Posted on 12/02/2016 4:45:55 AM PST by SJackson
What should a political party that has just lost its white working class, blue-collar base to a make America great again nationalist do to try to regain these voters? Why not appoint as the new head of the party a radical Left-wing ideologue who has a long history of supporting an anti-American, anti-white, antisemitic Nation of Islam racist? Such an appointment will surely bring back Rust Belt voters who have lost their jobs to globalization and free trade! Is this really the thinking of those Democratic leaders who are pushing for Keith Ellison to head the Democratic National Committee?
Keith Ellison is, by all accounts, a decent guy well-liked by his congressional colleagues. But it is hard to imagine a worse candidate to take over the DNC at this time. Ellison represents the extreme Left-wing of the Democratic Party, just when the party if it is to win again must move to the center in order to bring back the voters it lost to Trump. The Democrats didnt lose because their candidates werent Left enough. They won the votes of liberals. The radical voters they lost to Jill Stein were small in number and are not likely to be influenced by the appointment of Ellison. The centrist voters they lost to Trump will only be further alienated by the appointment of a Left-wing ideologue, who seems to care more about global issues than jobs in Indiana, Wisconsin and Michigan. Ellisons selection certainly wouldnt help among Jewish voters in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania or pro-Israel Christian voters around the country.
Ellisons sordid past associations with Louis Farrakhan the longtime leader of the Nation of Islam will hurt him in Middle America, which has little appetite for Farrakhans anti-American ravings. Recently, Farrakhan made headlines for visiting Iran on the 35th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, where he berated the United States, while refusing to criticize Irans human rights violations. Farrakhan also appeared as a special guest speaker of the Iranian president at a rally, which featured the unveiling of a float reenacting Irans detention of 10 US Navy sailors in the Persian Gulf.
In addition to embracing American enemies abroad, Farrakhan has exhibited a penchant for lacing his sermons with antisemitic hate speech. Around the time that Ellison was working with the Nation of Islam, for example, Farrakhan was delivering speeches attacking the synagogue as Satan. He described Jews as wicked deceivers of the American people that have wrapped [their] tentacles around the US government and are deceiving and sending this nation to hell.
Long after Jesse Jackson disavowed Farrakhan in 1984 as reprehensible and morally indefensible for describing Judaism as a gutter religion, Ellison was defending Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam as in 1995, when Ellison praised Farrakhan as a role model for African-Americans, calling him a tireless public servant of Black people, who constantly teaches self-reliance and self-examination to the Black community.
Ellison has struggled to explain his association with Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. He has acknowledged working with the Nation of Islam for about 18 months to organize the Minnesota delegation to Farrakhans 1995 Million Man March in Washington. However, Ellison insists that he never joined the Nation of Islam and more recently, he has held himself out as a friend of the Jewish people and of Israel. This late conversion coincided with Ellisons decision to pursue elected office in Minnesota, and an apparent realization that his association with the Nation of Islam might hurt his political fortunes. In 2006, he wrote a letter to the Jewish Community Relations Council in Minneapolis, in which he apologized for failing to adequately scrutinize the positions of Farrakhan and other Nation of Islam leaders. They were and are antisemitic, and I should have come to that conclusion earlier than I did, he wrote. In his recently released memoir My Country, Tis of Thee: My Faith, My Family, Our Future Ellison writes of Farrakhan: He could only wax eloquent while scapegoating other groups. Of the Nation of Islam, he writes: [I]f youre not angry in opposition to some group of people (whites, Jews, so-called sellout Blacks), you dont have religion.
Ellisons voting record also does not support his claim that he has become a friend of Israel. He was one of only 8 Congressmen who voted against funding the Iron Dome program, developed jointly by the US and Israel, which helps protect Israeli civilians from Hamas rockets. In 2009, Ellison was one of only two-dozen Congressmen to vote present, rather than vote in favor of a non-binding resolution recognizing Israels right to defend itself against attacks, reaffirming the United States strong support for Israel, and supporting the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. And in 2010, Ellison co-authored a letter to President Obama, calling on him to pressure Israel into opening the border with Gaza. The letter describes the blockade of the Hamas-controlled Gaza strip as de facto collective punishment of the Palestinian residents.
Even beyond Ellisons past associations with anti-American and antisemitic bigotry, and his troubling current voting record with regard to Israel, his appointment as head of the DNC would be a self-inflicted wound on the Democratic Party at this critical time in its history. It would move the party in the direction of Left-wing extremism at a time when centrist stability is required. The world at large is experiencing a movement toward extremes, both Right and Left. The Democratic Party must buck that dangerous trend and move back to the center where the votes are, and where America should be.
Here's something I don't understand: Doesn't Ellison represent a Congressional district that is somewhere around 70% white? What kind of a track record does he have if he can consistently win in a district like that?
Yes, we Koran.
The Democrat Party is a Bi-Coastal Party only.
Just what the democrats need!
The Troika of Schmucky Shumer, Nanna Piglosi and Jihadi Ellison leading the democrats to victory in 2018 and beyond!
But, that being said, I found this little bit interesting because I must have been asleep when it happened:
Farrakhan also appeared as a special guest speaker of the Iranian president at a rally, which featured the unveiling of a float reenacting Irans detention of 10 US Navy sailors in the Persian Gulf.
A parade float gloating about Iran's detention of US sailors? With Farrakhan attending? Really? I don't know how I missed that, I must have been really busy.
ABC News report on the parade.
But no mention of Farrakhan.
Ellison is the best pick to run the DNC.
Ellison is the perfect man for the job.
The same ilk who always called a former Imperial Dragon or whatever they’re called, of the KKK-one Robert Byrd-the “conscience of the Senate”.
The left has extreme “cognitive dissonance” (I believe, willful and conscious hypocrisy) on what racism is, when it’s forgiveable, and when it’s not.
“Doesn’t Ellison represent a Congressional district that is somewhere around 70% white? What kind of a track record does he have if he can consistently win in a district like that?”
Same reason Obama got in. Idiot liberal whites trying to prove how un-racist they are by voting for an unqualified black just for being black.
Bingo !
Trump strategy to win, first come for the unemployed whites that Obama ignored, then come for the Christian voters Obama took away their religious freedom from. Then come for the Jews who are still in denial that a party which run by Obama showed such disrespect for Israel and would pick an anti semite like Ellison is still a friend of Jews and keep voting for them by 80 percent. Trump will switch many Jews.
Finally Trump will come and get 35 of the black vote who will see that somehow a white billionare from Queens does more than talk like Obama. Trump is a man of actions, and they really have nothing to lose by backing Trump for Obama let a generation of young blacks without jobs or good education while he played golf.
Actually, I think Imam Ellison is PRECISELY the right man to lead today’s Democrat Party!
Sssssshhhhh....I really, really want this nutjob to be the Dem Party boss....
Closet Muslim President and a practicing one as head of the Democrat National Committee. Now, that’s a recipe for success, isn’t it??
Ellison is the best man for the job to finish off the rats for good. Go Ellison el, go!
Ellison is the PERFECT man to to lead the DNC and the Democrats to victory.
I hope he gets the nod.
And Hitler loved animals.
This one is not right for anything.
Perfect man at the perfect time to help us destroy the progressive movement. Please make him DNC head.
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