Posted on 11/12/2012 9:50:33 AM PST by ro_dreaming
#4 - I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been surprised to learn that one of my white friends or associates was a Republican. Ugh. It’s a troubling realization. Not only because of the political ideologies; (I don’t understand why folk can’t see the Republicans are just about money.), but also because the Republican party has been known to associate and or attract the type of folk who cling to racist, sexist and classist thoughts and even behaviors. There’s the tea party folk, the Todd Akin type dudes and most recently people who can’t act like they have a modicum of sense or even humanity, at a convention where the party is supposed to be putting their best foot forward. Why didn’t they get the memo that it’s not ok to throw peanuts at a black woman?!
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Ike was no RAT. Did I miss your < /sarc > tag?
It’s not just Americans of darker skin tone who see the Republicans that way. What I heard all my life in almost 100% white areas of Pennsylvania is that the Republicans are “for the rich.”
Romney won with people with incomes over $50,000 and lost with people with incomes under $50,000 by the exit polls, by at least 10 points on either side of the coin.
What the Republicans need to convince people of is that their policies don’t just benefit wealthier Americans. Solve that problem, and the party could dominate again.
I say, I say, boy.. that’s the joke, son!
/said in a Foghorn Leghorn voice, for the full effect.
See, I know this photo is fake, because Forrest Gump is not in the picture.
:-)
//Ever hear of sarcasm?// Good sarcasm is obvious and if there is any doubt, you /sarcasm. This was too real to be sarcasm. Do you know Hoodat? How do you know what he/she meant?
No joke to me. Too many people out there were not around when all of that was going on. Most of them believe anything they read.
The fact that Mitt never once brought up the facts is what gets me.
He never once mentioned the REPUBLICAN party is what pushed the civil rights acts through.
He never once mentioned that he FATHER marched with MLK.
He never mentioned that the DIM party is historically the party of real racism and Jim Crow laws.
The republican establishment NEVER asserts itself and I think it is clear evidence that there is really only 1 political party in this country. I’m going to change to independent—by the time any presidential election reaches my state the nominee has already been chosen by the media, Iowa and new Hampshire. (FL)
No,they are about freedom, natural rights, and the production of wealth which leads to prosperity.
Sigh.It is so easy to be a libtard when you are an ignorant victim of progressive education.
No doubt. They're called L I B E R A L S, westbrook from nowhere.
republicans are all about money, so they vote Rat so they can get welfare checks, food stamps, free cell phones, and free self esteem.
Can’t fix stupid.
Brilliant! I see we have morons even here at FR that can’t see sarcasm in front of them.
I don’t know who I feel sorry for more.
The current American Marxist line, from someone who apparently either works for the Ministry of Propaganda, or should.
Thanks for reminding me. I way down on my quota of throwing old people out into the streets this month.
“It’s a troubling realization. Not only because of the political ideologies”
What’s troubling is that there are citizens in this country who choose to be slaves. It seems that victim-hood is a lifestyle that some actually enjoy.
Too real to be sarcasm? That’s why it was brilliant. Maybe he just assumed, as I would, that any conservative or Republican over 15 would KNOW the difference and understand the context of his humorous post within this thread.
It’s no wonder we can’t win elections.
I’m stealing your entire post. Thanks.
Listen, if you think 98% of blacks voted for Obama in numbers sufficient to reelect a bad president, because he’s... a nice guy?...great president?...liberal?
More power to you. Black Americans are hugely conditioned to think in racial terms, and those of us in the real world have to hear it all the time.
Librarian: your time is up on the computer. Response: you’re being racist. Coworker: do you like chicken? Response: do I LOOK like I like chicken? Little kid at school: too many damn white people here. Overheard: I’ll never vote for G Bush he vetoed hate crimes law in Texas. On and on.
Race is a red flag in front of a bull, and democrats waive that thing like a matador and blacks charge to the polls.
You can debate why, whose fault, right or wrong but yes black voters are incredibly responsive to racial arguments.
It would take the forceful action of Democrat President Dwight Eisenhower to ensure that Arkansas schools would be integrated.
_________________Eisenhower was republican.
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