..."The poor guy has got no leash - it's not even a short leash," Wolffe said. "And to get to the race question you have to understand the Party's calculation in putting him there in the first place. It was a simplistic and crude equation they made - that to cover themselves against any accusations of racism and boy, it's not that hard to find them - they needed to have a black figure going up against an African-American president and they didn't have many people to choose from with this token gesture and so they had to choose someone that plainly wasn't ready for primetime. ..."
..."All of that is being played out now because it turns out irony of ironies, they don't even need any cover," Wolffe said. "They can be as outrageous as they like and portray the President as a witch doctor and they get on Fox News. So everything is fine. They didn't need the cover of Michael Steele. It's just ironic for a party that always complained about quotas and affirmative action; they have found themselves with one."...
I think this is important! in light of where the criticism is coming from. Last week Michael Steele was asked if the racist radical rhetoric was putting President Obama's Life in danger? and Michael Steele just laughed it off. It amazes me lately how stupid his remarks are; he acts like there was is no problem. I just could not help but think how guilty he will feel if something happens to the President. I just wondered if he would then be able to laugh it off and try to put a sentence together on how wrong he was. It's really sad to watch him defend the Republicans and not own up to his own heritage. I know many will say "We were Republicans before we were Democrats." I say the Republicans use to act like Democrats back then.
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ReplyDeleteNot at all! Today's Democrats act nothing at all like the Republicans did until the assassination of William McKinley in 1901. Those Republicans were strongly aligned with policies favoring industrial and physical economic growth, and the individual sanctity of human life.
ReplyDeleteAnd three Republican Presidents were assassinated in 40 years as a result of their conviction. They built up our nation's industrial strength and used it to fight a proxy war with Britain to secure not only the abolition of slavery, but control of the continent in the second half of the 19th century, when Britain wanted to preserve the U.S. South as one of its de facto agricultural colonies.
Today's Democrats are, as they always have been, opposed to economic development and instead aligned with a neomalthusian attitude toward human potential and a proclivity toward "free trade" over physical economic growth. Their "great society" monetary policies destroyed the foundation for U.S. industrial strength in the 60s and 70s and led to the impoverishment of millions in our country's once muscular industrial belt.
Now they are willing to finish gutting U.S. industry in the name of "green" reforms, while French mayors build nuclear power plants in their city centers. Democratic economic policies have absolutely pulled the rug out from under the minority population of this country for over 60 years, my friend. It was the Republicans who pushed through the 1972 Voting Rights act. Good factory jobs that provide a gateway to the middle class for minorities have been destroyed in the rush toward environmentalism.
The former Dixiecrats who fled the New Deal Coalition have thrown their weight behind such non-entities as Harry Byrd, Strom Thurmond, and George Wallace, and have NO political clout in today's GOP. The GOP isn't a monolithic power structure, but a tangled and competing web of different ideas that tend to share in common a belief in God and a belief in classical liberal economics.
Michael Steele is speaking for middle class black voters who, now that they are educated and productively employed, want to actually KEEP the fruits of their labor instead of handing it over to their masters in Washington. Democrats want you and me to work and give the fruits of our labor to THEM, just like they did in the 1860s. They haven't changed a bit, except for a very VERY brief period in the 30s, when FDR enacted the Tennessee Valley Authority and the New Deal, carrying on the traditional Republican policies of PHYSICAL economic growth, not just fiscal economic growth.
Both parties are hopelessly bound to the fiscal powerhouses on Wall Street, so leave Michael Steele alone.