The normally even-keeled Kos has gone off the deep-end, most likely because of Ricky West’s incessant provocations. Normally when Kos comes out with both barrels blazing, people should watch out. This time, he shoots himself right in the integrity. Go read it. I will wait.
Yeap- the G.O.P. is the party of racists- why? Because Kos and other bloggers say so. I guess it is time to update my klan membership. But lets look at something for a second. Let’s apply the Democrats most hated smear, with the same looseness of facts. Let’s try to tar all Democrats as closet reds- fair is fair, right? So, without delay, here is the evidence that the Democrats are the Party of Communists:
1.) Hillary Clinton’s friendly association with the following groups: National Lawyers Guild, CISPES, the New World Foundation, as well as her early writings, association with communist groups, and visceral opposition to the money and greed of the 80’s while cashing in on insider information, and her Michael Lerner inspired religious views.
2.) Bill Clinton. Not only did he leap at the opportunity to normalize relations with the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, a war he skipped and spent in London and Moscow being indoctrinated by the hard corp communist left, but Clinton spent years raising campaign money from the Communist Chinese, but he also turned away from evidence that his administration was allowing secret missile technology to head to the Chinese.
3.) Bernie Sanders– do I need to post more on him? As I have learned from Kos today, a hit is a hit.
4.) The Congressional Progressive Caucus
5.) Barbara Lee, Cynthia McKinney, and Ron “Red” Dellums.
6.) Democrats and A.N.S.W.E.R.– Hey- a smear is a smear, might as well go all out.
7.) The Democrats Southern Strategy- telling all African-Americans that a vote for a Republican is a vote for a church burner, a vote for lynching, or the dragging death of Bames Byrd. I am not even bothering to link to it.
I could go on and on, but what is the point? I am sure there are a number of Democrats reading this who are surprised to have woken up this morning only to learn they are Communists. Believe me- I was surprised to learn I was a racist this morning- it really pissed me off, because I just bought brand new linen (a really high count). Now that I am in the party of racists, I guess I have to go cut holes in my pillowcases. I hope someone will be kind enough to direct me to tonight’s cross-burning. I have never been to one before.
Get it, Kos? There are racists in the Republican party. There are racists in the Democrat party. There are communists, socialists, etc. in the Democrat party. Big deal. I don’t think the handful of communists in the party have any more of an impact on the party agenda than the racists have on the mainstream of the G.O.P. You guys can stop the smearing anytime, particularly since it gets us nowhere.
Obviously, the response will be that the Republicans use ‘secret code’ and do things to ‘send the message’ to the racists. Amusing that the only people to know the ‘code words’ any more are Democrats.
Barney Gumble
“Yeap- the G.O.P. is the party of racists- why? Because Kos and other bloggers say so.”
You misunderestimated the contributions of limbaugh, hannity, boortz, coulter et. al.
Where are the communists in the media? I have to brush up on my dialectic materialism…
--k.
You also miss the importance of the Southern Strategy to Republican victories since Nixon, and the games and–yes–codes that must be played to work it properly. –We communists on the left, after all, complain vociferously about the Democratic party’s refusal to play our reindeer games, and how they don’t send us coded messages anymore, and then we stomp off in bitter huffs to throw our votes away on the Greens.
Ricky
It’s a damn shame the southern strategy code-words are only used in Presidential races, or else Georgia would’ve had a GOP governor before ’03 and Louisiana would still be looking for their first GOP senator since reconstruction, VA would have a GOP governor, TN would have a GOP Governor, etc.
addison
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You misunderestimated the contributions of limbaugh, hannity, boortz, coulter et. al.
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Having heavily read or listened to all these people (excepting Hannity), I have never seen a racist word in print or heard one from their mouths. Perhaps the code words are slipping past me.