RNC Chairman Michael Steele recently unveiled plans for an “off the hook” public relations offensive to attract young minority voters — notably Hispanics and Blacks. Brother Mike wants to apply the ReTHUGlican party’s PRINCIPLES to urban hip-hop settings.
Comedian Dave Letterman Mocks Mike’s efforts:
These are the people Mike HOPES To Make More HIP! Moronic IDIOTS!
Not to put too fine a point on it but in the words of Al Franken, Rush Limbaugh is a “big fat idiot.” Limbaugh’s arrogance is matched only by his girth and appetite for Oxycontin.
Controversy is a radio talk show host’s best friend, and Limbaugh goes out of his way to make outlandish statements that translate into high ratings.
But controversy is the last thing the Republican party needs as it fights to stay relevant in a political world dominated by President Barack Obama and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
Unfortunately for the GOP Limbaugh has been all over the news recently thanks to his dust-up with Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele. The details of this episode have been repeated ad nauseam — suffice for me to state the bare facts:
Steele called the radio personality an “entertainer” whose comments are sometimes “incendiary” and “ugly”. Rush took exception to Steel’s comments (the truth hurts) and he responded in typical bombastic fashion. The cowardly Steele then publicly apologized to the talkmeister.
The press has given the Limbaugh/Steele fight saturation coverage to the delight of the Democrats and the consternation of the Republicans. The Dems would love for Limbaugh to be the face of the GOP, and the Republicans can’t afford any distractions as they battle Obama’s policies tooth and nail.
The Republicans just want this controversy to go away, and that’s why some of them are now calling for Steele to step down from his post.
“A member of the Republican National Committee called yesterday for Michael S. Steele to step down as the party’s national chairman, a job that Maryland’s former lieutenant governor has held for less than five weeks.
The demand by Dr. Ada Fisher came in the wake of Steele’s recent squabble with talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh over Republican leadership. Fisher termed the flap a “Republican horror show” and predicted that donations to the party from conservatives would dry up as a result, according to The Hill, the Washington newspaper that first reported the contents of her e-mail to fellow committee members.
Fisher of Salisbury, N.C., is one of three black members of the Republican National Committee. She could not be reached yesterday for comment.” — [ MORE ]
It very telling that some Republicans side with the talk show host bully, and seek to banish Steele to oblivion for having the temerity to tell the truth about the big fat idiot.
This incident tells me all I need to know about the GOP: It’s a party of cowards who coddle bullies. They want to get rid of the first African American Chairman of the Republican National Committee after he’s served only a few weeks.
What message does this send to minorities who are considering joining the GOP? Come under the Big Tent, but make what we consider a mistake and we will kick you to the curb.
As the country rapidly diversifies, Republicans are presenting a convention that is almost entirely white. To a large extent, the Republican Party still is — The White-Bigot Party.
Only 36 of the 2,380 delegates seated on the convention floor are black. One week after Democrats nominated the nation’s first black presidential candidate on the eve of the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, Republicans have only one African American — Fox News’ resident Uncle Tom Michael S. Steele — scheduled to speak last night during prime time at their convention.
As McCain’s 96 year old mother gazed listlessly into the rafters of the convention hall and with ReTHUGlicans and a sprinkling of ReTHUGliTOMS salivating like hungry, poisonous black mambas,…. and howling like a pack of hyenas, Sarah ‘Barracuda‘ Palin delivered a heavily choreographed speech, designed to rally the THUG/BIGOT base of the Republican party.
The speech was delivered right after MAFIA GOON — the former mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani had finished mocking, insulting and mis-representing Obama’s positions…. and topping it up with a dose of 9/11 fear-mongering.
Rudy Giuliani “The Goon” Rips Into Obama
[Note:During his two "Iron Fist" terms as Mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani in concert with his police force THUG-HANDLED minorities with "Mafia Viciousness." -- the most notorious events of Giuliani's tenure, included the execution-style killing of Amadou Diallo and the sadistic torture of Abner Louima -- by Giuliani's police force.] — see more info below.
At the beginning of her speech I sensed some tension in her, but the “Killer From Wasilla” unwinded and got more comfortable as the speech progressed.
She spoke of her family, including her eldest son, who is about to be deployed to Iraq in the US Army, and her younger son, who has Down’s Syndrome.
In the speech, she assailed Obama, Biden and the “Liberal” media: “I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a “community organizer,” except that you have actual responsibilities. I might add that in small towns, we don’t quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they are listening, and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren’t listening.” “We tend to prefer candidates who don’t talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco.”
Read…..working people — how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns ……is a direct appeal to the White BIGOT VOTE.
The Barracuda (reading a speech prepared by McCain’sTHUGS) went on to mis-represent and mock Obama’s record, lying about her own at the same time, and smothering everything with heavy doses of recycled Republican Fear-Mongering.
“And there is much to like and admire about our opponent.” But listening to him speak, it’s easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform – not even in the state senate.”
This could be America’s next Vice-President
This is a man who can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting, and never use the word “victory” except when he’s talking about his own campaign.”
“But when the cloud of rhetoric has passed … when the roar of the crowd fades away … when the stadium lights go out, and those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot – what exactly is our opponent’s plan?”
“What does he actually seek to accomplish, after he’s done turning back the waters and healing the planet?” The answer is to make government bigger … take more of your money … give you more orders from Washington … and to reduce the strength of America in a dangerous world.”
“America needs more energy … our opponent is against producing it….,” said Sarah.
Towards the end of the speech, when she got more comfortable, “Dame Sarah” changed gears, dishing out “time-tested” Republican insults: “Taxes are too high!” . . . “Obama will raise your taxes!” . . . “Tax increases!” . . . “He will raise income taxes!” … “He will raise payroll taxes!” … “He will raise investment income taxes!” … “He will raise the death tax!” . . . “He will raise business taxes!” . . . ["Big Government!"] . . . ["Obama will KILL YOU!"] . . . ["Obama is a MUSLIM"] . . . ["Obama is a Kenyan Communist!"] . . . ["The Terrorists are here .. in this hall!"] . . . ["I'll create more jobs!"] . . . ["I'll cut the deficit!"] . . . ["I'll start the war!"] . . . ["I'll keep those Negroes in their place!"]……LOL!, pure PoliTRICKS!
Meanwhile — Overheard: Obama might pursue criminal charges against Bush
Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden said yesterday that he and running mate Barack Obama could pursue criminal charges against the Bush administration if they are elected in November. Biden’s comments, first reported by ABC news, attracted little notice on a day dominated by the drama surrounding his Republican counterpart, Alaska governor Sarah Palin.
But his statements represent the Democrats’ strongest vow so far this year to investigate alleged misdeeds committed during the Bush years. “If there has been a basis upon which you can pursue someone for a criminal violation, they will be pursued,” Biden said during a campaign event in Deerfield Beach, Florida, according to ABC.
“[N]ot out of vengeance, not out of retribution,” he added, “out of the need to preserve the notion that no one, no attorney general, no president — no one is above the law.” …..[ MORE ]
REFERENCES:
1.Rudy Giuliani — “America’s THUG”
They call him “America’s Mayor.” But to blacks that title sugarcoats Rudy Giuliani’s real reputation as one of the most racially divisive leaders in the nation. Peter Noel’s book puts Giuliani’s often-ignored record of oppressing the “other New York” front and center in the 2008 presidential race.
Noel was a witness to “Giuliani time” in New York. As the race beat journalist for “The Village Voice,” he reported exclusively on the police brutality that rained down on blacks, and the denigration of black leadership by Giuliani. In this collection of his exposs, Noel provides stunning insights into the most notorious events of Giuliani’s tenure, including the execution-style killing of Amadou Diallo and the sadistic torture of Abner Louima. Both men-like many black victims of Giuliani’s stop-and-frisk policing-were innocent of any wrongdoing.
This brutality sparked a new black activist movement. Scores, including Jesse Jackson, were arrested-and Peter Noel was there to cover it. No journalist was more insightful about the rise of Al Sharpton,Khallid Muhammad’s “Million Youth March,” and Giuliani’s demonization of David Dinkins, the city’s first black mayor. There are interviews with major political players, inside accounts of the shifting alliances and violent conflicts between ethnic groups, and a stinging critique of the white-dominated media. And then there is Peter Noel’s interview with Giuliani, which took the form of a street fight in Harlem.
In these eloquent, often searing pieces, written in an outraged and authentic voice, Peter Noel spoke truth to the power of an “Afriphobic” mayor. In this revealing book, he still does.
