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Re: George Allen is the face of diversity for the GOP

anna perez — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:12:31 -0000

No my friends, the GOP is counting on racism to pull it through--read the AP polling story that came out this morning. Tho' the AP says it is "racial misgivings" that may cause many White people to equate a US Senator, who's grandfather fought in Patton's army and great uncle helped liberate Nazi concentration camps, who is a former president of the Harvard Law Review, who worked and loaned his way through school, who is a devoted husband and father with these words: "lazy, boastful, violent and irresponsible" I call it what it is--racism. My question is what the hell did we do (I am an African American of Hispanic descent) to White Americans to make you think like this? Full disclosure: I have worked at the highest levels of GOP government ( Bush pere et fils, Senate, House) and corporate America.

Re: George Allen is the face of diversity for the GOP

SeanH — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:21:07 -0000

Am I the only one who thinks the Republicans are in for a rude awakening come November?

No. My pet theories for the past few months are that the race is only this close because the undecideds haven't made up their minds about Obama and that they're going to break late and big towards Obama if he does well in the debates.

Re: George Allen is the face of diversity for the GOP

MattF — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:20:54 -0000

Oh, but by their lights, they are trying. That's the scary thing. Allen is a sort of sports figure, in a way, right? And the coloreds love sports, right?

Re: George Allen is the face of diversity for the GOP

Deborah — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:50:57 -0000

And to think you were upset when Al Sharpton was the black spokesperson.

Freedom Fry, it's one of the many moments this season when I've thought "That isn't fair. Make the Onion think up it's own headlines."

Re: George Allen is the face of diversity for the GOP

ET — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:12:52 -0000

And the GOP wonders why they can't do better with "minorities." That's because they they are 1. so clueless as to send George Allen and/or 2. truly don't care and so send George Allen.

Re: George Allen is the face of diversity for the GOP

iamnotstarjones — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:51:47 -0000

this is the definition of

cold blooded contempt. What? Michael Steele was too obvious?

Re: George Allen is the face of diversity for the GOP

DrDave — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:21:19 -0000

One can only hope that SR Sidarth is back in Virginia and available that day to attend the event.

Re: George Allen is the face of diversity for the GOP

Freedom Fry — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:41:12 -0000

Why? Am I missing something or are Republicans absurd? Is there seriously no one else they could find?

Re: George Allen is the face of diversity for the GOP

Tessa — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:50:14 -0000

Am I the only one who thinks the Republicans are in for a rude awakening come November?

McCain looks more and more out of touch these days, bumbling, fumbling over cue cards, fidgeting and phasing out during interviews, and a shrinking violet behind Palin on the stump.

Palin's losing her appeal to, even within her own party (a big ouch from Chuck Hagel today).

The spinsters are even losing their grip on the spin.

And now they send out George Allen (George Allen!?) to evangelize the party's commitment to minorities. What a joke. And a mistake.

It might seem ridiculous to make predictions at this point in the election cycle, but I think Obama is going to win, and win big in November.

Re: George Allen is the face of diversity for the GOP

Lemar Mundane — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:26:51 -0000

TNC

This will soon to be followed by the GOP using Pat Buchanan to recruit Jewish people and Lou Dobbs to recruit Latinos.

BTW, I'd like to thank the republican party for the comedic gold that they have provided in the past week. It has taken my mind off the market crash-- and also reminds me not to let these fools anywhere near the levers ofo power.

Re: George Allen is the face of diversity for the GOP

Mr. Shrimp — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:51:47 -0000

Oh, you can't make this shit up. Beautiful.

That the guy even says Allen has a good record on this is the sort of thing that should land you on the psychiatrist's couch. I mean, doesn't using a racial slur publicly kind of make it tough to have a good record on diversity?

I love the defense that because most Americans probably don't know what "macaca" means, calling him out is really a smear.

Personally, I think using obscure racial epithets only shows one to be a connoisseur of the genre.

Re: George Allen is the face of diversity for the GOP

Blue Moon — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:41:44 -0000

The Onion wouldn't even joke about that because as a joke it is too obvious.

Re: George Allen is the face of diversity for the GOP

rikyrah — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:34:15 -0000

it was definitely a WTF moment.

Re: George Allen is the face of diversity for the GOP

KevDog — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:04:47 -0000

This is fucking hysterical, another example of trying to say the same thing over and over in the hope that it will become truth. I think this might finally be a year when that shit don't fly.

I can't even laugh at this, it's so pathetic.