Negroes needed in Mississippi.

I feel for my cousins down in Mississippi who are caught in the middle of a very nasty republican fight.


A quick update: A tea party candidate with a dubious and rather interesting history is challenging the incumbent who has been the senator there since my cousins were picking cotton. (OK, it only seems like it's been that long, but you get the idea.) And a very heated race has come to a head.


Mississippi has an open primary, and the saner of the two candidates is begging black folks to come out and vote for him , because apparently he represents the lesser of two evils.


Negroes, please come out and vote for Thad Cochran, he needs you.


So now, the tea party being the tea party, are going to have their loyal soldiers patrolling the polling places to watch for cheating Negroes.


They are calling it the "voter integrity project", but they might as well call it the keep Negroes from voting project, because that's exactly what they want to do.


Anyway, I wonder who is going to watch the conservative poll watchers while they poll watch.


 "An array of conservative groups supporting Chris McDaniel, including the Senate Conservatives Fund, the Tea Party Patriots, and True the Vote have said they’re sending poll-watchers to the state amid reports that some Mississippi Democratic operatives are working to turn out black Democrats in support of McDaniel’s opponent, Sen. Thad Cochran. The poll-watching effort is being organized in part by Christian Adams, a former Bush Justice Department lawyer who has long sought to publicize claims of voter fraud and illegal voting."


There was a time when folks went to Mississippi to advance civil rights, now, sadly, the times have changed. These folks are going to do the exact opposite thing.


Finally, I really wish that Dick Cheney would just stop. Honestly, he is hurting himself and his party more than anyone else at this point.


Besides, all anyone has to do is to click on this link to see why everyone in the Bush administration during the lead up to the Iraq war needs to just STFU.


"Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s media tour showed no signs of slowing Tuesday with appearances on The Rush Limbaugh Show and now Hugh Hewitt’s radio show. On the latter, Cheney said he believes there will be another major terrorist attack on the homeland before the end of the decade, this one “far deadlier” than 9/11.


Asked by Hewitt if he thinks we can “get through this decade without a massive attack on the homeland,” Cheney answered, “I doubt it.”


“I think there will be another attack and this time I think it’s likely to be far deadlier than the last one,” he added.


From there, Cheney began to fantasize about “what would happen if someone could smuggle a nuclear device, put it in a shipping container and drive it down the beltway outside of Washington, D.C.”


When Hewitt suggested there would have to be “military rule” in the United States if something like that were to happen, Cheney detailed the “continuity of government” program, which was set up during the Cold War to ensure a “government in waiting” that could step in if needed. "


Lord have mercy, now the man is telling terrorists how to attack America.


If you love that man you will lock him in the attic and throw away the key.










































 

The GOP's "Mamacita man ain't paying for no reparations.

People wonder why I am so hard on wingnuts and those of their ilk. It's because of people like Chris McDaniel and the people who support him.




In case you didn't know, Mr. McDaniel could be your next senator from the state of Mississippi.  He is pushing incumbent Thad Cochran in the GOP primary and he has the support of people like Sarah Palin.




"The Wall Street Journal reports that McDaniel once said, “If they pass reparations, and my taxes go up, I ain’t paying taxes.”


In addition McDaniel is alleged to have made derogatory remarks about Latinos.
McDaniel’s spokesman says, “The liberal press clearly loves to attack conservatives of all types. When Chris got into this race he knew they would throw mud, so it’s no surprise they’d dredge up decade-old comments made on conservative talk radio. Chris will continue to deliver his conservative message of controlling government spending, lowering taxes, and repealing Obamacare across the state.” [Source]




Of course ignorance like that will probably make him very popular among republican voters in Mississippi. He had more to say:




"On Mexico: “Why don’t we all immigrate south, let’s go to Mexico…You know, a dollar bill can buy a mansion in Mexico. And I think we all get together, go down there, build us a studio for like 26 pesos, uh and you know, put on a radio show right there in Mexico. Live the rest of our lives there.”


–Asked by someone else in the studio, “Do we have to learn Spanish?” Mr. McDaniel replied, “Yes, regrettably…You’ll have to learn just enough to ask where the bathroom is. Baños. Baños. That’s what you say.”


–Mr. McDaniel then asked someone to translate, “Do you have a sister?” “What about mamacita?” he offered. “Mamacita works….I’m an English-speaking Anglo. I have no idea what it means, actually, but I’ve said it a few times, just for, you know, fun. And I think it basically means, ‘Hey, hot mama.’ Or, you know, ‘You’re a fine looking young thing.’”


- Later, he weighed in on the momentary outcry over an ad released in international markets promoting the white version of a portable video-game console. The spot included a shot of a white woman and a black woman wrestling. “There’s a white woman, and she’s holding down a black woman. The world’s gone nuts. Listen to this. Minority groups in California screaming that the image is racist. ‘San Francisco politician Tom LeLand says ‘It’s racially charged, unnecessary and clearly offensive to our community.’ Well, she wasn’t holding down a gay guy.” [Source]




Nice. So he is a racist, a sexist, and a xenophobe. He will also probably be a US Senator soon, which probably says more about the modern- day republican party than it does Mr. McDaniel.




I wonder if any one of my black conservative friends will come forward to condemn his ignorant and benighted statements. If they do, I will be the first to praise them on this blog for standing up to someone in their gang.




I won't hold my breath, though; black conservatives don't like to "rock the boat". Go along to get along is their motto.




Finally, I am glad that O can joke about the "birther" movement, but there is nothing funny about those people. They are seriously taking this country backwards.


And if folks think that this movement was about anything other than race, I have a beautiful red statue with the words LOVE on it to sell you. It's sitting in a park here in Philly, just send me a check and you can go and pick it up.



“'And just to be clear, I know where my birth certificate is, but a lot of people don’t,' Obama added, to laughter from the crowd. 'I think it’s still up on a website somewhere.'


'Do you remember that? That was crazy' he remarked, clearly straying from his prepared speech. 'That was some crazy stuff. I haven’t thought about that in a while.”'




Sorry O, you should be thinking about it, because that's one of the reasons that you can't get things done in Washington. It wasn't "crazy"; it was wingnuts. They are the same folks who will be voting for Chris McDaniel.