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The so-called 'war on whites' is a fight the GOP can't win [Commentary]
Baltimore Sun ^ | 8-10-2014 | Leonard Pitts Jr.

Posted on 08/10/2014 7:26:18 AM PDT by Citizen Zed

At this point, you really have to wonder: Is it still news when a Republican says something asinine?

On the off chance it is, let us spend a few moments pondering the strange case of Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks, who said last week that the Democratic Party is waging a "War on Whites."

Yeah, he actually said that. You can look it up if you want.

Mr. Brooks was responding to radio talk show host Laura Ingraham, who had asked him to comment on a remark from National Journal columnist Ron Fournier to the effect that the GOP cannot continue to be competitive in national elections if it continues to alienate voters of color. This is a truth so self-evident as to have been adopted by the GOP itself in its "autopsy" report after the 2012 election.

Yet here is what Mr. Brooks said in response: "This is a part of the war on whites that is being launched by the Democratic Party. And the way in which they're launching this war is by claiming that whites hate everybody else. It's a part of the strategy that Barack Obama implemented in 2008, continued in 2012, where he divides us all on race, on sex, greed, envy, class warfare, all those kinds of things."

"A War on Whites." Yet it's President Obama who is guilty of racially inflammatory rhetoric?

(Excerpt) Read more at touch.baltimoresun.com ...


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KEYWORDS: alabama; baltimore; blackkk; dnctalkingpoints; knockoutgame; leonardpitts; leonardpittsjr; liberalbigot; maryland; mobrooks; waronwhite
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Leonard Pitts Jr. - Another lib who produces too much CO2.
1 posted on 08/10/2014 7:26:18 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
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To: Citizen Zed
At this point, you really have to wonder: Is it still news when a Republican says something asinine?

What we do know for sure, it isn't when a Democrat says something asinine.

2 posted on 08/10/2014 7:28:33 AM PDT by Jagdgewehr (It will take blood.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Far more plausible than a ‘war on women’.


3 posted on 08/10/2014 7:30:09 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Citizen Zed

Is this what the Pitts thinks? Looks to me like this could be a winner. White people already know how much we’re hated by the racist minorities. Time to come out of the closet as victims of racism.


4 posted on 08/10/2014 7:30:29 AM PDT by Mamzelle
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5 posted on 08/10/2014 7:30:32 AM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.)
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How is Pitts still kicking after drinking all of that Cool Aid?


6 posted on 08/10/2014 7:31:20 AM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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7 posted on 08/10/2014 7:33:14 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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I wish someone would stop replacing the special kool-aid with the real stuff. It is time for Mr. Jones plan to finally remove these knuckleheads.


8 posted on 08/10/2014 7:35:44 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty or Big Government - you can't have both.)
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yes Leonard, it is obama who is fueling the racial hatred by blacks of whites


9 posted on 08/10/2014 7:36:04 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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Mo Brooks is absolutely correct.


10 posted on 08/10/2014 7:36:09 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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Pitts is the poster child of the dumbing down of America. Keep enough people ill-informed, claim victimization and all of a sudden you have Barack Obama in the White House.


11 posted on 08/10/2014 7:38:05 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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when dems sneer at the GOP as being the ‘party of old white guys’... they’re not engaging in racial stereotyping or demogoguing?

really?

of course, politicians on the right shouldn’t take the bait and instead DARE the left to debate on ideals. ideals based on merit, personal responsibility, small govt and low taxation are generally winners

except in a society bred from the start to expect things handed to them with little to no effort. in such a society, merit and personal responsibility are lost.


12 posted on 08/10/2014 7:46:50 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Citizen Zed

George W Bush, who is busy re-dragging James Byrd’s corpse down the street, was not available for comment.


15 posted on 08/10/2014 7:54:51 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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40+ years of “affirmative action” & “diversity” nonsense

Racist immigration laws/enforecment that let “minorities” in scot-free, while everyone else has to abide by law, delays and paperwork

Yeah, there’s a “War on Whites” Leo. And tokens like you are living proof


16 posted on 08/10/2014 7:58:44 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Get rid of "birthright citizenship" Out of room . . . no mas)
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As a person of color myself I honestly believe there is a war on Whites and by extension, Asians. Why? Those two groups are highly successful careerwise and financially as opposed to Blacks and Hispanics. White liberals see this and they ferment the hate instead of the racial concilliation they claim to want. Ask yourself this question: Has the racial strife gotten worse or better these past five plus years? The Democrats are the ones who are fanning the flames of racial unrest by calling out the GOP as racist boogeymen in order to keep minorities indebted and dependent to Democratic rule. We all know the left can’t win a policy debate. If I can see it I hope there are other people of color who can see through this smokescreen. I know there are some whites who are racist but the vast, vast majority are hardworking people who accept all people of color and judge them on their merit and effort rather than on the color of their skin. I want to be happy and succesful on my own terms and I know that is what all of us as Americans want for each other. I love this country and all of my countrymen of all races, and I’m so sick of that other party trying to get all of us to hate each other.


17 posted on 08/10/2014 8:06:58 AM PDT by dowcaet
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To: Citizen Zed

Stu Pitts SPEAKS!


18 posted on 08/10/2014 8:12:41 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (CNN suppressed news to maintain their Baghdad bureau under Saddam; they just did the same for Hamas.)
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FReepathon day 40.

Two percent a day keeps the 404 away.

19 posted on 08/10/2014 8:13:01 AM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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What is “alienating” about the GOP positions?

Legal immigrants are not happy with being moved “to the back of the bus/line” to advance amnesty for those who broke tons of laws getting here, filing false paperwork, etc.

The black community is not happy about Obama’s pro-homosexual agenda items (same sex marriage, sex education, gay military, gay pride celebrations in government offices, gay olympics, gay ambassadors, gay gay gay).

The GOP positions are NOT anti-Minority. The Left says that the Right must move toward the Left’s position on the issues in order to grow its base among minority voters.

That just doesn’t compute.

And libs are quick to call any black conservative politicians and commentators “uncle toms”, “aunt jemimahs” “race traitors” and “house niggers”. What’s the winning position for the GOP to take?


20 posted on 08/10/2014 8:16:52 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (CNN suppressed news to maintain their Baghdad bureau under Saddam; they just did the same for Hamas.)
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