Posted on 08/13/2012 3:06:01 PM PDT by mdittmar
“For progressives and people of color, it’s hard to imagine a worse choice” than Mitt Romney’s selection of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) as his running mate, writes Imara Jones on the blog Colorlines today. He says the pair:
represent a retread of 40 years’ worth of Republican ideas on economics, race and the role of government. Not content to let failure remain dormant, they want to reanimate bankrupt concepts and take them to a whole, new level.
Jones writes that “Romney’s and Ryan’s discredited proposals would take America back to a less-just, less equitable place.”
To them, that era of racial and economic injustice was America at its best—and the effort to end it created the current economic mess….Nothing illustrates this perverse understanding of economic history more dramatically than the very reason why Ryan was chosen: the popularity amongst conservatives of his infamous “Ryan budget.”
Click here for the full column.
at any events, better not bring a knife to a gunfight.
... instead of actively promoting it, like Obama ...
they want to reanimate bankrupt concepts
Like socialism, nanny-statism, collectivism, marxism, ...
and take them to a whole, new level.
Though they can't hope to match the level of incompetence demonstrated by the current administration, which doesn't hasn't had a new idea since the Manifesto was published.
Lots of Americans will fall for this.
Oh the terrible injustice. Some will have to work to get welfare. You might get a little less welfare over the next ten years. You take less of other people’s hard earned money. You don’t get to have 8 kids AND bankrupt the nation while not doing any work.
Yeah it’s awful. /s BTW 40 years ago was 1972. Hardly a time of great discrimination against blacks or anyone else.
The Race Card: It’s like a one trick pony. If that’s all you got, then you got to keep using it.
‘People of color’ is alright, but ‘colored people’ isn’t?
I don’t get it.
Why do they keep changing what they prefer to be called?
What is the current preference?
Is ‘black’ out? What?
Romney is mexican!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Translation: Dey gunna ends da freeblies n stuff
In the 1800s democrats used to argue that slavery was good for blacks. Now they argue that slavery is good for all of us. The only real problem democrats ever had with slavery was that the slaves were privately owned.
“...less-just, less equitable place.”
Translation: they be bringing back Jim Crow or worse. Heah come de Klan now.....
Amazing how Democrat polices have made life WORSE for blacks and yet the Democrats are the ones who bring up race all the time. About what I’ve come to expect of the party of looters and liars.
To crypto-Marxists like Ubama, “equitable” is equal distribution of misery, and the more misery the better.
Quoth Plugs Biden:
“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”
Quoth Dingy Harry Reid:
Obama was “light skinned” and had “no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”
Quoth Hillary Clinton:
“******* Jew *******”
Quoth Bill Clinton:
“A few years ago, (Obama) would have been getting us coffee.”
So, tell me again, who are the bigots and racists?
Did anyone really expect that those in the Obama camp would actually approve of anyone Romney selected? The reaction from the O-bots is totally predictable and can be summed up as
“WAHHHHHHH!!”
Poor widdle babies
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