Wow! Hide the dogs kiddies, cause all the dog-whistles out there will drive them nuts! Huckleberry makes his most overt racist appeal yet...
The populist campaign of Mike Huckabee, seeking to mobilize an insurgency of white evangelicals against the Republican establishment, took an abrupt turn today after the former Arkansas governor directly appealed to voters on the issue of race, summoning his fellow candidates to stop calling for the removal of the Confederate flag from government offices.
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The emergence of the confederate flag as an issue -- if past elections are a guide - holds the possibility of inflicting damage on McCain.
When McCain ran in South Carolina in 2000 against George W. Bush, he, like Huckabee now, said the confederate flag issue is a matter of states' rights -- a laden term in these parts -- and should not fall under federal jurisdiction. Later in 2000, after losing the nomination, McCain renounced his states' rights position, acknowledging, "I chose to compromise my principles. I broke my promise to always tell the truth.... The Confederacy was "on the wrong side of American history. That, my friends, is how I personally feel about the Confederate battle flag. That is the honest answer I never gave to a fair question."
It's always amazed me a bit that after the Civil War the Union forces allowed the Confederate Flag to be flown or displayed with any "official" imprimatur like inclusion on state flags or documents. I guess there is some thought that it's a 1st Amendment thing, and certainly with individual displays it is I think, but as an "official" device, I wonder if it was banned outright for state/official use if we might have moved on from the divisions wrought by that war.
As an alternative stragery, maybe Mikey could just promise retroactive Presidential pardons to the likes of Byron De La Beckwith and his ilk. That ought to make him pretty damn popular with folks he's courting and he has extensive practice signing pardons for some rather unsavory people.
Loved the little bit of political theater in South Carolina yesterday... Mitt getting bitchslapped on his claim not to have any lobbyists running or "tied to" his campaign. Note in the beginning of the clip, he makes the claim that he is the penultimate Washington "outsider" because he has not got lobbyists "running" or "tied to" his campaign. This gets morphed into "running" his campaign as he tries to dig his way of his own self-inflicted Bullshit...
In the first 10 seconds of the video, he makes the claim that he does not have lobbyists running or tied to his campaign. Then he goes on to get visibly agitated when the AP reported continues to make the (correct, it seems) assertion that there are "Washington lobbyists" in the Romney campaign. Ah... the power of a working press actually... working.
Got to love the part where the Romnoid Press Secretary yells at the AP reporter for being "argumentative with the candidate" and that his questions are "out of line". When did Mitt all of a sudden become the infalliable and unquestionable LDS super-being? The tactic of shaming the press into submission has been on that the GoOPers have used very successfully over the years and the Romnoids are trying it here.
Glenn Johnson, AP reporter: 1
Mitt the well-coifed and lying: 0
You know, we just don't need another rich, lying, facist empty-suit running the government. Seven years has been enough, don't ya think?
Or if you want to laugh at Mitt and his Parsing... go here.
The man who has built not just a candidacy, but a series of businesses on the use of a noun, a verb and 9/11 has a rather interesting profile for his business associates and associations. Scroll down to the comment by "anonymous", I could not link directly to that comment, and it's some rather interesting reading.
And how the fuck does "history hesitate"? If St. Rudy survives the republican bloodbath of "Super Tuesday" just color me shocked.
Obama may be among the most skilled political speakers in years, his effectiveness at communicating and emoting is beyond question. His judgement is a bit suspect in my humble opinion.
I don't know about you, but calling the party of bigotry, fear and hate the "party of ideas" just doesn't endear this guy to me. I know that not all republicans are hateful, intolerant fear-mongering bigots, but it is sort of the official position of the GOP since oh, around inauguration day 1981.
