Posted on 08/11/2008 5:22:32 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Conservatives are more racist than the population at large, and John McCain plans to "viciously" stir up racism to beat Barack Obama. That is John Heilemann's belief, as propounded in his New York magazine article, The Color-Coded Campaign, and spelled out in a CNN appearance today. The author also employs the trite epithet "Wonder Bread America"to describe that portion of the country not lucky enough to be NYC.
Interviewed by Kiran Chetry on "American Morning" today at 6:32 AM EDT, Heilemann's jumping-off point was the question of why Obama's lead over McCain is smaller than the 10-15 points by which Dems are generically leading Republicans nationwide. Heilemann gave short shrift to the possibility that Obama is a weak candidate, given his lack of experience and most-liberal-in-the-Senate record that puts him at odds with the electorate. He focused instead on what he claims is an under-reported factorObama's race. It was there that he equated conservatism with racism.
JOHN HEILEMANN: During the Democratic primaries during the exit polls we would ask people whether race was an important factor for them. And somewhere, in places like New Jersey, Ohio and Pennsylvania, 10 or 12 percent of the vote said race that was an important factor and voted for Hillary Clinton. And that's for many people a reasonable proxy to tell you about what the numbers were like for people who voted for Hillary because she was white, didn't vote for Barack because he's black. And that number will be larger in the general election because general election is a more conservative electorate than the Democratic primary electorate was.
View video here.
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The more black militants the dems put out in the media the less votes they will get as they turn off guilt ridden white people.
Never mind the 99.9% of black that voted/will vote for Obama. No that's not racism.
OK...99.9% may be an exaggeration...;)
I am pleased that he has said this. This is a point in McCain’s favor.
My own political views have reached a point that I won’t vote for a politician who has not been called “racist,” “sexist,” or “homophobic.”
If a politician has not made enemies among the race pimps, the feminists, or the homosexuals, he has no principles or guts and is not worthy of his office.
LOL :)
The New York magazine is not the New Yorker magazine.
I am aware of that. However, it is a) liberal, and b) supposedly trying to make the same heavy-handed point as NY Magazine.
Actually, it’s the coastal, liberal, media elites like this Heilemann that plan to ‘viciously’ stir up racism, so that they can try to blame it on McCain and his people.
**The New York magazine is not the New Yorker magazine.**
to paraphrase ...
Manure of a different color ...
They can’t hold themselves back from calling us racist. They can’t help it, they’re liberal and demented.
The New Yorker is much richer and denser in bovine droppings. The New York is a wannabee.
He said conservatives were more racist than the population at large. In effect he called the population of America racist, but there are more racists among conservatives than liberals.
Probably a true statement, but that doesn’t make YOU a racist.
Boy, wait until the rubes find out BHO is black... he’ll really be in trouble then!
amen - but that apparently only applies to white folks.
Well, most of the white racists I meet here in the northeast are usually downmarket independents or “Reagan Democrats” (the few that are left), rather than movement conservatives.
I’d vote for a Black man for President if he possessed even the minimal amount of experience and wasn’t a Left-Wing American hating radical.
But they blame everything and everything EXCEPT the fact that their candidates are extremist liberasl which most people detest if it’s understood.
So, we’ll blame election machines, swiftboaters, and this time racism.
He’s full of $#!+! The clip you showed was edited. Did Kiran ask him to provide examples of his accusations? Or has she completely sold out since she left FNC?
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