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Millard Fillmore via Allen Gathman at flickr.com
Why change a winning formula?
Via Steve Benen we have Mitt Romney’s current stump speech:
“We have on one side a president who wants to transform America into a European-style nation, and you have on other hand someone like myself that wants to turn around America and keep America American….”
And via Booman the whitest hits of the 1920s:
Why you should become a klansman : of interest to white, protestant, native born Americans who want to keep America American.
There’s even a lovely visual display that may or may not be in the public domain.
But, of course, they recycled it from someone else, the original base of the current GOP, the Know Nothings:
As the party gained support, however, the secrecy gave way to public awareness. “America For Americans,” Know Nothings chanted, demanding a twenty-one year period of naturalization and the banning of any non-native born Americans from office-holding.
I’m sure it is just a coincidence.
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Let Willard Romney speak for himself.
From the ultimate nation of immigrants, except for the original tribes, that’s pretty stunning. Too bad the Sons of Know Nothings don’t want to make it about, say, character, maybe something like moral strength, or, heaven forbid, discernment. No, that might bring out some hippies.
Good Morning ,
They had a black clown in the clown car with no idea of what was in his baggage, just that he was Presidential timber.
He made a token run, didn’t he ?
And all the black faces at the debates, especially South Carolina, shows the party has become so much more inclusive.
Good morning, pups. It’s just Mr. Cohen and Mr. Bruni today, since Bobo and Mr. Nocera are off. Mr. Cohen looks at “The British Euro Farce” and says the Tory Euro-sceptic’s ascendancy was reflected in Cameron’s veto of a Europe-bolstering treaty change to defend the euro. Mr. Bruni, in “Time, Distance and Clarity,” is revisiting the past with a renewed sense of appreciation.
Here they are.
The coffee and tea are ready, and I’ve got sweet potato muffins that are still warm. I’m catching up on Cenk Uygur’s show that I missed last night. I’ve found it’s the perfect thing to get the day started with — a healthy dose of full-throated Progressivism. It’s either that or something on the Science channel. Can’t face Joe and Mika… Have a great day.
Cameron is playing the “England for the English” card. Which translates, of course, into benefit for the City of London (England’s Wall Street).
That’s what sometimes amazes me. Do these folks realize that the laws they’re calling for would have stomped their ancestors into the ground?
Looking forward is not just an Obama trait.
Only Columbus and his direct decendents are Real Americans.
Boxturtle (Wait, he spoke spanish didn’t he?)
Italian, actually…
Answer; that would take thought. So no, they don’t make the connection.
Hello, fellow illegal.
He’s also trying very hard NOT to be smug over the fact that England did not join the euro and the english predictions have been spot on.
Boxturtle (He’s not succeeding)
Hmm…i guess Italian is okay with the current crop of GOPers.
Boxturtle (We need pizza. And Spagetti. They can be our servants)
I’m such a mutt, it’s actually scary. I have ancestery from almost everywhere. I can’t be biased against Africans, Mexicans, slavs, Pacific islanders, arabs or anything west Europe.
Boxturtle (I think I can be prejudiced against Bulgarians. Does anybody know any Bulgarian jokes?)
The Know Nothings never went away. They’ve been reborn in the form of the Republican Party and their “ideology” inhabits the “minds” of large swaths of the electorate.
Is there a Bulgaria actually? I thought we had a new map now.
Yup. Member of the EU, under a new constitution since about the time the Wall came down.
Boxturtle (I can understand your confusion. Not much happens there)
One thing learned from travel in former Yugoslavian countries, some one is breaking away there all the time. Montenegro was the newest.
american right wingers are such clods. and so transparent..they FUCKING LOVE to massage that little spot that gets them hot – the birkenstock,mulitcultural,bi-gay-lesbo,UNICEF,ERA hating C-spot and get thier tiny, shrivelled, viagra saturated rocks off. It dosent matter if “Europe” is about to become a vassal of Germany and more conservative than mitt romney himself.