Racists Calling Others Racist

There’s nothing like the party of white Anglo Saxon men calling other folks racist because they have pride in being something other than white. For decades these republicans have made race the lynchpin of their appeal and they have done quite well attracting the underground racists who left the Democratic Party after the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts back in the 1960’s. Given that being overtly racist isn’t socially acceptable anymore, these Kloset Klansmen have provided the winning margin all thru out the South for the republican party, the party that once was the home of Abe Lincoln. I wonder what poor Abe must be thinking now that his party is the home to the same bunch of haters he fought against during the War Between The States. He’d especially find it revolting that members of his party are talking about secession after all the blood was spilled the last time the subject came up in a serious way.

The current crew of racists in the republican party are having at Sonia Sotomayor in hopes they can hang the racist label on her after getting that tail pinned on themselves for the last 40+ years. Most of America isn’t buying this crock of shit just like they didn’t buy into the “palling around with terrorists” crap back in 2008. They see the republicans for all their warts and scars and they know the truth about Judge Sotomayor. The hype isn’t working. What’s good for the republicans is they are getting a lot of air time out of this spate of name calling but it’s also showing the public that the republicans have no leadership and they have no clear message in how to proceed in getting America back to work. 

Unelected republican leaders like Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, Tom Tancredo and Ann Coulter have been cutting loose on the race issue while the people who have faced the electorate lately have sat on their hands saying and doing little to curb the feeding frenzy. John Cornball Cornyn actually told folks to cool it last week but nobody listened to him. Party Chairman Steele has flip-flopped so many times on whether or not to attack Sotomayor he looks like a human yo-yo. Most of his comments have the racial bent to them so at least he is not branching out on his own. What’s important is that folks will remember how Sotomayor was treated come election time. 

The long term effect of these attacks will be to show new voters, minorities, and independents where the heart of the republican party truly lies. For all the “small government” and “fewer taxes” talk they rode into power on, the people see now that those issues were just a smoke screen. The last eight years of NeoCon policies blasted that myth all to hell. 

What is amazing is how LBJ’s prediction came true in a way he never thought possible. After he managed to pass the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, he thought that he was costing the Democrats their majority for good. Richard Nixon capitalized on that sentiment with his Southern Strategy in 1968 and the die was cast for 40 years. The good-old-boys who were the backbone of the Democratic Party since the days of Lincoln did the unthinkable and became republicans which gave the GOP a foothold in the South they never had before. Add the Religious Right and Reagan Democrats and this looked like the permanent republican majority that people like Karl Rove and Lee Atwater dreamed about.

Trouble is they started feeling their oats a bit too much and thought that most people were supportive of their agenda when they just wanted a fair shake from their government, not a shake down. The Religious Right became disillusioned with the lack of progress on their theocratic agenda, the Reagan Democrats realized they had gotten screwed by Bush and the moderates were driven out of the party by the non-compromising NeoCons who were running the show. They lost two elections and they weren’t running the show anymore.

That’s when the ugliness came out and here we are today watching the GOP implode. They will soon be the party of the Deep South with little impact or force outside the South and the sparsely populated Western states. What makes this journey so wild is that now the party of Lincoln that rose to prominence because of their emphasis on civil rights has now became the party that has no clue what those rights mean to most Americans. It explains the attitudes of the party mouthpieces and why there is an across-the-board lack of racial inclusiveness in the republican party. After all, most people have an unerring sense of not staying where they are not wanted and they do not want to be republicans anymore. Too bad.

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Tags: abe lincoln, deep south, John Cornyn, Kloset Klansmen, Newt Gingrich, racist, republican hypocrisy, Rush Limbaugh, Sonia Sotomayor, southern stategy, Tom Tancredo