GOP Congresswoman: Party Looking For "Great White Hope"

[kpete]

GOP Congresswoman: Party Looking For "Great White Hope"
Eric Kleefeld | August 26, 2009, 10:56PM

The Topeka Capitol-Journal reports that freshman Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-KS) told a town hall meeting a week ago that the GOP still had to find a "great white hope."

***"Republicans are struggling right now to find the great white hope," said Jenkins. "I suggest to any of you who are concerned about that, who are Republican, there are some great young Republican minds in Washington." As examples, Jenkins mentioned Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA), Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI).

Jenkins' spokeswoman Mary Geiger told the paper that Jenkins' remark was not meant to refer to "race, creed or any background." Said Geiger: "There's no doubt the Republican Party has gone through some dark and challenging times in recent years, but thankfully bright young leaders have stepped up to lead the party into the future and she hopes to be a part of it. That was the intent of her comments -- nothing more and nothing less. Congresswoman Jenkins apologizes for her choice of words."

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/08/gop-congresswoman-party-looking-for-great-white-hope.php?ref=fpblg
http://cjonline.com/news/state/2009-08-26/jenkins_remark_raises_eyebrows

[Libertas1776]

1. Emphasis on "White."

[MUAD_DIB]

16. Party Looking For "Great White Sheet"

[Quantess]

22. .....

:spray:

[HowHasItComeToThis]

39. BUT INTELLIGENCE NOT WANTED

[Solly Mack]

2. just can't help themselves...

[CakeGrrl]

3. Any resemblance to actual racism is purely coincidental. n/t

[IDemo]

4. David Duke?

[RagAss]

5. Is Jerry Cooney still around?

[brewens]

15. I admit it.

Back then I rooted for Cooney, partly because he was a white guy. But then I always rooted against Scott LeDoux and he was white. I enjoyed seeing Larry Holms beat the stuffing out of him. Then Ledoux whined about it being a TKO beacause of a thumb to the eye. Holms hit him in the right eye with about 50 right hand jabs. Ledoux always held his right too low to block anything.

[H2O Man]

30. That isn't Cooney vs Holmes,

which was the fight that had the real racial tensions. And, to be fair, Gerry was not the person responsible for the "White Hope" bit. He didn't like it, and it made him very uncomfortable.

Cooney was a good fighter. In the above photo, he's being KOed by a great heavyweight -- something that happened to almost everyone who fought this fellow.

[RagAss]

46. yes...Big George...they were both on a comeback as I recall.

[H2O Man]

47. Big George was.

Cooney did it for a pay-day. Tough way to earn money.

[Gman]

6. Just what they need. Another chump like Jerry Quarry.

BTW, Quarry passed away in 1999.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/boxing-great-white-hope-quarry-dies-aged-53-1045182.html

[brewens]

14. Jerry Quarry Was A Good tough Fighter.

No chump got the title fights he got. He went up against some of the best of all time.

[Old and In the Way]

20. Say what you will about Jerry.

The man could take a punch....

[Gman]

26. No doubt about it...

but, he paid the price. From the article I posted...

THE FORMER heavyweight boxer Jerry Quarry, who twice fought Muhammad Ali and lost two title bouts, died on Sunday at the age of 53 after a long descent into dementia brought on by repeated blows to the head, according to his niece.

Quarry died at Twin Cities Hospital in Templeton in central California. He was admitted yesterday with pneumonia but his niece, Sheri Coolbagh, said that had been brought on by dementia pugilistica, which is brain damage caused by blows to the head.

The man had heart.

[Ikonoklast]

31. I always liked Jerry Quarry. He stood in there with the best there ever was.

He was a tough Mick.

[tiny elvis]

32. back then we called nickles 'bees'

cause they had a picture of a beehive on 'em
'gimme five bees for a quarter,' we'd say
anyway, i was wearing an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time
you couldn't get a nice white onion, cause of the war
so i made do with a yellow one
what were we talking about? oh yeah, the irishman
the ones that didn't go off to war, we ran outta town
hanged more than a few
jerry quarry was the first irishman to come to our town since before the depression
when he punched his way through our barricades, we gave him the key to the city
welp, gotta be on my way

[H2O Man]

34. Jerry Quarry was not a "chump."

He was a small heavyweight, who today would be competing in the cruiserweight division. At his best, he beat everyone his own size. He also beat some of the top bigger men of his day, including handing the first defewats to two of the top undefeated prospects in his era. But he had the luck of the Irish, in the sense that he fought during an era when three of the heavyweight division's all time greats fought -- Ali, Frazier, and Foreman. He fought both Ali and Frazier twice, and in three of those fights took terrible punishment.

Quarry made a sad attempt at a comeback at an older age, and took more unnecessary punishment. He also battled with addiction, and it was the combination of punches and white powder/alcohol that destroyed his brain. There was a genetic component, as his brother Mike (who only took serious punishment in one fight, from a single left hook from the great Bob Foster), died the same sad way.

Quarry was a good and decent man outside of the ring, when he was sober. He came from a rough family life, in which a combination of disease and injury had convinced a series of doctors that he would never be able to get out of a wheel chair.

My brothers and I were close friends with his brother-in-law, and one of my brothrs knew Jerry pretty well. He was a good man. As a fighter, he certainly could compete with any cruiserweights, from any era. And, in many eras, he would have been the heavyweight champion. He was in no sense a "chump."

[RagAss]

49. So true...I remember him taking Earnie Shavers apart in the Garden.

I think it was 73...one round. This was after Shavers had just knocked Jimmy Ellis out earlier that year in one round(I was at that fight). Quarry was like a buzzsaw that night and he also beat Ron Lyle in either the Garden or the Felt Forum around that same timeframe.

[Gman]

50. In all seriousness, Quarry was not a chump at all

The man really did have the heart of a lion. I was just an absolute fanatic Ali fan back then. To us Ali fans, everyone else was a chump!

Nice to know some of the personal things you mention about Quarry. And you're quite right. In another day and age, he would have been champ.

[ddeclue]

7. ....

Oh wait.. that's the great white whale*


*with apologies to Herman Melville

[Humbertink]

8. I am shocked

that it wasn't Batshit Bachmann!

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. She does realize that Eric Cantor does not qualify as white, doesn't she?

After all he is Jewish and when talking in this racist way, Jews are not white.

And yes, lady, you mean it as race.

:puke:

[sharesunited]

10. Maybe she was confused and meant White Knight.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Knights_of_the_Ku_Klux_Klan

[Monk06]

11. Michael Steele must be feelin pretty loanly right now.

[AspenRose]

12. Well, that was mighty white of her.

[tiny elvis]

33. she's free, white and 21

she can say whatever she wants

[Monk06]

13. Michael Steele must be feelin pretty loanly right now.

[Barack_America]

17. Wow. It wasn't Bachmann.

How many of these idiot Republicans have been elected to Congress anyway?

And when has the expression of "Great White Hope" NOT involved race?

[Xipe Totec]

18. The Stay Puffed marshmallow man?

[Old and In the Way]

19. Plenty of Great White Dopes in their Party.

[ima_sinnic]

36. lol!

:spray:

[XemaSab]

37. Great white nopes too

:P

[opihimoimoi]

21. Aw Right, whad da hell she smoking to get her that line of WHITE HOPE??

We ain't got shit like that....Damn....

[Raine]

23. Great White DOPE is more like it

that's ALL they'll find in that party and plenty of them. x(

[DeSwiss]

24. Great White Hope, eh??? Between Cantor, McCarthy or Ryan???

- That 3rd guy... ah... Ryan looks the whitest to me. Although I have no idea how much Hope they have. Course, that could all be in the lighting....

K&R

[Karenina]

52. THE GREAT WHITE NOPES!!! BWHAHAHAHAHA!!!

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[LatteLibertine]

25. LMAO

These folks give new meaning to the song Put Your Hood Up.

I'm sure she's genuinely sorry about the off-color remark and is only interested in finding someone to lead us out of the dark days of President Obama :p

[AspenRose]

45. "Put Your Hood Up"

:rofl:

[malaise]

27. Oh My

Jenkins mentioned Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA), Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI).

Looks like Jack Johnson will leave Jim Jeffries on the mat yet again. :rofl:

[a la izquierda]

28. No, you morans, you have to diversify.

On second thought, there are so many things wrong with my post headline...

[sufrommich]

29. Well, of couse they are. Who ever doubted it? nt

[Blue_Tires]

35. This guy has been around for decades, has worldwide recognition, and unsurpassed accomplishments

But he was born in France, so he can't run for president:

[WeDidIt]

38. At least she's being honest about the GOP being the party of racists.

:shrug:

[redqueen]

40. She's only sorry that she outed the racist party yet again.

She knows exactly what she meant... and so do all their racist supporters.

:puke:

[joeybee12]

41. Why would the GOP be looking for a hit broadway play from the 50's?

:shrug:

[4_TN_TITANS]

42. No experience required.... n/t

[LeftinOH]

43. I'm sure she wasn't referring to the coloreds; its just an old-timey saying..

:sarcasm:

[Flying Dream Blues]

44. Yep, old-timey fer sure... it wuz gud enuf fer granmaw and it's

gud enuf fer me.
:sarcasm:

[SoCalDem]

48. Cap'n Ahab? & maybe a white whale or elephant?

There's even a song ready...

Ahab, the,,,ummm never mind

Ray Stevens that scamp:)

[cherokeeprogressive]

51. Gerry Cooney for President?

Larry Holmes will be PISSED!