“They don’t all look like racist old white guys.” Glad to know the left doesn’t believe in stereotyping.

>>And unlike Sarah Palin, Michael Steele doesn’t self-identify with the Tea Party movement.<<

…when it's inCONvenient.

Embrace your inner racist – join the Tea Party with them and pretend it’s all ok because you’re for ‘limited government’ and ‘lower taxes.’

Hitler loved dogs. Therefore, anyone who loves dogs is a Nazi.

Hitler loved dogs, but he killed Blondi for his own purposes. Therefore, Hitler loved dogs and killed his dog to prove it. Got anything else?

Bill Adkins:

Is it possible to be FOR limited government and lower taxes and AGAINST racism? Because that’s exactly what I think I am. Am I wrong? Am I really a racists, too, in your world?

Anonymous Finch, I have never seen the slightest indication in any of your posts that you are a racist. A bit of a reactionary, to be sure, but I think I would hve to answer your question, “Yes, it is possible.” And, it is a good lesson to us that we ought not paint with too broad a brush. It would be unfair for me to tar you with Righter, a man who shares your core principle, but who is a blatant, unrepentant racist.

RRK:

Exactly my point! Thanks.

I have to commend Steele. He has principles of tapioca and a spine of egg custard.

By th way, the Side of the Angels (ha, ha) has a really poor chairman at the moment, as well.,

Good luck distancing yourselves from your party of klansmen. And this one man minstral show is just the idiot to try it. Every time these people gather they bring their hatred front and center. The GOP and the Teabaggers are one and the same. They’ll send Independents running back to the Dems. Just like they did in 2008 at the McCain/Palin rallys. These morons deserve each other!

By the way, we Liberals will be popping the champagne corks in my house today. Cheers to the winners! To the losers….you should be used to this by now! Swallow hard hillbillys!

(White) Royal says I’m a racist because I can’t get him to admit his hatred of the white race. I’m starting to suspect that he’s conning us in claiming to be white. I’m starting to believe he’s actually a black Muslim, hence his refusal to ‘label’ his Minister Farrakhan as a racist. It would also explain his spelling America with a ‘k’ all the time, and his jumping on anyone who dares say a complimentary word about the U.S. Right on, bro!

Miss the point, finch – what I’m saying is any association with the racists is too much association and aligning with the nutcases of the tea party is enough to tar you with that tag, you show no principle in your associations.

There is absolutely NO proof that these slurs ever happened; it is just the liberal media attempting to slander those who aren’t in favor of the “government controlling the insurance agencies”.

Really, I remember seeing those t-shirts at Obama rallies “Palin is a cunt” and yet not one media outlet showed them, discussed them, or claimed that all Obama supporters are sexist pigs.

True to the double standard, the media slanders anyone who stands in the way of their Dear Leader.

Missed Fox News today, TFT? They had it on and reported it with video. Floating down Denial might be fun for you, but it doesn’t negate your blindness.

Hey Rox, have you ever heard the name Robert Byrd, a HEAD klansman who is also a current DEM sentor. Perhape you missed him.

And as I stated yesterday, until I see video proof of these allegations ALONG with proof they aren’t Lib posers, then I will refrain from judgement.

Hey, Michelle, did you miss the news? Robert Byrd left the Klan years ago, repudiated the Klan’s beliefs and actions. That’s the distinction, Michelle, because even African American Michael Steele won’t distance himself from the Tea Party and that strong element of same that is exactly what Byrd has repudiated. And you seem to think it’s ok for the Tea Party to be racist today because Byrd was many yesterday’s ago.

NO Bill, I never suggested that the Tea Party was racist in the first place, YOU all did. I await further PROOF that this actually happened. Frankly I’m sick to death of people like steele apologizing when the facts aren’t all out. The press thinks they can just say whatever they want and poof, it’s true, but some of us would like evidence to back it up.

I submit to you libs, that most racism these days is on your side. Although you don’t want to count black racists. But also the Dem party who shoved out Patterson and Ford. And please list for me statements from LEADERS of the REP party that have made statements such as:

“a few years ago, he’s be fetchin us coffee” – bill clinton
“he’s the first clean, articulate black candidate we’ve had” – Joe, the gift that keeps on giving, Biden
“he only has a negro dialect when he wants one” soon to be ex-senator harry reid

I could go on, but I think you get the point.

Here are some more old and new racists statements by dems for you Bill,

If blacks were given the right to vote, that would “place every splay-footed, bandy-shanked, hump-backed, thick-lipped, flat-nosed, woolly-headed, ebon-colored Negro in the country upon an equality with the poor white man.”

–Rep. Andrew Johnson, (D., Tenn.), 1844
President, 1865-69
“Resolved, That the Democratic Party will resist all attempts at renewing, in Congress or out of it, the agitation of the slavery question, under whatever shape or color the attempt may be made.”

–Platform of the Democratic Party, 1852
Blacks are “a subordinate and inferior class of beings who had been subjugated by the dominant race.”

–Chief Justice Roger Taney, Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1856
Appointed Attorney General by Andrew Jackson in 1831
Appointed Secretary of the Treasury by Andrew Jackson in 1833
Appointed to the Supreme Court by Andrew Jackson in 1836

“I am a former Kleagle [recruiter] of the Ku Klux Klan in Raleigh County. . . . The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia. It is necessary that the order be promoted immediately and in every state in the union.”

–Robert C. Byrd, 1946

“These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve got to do something about this, we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don’t move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there’ll be no way of stopping them, we’ll lose the filibuster and there’ll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It’ll be Reconstruction all over again.”

–Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D., Texas), 1957
“I have never seen very many white people who felt they were being imposed upon or being subjected to any second-class citizenship if they were directed to a waiting room or to any other public facility to wait or to eat with other white people. Only the Negroes, of all the races which are in this land, publicly proclaim they are being mistreated, imposed upon, and declared second-class citizens because they must go to public facilities with members of their own race.”

–Sen. Richard B. Russell Jr. (D., Ga.), 1961
The Russell Senate Office Building is named for him.
“I did not lie awake at night worrying about the problems of Negroes.”

–Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, 1961

“Everybody likes to go to Geneva. I used to do it for the Law of the Sea conferences and you’d find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they’d just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva.”

–Sen. Ernest F. Hollings (D., S.C.) 1993
Chairman, Commerce Committee, 1987-95 and 2001-03
Candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, 1984
“I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia [Sen. Robert C. Byrd, a former Ku Klux Klan recruiter] that he would have been a great senator at any moment. . . . He would have been right during the great conflict of civil war in this nation.”

–Sen. Christopher Dodd (D., Conn.), 2004
Chairman, Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs
Candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, 2008

“You cannot go into a Dunkin’ Donuts or a 7-Eleven unless you have a slight Indian accent.”

“My state was a slave state. My state is a border state. My state has the eighth largest black population in the country. My state is anything [but] a Northeastern liberal state.”

“I mean, you got the first mainstream African American [Barack Obama] who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice looking guy.”

“There’s less than 1% of the population of Iowa that is African American. There is probably less than 4% or 5% that is, are minorities. What is it in Washington? So look, it goes back to what you start off with, what you’re dealing with.”
Sen. Joseph Biden Jr., (D., Del.), 2006-07

“It has of late become the custom of the men of the South to speak with entire candor of the settled and deliberate policy of suppressing the negro vote. They have been forced to choose between a policy of manifest injustice toward the blacks and the horrors of negro rule. They chose to disfranchise the negroes. That was manifestly the lesser of two evils. . . . The Republican Party committed a great public crime when it gave the right of suffrage to the blacks. . . . So long as the Fifteenth Amendment stands, the menace of the rule of the blacks will impend, and the safeguards against it must be maintained.”

–Editorial, “The Political Future of the South,” New York Times, May 10, 1900)

You might also enjoy this:

http://gopcapitalist.tripod.com/democratrecord.html

No Bill, you have it backwards. No organization can perfectly monitor the actions of all of its members, particularly a loose organization like the Tea Party protests where anyone can show up and claim to be a member.

Since the story was first reported yesterday, I said that if there were any racial or homophobic slurs used, it was wrong. But instead of debating me on the merits of my beliefs, you want to ignore my arguments because I am “associating” myself with supposed racists.

Moreover, as time goes on, the underlying claim looks more and more suspicious. There are now numerous videotapes of the supposed incident, but none of them show any racial slurs being used. MOST IMPORTANTLY, one of the videos shows that one of the members of CBC walking with John Lewis HAD A CAMERA PHONE WITH HIM AND WAS VIDEOTAPING THE CROWD AS THEY WALKED. If they had a camera right there, why haven’t produced that tape?

And more still:

Howard Dean reaches out: “I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.”

Democratic Mayor of New Orleans Ray Nagin denies that white people might live in New Orleans: “I don’t care what people are saying Uptown or wherever they are. This city will be chocolate at the end of the day.””

Democrat Steny Hoyer reviews Michael Steele’s career: “[He has] a career of slavishly supporting the Republican Party.

Also, please take the following quiz:

http://bigjournalism.com/acary/2010/02/08/which-is-the-real-racist-party-fifteen-questions-for-democrats/

Enjoy!

Moreover, as time goes on, the underlying claim looks more and more suspicious. There are now numerous videotapes of the supposed incident, but none of them show any racial slurs being used. MOST IMPORTANTLY, one of the videos shows that one of the members of CBC walking with John Lewis HAD A CAMERA PHONE WITH HIM AND WAS VIDEOTAPING THE CROWD AS THEY WALKED. If they had a camera right there, why haven’t produced that tape?

Great question, Finch. I can’t wait for Ted’s response to that question and my posts.

Why don’t we just talk about the current leader of the Republican Party, Michelle? I give you some favorites from Rush Limbaugh.

1. “Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?”

2. “Right. So you go into Darfur and you go into South Africa, you get rid of the white government there. You put sanctions on them. You stand behind Nelson Mandela — who was bankrolled by communists for a time, had the support of certain communist leaders. You go to Ethiopia. You do the same thing.”

3. “Look, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.”

4. “The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.”

5. “They’re 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?”

6. [To an African American female caller]: “Take that bone out of your nose and call me back.”

and if being anti-black isn’t enough, we have ANTI-LATINO QUOTES

“Let the unskilled jobs that take absolutely no knowledge whatsoever to do — let stupid and unskilled Mexicans do that work.”

“You’re a foreigner. You shut your mouth or you get out.”

“A Chavez is a Chavez. We’ve Always Had Problems with Them”

But then, I find it immensely amusing that so many people on the right are playing a card they were not dealt – the Race Card. It’s laughable they’d attempt to sell the concept that they’re offended by Harry Reid’s statements, and then attempt to compare what Reid said to former Senate Republican Leader Trent Lott’s position on race.

Let’s recap – Trent Lott said, about that ol’ Dixiecrat (yeah, Michelle, Strom was a Democrat and a racist and he became much more comfortable as a Republican) turned Republican, rapist and segregationist, Strom Thurmond: “I want to say this about my state. When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We’re proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn’t have had all these problems over all these years either.”

Problems like civil rights, racial equality, justice, equal opportunity … all those things Strom would have had us avoid. Of course, others, such as Lester Maddox, George Wallace, the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, etc., would concur.

And Harry Reid’s “offense?” From the Atlantic, the source of the quotes: “On page 37, a remark, said “privately” by Sen. Harry Reid, about Barack Obama’s racial appeal. Though Reid would later say that he was neutral in the presidential race, the truth, the authors write, was that his encouragement of Obama was unequivocal. He was wowed by Obama’s oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as Obama — a “light-skinned” African American “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one,” as he said privately. Reid was convinced, in fact, that Obama’s race would help him more than hurt him in a bid for the Democratic nomination.”

Remember when I said the right was playing a card they weren’t dealt? The evidence is that they’re playing it in ‘blackface,’ ala a Minstrel Show. And in doing so they’re far more offensive than even Trent Lott.

And what did Trent Lott’s hero stand for? Wikipedia:

“ I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there’s not enough troops in the army to force the Southern people to break down segregation and admit the nigra race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes, and into our churches.”

“(Thurmond) conducted the longest filibuster ever by a lone U.S. Senator in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957, at 24 hours and 18 minutes in length, nonstop. He later moderated his position on race, but continued to defend his early segregationist campaigns on the basis of states’ rights in the context of Southern society at the time,never fully renouncing his earlier viewpoints. After his death it was revealed that Thurmond and a black maid, Carrie Butler, had a daughter whom Thurmond never publicly acknowledged.” Thanks, Wiki

Bill Adkins:

If Robert Byrd is really a reformed KKK member, why won’t he respond to questions about whether he ever participated in any lynchings? Or give the names of any of his fellow KKK members who participate in lynchings? There is no statute of limitations for murder. We can still see justice done if Byrd would start talking.

” just so they don’t all look like racist old white guys”

Drew, thanks for the confirmation that you are young and stupid. Not that we needed one, but thanks anyway.

Let’s hear a word from Obama’s mentor:
Rev. Wright had this to say at Hampton University:

“Them Jews aren’t going to let him talk to me,” Obama’s former pastor told the Daily Press of Hampton Roads, Va., where he was attending a ministers’ conference at Hampton University. “I told my baby daughter that he’ll talk to me in five years when he’s a lame duck, or in eight years when he’s out of office.”

During Jesse Jackson’s 1984 presidential campaign, Jackson used the word hymie, a pejorative term for Jews, in referring to New York City as “Hymietown” in a discussion with a black reporter. Though Jackson thought he was speaking off the record, the reporter printed the quote. Jackson was widely criticized for the slur and received numerous death threats,[39] leading Farrakhan to announce, “If you [Jewish leaders] harm this brother, I warn you in the name of Allah, it’ll be the last one you ever harm.”[40]

And since Obama’s mentor is Rev. Wright, let’s look at Rev. Wright’s best friend, Louis Farrakhan.

” Here the Jews don’t like Farrakhan and so they call me ‘Hitler’. Well that’s a good name. Hitler was a very great man. He wasn’t great for me as a Black man but he was a great German and he rose Germany up from the ashes of her defeat by the united force of all of Europe and America after the First World War. Yet Hitler took Germany from the ashes and rose her up and made her the greatest fighting machine of the twentieth century, brothers and sisters, and even though Europe and America had deciphered the code that Hitler was using to speak to his chiefs of staff, they still had trouble defeating Hitler even after knowing his plans in advance. Now I’m not proud of Hitler’s evil toward Jewish people, but that’s a matter of record. He rose Germany up from nothing.”

Let me get this straight, rumored reports of racial slurs(where’s the audio? Where’s the video? Doesn’t exist)is enough to accept these things as true and cause for much outrage in the press. But, when Democratic labor group SEIU screams the N-word at a black town hall protester and BEAT HIM UP in the street-on freaking video!-we had nothing but crickets from the press. Idiot Shuster was all over this, ahem, story, today but was curiously quiet when the SEIU thugs who were actually physically assaulting a black man in the street.

Though they can find no footage of racists or homophobic remarks, Steele was put on the spot about this on national tv.

It’s the stuff of meme now.

Righter: I can’t answer as to thethere are people in your trailer park, but throughout America Whites who are not racists. Why is that so hard to understand.

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Cecelia: Any chance that Steele was put on the spot because he realizes that the racist homophobes were out in force? We’ve executed thousands of people in Amerika on the basis of circumstantial evidence, and I am sure you applauded loud and long with each surge of electricity, each gaseous emission, each trap door opening, each plunge of syringe and each shot. Why have you now changed your standards.

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Hastings is on a roll, and the Republicans in the House are acting like the South Korean parliament. “The immenisty of our intensity ….” Can’t beat that.

“Meme”. Please, Cecelia, you need to stop abusing this word. You and Janet Hawkins have taken all meaning from the word. It’s like using “nice”. It means nothing anymore.

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The moron Sessions from Texas just called Hastings a radical, on the floor.

Well, The Real Royal King aka Clucker, Rudy Ramirez, Mrs. Adrian Philby, Pat Pomeroy, Kip King (and “legions” more aliases), I’d rather to have done that to the term meme, than to have made “racist” essentially meaningless (as you have done by your willy-nilly strafing with it).

Cecelia, I am so disappointed. I know you’re not a racist. Please don’t enable the racists. Ask yourself, “WWRRD,” What Would Ronny Raygun Do”? After he told a racist joke, he’d say let’s just all be nice.

Cecelia: Any chance that Steele was put on the spot because he realizes that the racist homophobes were out in force? We’ve executed thousands of people in Amerika on the basis of circumstantial evidence, and I am sure you applauded loud and long with each surge of electricity, each gaseous emission, each trap door opening, each plunge of syringe and each shot. Why have you now changed your standards.

You’re “sure”, are you.

I have never been for the death penalty. Not even for treason.

Good lord! You used to do marginally better than this! Is it old age or just the dumbing down effects of making every opponent’s argument into some sort of moral failing, that’s put you on this level?

Steele was confronted by on Meet the Press because *HE (Steele) knew it was true?!

This accusation is analogous to a conviction based upon a trial and a jury veredict?!

Support for the death penalty against those deemed guilty of a capital crime is tantamount?

Damn, boy! Take a chill pill, until this health care vote is over.

THAT is analogous to the legal definition of circumstantial evidence?

Well, Cecelia, I am stunned. And, I was wrong. But, I am so pleased with your position on this great moral principle. It is most pleasant to walk with you, if but for a moment.

(White) Royal, I was wrong. On a different thread, I suggested that since you hate the U.S. (Amerika, as you call it) that you should move to France. But I was forgetting that you also hate white people, and France is mostly white. Cuba would probably be more to your liking.

P.S. When you go to your Nation of Islam meetings, do they allow you to wear your corn rows or ‘dreads’, or do you have to go with the standard ‘Farrakhan’ look?

I doubt if he’s allowed to wear the dreads. They seem to be sticklers on the dress code.

Nice try Bill, but I specifically asked you for Leaders of the REP party, which is what I gave you. Why don’t you try again and get back to me.

What NOBODY is saying is stuff about the blacks who are racists. Ever notice they ALWAYS get a pass?

pyrope, don’t you know that blacks CANNOT be considered racists? Only Repulican/Conservatives can.

Dang MichelleF, I guess I’ll have to forget my thoughts about the New Black Panthers, Jerimiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, and the black muslims. Thanks for setting me straight. You’re a dear.