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NYT’s Rich Invokes Apartheid on ‘All White’ GOP, Looks ‘Idiotic’ & ‘Morally Bad’
Newsbusters ^ | 10/31/08 | Brad Wilmouth

Posted on 10/31/2008 1:57:26 PM PDT by pissant

On Thursday’s Countdown show on MSNBC, New York Times columnist Frank Rich charged that it looks "morally bad" and "idiotic" that Republicans have not elected a black candidate to federal office in six years. The Republican party also seemed to remind Rich of South Africa’s racist Apartheid policy of the past: "The fact is, this isn`t South Africa 25 years ago, this is a major political party that is essentially all white. And the hierarchy of it is definitely white. There hasn`t been a new black Republican elected to federal office, I think, in six years. And so, what does that tell us about the party? And how does that look to voters? I think it looks like it`s the party of the last century. It looks bad. Not only is it morally bad, but politically. I think it`s idiotic because it`s against the whole demographics of this country and where they’re going."

But Rich ignored the fact that Republicans have routinely tried to elect black candidates to federal and other high offices, only to have them defeated by Democrats in the general election in most cases. Former Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele represented the GOP as he vied for the Senate in 2006, only to be defeated by Democratic candidate Benjamin Cardin in the overwhelmingly Democratic state of Maryland. In the Ohio Governor’s race in 2006, former Secretary of State Ken Blackwell represented the Republican party but was defeated by Democrat Ted Strickland. And Lynn Swann lost in his bid to unseat Pennsylvania’s Democratic Governor Ed Rendell in 2006. Also, according to the Associated Press, black Republicans represented their party in eight congressional districts the same year, but all were unsuccessful.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: 2008; blackrepublicans; frankrich; gop; hystericalmedia; limpwristedfairy; racecard; thatsracist
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To: realcleanguy
For all any of us know he has half a dozen slaves chained in his basement. Has he ever invited an inspection be done by disinterested parties?

I say "guilty". Frank Rich should and must take himself out!

21 posted on 10/31/2008 2:13:51 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: pissant

If 90 to 95 percent of Blacks vote for Democrats, then there aren’t going to be many of them who wish to run for office as a Republican.

I’d like to see more Blacks in the Republican party, but I’m not going to arrest them and force them to register Republican before they can run for office.

They’re grownups. And even if Democrats, their shills in the press, or anyone else can’t understand this, they can make big decisions for themselves. And when they do, I respect their right to do so.

That doesn’t mean I have to agree with them, or vote for them.

If they choose to join the R.P., and have values I share, they couldn’t keep me from supporting them.

Take that Rich, you sack of s—t d—khead.


22 posted on 10/31/2008 2:14:38 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Our nation is uncomfortably close to having B.O. We need to use a Republican roll on by 11/04.)
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To: RVN Airplane Driver
Frank Rich is probably hung like a butterfly...

He's probably the bottom / catcher anyway, so it wouldn't be an issue . . . .

23 posted on 10/31/2008 2:15:34 PM PDT by surely_you_jest
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To: muawiyah

Jesus said “out of the mouth speaks the desires of the heart.” I say Rich is speaking of his desires


24 posted on 10/31/2008 2:16:44 PM PDT by realcleanguy
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To: pissant
You know...this is what where going to hear if Obama gets elected. Everytime we disagree with the president - OH NO, HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT? - YOUR A RACIST PIG. If someone tells me I'm a racist - I'll remind them that I voted for Ken Blackwell (who is a black Republican) in '06.

RightWingIt.com

25 posted on 10/31/2008 2:19:11 PM PDT by GaryLee1990 (www.RightWingIt.com)
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To: pissant

These folks sure have activated a race card that I didn’t know existed. And it’s going to produce blowback.


26 posted on 10/31/2008 2:21:55 PM PDT by sarasota
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To: pissant

That’s because Blacks are content to stay on the Democrat plantation and be taken care of by their white liberal masters.
They didn’t vote for the fine GOP Black candidates such as Stillwell in Ohio and Steele in Maryland when they ran for office. You can lead a donkey to water, but you can’t make him drink.


27 posted on 10/31/2008 2:25:08 PM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: pissant
Frank Rich charged that it looks "morally bad" and "idiotic" that Republicans have not elected a black candidate to federal office in six years.

It "looks morallly bad and idiotic" for a newspaper that's "general circulation" to play to half their readers. It's stupid beyond words to run a business into to ground just so the employees can give the finger to the half of Americans who are conservative. To be "in the tank"...

Toe to tow, the New York Times is idiotic.

28 posted on 10/31/2008 2:26:37 PM PDT by GOPJ (Ayers book: Prairie Fire was dedicated to ALL"cop killers" and Sirhan Sirhan - ( assassin of RFK))
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To: GaryLee1990

That’s who I was thinking of...Blackwell, not Stillwell.


29 posted on 10/31/2008 2:27:01 PM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: pissant

And as the black racist mob drags Rich from his desk on Nov. 5 to a lightpost with a rope hanging down, he’ll be sputtering that “some of my best friends are black.”

Liberals are simpletons.


30 posted on 10/31/2008 2:31:00 PM PDT by sergeantdave (We are entering the Age of the Idiot)
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To: pissant

“Ah, the race card! Expect to hear much more from the race baiting commies in the days ahead”

Where were the cries of racism when union thugs were throwing Oreos at Michael Steele?


31 posted on 10/31/2008 2:36:06 PM PDT by Figment ("A communist is someone who reads Marx.An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx" R Reagan)
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To: pissant
Most Conservatives vote for people based on qualifications, not race.

You vote for race only and you get the likes of Cynthia McKinney, Maxine Waters and Sheila Jackson-Lee. I'm ashamed that these people represent my country.

32 posted on 10/31/2008 2:44:19 PM PDT by blam
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To: pissant

And what percentage of what minority race are voting for one particular candidate?


33 posted on 10/31/2008 2:44:50 PM PDT by marsh2
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To: ari-freedom

“Who cares what people look like.”

I do, because whites are predisposed to becoming racists.


34 posted on 10/31/2008 2:46:35 PM PDT by Boucheau (No nation in history has survived a tax burden that reaches a third of its national income. --Reagan)
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To: pissant

Did Olbermann spit or swallow?


35 posted on 10/31/2008 2:48:18 PM PDT by careyb
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To: FlingWingFlyer

And what do you want to bet he lives in a nearly-all-white neighborhood?


36 posted on 10/31/2008 2:49:41 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: pissant

Filthy hypocrite! Whenever there is a Black Republican the media either trashes him/her or makes him/her invisible. Condi Rice, Alan Keyes. Need I say more?
Liberals are pathetic.


37 posted on 10/31/2008 2:51:16 PM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (liberalism = serious mental deficiency)
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To: pgkdan

We freed the slaves, they enacted Jim Crow laws. I think that balances things out a little.


38 posted on 10/31/2008 2:53:30 PM PDT by Seven Minute Maniac
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To: pissant

Ever notice how the Frank Rich types never give up their own jobs for “affirmative action.”

It’s always about screwing someone else, then hiding behind their self-righteousness. I bet this clown is every bit the racist.


39 posted on 10/31/2008 3:01:32 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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