Posted on 10/19/2013 10:05:42 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Republican Party as we knew it is dead. No longer are they going to compete in any serious way in national elections. And while they might be able to win state races and gerrymandered congressional seats, they will no longer be able to play on the big stage because of how they’ve behaved for the past five years under President Obama.
It didn’t have to be this way. They could’ve learned from the shutdowns of 1995 and 1996, and taken a more moderate approach to the Obama years. They could have condemned the racist birthers or those in their own right flank who think bringing a Confederate flag to the White House with a Black family inside is no big deal. They could have spent the last five years debating policy, but instead they have entered in the dangerous territory of attacking the president as a person.
The GOP has refused to condemn racist rhetoric since President Obama took office. This weekend during a “vets” rally to protest the shutdown, Larry Klayman said to a cheering crowd at an event attended by Sarah Palin, and Republican Sens. Mike Lee and Ted Cruz. “I call upon all of you to wage a second American nonviolent revolution, to use civil disobedience, and to demand that this president leave town, to get up, to put the Quran down, to get up off his knees, and to figuratively come up with his hands out.”
Mainstream conservatives have tried to get the focus off the racist rhetoric, but the damage was done.
After the two-week shutdown, the Republican Party’s approval rating is lower than ever. A whopping 74 percent of Americans disapprove of the GOP’s handling of the manufactured government shutdown crisis. More than 90 percent of African Americans voted for President Obama in 2012. And other people of color backed the president as well with 71 percent of Latinos and 73 percent of Asians voting for Obama in 2012.
The reason for these bleak numbers in support of the Republican Party is both the result of rhetoric and policy. It’s very difficult to win over Black voters when your party’s mascot, Rush Limbaugh, refers to the regal and fabulous First Lady, as “Moochelle” Obama, on a regular basis. Sure, Limbaugh is a carnival barker and frequently says things simply to drive ratings and be outrageous. But when the mainstream Republican Party co-signs him and refuses to condemn his rhetoric, the entire GOP gets painted with the Limbaugh brush.
The real reason the GOP is in big trouble is Latino voters are the single group that stand to benefit the most from Obamacare. Yes, the same Obamacare that Republicans shut down the government over. Couple that with the birtherism, jingoism, anti-immigrant rhetoric and you have the perfect recipe for never again winning the White House. And while those gerrymandered House districts may make the Republican Party pretty safe from the threat of losing the House in 2014, the latest Cook Report that specializes in ranking safe House districts moved 14 seats in the direction of Democrats just in the two weeks since the shutdown began.
“Mostly as a result of the damage House Republicans sustained during the 16-day government shutdown, we are making changes to our ratings in 15 House seats, all but one in Democrats' direction," Cook Political Report said in a statement.
The Republican Party’s often racially charged attacks on the president are not just something that turns off Black voters. If the 2012 cycle was any indication, it turns off voters of all political stripes and colors, including nearly three quarters of Latinos and Asians, voting to maintain a Democratic White House. If the GOP doesn’t wise up to that fact, they are going to be in exile nationally for a generation or more.
The Author
Tell them no, they have given up.
Why do black people consider themselves to be wards of the state?
The fix for this is to criminalize clearly false and harmful slanders of racism.
They should know all aboutgiving up.
I you really want to see disturbed black people, suggest to them that January 20th, 2017 is the “end of reparations”.
“When Obama leaves office, it will be the end of all special treatment for black people. No more welfare for black people. No more affirmative action for black people. No college for black people who haven’t earned it. No more anything just for black people. Black people will be treated just like anyone else. Equality before the law. That’s it. And it all happens the day the new president is sworn in.”
” More than 90 percent of African Americans voted for President Obama in 2012. “
As has been said, WHO is racist?
I agree and let's hope so but only if whites will stand up and say no. I think that way too many whites are naive about so called 'equality' or what other races really stand for. You think things are racial now just wait until we try to eliminate any of it.
No, the RINO Party Should be DEAD!!!
Mainstream conservatives have tried to get the focus off the racist rhetoric, but the damage was done . . . racially charged attacks . . . are not just something that turns off Black voters . . . it turns off voters of all political stripes and colors
So claim the victims industry executives and their spokesfolks.. here's some facts that the civil rights industry and its victims industry subsidiary executives don't want the public to know:
I saw this from Patrick J. Buchanan writings:
“Suicide of a Superpower,” this writer concluded: “An analysis of ‘single offender victimization figures’ from the FBI for 2007 finds blacks committed 433,934 crimes against whites, eight times the 55,685 whites committed against blacks. Interracial rape is almost exclusively black on white — with 14,000 assaults on white women by African Americans in 2007. Not one case of a white sexual assault on a black female was found in the FBI study.”
Others reported the same numbers.
But I could not find FBI stats for 2007 that cover black-on-white and white-on-black violent crimes.
I have posted DoJ surveys of victims of crimes including for the year 2007. Turns out that appears to be the source. But these are DoJ stats obtained from interviews with tens of thousands of victims of crime.
Crimes of violence against whites 3,262,660 and 13.3 % were black offenders; that's 433,934 times
Crimes of violence against blacks 562,470 and 9.9% were white offenders; that's 55,685 times
Crimes of violence against whites by blacks is 7.79 times the number of crimes of violence against blacks by whites.
This appears to be the source of the claim. So if the Obama/Holder Dept. of Just Us and Our People have not deleted or altered the original Dept. of Justice files here it is:
Look for Table 42: "Percent distribution of single-offender victimizations, by type of crime, race of victim, and perceived race of offender"
If the data are still there you will see three categories of violent crime: Crimes of violence, Completed violence, and Attempted/threatened violence.
Crimes of violence completed against whites 916,170 and 13.4% were black offenders, that's 122,767 times
Crimes of violence completed against blacks 171,460 and 1.5% were white offenders, that's 2,572 times
Crimes of violence completed against whites by blacks is 47.73 times the number of crimes of violence completed against blacks by whites.
BTW, zero white sexual assault on black females by whites data are also found in the DoJ figures. I have posted those several times also (see below).
Criminal Victimization in the United States, [YYYY] Statistical Tables
Table 42: "Percent distribution of single-offender victimizations, by type of crime, race of victim, and perceived race of offender"
"Rape/Sexual assault"
| Year of Stats | Total Rape/ Sexual assault |
Race of Victims | % White Offenders |
% Black Offenders |
% Not known & other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 255,260 | White | 78.7 | 15.3 | |
| 38,330 | Black | 7.9 * | 92.1 | ||
| 1996 | 216,710 | White | 82.2 | 8.8 * | |
| 44,890 | Black | 13.5 * | 80.2 | 6.3 * | |
| 1997 | 234,800 | White | 74.8 | 8.0 * | |
| 43,890 | Black | 0.0 * | 93.7 | 6.3 * | |
| 1998 | 225,330 | White | 77.2 | 9.9 * | |
| 47,430 | Black | 7.2 * | 68.9 | 23.9 * | |
| 1999 | 274,020 | White | 79.4 | 7.3 * | |
| 67,890 | Black | 0.0 * | 79.3 | 20.7 * | |
| 2000 | 199,360 | White | 81.5 | 7.0 | |
| 33,780 | Black | 7.0 | 79.7 | 13.3 | |
| 2001 | 183,160 | White | 71.3 | 17.1 | |
| 29,980 | Black | 13.4 | 65.5 | 21.1 | |
| 2002 | 134,140 | White | 76.0 | 13.1 | |
| 59,490 | Black | 14.2 | 85.8 | ||
| 2003 | 131,030 | White | 57.9 | 15.5 | |
| 24,010 | Black | 0.0 | 87.9 | 12.1 | |
| 2004 | 139,900 | White | 65.1 | 8.3 | |
| 39,300 | Black | 0.0 | 89.8 | 10.2 | |
| 2005 | 111,590 | White | 44.5 | 33.6 | |
| 36,620 | Black | 0.0 | 100.0 | ||
| 2006 | 194,270 | White | 50.6 | 16.7 | |
| 17,920 | Black | 0.0 | 43.0 | 57.0 | |
| 2007 | 185,430 | White | 75.5 | 7.6 | |
| 12,780 | Black | 0.0 | 100.0 | ||
| 2008 | 117,640 | White | 74.9 | 16.4 | |
| 46,580 | Black | 0.0 | 74.8 | 25.2 |
1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
So if the Obama/Holder Dept. of Just Us and Our People have not deleted or altered the original Dept. of Justice files it's all there.
Dear GOP: I have not abandoned the Republican Party; they, on the other hand, have abandoned me. The GOP has repeatedly turned its back on me and my values, paid lip service to conservative principles and then embraced, with wet, sloppy kisses, the agenda of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party. Even a vote of "present" would tell me that the Republicans are on my side and not the side of my political enemy. The GOP does not need my vote nor the vote of my like minded brothers and sisters. It can pursue the votes of the all-important "independent," moderate electorate.
Thank you for your past and brief support. The GOP is dead. Long live the GOP.
They have been talking trash on bet behind our backs for years.
Now like he gays they are coming out of closet.
For me I still do not figure how so called moderate found it ok to vote for the guy when the preacher screamed on cnn god damn america.
I am highly confused
Calling Obama the President is like calling a pizza delivery driver a 5 star gourmet Chef...
You are confused because you are using logic. It’s happening to a lot of us these days......wrong is the new right.....hate is the new compassion.....true compassion is the new hate......America is the new Detroit....or something like that.
More brilliance from Democrat operative Zerlina Maxwell; words of wisdom from the party that smeared and refused any respect at all to Miguel Estrada, and routinely referred to Condi Rice as a “negress”. Yeah, I’ll listen to this skank with the made-up name.
More accurately, they will create an increasing number of people who DO NOT GIVE A DAMN about either being called a racist, anybody else being called racist, or anybody actually being a racist.
Oh, they’ll do that too.....but I think they’ll actually create divisions, deep real hate filled restentment filled divisions....where none existed.
There’s a fine line between being constatnly ticked off at being called a racist for 5 solid years....and the self fulfilling prophesy.....
As a GAL, women like that are embarrassing. (the author, Dem “strategist” (the strategy is Alinsky, who cares what the Truth is?)
Black Entertainment Television is rasis!
Oh the shutnado was a manufactured crisis alright, from the White House. The parks had manufactured signs for shutdown in waiting. Parks that never closed suddenly had to be gated. It became criminal to photograph monuments because the public was being "denied their toys due to Republican obstructionism". Occutards were permitted to squat for weeks and smoke dope without arrest.
Manufactured crisis, indeed.
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