Posted on 07/18/2005 6:30:06 AM PDT by Fred911
One of President Bush's surrogates went before the N.A.A.C.P. last week and apologized for the Republican Party's reprehensible, decades-long Southern strategy. The surrogate, Ken Mehlman, is chairman of the Republican National Committee. Perhaps he meant well. But his words were worse than meaningless. They were insulting. The G.O.P.'s Southern strategy, racist at its core, still lives.
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the NAACP should be apologizing to the republicans, not the other way around! who's insulting whom?
Where's the BARF ALERT
So does the Democrats' Southern strategy: Call all white Southerners racists and make jokes ridiculing their lifestyles and personal habits.
Take a look at the election results to see which strategy actually seems to be working. ;)
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
The GOP had to make a choice - focus on growing the socially leftist, country-club, Rockefeller Republican wing of the party or focusing on social conservatives disenchanted with the Democrats.
Now if we can only get the NAACP to apologize for its behavior over the last 40 years, we'll be in business.
Which party was it that went into black communities in new Jersey in 2000 and distributed bogus Photoshopped flyers showing George W. Bush with a Confederate flag? Which organization ran TV ads in 2000 accusing George W. Bush of being complicit in the dragging death of James Byrd? Which presidential candidate in 2000 said that his opposition's strict constructionist judicial philosophy reminded him of the days when blacks were considered 2/3 of a person? Which party leader recently accused the oppositon party of being nothing but a party of white Christians?
The G.O.P.'s Southern strategy, racist at its core, still lives.
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Just the playbook-standard attempt by the libs (via their puppet newsrag, the NYT) to keep "the darkies" on the plantation of victimization and hate. Only to let them off at voting time! The libs are SO transparent now, it is almost humorous. They are also PARANOID that a black woman might actually get nominated to the Supreme Court. Yes, the minions of the left, the NAACP, are working hard to earn their feed, keep the crackers with the whips paying their dues, and keeping the black vote on the plantation, under control.
Congressman G.K. Butterfield [NC-1]: GOP has no interest in diversity
U.S. Rep. G.K. Butterfield called misleading and insulting Thursday's comments from the nation's top non-elected Republican apologizing for the party's racially polarizing political tactics."I believe Republicans have no genuine interest in racial diversity in the government," Butterfield, a Wilson Democrat serving his first term in Congress, said Friday afternoon.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Herbert is full of kaka. Herbert should be working on getting an apology from Sen. Sheets Byrd southern strategy, better known as the KKK.
People like Herbert are one of the reasons I will NEVER vote Democrat again, ever.
We are sorry....here are you 40 acres and meet Howard your mule.
First, never apologize to the NAACP. The NAACP is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Democratic Party. Never expect to get a fair hearing from the Democratic Party, they want you to fail, and they intend to see to it that you fail.
Second, never put yourself in the position of explaining or defending Democrat history.
Slavery is Democrat history. Jim Crow is Democrat history. Race repression is Democrat history. Race obsession is Democrat history. Let them defend it.
The Republican Party was born as the anti-slavery party. It is the party that has supported color-blind citizenship right from the beginning, and all through the bad old days. The Republican position on color-blind citizenship has not changed, we are right where we always were.
Many southerners have joined the Republican Party as they have let go of race, as they have decided that other things were more important. As more and more let it go, more and more cross the line and join us.
There are people who can't let it go. There are people who believe that truly color-blind citizenship is impossible, and those people belong in the Democratic Party, and thats exactly where they already are.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
LMAO...........now I see why this drooler, whoever he is, writes for the NY Slimes.
I'm a southerner. ;-)
A big city southerner who has had lots of exposure to Yankees.
I still find the New York Times reprehensible and wouldn't line my cats' litter box with it.
Bob Hebert is prejudiced against Southerners. He is too stupid to see the irony in stereotyping ALL Republicans as racists.
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