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NYT’s Rich Invokes Apartheid on ‘All White’ GOP, Looks ‘Idiotic’ & ‘Morally Bad’
Newsbusters ^ | 10/31/08 | Brad Wilmouth

Posted on 10/31/2008 1:57:26 PM PDT by pissant

On Thursday’s Countdown show on MSNBC, New York Times columnist Frank Rich charged that it looks "morally bad" and "idiotic" that Republicans have not elected a black candidate to federal office in six years. The Republican party also seemed to remind Rich of South Africa’s racist Apartheid policy of the past: "The fact is, this isn`t South Africa 25 years ago, this is a major political party that is essentially all white. And the hierarchy of it is definitely white. There hasn`t been a new black Republican elected to federal office, I think, in six years. And so, what does that tell us about the party? And how does that look to voters? I think it looks like it`s the party of the last century. It looks bad. Not only is it morally bad, but politically. I think it`s idiotic because it`s against the whole demographics of this country and where they’re going."

But Rich ignored the fact that Republicans have routinely tried to elect black candidates to federal and other high offices, only to have them defeated by Democrats in the general election in most cases. Former Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele represented the GOP as he vied for the Senate in 2006, only to be defeated by Democratic candidate Benjamin Cardin in the overwhelmingly Democratic state of Maryland. In the Ohio Governor’s race in 2006, former Secretary of State Ken Blackwell represented the Republican party but was defeated by Democrat Ted Strickland. And Lynn Swann lost in his bid to unseat Pennsylvania’s Democratic Governor Ed Rendell in 2006. Also, according to the Associated Press, black Republicans represented their party in eight congressional districts the same year, but all were unsuccessful.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: 2008; blackrepublicans; frankrich; gop; hystericalmedia; limpwristedfairy; racecard; thatsracist
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Ah, the race card! Expect to hear much more from the race baiting commies in the days ahead.
1 posted on 10/31/2008 1:57:28 PM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant

I dropped a Frank Rich in a porcelain bowl a little while ago.


2 posted on 10/31/2008 1:58:32 PM PDT by Harry Wurzbach (Joe The Plumber & Rep. Thaddeus McCotter are my heroes.)
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To: pissant

And if Obama loses, the Democrats will have refused to elect a half-black man.

Racists.


3 posted on 10/31/2008 1:59:57 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Concerning Larry Sinclair: It is strange when you can be thankful for having a pervert on your side.)
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To: pissant

Deborah Honeycutt (black Republican) is running for Congress from my district this year. I hope she beats David Scott, who is also black.


4 posted on 10/31/2008 2:00:05 PM PDT by Cecily
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To: pissant
President Bush appointed two blacks (Powell, Condi) to two of the highest offices in history of any president.

That's a fact. And Frank Rich needs to give himself a reach around.

5 posted on 10/31/2008 2:00:11 PM PDT by avacado
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To: pissant

Sounds lkike this idot is inciting a race war.


6 posted on 10/31/2008 2:00:40 PM PDT by Paperdoll (On the cutting edge.)
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To: pissant

who cares what people look like.


7 posted on 10/31/2008 2:01:30 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Obama: If we are going into war, then all of us go, not just some.)
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To: pissant

Gotta love it when a white boy can’t control himself and just has to play the race card. Kiss it Frankie!


8 posted on 10/31/2008 2:01:30 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I'm voting for McCain/Palin so I can look my grandchildren in the eyes when I tell them I'm sorry.)
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To: Harry Wurzbach

Frank Rick is a self-loathing scumbag!


9 posted on 10/31/2008 2:02:02 PM PDT by Dr. Ursus (( commander of the simian host))
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To: pissant

Content of Character - not color of skin, Mr. Rich.


10 posted on 10/31/2008 2:02:42 PM PDT by Aria ("An America that could elect Sarah Palin might still save itself." Vin Suprynowicz)
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Rich is taking the US back 150 years. This guy would have owned and bought and sold slaves


11 posted on 10/31/2008 2:06:39 PM PDT by realcleanguy
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To: pissant

Rich is a former Broadway reviewer who got his current political byline by being Pinch’s boyfriend.

Fact.


12 posted on 10/31/2008 2:06:59 PM PDT by kjo
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To: Cecily

I caught an interview with Deborah Honeycutt on Steve Marlzberg’s NY WOR talk radio show earlier this week. I hope she wins - she sounds terrific!


13 posted on 10/31/2008 2:07:17 PM PDT by tropical
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Ahhh liberal elitist jew journalists stirring up hate and division - what an idiot. Every black who dares run as a conservative is called every name in the book by the liberal elitists and blacks. Nothing new here - just trying to stir up race hatred - dont let affect you just understand why they do it to keep their power.


14 posted on 10/31/2008 2:07:26 PM PDT by sasafras (Bush Legacy = 20+years of leftist Presidents and a Democrat Congress - way to go Bushbots!!)
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To: ConservativeMind

Maybe they’ll only be “half racists”? Frankly, I think all this misplaced emphasis on race - all of it seeming to come from the left - is going to cause plenty of trouble next week.


15 posted on 10/31/2008 2:07:31 PM PDT by Emmett McCarthy
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To: pissant

Like it or not, the Republican Party is an “ideas-based” party and not a coalition of identity politics groups based on ethnicity, sexuality and race.

Not to mention that many minorities view the government as their sugar daddy.

So, to recap, the Republican Party is idea-centered and not racial politics-centered.

Could someone who regularly comments on TV make this announcement, please! Fawning to minorities who want government goodies for free will not help us, those people already have a strong democratic party.


16 posted on 10/31/2008 2:07:54 PM PDT by Doug4McCain (McCain/Palin 2008)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Yeah, these are the people who had a party with the intellectual lynching of Clarence Thomas. Thomas is the Invisible Man. Any person of color who does not toe the Lib Party line becomes invisible - ignored at best, attacked viciously and unethically at most. The crap that a conservative Black individual has to take is sick and ridiculous.

Where was the outrage when laws were broken to cut down Michael Steele?

And I have to throw in a quick rant about the mysogyny - since when is it just fine and dandy to have a bound woman hanging, in a depiction of personal hatred and cruelty, like they did to Palin?

Sheesh.

17 posted on 10/31/2008 2:09:53 PM PDT by elk
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To: pissant

Frank Rich is probably hung like a butterfly...hence his fascination with race. What a fool!


18 posted on 10/31/2008 2:10:38 PM PDT by RVN Airplane Driver ("To be born into freedom is an accident; to die in freedom is an obligation..)
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To: pissant

Frank Rich ought to take a dump in a hat and pull it over his ears.


19 posted on 10/31/2008 2:11:50 PM PDT by LottieDah (If only those who speak so eloquently on the rights of animals would do so on behalf of the unborn.)
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To: pissant
Rich is a disgusting little poofter. What does he have to say about Michael Steele's run for Senate I wonder? The GOP ran a solid, respectable, intelligent, capable and honest black man for the Senate from MD and how did the democrat party and their followers react? They booed and shouted him down whenever he tried to speak. They lambasted him with nasty ad hominens at every turn. They threw oreos at him at his public speaches.

The fact that the GOP hasn't elected a black to Federal Office in several years says more about democrats than it does Republicans.

20 posted on 10/31/2008 2:13:26 PM PDT by pgkdan ("White folks greed runs a world in need," Jeremiah Wright as quoted by Barack Obama)
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