Spanning the State: GOP Horcruxes edition
Carla Axtman
As Jeff Alworth noted awhile back, the Republican Party is set to make big gains this election cycle--but its a set up for a pyrrhic victory. Watching their party circle the drain in the hands of those who would deny abortion to incest victims, oppose the Civil Rights Act and disagree with private companies offering health benefits to same-sex couples is disheartening. The irrational exuberance outside the party for these candidates feels a mile wide and an inch deep, however.
Even the stalwart heros of the GOP are thrown to the wolves in favor of these nutters. The party is tearing its soul apart into pieces reminiscent of Voldemort's horcruxes. Will they obtain a short-term gain? Most definitely. But the long-term shattering of their party will be felt for years, perhaps decades, to come.
So let's raise a glass to what was once the Grand Old Party. Here's hoping they can one day rise from their own ashes to become great once again. Our country is out of balance with out them.
And now, let's Span the State!
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Speaking of teabaggers and crazy, Yamhill County Commission candidate Mary Starrett is part of that effort to stuff the broken pieces of the GOP soul under the bed. Starrett's got a wealth of writing on her views. I strongly doubt the citizens of Yamhill County back the idea that Martin Luther King, Jr was a Marxist dupe, denies Barack Obama's eligibility as President and believes that the government is out to force her to poison her body. Seriously Yamhill County? C'mon.....
If you're interested, here's info on Mary Stern, the county's non-crazy, rational choice.
An interesting story about the town of Donald, Oregon caught my eye this week. The story essentially decries the Oregon land use system because it makes it difficult to expand the urban growth boundary. The story also uses McMinnville and Woodburn as examples of places where its been difficult to expand. I haven't been to Donald for quite a few years, so I can't speak to what its like now. But I was in Woodburn a few months ago and down in Mac yesterday. Both towns are a mess of sprawl already. Its impossible to drive through them as it is because of terrible (or nonexistent) planning. These towns are trying to draw a large, hi-tech firm ( a la Washington County) to their area as some sort of panacea for job creation instead of fostering small business (shown to be one of the silver bullets for job creation) and drawing employers that will work with what they have. They refuse to try to work within the sprawling region they've already created. Good for Oregon's land use system, keeping them in check.
The newspaper Street Roots is a nonprofit that assists the homeless and those in poverty by creating jobs and opportunities. As part of this work, Street Roots generates a booklet called "Rose City Resource", a directory of resources for people in poverty and/or who are homeless. Planned Parenthood is listed in the directory. Because of this listing, the Portland Catholic Archdiocese yanked the Catholic Campaign for Human Development funding of Street Roots. Street Roots investigated and has discovered that more than 50 other organizations have had similar experiences, driven by a campaign led by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops. In other words, reproductive health services for women are so bad that the bishops will abandon those in poverty. I wonder what Jesus would think of this?
The Pendleton Round-Up has been doing its thing this week, in all its cowtown glory. I haven't been to the Round-Up in years, sadly, and I miss it. Thus I was thrilled to see that the Portland Mercury sent its citified correspondent Sarah Mirk to take in the festivities. But the best part for me are the photos she's posting. They're awesome.
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8:58 a.m.
Sep 20, '10
The critical thing to remember about the the Teapartiers, is that if GOP majorities take hold, ultra right ideology WILL be part of policy positions.
The images Rob Cornilles and Scot Bruun have projected aren't those of Tea Party poster boys, but they'll vote just like 'em, given the chance.
BTW, Cornilles lists among his Facebook "likes" Tea Party Patriots and Freedom Works. Don't believe for a minute that this guy is some local yokel business dude who happens to express a more conservative slant.
He may not be out there in Tea Party rallies holding racist anti-Obama signs, but he'd be pretty damn comfortable chumming up with Dick Army and sticking the sign in the hands of some angry, jobless here-to-fore apolitical victim of the GOP ponzi-econ scheme.
9:07 a.m.
Sep 20, '10
As to Bruun, he's an affable waffler who's already exhibited lack of clarity on the critical Social Security tug-o-war, at once saying he's opposed to change, then "modifiying" his statement:
http://blog.oregonlive.com/mapesonpolitics/2010/08/scott_bruun_and_the_politics_o.html
Think this illuminates him as a man that will work across the aisle in an effort to reach bi-partisan solutions?
Think again.
Bruun is a top tiered GOP "YOUNG GUN," tapped for heavy GOP investment in this election. He'd have debts to pay come January, and GOP leadership wouldn't be shy in reminding him of that.
11:42 a.m.
Sep 20, '10
In Oregon, the tea party and the ORGOP are the same animal. The Tea Party is a re-branding effort by the GOP, nothing more. That they get the rubes to think they are leading a nonpartisan "revolution" is quaint (to be charitable) but is, in the end, nonsense.
2:50 p.m.
Sep 20, '10
Do you know where and how the Tea Party started? Can you name 5 common planks of the Tea Party? Can you name 5 Tea Party Candidates and who they ran against and why?
3:48 p.m.
Sep 20, '10
I know that the Washington County GOP Chairman Kevin Hoar is also one of the people doing turnout for Teabagger events in the county. His name and email address is listed as the contact for the Sept 18 "voter contact" event held at 233 SE Washington St. in Hillsboro.
4:22 p.m.
Sep 20, '10
I don't know, but I won't call you a liar. If you search further, you will find that the very first tea parties took place when W was in office and were geared towards protesting his policies and the Republican establishment for excluding strict Constitutionalists , the protests were against the military industrial complex (not the solders,) NAFTA, The FED, The IRAQ occupation, The Patriot Act etc. It has grown considerably since then and some facets of it may have changed directions when Glen Beck got involved, but many of the originals are still with it and every single Tea Party candidate I can think off has been rejected by the Republican establishment until it was almost certain they were going to win the slot against the party pick. Look at the history of Rand Paul's run in Kentucky for example. Tea Party Candidates are not lobbyist friendly and therefore are getting a hard run in the media from both ends until its almost certain they are going to win. If you want to know more, I can send you some links on stories and videos. Many people refute what I say because they did not see the first protests in 08, but the very first Tea Party Candidate rejected by the establishment was Ron Paul. Now the elections are over they celebrate him, but if he runs again in 2012 they will reject him unless they think he will win. The Tea Party movement is not monolithic.
4:50 p.m.
Sep 20, '10
Sorry Mark. But you are inventing a history which simply is not accurate or honest. The first organized "tea party protest" was begun for a February 10th, 2009 event, which was put together by Freedomworks and and activist Mary Rakovich.
4:53 p.m.
Sep 20, '10
Sorry Gore,once again you speak before think and your facts are once again spoon feed propaganda that you have accepted without research. Here is a link. Read the whole thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_protests
I am not the only one who has had this observation. Is it coincidence? I think not. Be sure to read it all and look at the background and note the first protest was against Bush.
5:50 p.m.
Sep 20, '10
Did you even read your own link...?
As I said, that the GOP rebranding has duped the rubes into thinking they are leading a nonpartisan "revolution" would be laughable, were it not so sad.
6:07 p.m.
Sep 20, '10
Yes I read it. We both saw the info about competing claims. You did see the part about the 2008 protests against the Bush Bail out then the section on the background regarding Paul?
6:14 p.m.
Sep 20, '10
"February 27, 2009 to protest the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) bailout bill signed by President George W. Bush in October 2008"
"The libertarian theme of the "tea party" protest was previously used by Republican Congressman Ron Paul and his supporters as a fundraising event during the primaries of the 2008 presidential campaign to emphasize Paul's fiscal conservatism, which they later claimed laid the groundwork for the modern-day Tea Party movement, although many of them also claim their movement has been hijacked by neoconservatives.[22][23][24][25] As home mortgage foreclosures increased, and details of the 2009 stimulus bill became known, organized protests began to emerge.[26][27][28] The character of the Tea Parties has since diverged significantly from Paul's anti-war and libertarian focus, and Paul has stated that "neocons" who do not accept his policies have become more prevalent in the protests.[29]"
My point being though neoconservatives are showing their faces more in the protest, there are original protesters in the movement. The point being that it is more diverse than you think. You have to keep in Mind any take over by the Tea Party of the GOP is going to be met with resistance.
6:42 p.m.
Sep 20, '10
And tea-partiers often dress up in revolutionary garb, doesn't make them members of continental army.
The "tea parties" that are in the news 24/7 are the organized events of the GOP and Freedomworks.
It was and is a re-branding effort and it was not a natural outgrowth of the tax-protestors at all. You either honestly believe the marketing hype, or you are being willfully ignorant.
That said, the Oregon Tea Party is a facade and their entire outreach contact lists all resolve to orgop.com email addresses (the single exception being the chirsdudley.com one).
As I said, that the GOP rebranding has duped the rubes into thinking they are leading a nonpartisan "revolution" would be laughable, were it not so sad.
9:12 a.m.
Sep 21, '10
I see your position but there were tea party rallies held here in Oregon and reported on the news back before the 08 elections. Just an FYI for you on that one topic. T They were held in Portland as well as a fund raiser for Dr. Paul. I like the use of that term fringe btw. Its just a cleaver ploy. Lets use meaningful terms. Hannity used that term too to against Ron Paul until he saw how popular he had become. All freedom movements are fringe until they become mainstream. Abolitionists, women's suffrage movement etc. The people who point to them and say FRINGE! are only using the term to disenfranchise those fighting for rights.
6:35 p.m.
Sep 20, '10
Competing claims by groups all organized by Freedomeworks. That is like saying the Oregon GOP and the Washington GOP both are competing about which one held the first "protest" which were being organized by a political advocacy group spearheaded by the RNC. A distinction without a difference.
Furthermore, your "Bush" protest in the article occurred on February 27, 2009 when President Obama was in office.
That Ron Paul and numerous other tax-protestor fringe groups, used a tea party theme going back more than a century is totally irrelevant to current "tea party" re-branding spearheaded by Freedomeworks and the GOP.
As I said, that the GOP rebranding has duped the rubes into thinking they are leading a nonpartisan "revolution" would be laughable, were it not so sad.
5:09 p.m.
Sep 20, '10
Here's the contact info for the two WaCo events that they sent out:
BEAVERTON VICTORY 9725 SW Beaverton Hillsdale Hwy Ste. 110 Beaverton, OR 97005 Contact: Andrew Ward [email protected] 503-336-1233
HILLSBORO VICTORY 233 SE Washington St. Hillsboro, OR 97123 Kevin Hoar [email protected] 503-922-3233
Call them and ask them for yourself.
5:30 p.m.
Sep 20, '10
Sure, but did you read my post?
6:26 p.m.
Sep 20, '10
Yup. It doesn't square with the evidence. Which is why I encouraged you to call.
9:13 a.m.
Sep 21, '10
What should I ask them?
10:09 a.m.
Sep 21, '10
You seemed to indicate surprise when I provided the information that Washington County GOP officials were also doing organizing for the Tea Party, based on emails I'm seeing. It appeared you didn't believe me. I suppose you pose the questions to them verifying this--since you clearly didn't believe me.
4:18 p.m.
Sep 20, '10
Yes, I am well aware of Freedomworks history, the folks like Dick Armey is behind it, and how they and Fox News kicked of the "tea party protests" within a week of Presidnet Obama being sworn into office.
I can also read email addresses where everyone listed in a volunteer for the Oregon Tea Party is an @orgop.com email address with the exception of one, which is a @chrisdudley.com cmapign email address.
As I said, that the GOP rebranding has duped the rubes into thinking they are leading a nonpartisan "revolution" would be laughable, were it not so sad.
12:41 p.m.
Sep 20, '10
Speaking of horcruxes, I haven't seen anything about Measure 73 being entirely funded by "VOTE OREGON LLC" which is Mannix, Walker and Day. Clearly they're NOT the funders -- the AFLCIO reports that it's Nevadan Loren Parks, but who KNOWS? -- but they've managed to fund the entire signature gathering and petition process AND now the Initiative campaign hiding every donation behind "VOTE OREGON LLC."
THAT is a textbook horcrux. Mannix Walker and Day = https://hisvorpal.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/freedomworks-little-frankenstein-lab-oregon/
5:20 p.m.
Sep 20, '10
Parks had a falling out with Mannix and dumped the "crime victims" organization that Mannix was running. They're basically defunct:
http://www.blueoregon.com/2010/09/kevin-mannix-loses-his-sugar-daddy-and-other-observations/
Its possible that Parks is funding the LLC in question. But in the context of Parks bailing out on Mannix's org, I'm not sure that's a given.
9:11 p.m.
Sep 20, '10
Like I said, "supposedly." The greater point is that the "anti-crime" initiative has now become completely opaque, which is an open invitation to corruption. That was WHY we put the campaign disclosure laws into effect in the first place. Now? Create a shell corporation, and slush all the cash you want for whatever reason you want.
That's the grave threat of this election, tea notwithstanding.
9:14 p.m.
Sep 20, '10
Like I said, "supposedly." The greater point is that the "anti-crime" initiative has now become completely opaque, which is an open invitation to corruption. That was WHY we put the campaign disclosure laws into effect in the first place. Now? Create a shell corporation, and slush all the cash you want for whatever reason you want.
That's the grave threat of this election, tea and Parks notwithstanding.
10:36 a.m.
Sep 21, '10
Do you know what the Yes on 73 PAC is called? I can't find it on Orestar.
1:29 p.m.
Sep 20, '10
Actually, prior to his association with Dr. King, Stanley Levison had, indeed, been on the executive council of the Communist Party USA. But Levison severed ties with the Party a few years prior to beginning working with Dr. King.
US Presidents JFK and LBJ tried mightily to get MLK Jr. to dump Levison- they said Levison's presence was hurting the opportunity to pass civil rights legislation. MLK Jr. would respond- yeah sure, we'll get rid of him, soon- but MLK JR. never did follow through. But, the upshot was the beginning of the FBI surveilance of Dr. King- this was begun as an effort to monitor King's connections and, of course, eventually turned into harassment and character assassination.
Anyway, after reading the crazy Starrett's descrpition of MLK Jr., I now have more admiration for the man than I did previously. Everything the crazy Starret says is a bad thing about the man I take as being something that elevates his stature.
2:07 p.m.
Sep 20, '10
A recent psychological study on political smears found that while 25% of McCain supporters believed Obama was socialist, that number jumped to 62% when they were first asked to fill out their own race (white).
So remember: right wingers call Obama a Kenyan Socialist Muslim not because they know anything about socialism. It's just that you just can't use the "N----" word in polite company anymore.
3:09 p.m.
Sep 20, '10
Calling people a racist that do not agree with you is getting old. Just use your mind (along with some logic and reason) if you have an argument Steven. You seem old enough to know better than to try to plant this type of misinformation and call names. Maybe you believe that garbage. Obama said himself the opposition is due to the disagreement on the role of government not race. Biden concurred. He does not name call or play the race card why don't you follow his lead in that area? Lack of self control I guess.
4:23 p.m.
Sep 20, '10
So the tea party protests being organized by Freedomworks within a week of President Obama being sworn is was all about policy right?
So where you going hammer and tong after Bush on the deficits when he created over almost 70% of the deficits the current administration has had to deal with face (between the two wars, the tax cuts for the wealth, the finical crisis and subsequent down-turn).
You may not be a racist, but your protesting is disingenuous at best.
4:57 p.m.
Sep 20, '10
I guess Steven can't respond to his own posts. The first protests were before Freedomworks got involved and they were against Bush:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_protests
5:51 p.m.
Sep 20, '10
As I pointed out up-thread, you must not have even read your own link.
6:16 p.m.
Sep 20, '10
Oh more assumptions. I just think you have a preconceived notion of my point. You are so heavily invested in your ideas that you cannot read clearly what I am saying about the origins.
6:47 p.m.
Sep 20, '10
I see what you are claiming, but it isn't borne out by the facts. That GOP (by using Freedomworks) deployed their own astroturf efforts to create the "tea party protests" is simply a fact.
That you believe the "tea party protests" that have had coverage 24/7 since February 2009 were a natural outgrowth and progression of the tax-protester fringe groups and Ron Paul's quixotic campaign shows just how amenable to marketing you are.
As I said, that the GOP rebranding has duped the rubes into thinking they are leading a nonpartisan "revolution" would be laughable, were it not so sad.
10:24 a.m.
Sep 21, '10
Obama is clearly rising above the racism directed at him, but just because he refuses to publicly state the obvious doesn't mean teabaggers aren't racist - when it is clear from a psychological study that they are.
For your information, a schoolyard scream "no it's not" isn't a valid refutation of a peer reviewed study. I don't expect you to be smart enough to understand this, of course. (As Mitch points out, you're not even smart enough to read your own links.) But it should be clear to people of at least average intelligence.
So let me just give you a proverbial pat on the head for being able to figure out how to operate a computer enough to get onto a website. And explain to you that socialism has nothing to do with skin color. In fact, historically, you'll find that nearly all actual socialists are white.
2:44 p.m.
Sep 20, '10
Love those opening remarks, Carla!
2:55 p.m.
Sep 20, '10
You are wrong on just about all counts carla ... "deny abortions to incest victims" - "oppose the civl rights act" - if it wasn't for the Republicans there wouldn't have been a civil rights act...it wasn't republicans filibustering it's passage MLK was a republican because he couldn't align himself with the racist party who was openly and violently opposed to racial equality. Didn't the election in Delaware make it abundantly clear that the Tea Party and the Republican party did not have the same agenda? This depiction of the current state of politics is so absurd it's laughable. That you are someone able to equate the democrats historic plundering of the US treasury (and citizens), their complete mismanagement of the economy and international affairs, their blowing of the biggest numerical advantage they are likely to ever see (in 2 short years) due to how out of touch they are with the rest of the US, the wholesale butt kicking and across the board rejection of their socialist policies and objective this election cycle into the Republicans spiraling into the toilet is ridiculous. You would be much closer to the truth if you were to go thru your entire article and swap democrat for republicans. A huge majority of americans have voted and rejected gay marriage ...can't we be done with this issue now? Most of what you represented is just plain not true. I understand you have an obligation to stoke the fires of hatred and class envy to keep the troops hungry for thweir day in the sun once again but I have a news flash for you ...it will be a very long time before this country entrusts the left to conduct the people's business in a responsible manner ever again. Representing the people requires listening to them first. Lying to them is the date that brought you this point politically ...isn't it time to stop it!?
3:35 p.m.
Sep 20, '10
I've provided links to back it all up, Chester. You..on the other hand..pontificate in an evidence-free commentary stream.
You were saying?
2:12 a.m.
Sep 22, '10
karla why do you guys feel the need to be completely disingenuous whenever you try to make a point. I know Mark won't call you a liar but I will (only when you have told a lie of course) The Republican party does not want to deny abortions to any incest victims 13 or otherwise...One candidate for the US Senate (who happens to be putting a boot stomping on Harry Reid) may or may not feel that way and there is a huge gap between feeling that way personally and voting that way as a US Senator. Why would you mislead people into thinking it was the entire party when in fact it is arguably one person? Ditto on the civil rights act lie. You know as well as I do that Rand Paul was not and is not against the civil rights act or it's ideals yet you continue to spew that lie here? You also know that even if he did (and he has stated a zillion times he doesn't or didn't and wouldn't have) your attempt to slime the whole republican party with that accusation renders anything else you had to say on that point completely meaningless. Go back and take your own links and the conclusions (delusions) you somehow drew from those articles and ask yourself if what you did responsible journalism? barf! Your "evidence" does not support anything you said, nor does it say anything you said it does.
5:29 p.m.
Sep 22, '10
Again, I've provided the links to back up my what I'm saying. You provide no evidence. That's your choice, of course. But it certainly takes away any gravitas you think you might have in comments.
In other words, talk all ya want--it holds no water cuz you don't back it up.
7:35 p.m.
Sep 22, '10
your links back up what I am saying ... ladies and gentlemen please take Carla's links that she claims supports what she is saying and read them .... there you go Carla. I would want to be caught without my gravitas on
7:39 p.m.
Sep 22, '10
I have googled and googled and I can't find an article or any evidence that says Carla's "evidence" and Carla's conclusions don't match. It looks like I am stuck just asking people to read your links and decide for themselves if what you claim they say and what they actually say are one in the same. "whats that circling the bowl?"
9:46 a.m.
Sep 23, '10
Yes everyone, please read the links. And then join me at pointing and laughing at Chester, who clearly didn't bother to read them.
They key is to CLICK on them and read from left to right, Chester. C'mon...you can do it!
4:27 p.m.
Sep 20, '10
You do realize that after passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, that the southern segregationist bloc in the Democratic Party left the party, and eventually became the GOP base in the south by 1968, yes?
When team A has three people on it, one is a racist and the other two aren't, and team B has two people on it, nether whom are racist, THEN because team A votes yes on anti-racist rules, and it causes the racist from team A to join team B because team B is so desperate to win elections that it offers the racist a signing bonus to leave team A and join team B, to then claim that team A is a team with a troubled history of racism is dishonest.
2:14 a.m.
Sep 22, '10
Here is the article you should have read (except it doesn't mesh with your take on history) these nationally recognized historians from major liberal universities all agree that what you say is NOT accurate
http://www.black-and-right.com/2010/03/19/the-dixiecrat-myth/
1:04 p.m.
Sep 22, '10
What nonsense.
Strom Thurmond is a perfect example. In 1948, after President Harry S. Truman desegregated the U.S. Army, proposed the creation of a permanent Fair Employment Practices Commission, supported the elimination of Poll Taxes, and wished to draft federal anti-lynching laws, Thurmond (then a Democrat) became a candidate for President of the United States on the third party ticket of the States' Rights Democratic Party, which split from the national Democrats over the proposed constitutional innovation involved in federal intervention in segregation. Thurmond carried four states and received 39 electoral votes. One 1948 speech, met with cheers by supporters, included the following:
Thurmond supported racial segregation with the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single senator, speaking for 24 hours and 18 minutes in an unsuccessful attempt to derail the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
Thurmond was increasingly at odds with the Democratic Party. On September 16, 1964, he switched his party affiliation to Republican. He played an important role in South Carolina's support for Republican presidential candidates Barry Goldwater in 1964 and Richard Nixon in 1968. South Carolina and other states of the Deep South had supported the Democrats in every national election from the end of Reconstruction to 1960. However, discontent with the Democrats' increasing support for civil rights resulted in John F. Kennedy barely winning the state in 1960. After Kennedy's assassination, Lyndon Johnson's strong support for the Civil Rights Act and integration angered white segregationists even more. Goldwater won South Carolina by a large margin in 1964.
Hell, even Lee Atwater, the advisor of U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush and Chairman of the Republican National Committee said in a 1981 interview with Bob Herbert about GOP movement conservatism's southern strategy:
What I am saying is not only accurate, but not even up for serious debate by actual historians or political observers.
7:31 p.m.
Sep 22, '10
You didn't read the article where not just one but several historians don't agree with you. You claimed that:
"after passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, that the southern segregationist bloc in the Democratic Party left the party, and eventually became the GOP base in the south by 1968, yes?"
Then you offer up one guy ... strom Thurmond, who by himself did not make up the GOP base in the south by 68! Okay you got Thurmond and I will match you with the racist filibustering AL gore Sr ... lets trade names back and forth until someone runs out, don't worry it won't last long because you have already run out
11:37 a.m.
Sep 23, '10
Not just Thurmond, everyone form Trent Lott, to Jessie Helms switched form Democratic to GOP in the late 60s and early 70s. The South was a solid Democratic party bloc until the passage of the 1964 passage of the Civil Rights act. It is now the only stronghold the GOP has left.
Again, what I am saying is not only accurate, but not even up for serious debate by actual historians or political observers.
8:33 a.m.
Sep 21, '10
Mark,
You seem a bit fixed on birth dates. The bottom line is whether a "Tea Party" event first took place 2007 or 1978, what we have now is an astroturf movement funded by high dollar power players.
With Goebbels-like skill, modern technology and the ability to pay for a whole lotta shiny things, they have successfully appealed to the worse parts of human nature in some of the worst times people have faced.
..and the agenda is not of the people, but of the power and money behind the curtain - the one that's hanging there now.
8:36 a.m.
Sep 21, '10
Chester,
Not using paragraphs does not obscure the gaping holes in your logic nor your loose interpretation of history.
2:19 a.m.
Sep 22, '10
See the comment above to fill in YOUR own gaping holes in history. My logic? Carla slanders the republican party and then attempts to spin the biggest housecleaning of inept and out of touch politicians in US history into a case for the party replacing these "out of touchers" being on the slow spiral into oblivion which doesn't even make sense to a 5th grader! The party on it's way onto the scrap heap of history is the one the republicans are running the table on ... the one the citizens of the US are voting out of office, not voting in. What kind of asinine logic is that?
8:52 p.m.
Sep 25, '10
Chester Vanderbilt, how do you explain the sainted Ronnie Reagan, the paradigm of your party, vocally opposing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting rights Act of 1965?
And how do you explain the sainted Ronnie launching his national campaign, after the Detroit convention, at an obscure county fair which just happened to be located on the outskirts of Philadelphia MS?
I say their was a racist appeal involved in the foisting of Reagan upon the American public and that that undercurrent continues with the GOP. Just that the racists know they can't be quite as blatant from the podium as they were in past.
How many black people or Latins do you get at your crazy Tea Party shindigs?