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New House GOP Spin: Scalise Hanging With Racists Helps Him Work With Conservatives
redstate.com ^ | 12/30/14 | Erick Erickson

Posted on 12/31/2014 5:01:34 AM PST by cotton1706

The House GOP will stand by Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA)76%76%, signaling they will hold their leadership to lesser standards than they would conservatives.

Now they are just rubbing everybody’s nose in it.

Their latest spin, courtesy of the Washington Post, is that Scalise’s ability to connect with racists makes him a bridge builder between conservatives and Speaker Boehner.

I kid you not.

From the article:

Racist elements have long been a part of political life in Louisiana and throughout the Deep South, but Scalise’s skillful ability to balance them with his party’s modern-day need to appeal to a rapidly diversifying electorate helped enable his rise.

and

One of Scalise’s assets in the leadership is that he has been able to sway rabble-rousing members who often cause headaches for House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio). On the House floor, he will sit down next to a colleague he is trying to win over, place his arm around his or her shoulder, lean in close and talk.

Scalise’s political associates say he tolerates political outsiders and even some gadflies more than most leaders, eager always to turn anyone into an ally. That persona has fueled his climb to power. It has also invited controversy.

In other words, because Scalise is confortable in front of David Duke style groups, he knows how to navigate those wackado conservatives in Congress.

(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections
Despicable!!
1 posted on 12/31/2014 5:01:35 AM PST by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

EXEMPT RINO ENABLER:
"I will label my party as "racists" for you, My Master and beloved King."

2 posted on 12/31/2014 5:04:30 AM PST by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: cotton1706

So now, “Conservatism=racism” in the eyes of the GOPe.

This is so profoundly insulting that it boggles the mind.


3 posted on 12/31/2014 5:05:08 AM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: cotton1706

This is the Washington Post’s words, not the GOPe’s.


4 posted on 12/31/2014 5:08:46 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: cotton1706

Conservatives = racists.

TELL ME this isn’t manufactured.


5 posted on 12/31/2014 5:09:57 AM PST by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: Diogenesis

“Freeper GOP apologists, please pick up the white courtesy phone...”


6 posted on 12/31/2014 5:10:27 AM PST by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: cotton1706

But it’s ok for democrats to elect former members of the Black Panthers, and have members of the Weather Underground advise the President.


7 posted on 12/31/2014 5:16:06 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Yeah, but. It WAS the GOPe’s words in the Miss Senate Race.

I don’t like conservatives using a 13 yr old State Race meet/greet to tar Scalise. It’s unseemly.

But. Let’s not kid ourselves about what the establishment is willing to say about us.


8 posted on 12/31/2014 5:16:19 AM PST by ziravan (Choose Sides.)
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To: cotton1706
Racist elements have long been a part of political life ... throughout the Deep South

Outsiders, gadflies and racists such as Chris McDaniel?

9 posted on 12/31/2014 5:19:34 AM PST by Praxeologue
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To: cotton1706

Nothing these traitors do surprises me, it`s just surprising that their apologists would, even now, still defend them yet continue to claim to be conservative or friends of conservatism. I piss on the GOPe, and by association, most of their party.


10 posted on 12/31/2014 5:26:11 AM PST by nomad
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To: cotton1706

Why is a conservative hanging with racists a bad thing but liberals do it all the time and half of them are racists?


11 posted on 12/31/2014 5:27:51 AM PST by SECURE AMERICA (I am an American Not a Republican or a Democrat.)
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To: SECURE AMERICA

“Why is a conservative hanging with racists a bad thing but liberals do it all the time and half of them are racists?”

Half of them are racists??

ALL of them are!!- just remember “SHEETS” Byrd-
a few years before his death - was still using the
term NIGGER- in interviews!-
I believe it went something like this:

I’ve known White Niggers & Black Niggers!-

What the ___?!

There was NO- I repeat No- outrage from ANY Demonrat or liberal or even A BLACK RACIST organization

All conservatives - AND GOPe- are held to a different standard


12 posted on 12/31/2014 5:41:42 AM PST by mj1234
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To: mj1234

Down with the GOPe. Never again!


13 posted on 12/31/2014 6:10:20 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducatiohope.n Camp?)
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To: cotton1706
"... is that Scalise’s ability to connect with racists makes him a bridge builder between conservatives and Speaker Boehner."

Big Tent, and all that.

But this could be a good thing. After all, blacks have been saying for decades that all whites are racists. I say reach out to the whites!

14 posted on 12/31/2014 6:30:17 AM PST by offwhite
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To: Old Sarge

Conservatism is the only thing that stops communism that’s why they will spin every thing to stop them.
The friends of the MSM are many.


15 posted on 12/31/2014 6:36:49 AM PST by Vaduz
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