G.O.P. Split Over Whether to Emphasize Misogyny or Racism

[babylonsister]

October 26, 2012
G.O.P. Split Over Whether to Emphasize Misogyny or Racism


NEW HAMPSHIRE —With less than two weeks to go until Election Day, there is a deep divide among Republican leaders over whether to emphasize misogyny or racism as the campaign’s closing theme.

In one camp is the Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock, who says that his view that God is sometimes O.K. with rape is “gaining real traction with a key demographic: men who don’t like women very much.”

“I can’t tell you how many misogynists have come up to me at my rallies and said, ‘Thank you for saying what you said,’ ” he told reporters today. “I think they’re like, finally, someone’s taking a more nuanced position on rape.”

But in the other camp is the former New Hampshire governor John Sununu, who worries that the Republican Party’s emphasis on misogyny is threatening to drown out its “winning message of racism.”

“I understand the appeal of Mourdock’s anti-woman theme, but I worry that it’s going to overshadow our core value of racism, which is still our best shot at winning this thing,” he said. “In politics, you’ve got to dance with the one who brung you.”

Hoping to heal a possible rift with so little time left until Election Day, the R.N.C. chairman Reince Priebus said today that there is room for both views in today’s Republican Party: “Our ‘big tent’ message to voters should be this: come for the misogyny, stay for the racism.”

























http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2012/10/gop-split-over-whether-to-emphasize-misogyny-or-racism.html

[randome]

1. LOL!

[Liberal Veteran]

2. But hey, they are pretty united on their hatred of gays and Muslims.

So Borowitz can give them some credit.

[BeyondGeography]

3. Decisions, decisions

[ruffburr]

4. This is_

Hilarious, You gotta know what with all the wingnut comments from old retired KKK members etc. ( i'm waiting for them to bring Jesse Helms back from the grave) They are showing FEAR FREAKING OUT and SCREAMING INCOHERENTLY Seems to me they know their LOSING!!! I must say the show and diatribe while humorous is getting quite stale!! They are so limited that they've run out of subjects ,

[LisaL]

5. They can talk and chew at the same time, can't they?

[Johonny]

6. So we can look forward to them smearing Michelle Obama more

as it kills two birds with one hateful stone

[Vincardog]

7. WellBlacksare30%ofthepopulationwomenare51%Isaygoforthewomen

[Cha]

8. GOPers are doing a bang up Job of emphasizing both Racism

and misogyny. Look at their spokesmen.. Sununu, Mourdock, Akin, and all the other dipshits from the last century or is that the neanderthal era?

[jsr]

9. They can multitask

[Blue Idaho]

10. Why choose?

Their bigotry knows no bounds.

[part man all 86]

11. So many voters to disenfranchised from President Obama and so little time to it.

Don't you feel the love from the white privilege party.

[HopeHoops]

12. Why is this even an issue? Those are the only two things they know how to do!

[ThoughtCriminal]

13. No split on how much they dislike black women

Gay atheist black women.

[libdem4life]

14. The sexual assault...aka rape card is the default. It's Politically Correct for RWCFs.

Even the Dems/Left/Liberals miss it, IMHO. It's the Dog Whistle that is "Lookee Here, Y'all." No misogyny or race.

[IDemo]

15. Now, now. There's enough room for Otherism for everybody under the big tent.