Dick Armey: the Bubba racists wont vote for Obama "bless their hearts"

[jezebel]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-09-03-armey_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip

By Richard Wolf and Martha T. Moore, USA TODAY
ST. PAUL — The "Bubba vote" and underlying racism will hurt Democrat Barack Obama in key battleground states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania, former House majority leader Dick Armey said Wednesday.
"The Bubba vote is there and it's very real and it is everywhere," Armey told reporters for USA TODAY and Gannett News Service. "There's an awful lot of people in America, bless their heart, who simply are not emotionally prepared to vote for a black man in this country."


The "Bubba vote" is shorthand in politics for white, working-class voters who often live in rural areas— a group Obama did not win in state primaries.

"I think he's wrong," Armey said of such a voter. He added "Republicans would not encourage that. It's deplorable."


Armey said Obama's "funny name" — a phrase the Illinois senator uses himself — could "give people concerns that he could be or have been too much influenced by Muslims, which is a great threat now." Obama is Christian.

"These are handicaps he has that translate into real-number outcomes," said Armey, an architect of the "Republican revolution" that won the House majority in the 1994 election. The former Texas congressman retired in 2003.

The "Bubba vote" is "invisible" in pre-election opinion polls because voters do not admit such prejudices, Armey said.

On the other hand, Armey said Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's name on the GOP ticket should not produce much of an anti-woman vote. "We're very far down that path," he said. "We're not as far down the racial equality path."

A victory for Obama is "not impossible," Armey said. But he said that in a close election — current polls give Obama only a single-digit lead — the "Bubbas" who refuse to vote for Obama and instead cast their ballots for Republican John McCain or someone else could tip a key state and its electoral votes away from the Democrat.

He also said Obama, who is in his fourth year in the Senate, does not have enough experience to be president. "He has not demonstrated in any way that he is capable of doing a serious adult job. He's only capable of winning political races."

[ingac70]

1. Living among Bubbas myself...

he neglects to tell you they are as sexist as they are racist.

[Franks Wild Years]

2. These people don't say 'Obama' when phone polled.

For fuck's sake. They're generally not that bright, and it's okay to say McCain without being perceived as a racist.

The "Bradley Effect" has always been overplayed. Even Bradley himself scored MORE than he did in the final pre-election polls - The GOP just succeeded in getting their base out because of a bill potentially banning handguns being on the same ballot.

[AndyTiedye]

5. The "Bradley Effect" is a Handy Way to Explain Away a Stolen Election

It worked GREAT for them in Georgia in 2002, when those new Diebold Repiglickin' Electin' machinez
did away with Governor Barnes's and Senator Cleland's double-digit leads.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. "He has not demonstrated in any way that he is capable of doing a serious adult job. He's only

of winning political races." Hey dickhead let me introduce you to this guy:

[codjh9]

4. Oh, let me say as a fellow Texan that Armey is a hateful asshole... go back to

your f-ing rocking chair, d***head.

[Thrill]

6. He is right that some just aren't going to do it. But the problem with his logic is the new voters

that Obama is bringing in. And Biden will help with some of these people