The GOP's scramble for the stupid vote

[joeybee12]

Dinesh D'Souza is no one's idea of a thoughtful participant in the nation's public conversation. Still, his tweet on Wednesday morning may have set a new low for the right-wing rabble-rouser. Commenting on a widely circulated image of President Obama taking a picture of himself with selfie stick, D'Souza tweeted the following message: "YOU CAN TAKE THE BOY OUT OF THE GHETTO... Watch this vulgar man show his stuff, while America cowers in embarrassment."

The tweet has created quite a stir, especially among people who think it demonstrates D'Souza's racism. But I think it reveals something that might actually be worse: his willingness to pander shamelessly to racists in order to increase his own power and influence.

And really, isn't that what's most outrageous about the contemporary Republican Party — how ready and even eager it is to go slumming for support in the fever swamps of white cultural resentment?

http://theweek.com/articles/540221/gops-scramble-stupid-vote

[randys1]

1. But surely if Jeb were elected president, he wouldnt pander to these same people who also

hate all WOMEN and want to see them dying in back alley abortions.

Right?

We can be absolutely sure of that, right?


(being sarcastic and obnoxious for a reason and NOT to you, joey)

You have made my point beautifully that both parties are NOT the same.

[guillaumeb]

2. Racist Ronnie Reagan would be proud of Dinesh D'Souza!

Remember when Ronnie Reagan went to Philadelphia Mississippi to start his KKKampaign for President. Philadelphia was famous as the site of the Neshoba County Fairgrounds, a place where the KKK frequently rallied well into the 1960's.

Neshoba County is also famous, or infamous, as the place where civil rights workers Andy Goodman, Michael Schwermer, and James Chaney were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in 1964 for daring to help blacks register to vote.

Coincidence anyone? The GOP has been the refuge for racists since the Civil Rights Act was passed by the Democrats. That caused the South to turn from Democratic to Republican in less than 10 years.