Comments on: The GOP Base and the Ugly Truth http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/27/the-gop-base-and-the-ugly-truth/ Firedoglake weblog Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:25:02 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: lou http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/27/the-gop-base-and-the-ugly-truth/#comment-1062447 lou Sun, 28 Oct 2007 14:22:18 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/10/27/the-gop-base-and-the-ugly-truth/#comment-1062447 <p>Here is the real deal…. Democrats just don’t run in the south. Take South Carolina, my Congressman never ever has opposition. No one not in or out of his Scarlet R party ever challenges him. And he is THE PITS><br /> Then there is Lindsey Graham who thinks he won’t have opposition…… O Lindsey, Americans are lining up OPPOSITION</p> Here is the real deal…. Democrats just don’t run in the south. Take South Carolina, my Congressman never ever has opposition. No one not in or out of his Scarlet R party ever challenges him. And he is THE PITS>
Then there is Lindsey Graham who thinks he won’t have opposition…… O Lindsey, Americans are lining up OPPOSITION

]]> By: larue http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/27/the-gop-base-and-the-ugly-truth/#comment-1062289 larue Sun, 28 Oct 2007 07:41:13 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/10/27/the-gop-base-and-the-ugly-truth/#comment-1062289 <p>Mz. Hamsher, you stole my ‘Harumph’ . . . </p> <p>*G*</p> Mz. Hamsher, you stole my ‘Harumph’ . . .

*G*

]]> By: Phoenix Woman http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/27/the-gop-base-and-the-ugly-truth/#comment-1061454 Phoenix Woman Sun, 28 Oct 2007 01:32:58 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/10/27/the-gop-base-and-the-ugly-truth/#comment-1061454 <p>Late to this party as usual.</p> <p>The whole “fiscal conservative” dodge is a cover for the Southern Strategy. As we can see from Iraq, conservatives have no problems with spending money on projects designed to kill brown people or enrich white people. But when it comes to spending ANY tax money on anyone who isn’t white, they freak.</p> Late to this party as usual.

The whole “fiscal conservative” dodge is a cover for the Southern Strategy. As we can see from Iraq, conservatives have no problems with spending money on projects designed to kill brown people or enrich white people. But when it comes to spending ANY tax money on anyone who isn’t white, they freak.

]]> By: Bruce http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/27/the-gop-base-and-the-ugly-truth/#comment-1061390 Bruce Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:59:17 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/10/27/the-gop-base-and-the-ugly-truth/#comment-1061390 <p>Masaccio 26: Do you have authority for the proposition that more religion leads to less racism? I ask because the leaders of the Religious Right mostly cut their teeth opposing the “civil wrongs” movement and that, at the macro level the most racist and most religious part of the country has for 2 centuries been the South, for 1 century the least racist and religious the Pacific Northwest, which compared to the South did not know Jim Crow and lynch law.</p> <p>My own suspicion is that religion and racism are often both neurotic dogmas (always re: racism, often re: religion), and the weakening of one may correlate to the weakening of the other.</p> Masaccio 26: Do you have authority for the proposition that more religion leads to less racism? I ask because the leaders of the Religious Right mostly cut their teeth opposing the “civil wrongs” movement and that, at the macro level the most racist and most religious part of the country has for 2 centuries been the South, for 1 century the least racist and religious the Pacific Northwest, which compared to the South did not know Jim Crow and lynch law.

My own suspicion is that religion and racism are often both neurotic dogmas (always re: racism, often re: religion), and the weakening of one may correlate to the weakening of the other.

]]> By: SW http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/27/the-gop-base-and-the-ugly-truth/#comment-1061342 SW Sat, 27 Oct 2007 23:29:51 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/10/27/the-gop-base-and-the-ugly-truth/#comment-1061342 <p>It’s not that the South is racist. There are racists everywhere. But there is a history in the south that gives the racists there a cohesiveness and an idealized self identity that is absent in other parts of the country where they are usually isolated and increasingly in the minority. In the south the stupid sons of bitches are still proud of it.</p> <p>There is simply no denying, regardless of your political affiliation that as a voting block the racists in the south vote overwhelmingly Republican for all the cited historical reasons. That is just a statement of fact, and as was pointed out, when the rest of the base shrinks, as fewer and fewer people are willing to self identify as Republicans, this core of racists becomes an ever increasing fraction of the base.</p> It’s not that the South is racist. There are racists everywhere. But there is a history in the south that gives the racists there a cohesiveness and an idealized self identity that is absent in other parts of the country where they are usually isolated and increasingly in the minority. In the south the stupid sons of bitches are still proud of it.

There is simply no denying, regardless of your political affiliation that as a voting block the racists in the south vote overwhelmingly Republican for all the cited historical reasons. That is just a statement of fact, and as was pointed out, when the rest of the base shrinks, as fewer and fewer people are willing to self identify as Republicans, this core of racists becomes an ever increasing fraction of the base.

]]> By: selise http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/27/the-gop-base-and-the-ugly-truth/#comment-1061328 selise Sat, 27 Oct 2007 23:09:29 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/10/27/the-gop-base-and-the-ugly-truth/#comment-1061328 <p>anyone come here from the book salon thread?</p> anyone come here from the book salon thread?

]]> By: Rich2506 http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/27/the-gop-base-and-the-ugly-truth/#comment-1061316 Rich2506 Sat, 27 Oct 2007 23:01:02 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/10/27/the-gop-base-and-the-ugly-truth/#comment-1061316 <p>Heh! I like Jane’s sticking that “anti-woman” statement in there to reference anti-abortionists. Not that I disagree in the slightest. I’ve always considered an accurate way to put the issue.</p> Heh! I like Jane’s sticking that “anti-woman” statement in there to reference anti-abortionists. Not that I disagree in the slightest. I’ve always considered an accurate way to put the issue.

]]> By: Badwater http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/27/the-gop-base-and-the-ugly-truth/#comment-1061306 Badwater Sat, 27 Oct 2007 22:55:37 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/10/27/the-gop-base-and-the-ugly-truth/#comment-1061306 <p><a href="#comment-1061200"><em>masaccio @ 26</em></a></p> <blockquote><p>There is also a deep love of religion.</p></blockquote> <p>It has always amazed me that deeply religious people would align themselves with Bush who obviously has only been pretending to be religious from day one.</p> masaccio @ 26

There is also a deep love of religion.

It has always amazed me that deeply religious people would align themselves with Bush who obviously has only been pretending to be religious from day one.

]]> By: Kurt http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/27/the-gop-base-and-the-ugly-truth/#comment-1061277 Kurt Sat, 27 Oct 2007 22:39:04 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/10/27/the-gop-base-and-the-ugly-truth/#comment-1061277 <p>John, I guess I didn’t make my point. No I am not questioning what the strategy was. I was trying to point out that times have indeed changed, and racism isn’t accepted like it once was. I am not saying that it isn’t there, its just not like it was.</p> <p>How is what the article stated racist and anti-labor? Again, most of the technological expertise in this country comes from people with visa’s & green cards. Thats an absolute fact. I am sure he wants to secure the boarder between Mexico and US. Is that was makes him a racist? It should be scaring the hell out of all of you that 1)limited people to do the work; and 2) the people that are there are not educated enough to take those jobs.</p> John, I guess I didn’t make my point. No I am not questioning what the strategy was. I was trying to point out that times have indeed changed, and racism isn’t accepted like it once was. I am not saying that it isn’t there, its just not like it was.

How is what the article stated racist and anti-labor? Again, most of the technological expertise in this country comes from people with visa’s & green cards. Thats an absolute fact. I am sure he wants to secure the boarder between Mexico and US. Is that was makes him a racist? It should be scaring the hell out of all of you that 1)limited people to do the work; and 2) the people that are there are not educated enough to take those jobs.

]]> By: SanderO http://firedoglake.com/2007/10/27/the-gop-base-and-the-ugly-truth/#comment-1061264 SanderO Sat, 27 Oct 2007 22:29:13 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/10/27/the-gop-base-and-the-ugly-truth/#comment-1061264 <p><a href="http://gordonssite.tripod.com/id2.html">http://gordonssite.tripod.com/id2.html</a></p> http://gordonssite.tripod.com/id2.html

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