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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.
You can tell that republicans are on their last legs as a viable national entity by the absolute hysteria caused by the selection of Sonia Sotomayor to be on the Supreme Court. When John Cornyn turns out to be a solitary voice of reason amongst the lunacy of discombobulating rightwingers, you know you are up Shit Creek with no paddle, no canoe, and no life jacket to save your sorry asses. To mix a metaphor: you are toast.
I could see this level of mayhem if the hubbub was made over any of the court cases that Judge Sotomayor had ruled upon but it’s not. Nowhere close. This is all the penny ante crap that republicans think is important when it is clear they (1) haven’t read any of the court cases, (2) can’t find anything wrong with her decisions if they have read them, and (3) cannot bring themselves to admit that President Obama made a choice that will be confirmed without their approval making them irrelevant to the process. Their days as the power brokers for the country are over and they cannot deal with it so they whine and bitch like the pussy ass babies they really are.
Examples you say? You want examples? I gottem. Plenty of them.
The head of the rump republicans, Rush Fat Ass, called Sotomayor a “reverse racist.” I’m not sure what that means but if Rush said it, it’s not too good. It’s not truthful either but that’s nothing new. I think it means she is proud to be Latina and doesn’t think fat, white pricks like Rush are better than herself. I can see where he would be upset about that.
Glenn Beck, the fringe’s favorite Mormon, just called her a plain, everyday racist but given he also took her comments about her experience out of context, I’m not surprised that he came up with the “racist” tag for her since he is among the millions who haven’t read anything else about her career except that one line. Like a pit bull with rabies he isn’t letting go of that accusation because if he did it would mean he has to do his homework about her and that would mean actually thinking about her accomplishments. That, in and of itself, would defeat the purpose of smearing her name. Calling her “Hispanic chick lady” ranks right up there with the all-time classic stupid things he’s ever said.
Lou Dobbs, who seems to be afraid of every Hispanic since he climbed on the immigration bandwagon, said her appointment was pandering to Hispanics and women. If that’s the case, what was Clarence Thomas? Was he the smartest choice that Bush 41 could have made or the only black conservative he could find? Dobbs wasn’t real clear if he thought this pick alone was pandering to women and Hispanics or if Alito and Scalia were pandering to whites and Italians as well.
Newt Gingrich, not wanting to left out of the feeding frenzy, chimed in with his spin on the nomination. He landed with “Latina woman racist” which just about eliminates Latina women as a group that might support Gingrich’s presidential run in a couple of years, Again, his interpretation of Sotomayor’s language is wildly out-of-touch but self-immolation seems to be the republican operating procedure with this nomination.
Tom Tancredo, the one issue immigration specialist of the rightwingers, condemned her membership in La Raza and called La Raza the “Latino KKK without the hoods or nooses.” Are you kidding me? Did he just pull that out of his own ass or did he go to the city dump to find that pile of shit?
Karl Rove has thrown more than his two lousy cents in this all out attack as well. Besides saying she wasn’t that smart and smearing her name by using sexist terms to demean her gender with terms like “schoolmarm” and that she rules on “emotion” he went on to blast her for being “combative, opinionated, argumentative” while on the bench according to anonymous sources he just happened to find while scouring the bottom of the barrel. Anytime you rely on an anonymous source to blast someone you don’t like, you lose what little credibility you may have had. Aw, too late. Rove hasn’t had any since 1973.
Then comes the right’s favorite convicted felon, G. Gordon Liddy. He expresses his fear that she may make a ruling whilst in the midst of her menstrual cycle and the mess we would be in if that happened. He also thought she was a racist because he thinks that La Raza means “The Race” (which it doesn’t) but that never stopped Liddy from saying or doing stupid things. One word proves it: Watergate. Pat Buchanan chimed in with his bullshit flavored sucker punch saying that she was the “Affirmative Action candidate” because no white males were in the final group for Obama to choose from. Pat can’t let go of that Nixon influence no matter how hard he tries.
The Center For Immigration Studies sent their own class clown over to join in the “fun” the fringers were having. Mark Krikorian was bent out of shape because Sotomayor puts the emphasis in pronouncing her name on the last syllable. He thought she ought to change her name to blend in better with the whiteys who used to run America. Yeah. Blend in. Just like you did, Mr Krikorian.
This is a full-fledged Piranha Party of the first degree. I hope it goes on for a while because folks might forget the irresponsible shit slinging come 2010 when republicans will be begging to be placed back in charge of Congress. Women and Hispanics will not soon forget how rightwingers lost it over the appointment of Sonia Sotomayor. I just hope the rest of us don’t forget it either so we can finally put the last piece of Richard Nixon’s Southern Strategy into place by making the republican party the party of the Old South and no where else.
One last shot. This one is probably the most honest and insightful reason ever given for opposing Judge Sotomayor’s appointment to the Supreme Court. When David Shuster asked Judicial Watch’s Tom Fitton, “What evidence do you have that she would put her feelings and politics above the rule of law?” he replied simply, “Because President Obama chose her.”
Need I say more?
I sure love the fact the Karl Rove puts on his Clueless Arrogance Hat before he leaves the house each morning and ventures forth into the world. It makes him easier to pick out of the crowd. Every time he opens his yap, another indication he is clueless pops out. This last one is a doozy.
As part of the rightwing campaign to diminish and smear a Supreme Court candidate they can do nothing to stop, Karl is out there slapping uncomplimentary tags on Judge Sotomayor which merely shows the misogynism of his train of thought. More to the point, it demonstrates what a political hack Rove is and how he is blinded by his own hypocrisy. There is an old expression about when you are in a hole to stop digging but in Karl’s case I think he is trying to either find gold or dig his way to China where the rest of the mono-thought autocrats live. He strikes out on both accounts. He’s just digging a big hole.
The latest gem came from a debate he participated in with James Carville. (I find this to be ironic in and of itself simply because Rove wouldn’t let his boy Chimpy do these sorts of things before an unscreened crowd while he was president for fear of showing all of us how stupid the boy is but that’s another post at another time.) It’s getting out there in front of a crowd where your true colors show and whether you really have the chops you say you do and, in Karl’s case, it shows he does not. For a guy to be so allegedly well read, he puts his foot in his mouth more than anyone I know except Billo The Clown or Glenn Beck.
The moderator of the debate between James Carville and Rove, Charlie Rose, tried to hold Karl to account on a number of occasions but all he got for his troubles were evasions and sidesteps from Rove. The one quite unintentional but accurate statement came as Rose was trying to illicit comments about Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s choice for the Supreme Court. Karl conceded that she had traveled an interesting road to the Supreme Court where upon Rose interjected that she was smart as well. Karl said, “Not necessarily.”
Rose was taken aback and gave a summary of Sotomayor’s accomplishments including what she did at Yale Law School to which Karl came up with this classic statement:
“I know lots of stupid people who went to Ivy League schools.”
Oh, sweet Jesus. Karl either is confirming everything we thought about the Chimpster or he is throwing him under the bus to discredit Sotomayor. Trying to compare George Bush’s acceptance to the Ivy League based on his daddy’s legacy and his accomplishment of passing with a “C” average with Sotomayor’s journey to Princeton thanks to a merit based scholarship where she graduated summa cum laude in 1976 (she was also awarded the Pyne Prize on top of that which is the highest academic award given to Princeton undergraduates) and to Yale Law School where she was an editor for the Yale Law Journal is nothing short of absurd. But Karl will try to do that simply because he is a true partisan hack.
If Sotomayor is not that smart, based on Karl’s standard of attending an Ivy League school, then George Bush is bordering on retarded. Of course, we could extend this out further and say something profound about a guy who never made it through one college to a diploma much less two. Who would that be?
Karl Rove. How smart does that make him? Not very.
link: http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/27/rove-ivy-league-smart/
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