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Related: About this forumCharlotte Observer: The self-inflicted Republican affliction
f Barack Obama defeats Mitt Romney on Tuesday, you can blame it at least a little on the noose.
You probably read this week about that backyard display in Plaza Midwood. It was a stuffed body with the presidents photo attached to the head, a noose wrapped around the neck. It was visible to the public, including neighborhood children.
A man who lives at the home told a reporter that someone must have done it after a party last weekend, but it doesnt matter, really. Somebody put it there a noxious act that should be, by now, completely unsurprising.
After all, there also was an Obama effigy in California this week, another in Indiana and Utah. And it wasnt long ago that we saw bumper stickers in Charlotte and other cities that read: Dont Re-Nig in 2012. Isolated cases, you say? Last week, 39 percent of respondents to an Associated Press survey said the president was born in another country.
Its proud ignorance and joyful ugliness, and all of it has been embraced and feared but rarely criticized by Republican leaders.
Thats infuriating to moderate conservatives who believe that legitimate criticisms of the president get diluted because they share the same house with the crazies and the uglies. How, some wonder, can voters choose a president who presides over a stagnant economy, an astounding debt, with no new ideas about how to change either? For some, its because the alternative means voting with the birthers and the racists. It means being on the same team as the debate crowd that booed a gay soldier, or the crowd that cheered the idea of letting a sick man with no health insurance die.
Yes, Democrats also have their extremists. And certainly, Romney has come under withering criticism from the left, some of it unfair and inaccurate. Every election suffers from a bit of over-the-topness.
But we have yet to see Romney hanging from a noose.
Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/11/02/3640637/the-self-inflicted-republican.html#storylink=cpy
You probably read this week about that backyard display in Plaza Midwood. It was a stuffed body with the presidents photo attached to the head, a noose wrapped around the neck. It was visible to the public, including neighborhood children.
A man who lives at the home told a reporter that someone must have done it after a party last weekend, but it doesnt matter, really. Somebody put it there a noxious act that should be, by now, completely unsurprising.
After all, there also was an Obama effigy in California this week, another in Indiana and Utah. And it wasnt long ago that we saw bumper stickers in Charlotte and other cities that read: Dont Re-Nig in 2012. Isolated cases, you say? Last week, 39 percent of respondents to an Associated Press survey said the president was born in another country.
Its proud ignorance and joyful ugliness, and all of it has been embraced and feared but rarely criticized by Republican leaders.
Thats infuriating to moderate conservatives who believe that legitimate criticisms of the president get diluted because they share the same house with the crazies and the uglies. How, some wonder, can voters choose a president who presides over a stagnant economy, an astounding debt, with no new ideas about how to change either? For some, its because the alternative means voting with the birthers and the racists. It means being on the same team as the debate crowd that booed a gay soldier, or the crowd that cheered the idea of letting a sick man with no health insurance die.
Yes, Democrats also have their extremists. And certainly, Romney has come under withering criticism from the left, some of it unfair and inaccurate. Every election suffers from a bit of over-the-topness.
But we have yet to see Romney hanging from a noose.
Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/11/02/3640637/the-self-inflicted-republican.html#storylink=cpy
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Charlotte Observer: The self-inflicted Republican affliction (Original Post)
VirginiaTarheel
Nov 2012
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Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)1. Who are the Dem extremists?
NCLefty
(3,678 posts)2. I think he's talking about vegans...
Kidding :p
musicblind
(4,484 posts)4. Well, there was that one person in 2008 that had a Sarah Palin effigy hanging from a noose...
but that's all I can think of, really.
johnlucas
(1,250 posts)3. It's just the fallout from the Southern Strategy that's all
What did you EXPECT courting a bunch of bigoted people to your party 50 years ago?
I mean really.
John Lucas
Lex
(34,108 posts)5. CORRECT: "But we have yet to see Romney hanging from a noose."
And that's one difference between Democrats and Republicans. One huge difference.