Former Colin Powell Aide Blasts GOP, As 'Full Of Racists"

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  • Prince Of Dorkness
    Prince Of Dorkness Posts: 3,763
    I'd ALSO like to point out that Barack Obama has been the target of such vile slander and vitriol that it made a lot of us find our inner Angry Liberal Warrior and jump to his defense.

    I've spoken to many disillusioned Republicans lamenting about how they just don't understand how Mitt Romney hit the ceiling at 48% of the popular vote and went no further, no matter how hard they pushed. They would then start to say things like "Anti-Colonial" and rant about birth certificates. And I'd tell them that "THAT is why."

    If conservatives had taken the policy approach and talked about economic policies that resonated with the soccer moms and the Nascar dads... talked about issues that resonated with lower-wage earners about job market growth and the speed of the recovery... maybe that might have won more of them over.

    But instead, all I saw were vicious attacks from bullies... name-calling, pointless slags about his birth certificate... calling him things like "Obummer" or "Odumma" or "Oballah!!!"

    Whining about him being "the messiah" or "Your SOCIALIST EMPEROR!!" (which is a contradiction in terms... that's like saying "your elected queen."

    Or people wailing about Reverend Wright.

    If that video that surfaced 5 years ago of Reverend Wright saying "God Damn America" didn't make an impact 4 years ago... did you think that flogging that dead horse for four years was going to do anything other than make you look like a sore loser?

    If calling his birth records into question didn't make a difference 4 years ago... did you think that it would now? And if so... what made you think that?

    If you hammered away at him and called him a "socialist" and that just made the union members like him more.. did you really think that adding "Nazi Communist" to the end of that would help? Because all that did was piss off the Jewish and gay community MORE.
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  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,249
    Prince Of Dorkness wrote:
    mikepegg44 wrote:
    Devil's advocate here...supporting someone from your group because they are from your group only seems a lot like the arguments I heard on Jerry Springer from racists. So doesn't it simply boil down to an individual and their heart. Unless they offer the info, no statistic alone will tell us about racism in voting IMO of course...

    Well that's why I said "more likely."

    The black community always looked at Alan Keys as a joke. He was a total knob. An asshole. That he was black wasn't look at as a source of pride in the black community... more of a dark mark they didn't talk about. So just being black wasn't enough to gain him any support. He also had to espouse views and policies that the community held. And as a Republican, anti-equality, anti-choice, corporate stooge, he was just laughed at. Same with Herman Cain. Herman Cain was a black man that Republicans briefly waved around the same way they waved around Sarah Palin. "Oh.. you want a woman... here... she's a woman... if that's all you want... here's a picture of her vagina!!" "Oh... you want a black man... well... Herman Cain is a black man.... yeah, he's an asshole and a serial adulterer and has zero knowledge about the world and knows nothing about being a head of state but he's black... and that's all you want, right?"

    Wrong.

    Just like how the gay community didn't exactly jump up and down when Roy Ashburn or Larry Craig got outed. Just being gay didn't make us any more likely to support them when they supported views and policies that were very much against what we usually support.

    But anyone fucks with Barney Frank... Oh no you didn't. Cuz I'll cut a bitch.

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  • grooveme
    grooveme Posts: 353
    Prince Of Dorkness wrote:
    I'd ALSO like to point out that Barack Obama has been the target of such vile slander and vitriol that it made a lot of us find our inner Angry Liberal Warrior and jump to his defense.

    I've spoken to many disillusioned Republicans lamenting about how they just don't understand how Mitt Romney hit the ceiling at 48% of the popular vote and went no further, no matter how hard they pushed. They would then start to say things like "Anti-Colonial" and rant about birth certificates. And I'd tell them that "THAT is why."

    If conservatives had taken the policy approach and talked about economic policies that resonated with the soccer moms and the Nascar dads... talked about issues that resonated with lower-wage earners about job market growth and the speed of the recovery... maybe that might have won more of them over.

    But instead, all I saw were vicious attacks from bullies... name-calling, pointless slags about his birth certificate... calling him things like "Obummer" or "Odumma" or "Oballah!!!"

    Whining about him being "the messiah" or "Your SOCIALIST EMPEROR!!" (which is a contradiction in terms... that's like saying "your elected queen."

    Or people wailing about Reverend Wright.

    If that video that surfaced 5 years ago of Reverend Wright saying "God Damn America" didn't make an impact 4 years ago... did you think that flogging that dead horse for four years was going to do anything other than make you look like a sore loser?

    If calling his birth records into question didn't make a difference 4 years ago... did you think that it would now? And if so... what made you think that?

    If you hammered away at him and called him a "socialist" and that just made the union members like him more.. did you really think that adding "Nazi Communist" to the end of that would help? Because all that did was piss off the Jewish and gay community MORE.

    This is really well stated . I am an independent, and not a huge fan of the President. But is seems Ike the republican faithful have gone off the deep end with the hate, and it has been a real turnoff. They don't have my support this year, and they won't unless they have something better to offer than "vote Romney because Obama is the anti-Christ".

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