Sayonara, Sununu

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By FRANK BRUNI
At what point will Mitt Romney and his campaign staff gently escort John Sununu away from the television cameras, tuck him into a cozy room somewhere, make sure he has adequate provisions and lock the door tight, so he can’t get out until November 7th?

They should have done this long ago, and if they had, they and we would have been spared the shallowness and insult of Sununu’s remark that skin color was the reason for Colin Powell’s endorsement yesterday morning of President Obama over Mitt Romney.

Sununu offered this high-minded perspective during an appearance last night on CNN’s “Piers Morgan Tonight.”

“Frankly,” Sununu told Morgan, “when you take a look at Colin Powell, you have to wonder whether that’s an endorsement based on issues or whether he’s got a slightly different reason for preferring President Obama.”

“What reason would that be?” Morgan responded.

“Well, I think when you have somebody of your own race that you’re proud of being President of the United States, I applaud Colin for standing with him.”

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[Raven]

1. A padded cell would be good. :-)

[speedoo]

6. I am thinking of several alternatives with much more finality.

Sununu is obviously sub-human, so he should be dealt with accordingly.

[coalition_unwilling]

2. If Romney fails to denounce Sununu's remarks, that means Romney endorses them. I hope

Colin Powell is getting ready to go nuclear on Romney and his cohort.

[1StrongBlackMan]

5. He won't ...

As most "minorities" (and women) know, these slights come with the territory. If I went off, every hundredth time I've been faced with similar comments, my fuel rods would have been deleted by the age of 25.

[coalition_unwilling]

8. What would be great would be if Powell publicly changed parties and

cited Sununu's comments as the reason, i.e., no longer able to belong to a party that uses appeals to racism as a party plank.

Somehow I don't expect this from the flack who helped white-wash the My Lai massacre so many years ago.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Nov. 8.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

4. As was said this morning on Alex Wagner's show, the Republican party thinks that it's black people

who are the racists. White Republicans on the other hand are never, ever guilty of that in their eyes.

[AspenRose]

7. Very true

They play the race card like there's no tomorrow; when you call them on it, however, all of a sudden YOU're the racist playing the race card.

They are expert at playing dumb after they've issued an air-raid siren of dog whistles that don't specifically yell out the n-word; again, when you call them on it, they claim that you're the racist.

[1StrongBlackMan]

14. That thought is not limited to the gop. n/t

[libdem4life]

9. For McCain and Sunnunu, it will likely only end with their final demise.

I think when this WW I and II generation dies off by attrition, the ranks of the Commie/Liberal/anti-LGBT/Barefoot and Pregnant Hunters will diminish. My Dad was born before WWI, lived through the Depression, served in Japan post WWII, Korea, and well through Vietnam War time to Reagan. My Mom born during WWI just passed. All they knew was fear and wars.

I want to believe that starting with us Boomers, then Gen-X and Gen-Y and Millennials are starting to shape exactly what Obama said ... nation-building at home and first-in-line education and jobs for vets. We shape the world by showing the way to a better life...not by conquest and empire and death, IMHO.

Maybe a bit of "Hell no, we won't go" thrown in for good measure.

[randome]

10. Wars don't end with an armistice, do they?

But I wonder about the long-term effects of Iraq and Afghanistan on us.

[libdem4life]

12. As do I. We, and our younger folk, have been "protected" from the gory reality so in a way,

it's an unconcious event that hardly affects the conscious of the majority, unless one of "ours" was deployed.

There will not likely be a game-changer photo allowed as in the Vietnam War. That shameful photo effectively ended the war. Now it's just drones...digital war games. I have some hope through Obama.

[absyntheminded]

15. My thoughts exactly.

The narrow minded, bigoted fucks can't die off fast enough. Part of me wants to live long enough to hear my Asian/Latina/black/white granddaughter say "Papa, what's racism?"

[hrmjustin]

11. This should be top news on cable, but than the liberal media...

[Berlum]

13. The Snu (R) represents THE VERY BEST of what RepliGoons have to offer