Posted on 01/14/2016 10:56:04 AM PST by McGruff
Hardline conservatives should be celebrating the Republican response speech to the State of the Union, offered by Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina. The speech was a testament to how far the party is willing to go to cater to the putrid racism of the conservative base, as Haley, using her own background as the child of Indian immigrants, demonized immigrants and refugees fleeing war, and, in a particularly odious display, used the murder of nine people at the hands of a racist to scold Black Lives Matter protesters for speaking out.
But the right just ain't having it, it turns out. That's because, even though Haley was willing to sign off on most of the agenda items of the bigoted base, she insisted on doing so using the coded language that conservatives have used for decades now to convey racist ideas while pretending to be not racist. These days, the base wants to communicate racist ideas with bullhorns, not nudges. And Haley's old school style, of declaring that conservatives aren't racist while winking at the audience, just isn't going to fly.
The backlash against Haley started immediately on Twitter, with prominent figures on the right such as Laura Ingraham, Michelle Malkin, John Nolte, and, of course, Ann Coulter, flipping out and attacking Haley.
This burst of outrage at Haley for using coded instead of blunt attacks on immigrants and anti-racist activists got juice, of course, from Donald Trump, who responded by saying she's "very weak on illegal immigration."
Oh goodie — another flush from Salon on FR.
Lighten up noob. People just blowing off some steam.
“Haley...her own background as the child of Indian immigrants...”
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No wonder Haley is unsympathetic to things Confederate.
This article needs a BARF ALERT!
This is where someone on the right is supposed to call this hack a dumb twit and wonder how she ever got the ability to string two words together.
When you let bullies bully, they will continue to do it. Alinsky told us how to stop this. Yet we continue to turn the other cheek and let it get slapped.
Wrongo Amanda ya dumb ass. Here's what REALLY happened:
"Nikki Haley turns on base."
In light of seeing the pic of the liberal dog who wrote this piece, this article needs a BARK ALERT.
Don't care where you were spawned, either come in legally or stay out.
The left is addicted to smug moral grandstanding.
Getting up on a pedestal, preening for the camera, and screaming “racism!” at someone else.
As the commercial has it, “it’s what they do.”
I”m heartily sick of it.
Not someone who will apologize every time a pajama boy gets his panties in a bunch.
Could be perception, but its my reality.
Remember to delouse.
Good luck.
I laughed a lot at the simpletons!
Don’t you imagine poor Amanda has a truly miserable life?
LIB idiots are insufferable. ALL LIBs are idiots.
Amanda Marcotte is either mentally unhinged, totally clueless, or a liar. Racist code words in Nikkis non-rebuttal? Total bs.
Ha! I saw the magic word (Salon) and stopped reading. Shortest article ever!
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