The full video along with his radio response has been available most of the day. It doesn’t make what Bundy said any better or any more politically palatable.
If people wish to bury their heads in the sand and think these comments are not absolute political poison even in the very best of context, I guess it’s just further proof that a whole lot of well meaning conservatives have zero political sense.
Talking about “the Negro” and the fact that they haven’t learned how to “pick cotton” and wondering aloud whether they might not have been better off as slaves is just not going to fly. With these comments, Bundy has destroyed himself and tarred a lot of politicians that stood, however tentatively, with him.
I don’t think Bundy is probably much of a hater. He’s from another generation and maybe just hasn’t updated his vocabulary. I can see he was thinking out loud and trying to point out how destructive the social welfare state is, but you just can’t go around saying things like this and think it won’t cause a firestorm that won’t end well for anyone who says it or is associated with it.
This thread reminds me of the Akin threads. Every political realist understood that his idiotic rape comments had destroyed any chance he had to win, yet so many people refused to see political reality. We got 6 more years of Claire because of that.
Akin was a politician running for political office. Bundy is a private citizen with no political aspirations. Akin's comment was repugnant to everyone. Bundy was correct, just clumsy in his expression.
The socialists are filled with horrible temerity when they see us criticizing our own. That is why we supported Akin after he stumbled. Note that the Democrats will defend the indefensible when one of theirs is in trouble. Conservatives need to learn from them.
If people wish to bury their heads in the sand and think these comments are not absolute political poison even in the very best of context, I guess it’s just further proof that a whole lot of well meaning conservatives have zero political sense.
Talking about “the Negro” and the fact that they haven’t learned how to “pick cotton” and wondering aloud whether they might not have been better off as slaves is just not going to fly. With these comments, Bundy has destroyed himself and tarred a lot of politicians that stood, however tentatively, with him.
I don’t think Bundy is probably much of a hater. He’s from another generation and maybe just hasn’t updated his vocabulary. I can see he was thinking out loud and trying to point out how destructive the social welfare state is, but you just can’t go around saying things like this and think it won’t cause a firestorm that won’t end well for anyone who says it or is associated with it.
This thread reminds me of the Akin threads. Every political realist understood that his idiotic rape comments had destroyed any chance he had to win, yet so many people refused to see political reality. We got 6 more years of Claire because of that.
He's an old rancher. If you expect old Rancher's to not speak their mind and to be politically correct you have another thing coming.
I'm going to go waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay out on a limb and say, from what I have heard from him; it doesn't even seem that racist. There is more than one kind of slave and anyone you depend on for to feed you can become your master.
You're still railing against Bundy? You've been doing this all day as if you have some driving motive.
I don’t think Bundy is probably much of a hater. He’s from another generation and maybe just hasn’t updated his vocabulary.
He might not be much of a hater??
A hater?????
I'm just glad others are able to see your comments for what they are.
It wasn’t long ago that Phil Robertson said something that some conservatives on this board thought was foolish, and did the same thing to him! They did it to Sarah Palin, (George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Rush Limbaugh, too). They did it to her (Sarah Palin’s) oldest kid when she said something or did something they didn’t approve of! They said something like: “Sarah needs to stay home and take care of her kids, and not be out in the public making comments, blah, blah blah..”, (this is just paraphrasing, of course)this was coming from some people on this forum! Or- “Did you hear what Michele Bachmann just said, blah, blah, blah...”. Just pick a name and put it in the place of Sarah Palin, and that my friends is how you play this little game! (chuckle)