Columnist - John Sammon
That angry man who stood up in the audience at the John McCain rally a few weeks back and said, “I’m mad, I’m really mad. The socialists are taking over.”

He lectured McCain to shut up and let him finish. Even McCain backed off.

I have no doubt the guy is really mad. He thinks his world is crumbling around him. His white-only world.

When he said “socialists” are taking over, what he really meant was, “niggers, faggots, lesbians and liberals are taking over.”

I hope that by next Tuesday he’s really really mad.

It’s fascinating how dishonest the Republican Party has become. McCain sells himself as a “maverick” who has bucked the system, yet he voted with little Bush 90 percent of the time. Maybe he’s a maverick in the way he puts his socks on.

It’s almost mesmerizing how the Republicans can lie so blatantly, and by a large part get away with it, contradicting truth that’s as plain for all to see as the large nose on my face. You’d think people who were honest, or wanted to be, including members of the Republican Party, would call McCain on it.

For example, the Joe the Plumber scam. The straight talk bus tour. McCain and his paladin Palin are trying to foist off that they’re working class heroes fighting for the average Joe, and that Obama and the Democrats are a bunch of elitists.

The Republican Party working class?

That’s a new one. Run that by me again.

You know the kind of people they mean. Working class. In other words, mostly lower income not hugely successful white people who hang out in bars in the daytime swilling beer and who wear worn undershirts and have tattoos.

McCain and the Republican Party represent them?

Are we talking about the same Republican Party? The party of big oil and big lobbyists, and big markets free of any accountability, the party of trickle down from the rich, the party of gigantic investor frauds wiping out the savings of thousands of stock holders, the party that has a near zero record of achievement on civil rights, or environmentalism or health care?

The party whose adherents (many of them) would like to see blacks once again sitting at the back of a bus where they belong?

The party of an Alaska big shot recently convicted of corruption?

McCain talks about no new taxes, but every year the money the country owes goes up to an amount so high it can no longer be realistically contemplated, a trillion zillion dollars. I’m just a simple guy. You Republicans explain it to me. If we add to our debt and ignore it like the Republicans have for the past eight years, and it keeps going up and up……..who’s going to pay it?

I can’t ignore my own personal debts.

Who’s going to pay for the money America owes, if nobody pays?

McCain’s campaign has all along been about avoidance of confronting unpleasant reality, and instead focusing on mythical heroes, and inflammatory non-issues, working Joes in bars, so-called real Americans who supposedly have sole ownership of the country and its morality and wisdom. Real Americans with real American values live in small towns.

But they’re also white.

What they won’t say, but they should, since it’s what they really think, and what they really mean when they use a word like “socialists,” is that lesbians, faggots, liberals and niggers are not real Americans.

That includes Mexican “greasers.”

Joe the Average Guy is white, and he’s really really mad.

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I’m mad. I’m really mad — McCain/Palin Rally [10/9/08]

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By Eugene Robinson

Time to Be Outward Bound

Since George W. Bush became president, the Republican Party has presided over massive, out-of-control government spending, converted a federal budget surplus into a half-trillion-dollar deficit, and looked the other way while Wall Street’s greed and stupidity turned the hallowed free market into scorched earth. Now the party has to watch as a Republican president orchestrates the biggest government intervention in the workings of the private sector since the New Deal.

Can any Republican candidate claim with a straight face to represent the party of small government? For that matter, can any Republican candidate plausibly explain what the party is supposed to stand for these days?

It’s pathetic to hear right-wing talk radio blowhards try to associate Barack Obama with “radical” or “socialist” views when a Republican administration is tossing aside “Atlas Shrugged” and speed-reading “Das Kapital.”

The Federal Reserve announced yesterday that it will make unlimited quantities of dollars available for currency swaps with the Bank of England, the European Central Bank and the Swiss National Bank, as these institutions scramble to keep major commercial banks from failing — and potentially taking U.S. banks with them. None of Bush’s Cabinet members could be heard sniffing about the irrelevance of effete “Old Europe.”

This attitude adjustment is necessary, mind you. The question isn’t whether some kind of drastic, frankly socialistic measures are needed to save the American economy but which measures — buying up toxic mortgage-based investments (as the White House said it would do), buying up the troubled mortgages themselves (as John McCain wants to do), or pouring money into selected banks and taking part ownership (as the White House now says it will do). Sitting back and letting the dire situation correct itself is not an option, because the market’s phoenix-like solution begins with self-immolation.

Politically, though, there is at least some justice in the fact that a Republican president has to deal with this Republican-made crisis. That little piece of irony isn’t worth $700 billion, but so far it’s all we’re getting.

After eight years of the Bush administration, the Republican Party — to put it bluntly — is a mess and a fraud.

There is an intellectual case to be made for the economic philosophy that the party purports to represent. I disagree with it strongly, but I respect its integrity — in a way that this administration and the Republican leadership in Congress clearly did not.

The Republican Party said it believed in free and unfettered competition, but it picked winners and losers through a system of crony capitalism. All it takes to make my point is a name: Jack Abramoff.

The Bush tax cuts, which heavily favored the wealthy, showed that the president and his allies in Congress didn’t believe in progressive taxation. I think that’s outrageous, but the administration goes further and actually seems to prefer a regressive tax scheme. That’s the only explanation I can think of for why hedge fund managers making hundreds of millions of dollars a year pay taxes at a lower rate than their chauffeurs.

Now that it’s election time, the party — as usual — is trying to convince Americans that it stands on the side of the little guy. Sarah Palin has been trotted out to convince everyone that the party cares deeply about the eternal roster of cultural issues — God, guns, gays, abortion, etc. If McCain and Palin were elected, the party would doubtless return these issues to the storage locker until the next election, at which point they would be dusted off once more.

Oh, and isn’t the Republican Party supposed to stand foursquare against intrusions on privacy? Then why were Republicans so unmoved when it was revealed that the Bush administration had been conducting unprecedented surveillance of Americans’ private electronic communications?

When Ronald Reagan was president, I had a sense of what ideas and principles his party stood for. When Newt Gingrich and his “Contract With America” brigade took Washington by storm in 1994, I knew what they believed — loopy though it was — and what they hoped to accomplish. I defy anyone to give a coherent explanation of what today’s Republican Party, under George Bush and now John McCain, wants to do except perpetuate itself in power.

When a political party reaches the point of lurching incoherence, the most effective cure is a good, long spell in the wilderness. Americans should help Republicans out by sending them home to get their act together.

[Enlarge] About The Author: Eugene Robinson — is an Associate Editor and twice-weekly columnist for The Washington Post. His column appears on Tuesdays and Fridays. In a 25-year career at The Post, Robinson has been city hall reporter, city editor, foreign correspondent in Buenos Aires and London, foreign editor, and assistant managing editor in charge of the paper’s award-winning Style section. In 2005, he started writing a column for the Op-Ed page. He is the author of “Coal to Cream: A Black Man’s Journey Beyond Color to an Affirmation of Race” (1999) and “Last Dance in Havana” (2004). Robinson is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists and has received numerous journalism awards. More Articles By Mr. Robinson: | Part 1 | Part 2 |

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On August 17, 2006, I wrote an article titled: “Macaca and Terror Politics - America is headed the wrong way!” — in which I chastised George Allen, the former Senator for Virginia, a Republican Presidential hopeful at that time, for calling a student of Indian descent a “Monkey” in coded racist language.

Allen said: “Let’s give a welcome to Macaca, here. Welcome to America and the real world of Virginia………”

It has been reported widely that Northern Virginia Republicans, realizing they need to improve their appeal among the region’s large ethnic population, will stage a “unity” rally next Saturday — to attract ethnic minorities who “represent an increasingly powerful voting bloc.”

Organizers said the annual rally, which has grown in recent years, is particularly significant this year because ethnic minorities represent an increasingly powerful voting bloc that will help decide which presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama or Sen. John McCain, wins the state Nov. 4.

George Allen among others is expected to spearhead this GOP “minority reach” event.

LOL!

This is the same man who has in the past:

1. Led the charge against a holiday for Martin Luther King - a prince of racial peace.

2. Is a key figure in fueling the rampant anti-immigrant mood in the country today - kick them ALL out (legal & illegal), they are contaminating our culture, taking our jobs, raping our women and introducing new diseases to our beloved motherland.

3. Had been dogged by numerous allegations of racial insensitivity for years as governor - his record as Governor of the state of Virginia (1994-1998) reeks of racially intolerant acts, including cavorting with white supremacist groups — such as the Council of Conservative Citizens.

4. Allen has bragged about stuffing a severed deer head into an African American family’s mailbox.

4. Has a past that includes a vociferous admiration of the Confederate flag (a symbol of racism) and an office that once displayed a noose.

Hey Allen — You are just another filthy bigot — stay in your “RAT HOLE.”

Someone at blacknell.net summed it up hilariously. He/she said:

LOL!

A word of caution to the GOP bigots — If Barack Obama wins this November 4th — it will mark the beginning of a long “layoff in purgatory” for the Republican Party.

An Obama win will signal the beginning of the minority/”young white” vote upswing — as they come of age in large numbers — most of who are less inclined to react favorably to Nativist/Racist Republican fear-mongering and hysteria, as do older white folk.

As these two groups and especially Hispanics grow over the coming years, and as the older “Republican Bigots” die off, America’s population will move toward a “minority majority,” and its political complexion will become more Democratic.

The GOP will have to re-invent itself, for simply appealing to the “bigot vote” will not be enough.

The Latino Factor — Elections ‘08

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“Former Rhode Island Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee has called vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin a “cocky wacko” and said her selection as John McCain’s running mate has energized supporters of Democrat Barack Obama.

Chafee left the Republican Party last year after losing his bid for re-election and now supports Obama. He told an audience Tuesday at the New America Foundation in Washington that the Alaska governor has revived a “lackluster McCain candidacy.” — The Associated Press

I wouldn’t call Governor Palin a “cocky wacko“, but she certainly has a lot of confidence for a vice-presidential candidate who is totally unqualified for the office she is seeking. I can’t wait to see how long her cockiness will hold up when she’s interviewed by the likes of a Chris Wallace or a Chris Mathews.

Palin does subscribe to some wacky views: Opposition to abortion except to save life of the mother, opposition to stem-cell research, vendetta against Polar Bears, believes global warming isn’t caused by humans, thinks it’s kosher to shoot game from the air, belongs to a church that believes homosexuality is a perversion that can be cured be the faithful praying in tongues, believes she can get away without holding press conferences or granting interviews to the press…

Chafee is correct, Palin has energized the “lackluster McCain candidacy.” McCain is so boring and lifeless I’m surprised someone hasn’t checked his wrist for a pulse instead of shaking his hand. Even if McCain had selected an incontinent monkey as his running mate, it would have energized his campaign.

Palin is wacky, but she’s also intelligent, confident and very attractive — qualities the media loves. Of course Palin gets more media attention than McCain, a geezer watering his lawn would draw more media buzz than McCain.

Palin calls herself a “Pit Bull with lipstick“, but a cocky and wacky Pit Bull with or without lipstick is a very dangerous animal. It will be a disaster for America if the Palin/McBush ticket wins the general election.

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