Miller knows race-baiting lifted GOP (Cynthia Tucker Alert!)

Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 09/22/04 | Cynthia Tucker

[Casloy]

There you go, those southern haters just needed a hateful party to join.

[beaureguard]

Ought to be interesting when McKinney gets reelected. If I remember, Tucker used to slam her pretty regularly, also.

(To give CT a *minor* point in her favor)

[sauropod]

Only if one buys into seeing everything through a racial prism.

How is it that a Party and an Administration that has put so many Blacks in positions of power be constantly accused of "race-baiting?"

BTW, did you hear the Media Fund radio ad?

[The Great Yazoo]

It's one of those turtles that is so old that it has moss growing on its back. A conservative partisan. A geezer.

[xtinct]

As the nation grows browner, more and more voters will be drawn to the all-inclusive ideals espoused by the Democrats Hogwash... Northeast liberals (Democrats) have gentrified all their cities. The browner people are not seen in many parts of their cities and suburbs - like Beacon Hill and large parts of Back Bay, South Shore, Weston, Wellesley, Lexington, Concord, etc.

[sergeantdave]

If you're against preferences based on race, you're a racist. The world is turned upside-down at this paper. I wonder if this female needs instructions on which shoe to put on which foot.

[L98Fiero]

The "blackest" part of this nation is the South. What color are those states on the election map, Cynthia? Oh yeah, RED!

[metesky]

Why, you act as if truth is a given, an unbendable commodity, not something to be twisted and tweaked.

(/sarcasm)

[cyborg]

If it's true, how is that seeing something through a racial prism? I would not put it past a politician to sell people down the river for votes. Anyway, she's being very intellectually dishonest. She's hates Zell Miller and all this essay is about her hate for Zell Miller, not about any legitimate issues of politics.

I've not been listening to the radio too much. Media Fund sounds familiar.

[cyborg]

thanks... she called Zell Miller that, and I was just wondering what it meant. Now that I know, wonder what term could be applied to Robert Byrd! LOL

[Cincinatus' Wife]

The polls have her in a sweat.

21% of Maryland Blacks Backing Bush (Poll 48-48)

[Conspiracy Guy]

Anyone who address every issue as a racial issue gets no points from me. That covers most liberals of any color.

[OldFriend]

More proof that Zell hit a home run with his speech.

He made the moms sit up and listen to the TRUTH.

Kerry would not protect this country.

[Jackknife]

The words that Cynthia scribes show that she is firmly on the democratic media plantation.

Reminds me of another Cynthia that we have in Georgia.....

[The Great Yazoo]

No! Never! "History," so all-important when applied to Zell Miller, means nothing when applied to Robert KKK Byrd!

You see, it's the position on the issues (or in Cynthia's case the ISSUE) that matters, not one's character!

[Graybeard58]

She's hates Zell Miller and all this essay is about her hate for Zell Miller, not about any legitimate issues of politics.

If she wants to go back to 1964 to try to trash Miller's reputation I wonder why his reputation was good enough to be the key note speaker in 1992 for Clinton's convention but it's not alright now?

[cyborg]

Oh yes I forgot about that. Good point! Probably angry that Bush got a nice bump from that speech.

[cyborg]

I don't think she's ever examined her own political beliefs, or herself for that matter. Perhaps if she challenged herself on what she really does believe she'd be incredibly enlightened.

[an amused spectator]

Can anyone refute what she is saying with respect to the southern strategy?

Which "southern strategy" are you referring to? Please elucidate.

The only "southern strategy" that I'm really familiar with is the one where the racist Democrats moved the blacks out of the South and concentrated them on the big city plantations, making them easier to control with drugs, crappy education and long prison sentences, in return for which the Demmies would pay them a few Hamiltons come vote time, and 102% of the "registered voters" would eagerly do their civic duty (Bring out yer dead! See Philadelphia, 2000).

[azhenfud]

"An old mossback like that couldn't be happy in the Democratic Party."

"Mossback" has the connotation of a boulder - a stone set to stand in changing tides. Too bad today's Democratic Party changes so often in its attempt to curry favor among select racists like Jackson Sharpton Company then claim they're representative of mainstream America, it makes Kerry look partly stable.