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Democrats play the bigotry card: The strategy will fail badly in November (Krauthhammer)
New York Daily News ^ | Friday, August 27th 2010 | Charles Krauthammer

Posted on 08/28/2010 12:07:22 PM PDT by presidio9

Edited on 08/28/2010 12:08:46 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Liberalism under siege is an ugly sight indeed. Just yesterday it was all hope and change and returning power to the people. But the people have proved so disappointing. Their recalcitrance has, in only 19 months, turned the predicted 40-year liberal ascendancy (James Carville) into a full retreat. Ah, the people, the little people, the small-town people, the "bitter" people, as Barack Obama in an unguarded moment once memorably called them, clinging "to guns or religion or" - this part is less remembered - "antipathy toward people who aren't like them."


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1 posted on 08/28/2010 12:07:24 PM PDT by presidio9
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2 posted on 08/28/2010 12:12:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both.)
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To: presidio9
Time to start wearing my shirt again


3 posted on 08/28/2010 12:13:58 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (g)
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I agree...the "Bigotry" angle is a sure loser for the democrats.

I propose we get rid of busing, or get rid of the United Negro College Fund...can't have both.

Minorities are out living anywhere they want now, and should need to be "bused" to a white school to "catch up". We should go back to neighborhood schools and let the state and counties have full control of them...goodbye Feds, all you do is muck things up for everyone.

Most of us no longer care when the whines of "racist" and "bigotry" comes on the TV now...there are way too many other things to watch on TV and the latest offense some minority took - which almost always culminates in a big cash reward or lawsuit lottery for them.

I won't listen to it anymore. I won't contribute to anything that would ever help a race that continually calls me a bigot or a racist...screw you, you're biting off the hand that feeds you.

We ask for help back, and they tell us to go see your "own kind"...right Shirley Sherrod?

The NBBP is going to kill a few "cracker babies" to get our attention...I really don't think they want that kind of attention.

So, not more minority charity donations, no more supporting orgainizations who support minority causes...I'm done with it. It's time to grow up and make your own way...I did.

Any candidate that uses the race card is totally off my list for votes. The race card has been overplayed, and dealt too many times from the bottom of the deck. if we don't play the game they choose, then we can't lose on their terms.
4 posted on 08/28/2010 12:21:40 PM PDT by FrankR (It doesn't matter what they call us, only what we answer to....)
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To: little jeremiah

Good article ping!


5 posted on 08/28/2010 12:22:23 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If Bam is the answer, the question was stupid.)
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To: DJ MacWoW

I keep trying to get out the door but “checking one last time”....

Okay, pinging as we speak.


6 posted on 08/28/2010 12:26:04 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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To: DJ MacWoW

Hmm, maybe not ping list material. Have to read the whole thing. Racism is not really a moral absolutes issue, no one thinks it’s moral to be racist (I mean no conservative thinks that!).


7 posted on 08/28/2010 12:27:49 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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To: presidio9

If you don’t read the whole thing, here’s the last paragraph:

“The Democrats are going to get beaten badly in November. Not just because the economy is ailing. And not just because Obama overread his mandate in governing too far left. But because a comeuppance is due the arrogant elites whose undisguised contempt for the great unwashed prevents them from conceding a modicum of serious thought to those who dare oppose them.”

Nicely done, Charles


8 posted on 08/28/2010 12:34:16 PM PDT by Stosh
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To: little jeremiah

Oh I didn’t think it needed a ping. I just thought YOU’D enjoy the article. :-)


9 posted on 08/28/2010 12:34:26 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If Bam is the answer, the question was stupid.)
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To: presidio9; June K.
returning power to the people

"Power to the CORRECT people!" ... as National Lampoon so bluntly puts in it's parody of Woodstock in it's "Lemmings" album

10 posted on 08/28/2010 12:43:04 PM PDT by Mr_Moonlight
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Liberals need to be called out on for being disgusting hypocrites.

Let us analyze the liberal mind and destroy their intellectual dishonesty.

1. Immigration. No liberal, regardless of how radical and left-wing he is, would go to a foreign country without a passport and visa and demand the same rights as the local population, including all the unearned benefits of a generous welfare state. I don’t know one American or any person with an ounce of decency and common sense who would go to a foreign country illegally and think that being deported is racist. The notion is just absurd.

2. The mosque. You really have to be a brain dead moron or a liberal to think that opposing a 13 story Muslim center and mosque at Ground Zero is racist. Can you imagine if American Christians put up 13 story Christian centers at the heart of every American military victory in the Muslim world? Who would be the first to complain about American imperialism and cultural insensitivity? American liberals.

Would all these Jewish liberals who support the mosque in NYC support Palestinians putting up mosques at the heart of their terrorist attacks in Israel?

If you want to shut up a Jewish liberal real quick, ask them why is there a mosque sitting on top of the ancient temple in Jerusalem?


11 posted on 08/28/2010 12:47:14 PM PDT by radpolis
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To: presidio9
Liberalism under siege is an ugly sight indeed.

Fixed it.

12 posted on 08/28/2010 12:48:18 PM PDT by freespirited
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To: presidio9

the article stated:
Just yesterday it was all hope and change and returning power to the people. But the people have proved so disappointing. Their recalcitrance has, in only 19 months, turned the predicted 40-year liberal ascendancy (James Carville) into a full retreat.

Shades of Hitler’s 1000 year reich.


13 posted on 08/28/2010 1:15:56 PM PDT by Piers-the-Ploughman (Just say no to circular firing squads.)
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“Shades of Hitler’s 1000 year reich.”

Including the Greek columns.

Which made Obama’s speech look like a bad stand up comic in a gay bath house.


14 posted on 08/28/2010 1:42:54 PM PDT by texmexis best (My)
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To: FrankR

“I propose we get rid of busing, or get rid of the United Negro College Fund...can’t have both.”

And any semblance of quotas, “goals” “affirmative action” “set asides” et

Along with Sec. 8 housing. Nothing like destroying a neighborhood overnight


15 posted on 08/28/2010 3:26:05 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (NO MOS-que AP: It's the "GROUND ZERO MOSQUE")
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To: Stosh
The Democrats are going to get beaten badly in November. Not just because the economy is ailing. And not just because Obama overread his mandate in governing too far left. But because a comeuppance is due the arrogant elites whose undisguised contempt for the great unwashed prevents them from conceding a modicum of serious thought to those who dare oppose them.

Nicely done, Charles

Nicely done, indeed!

16 posted on 08/28/2010 4:23:44 PM PDT by CedarDave (Ten-year anniversary - proudly Freeping since Aug 17, 2000)
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To: Jet Jaguar; Lady Jag; Slings and Arrows; maggief; Dog; BP2; Candor7; martin_fierro; ...

good read ping


17 posted on 08/28/2010 6:08:09 PM PDT by bitt
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To: presidio9

>> Just yesterday it was all hope and change and returning power to the people.

Your Hope has been redistributed. Here’s your Change.


18 posted on 08/28/2010 6:10:08 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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To: Stosh

FReeperesque, I’d say.


19 posted on 08/28/2010 6:13:34 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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To: bitt

Krauthammer, usually hits the nail squarely on the head. Let us hope a lot of the dopes that voted for the Kenyan realize now they had better start to think about electing true conservative Republicans back into office to attempt to save the nation before it falls off the edge of the water fall.


20 posted on 08/28/2010 6:17:43 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned....)
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