats are making it more and more obvious every day why they were voted out of office nearly 8 yrs ago. You can't get much more American than NASCAR AND BASEBALL. Wonder what they kind of precautions they are taking for Baseball games.

Great point jc.

eyes likes Nascur too! I dont know what toylert paprr is and my daughter wont have sexerl reations wit me

Most Jeff Gordon fans are democrats. I hope they all get thier shots. So sorry for the mispellllings, I am from the south.

This is unreal! Are these same people that don't think Muslim Imams chanting threats against the USA in an airport are dangerous! The same people who ridicule homeland security? I'm from the Pacific NW. Please don't think ALL of us are elitist snobs!

If only they had a vaccine for misplaced hate. Then we could be truly insulated against the NASCAR crowd when studying their strange ways.

These democrats remind me of the citizens of Huxley's Brave New World when confronted with the Savages. Elitism rears its ugly head.

Where does it say that Democrats made the committee decision to announce that immunizations are necessary?

Dont ya'll get it? The dems are there to SPREAD their germs. They hate america and they are in business with the anti-american countries to bring america to its death. Why do you think there are so many e-coli beef out there? Dems hate meat eaters. That is just ONE example. DUH

Could you imagine the outrage if they had been told to get those shots before visiting a Oakland Raiders game?

Or maybe some lame hippy woodstockish event.

If this would have been pointed towards a black person Jessie Jackson And Al Sharpten would be in a Million man March towards washington with all the dems leading the way while holding the ACLU'S hand. But being white and a so called nascar redneck from the south its ok to talk smack against us.why stop at getting shots before a race. Why not get shots every time you get ready to go below the mason dixion line so you can make dam sure you dont catch anything... But I have a even better idea. keep your bigot ass out of north carolina and the south period.You are not welcomed.Oh and don't bother coming to a race either we don't want you there.
Because your the slow lame ass and you sure wouldn't understand the whole racing concept anyway.....It's A Southern Thang yall.

did you guys ever think that maybe they know something we dont about the health risks of those events? The committee is made up of Repubs and democrats.

And by the way its not bigoted to infer that the southern red states are at a higher risk for these infections because the fact remains that Southern red states are much less educated and less wealthy then the other states. They also have much larger occurances of Divorce, Abortion, WELFARE recipients and single parent families.

Hell, youd technically be a 3rd world country in 10 years if it wasnt for California and the northeast.

If this would have been pointed towards a black person Jessie Jackson And Al Sharpten would be in a Million man March towards washington with all the dems leading the way while holding the ACLU'S hand. But being white and a so called nascar redneck from the south its ok to talk smack against us.why stop at getting shots before a race. Why not get shots every time you get ready to go below the mason dixion line so you can make dam sure you dont catch anything... But I have a even better idea. keep your bigot ass out of north carolina and the south period.You are not welcomed.Oh and don't bother coming to a race either we don't want you there.
Because your the slow lame ass and you sure wouldn't understand the whole racing concept anyway.....It's A Southern Thang yall.

Rolling on the floor laughing!! I've been a devout NASCAR fan for years (and I'm only a teen) and NASCAR cooties is like being back in the 1st grade. When I get my license, I'll drive to the Dems' houses and do a burnout in their driveway, tearin' up their lawns :D!!!! "BOOGITY BOOGITY BOOGITY!!!"

Wow... Our congress men an women need a booster SHOT JUST TO VISIT A NASCAR show, give me a break! I wonder if they get a shot when they visit the restroom??? Or they go with a Hooker? I wonder it there is a booster they can take to STOP LYING TO THE PUBLIC?? Whatever it is that they have they surely need a booster... what you think?

I once got Tinea Cruris at college football game.

Oh we get Robin Hayes up in arms over some shots but he is more than willing to sell his soul and everyone elses for that matter at the altar of free trade to sell out his own constituents' jobs. Whoever votes for this lying bozo is nuts. I wouldn't vote for him if his opponent was a bonafide communist if that's what it took to get this neo-con elitist out of office.