We can agree to disagree. The reason the RNC has to defend or say sorry is because one of their own distributed it. Like it or not-fairly or unfairly-this will be viewed as racism and diminish the GOP chances in future elections. There is no excuse for this sort of stupidity.
Anyone stupid enough to let this be their deciding issue, rather than the economy, taxes, abortion, national defense, the SCOTUS, etc. (I could go on and on, but you get the idea) is not, or should not be the GOP's target electorate anyway.
Enough with the namby pamby middle of the road moderates! We want real, true Conservatives, not just enough liberals to "like us" enough to help us win elections.
We need to get past being the United States of the Offended. And we need to effectively shut down those who are consistently acting as apologists for our side to those who make their living by being offended.
The libs have been using the "in your face" tactic for years, while the GOP continues to apologize for being racist... to those same minorities that THEY (the GOP) have stood up for for years.
Ask your average Obama voter which party freed the slaves; or which party passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. They don't know BECAUSE THE LIBERAL'S GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS NEVER TAUGHT IT TO THEM!!! And we are supposed to get all worked up because they do not understand parody, and might...heaven forbid...take it the wrong way?
I have ceased to give a fat rat's ass what the liberals, or their apologists on "our" side get upset about.
It's high time that we quit pussy-footing around these people. It's also time we quit paying folks to sit on their ass and make babies, while giving preferential treatment to substandard people like Barack and Michelle so they can get to the top and rule over us.
It is time we told all of the whiners in both the Democrat and Republican parties what we should have been saying all along: "Now, we're going to be in YOUR face. Deal with it!"
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Defending or “saying sorry” will do nothing to enhance the chances of the GOP among people who are ignorant enough to consider the Republican Party as racist because of misrepresentation of facts.
The only way that situation will ever be remedied is for Conservatives to be as bold in stating who we are and what we believe, as the the left is in defining us as something we are not and lying about what we believe. And, we should be condemning those among us who would perpetuate the lies for political expediency as is the case here.
If we condemn ourselves by accepting guilt for the lies told about us and apologize for it, why should anyone else absolve us of guilt?