MLK Day

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

I hate that James Earl Ray crap. For the record, I've heard it from plenty of union types. They are dying off though.

Pete

I have more respect for those overt racists than I do for these phonys on the right that try to claim Martin Luther King and Fredrick Douglas as their own when everybody knows they would have hated them when they were alive.

[piece-itpete]

Wasn't MLK a card carrying Republican and NRA member?

Pete

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Wasn't MLK a card carrying Republican and NRA member?

Pete

Sure.

I was a Republican back in the day too.

Republicans were the good guys.

Then along came the Southern Strategy and they lured all the racist George Wallace Democrats over to their side. That was the equivalent of giving themselves a massive dose of carcinogens IV. Now those batshit crazies own the place.

[piece-itpete]

The left would NEVER play the race card. Interesting that the Shrub had a more racially diverse cabinet than Clinton.

From what I can see the GOP is currently making a big push into inner cities. Maybe the left won't be able to take them for granted anymore.

Pete

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

The left would NEVER play the race card. Interesting that the Shrub had a more racially diverse cabinet than Clinton.

When you put a black person at the top of your Presidential Ticket, get back to me. Until then you have no credibility on this issue.

[piece-itpete]

Then the left has no standing with Hispanics?

Pete

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Then the left has no standing with Hispanics?

Pete

Pete, you know full well that the GOP has electoral issues with blacks and Hispanics and that there's a good reason for it. Cute wordplay won't change that a bit.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Pete, you know full well that the GOP has electoral issues with blacks and Hispanics and that there's a good reason for it. Cute wordplay won't change that a bit.

It's not the GOP's fault.

We buy them with free stuff.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

It's not the GOP's fault.

We buy them with free stuff.

I don't know if you're being sarcastic (I assume so), but there is at least a shred of truth to this assertion. Most people, rich or poor, tend to vote their pocketbook and you can't give huge tax breaks to those who pay little or no income taxes (as you can with the rich and connected).

[piece-itpete]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Pete, you know full well that the GOP has electoral issues with blacks and Hispanics and that there's a good reason for it. Cute wordplay won't change that a bit.

It was a direct response and perfectly valid. And as yet unanswered.

But yes, there are issues. Down on a more local level they are being worked on. Kasich recently worked with the city black community and leadership in Ohio to get school reform passed over the strenuous opposition of a key Dem demographic. Does that mean the inner city folks are going to desert the Dems en masse? No. But how great a percentage do we need? And you have to admit it gives that community more leverage regardless, it's a win-win for them. And possibly us

Pete