If you listened to the Republicans and the MSM you’d think every year was the “Year of the Black Republican”, because according to them someday sometime soon the party of Willie Horton is going to have somebody (anybody) to parade around in elected office besides J.C. Watts.
Of course, dovetailing with the Republican attempts to invalidate or deny the votes of black Americans, the GOP couldn’t get the black vote if they were handing out free money. Black Americans are simply not going to reward the party of Katrina, sluggish employment growth, and Trent “I Wish The Segregationists Had Won” Lott with their votes.
That’s why you have the spectacle of Maryland’s Michael Steele shucking and jiving because while he likes the dollah dollah bills the GOP blesses him with, he knows that he’s dead in the water if anyone puts two and two together about his Republicanism. Hence the attempt at a (sloppy) extreme makeover.
In Ohio, Ken Blackwell - the handpicked candidate of the religious right crazies - is down 20 points to Ted Strickland.
If this trend keeps up, I’m asking the GOP for another “Year of the Black Republican” two years from now. We Democrats would really appreciate it.
So says the party of Robert Byrd, George Wallace, William Fullbright, Al Gore Sr., …
Meanwhile, in the past half century…
So says the party of Robert Byrd, George Wallace, William Fullbright, Al Gore Sr., &
Even if we count Byrd, who has expressed regret for joining the KKK, everyone else on your list is dead. The fact that you can’t even think of more than one living Democrat with a racist background speaks for itself.
Farris has really internalized the “Democrats are the real racists” narrative he’s been fed. God help him if he ever realizes the truth about the Southern conservatives at the heart of todays GOP…
AMEN, Oliver.
Hey Zython, Heres one…
Rev. Jesse Jackson referred to Jews as “Hymies” and to New York City as “Hymietown” in January 1984 during a conversation with a black Washington Post reporter, Milton Coleman. Jackson had assumed the references would not be printed because of his racial bond with Coleman, but several weeks later Coleman permitted the slurs to be included far down in an article by another Post reporter on Jackson’s rocky relations with American Jews.
Is he a Rethuglican?
“The party of Willie Horton.”
I’d bet a fairly large amount of money that Willie Horton is not a Republican. If your label is intended to convey that the Republican Party does not think that murderers serving life sentences–without the possibility of parole–should be let out of prison on the weekends, then yes, that’s my party.