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Ex-Newsweek Editor Fineman: Romney Appeals to 'Xenophobic,' 'Nativist' GOP Base
NewsBusters.org ^ | July 23, 2012 | Scott Whitlock

Posted on 07/23/2012 6:54:05 PM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin

This is going to get nastier sooner than I thought. They all seem to be saying the same things, so I guess that this is the new “Talking Points”.

I’m a racist, your a racist, don’t you want to be a racist too?
/sarc


21 posted on 07/23/2012 8:02:14 PM PDT by marygam (#Hurry November 2012, we might not make it#)
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To: Kaslin

This is amusing. They wrote their stories a year ago assuming it would be Sarah or Newt as the nominee. They don’t care that it’s Mitt, who is to the left of Bill Clinton (but at least a decent person), they’re going with their boilerplate attacks.


22 posted on 07/23/2012 8:03:29 PM PDT by Pollster1 (Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Popman

WTF is “Nativist” anyway? Sounds like one of those made-up words liberals come up with, like NeoCon.


23 posted on 07/23/2012 8:04:54 PM PDT by dfwgator (FUJR (not you, Jim))
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To: donna

One of those terms I’ve never understood - what’s wrong with being “nativist?”


24 posted on 07/23/2012 8:30:04 PM PDT by smalltownslick
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To: Kaslin

the presumptive GOP nominee has “played to the kind of nativist base of the Tea Party. And by nativist, I mean people who are, in essence, afraid of the world.”

You know, the taxpayers, the great unwashed, the hoi polloi, those screwballs paying the bills.
Why can’t they just follow instructions and turn over their guns and more of their income?


25 posted on 07/23/2012 9:22:09 PM PDT by tumblindice (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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...the presumptive GOP nominee has “played to the kind of nativist base of the Tea Party. And by nativist, I mean people who are, in essence, afraid of the world.”

Speaking for myself, I'm not afraid of the friggin' world.

But I sure as hell am afraid of what the morons in the liberal media are trying to do to my country.

Up yours, Howie...

26 posted on 07/23/2012 9:37:20 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: okie01

Howie your tool of Satan!


27 posted on 07/23/2012 10:19:26 PM PDT by Rodm
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To: RJL
The useful idiots like Fineman were/are also adamant that Alger Hiss was a loyal American.

That's because, as the Venona Papers were to show, some of them weren't "useful idiots" at all -- they were on the payroll instead.

CBS had one working the Middle East. I.F. "Izzy" Stone was another. There were plenty of high-toned traitors running around back then; the OGPU recruited guys like that especially, disaffected double-domers with a chip on their shoulders because the other boys gave them wedgies in the restroom.

28 posted on 07/24/2012 2:53:29 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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what’s wrong with being “nativist?”

Old "immigrantist" smear .... it means, anyone who didn't like rich guys importing bulk labor to undercut their wages.

Also, anyone who wasn't cool and down with letting in people who couldn't speak the language, didn't know anything about the country or the culture.

They were maybe right about their reluctance: after 1848, we got boatloads of German and German Jewish socialists who were statist as hell and hadn't the foggiest idea about "human rights", "citizens' rights", or anything else, to whom government was supposed to be a Leviathan of social services. Never lived in the countryside, never learned to be American, just stayed in town on the East Coast and dickered with ward heelers for "services".

In 1928, they took over the Democratic Party.

29 posted on 07/24/2012 2:59:07 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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