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« on: April 16, 2015, 04:54:10 PM »

Had someone with this type of attitude ran for congressional office?


"I'm sick of these freeloading welfare dopes that hang around the streets all because of our spook president that was elected into office. If we just let people who only pay taxes vote, the situation in Washington would be comparable to what our Founding Fathers had intended. And don't get me started on those illegal losers. Those sub-human species should be deported to whatever they came from. Muslims should also practiced the Christian life or get the f out of this great nation. I hate our political correctness has pussified our nation, leading the country into deficit while they get all the dough and white tax payers get none of the slice. All you need to do in America to succeed is do be lazy and act entitled because your some political correct tool who believes who believes he deserves more than white middle class males. And Obama, please get the f out of this country you military-spitting mass murder monkey. You'll never be a true American to us real Americans. I would never dear to shake the muslim in chief hand in any public appearance whatsoever".
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« Reply #1 on: April 16, 2015, 04:58:31 PM »

Fox News would praise them as the noble philosophers of our time and draft them to run President.
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« Reply #2 on: April 16, 2015, 06:18:32 PM »

You would see him depicted in a robe and hood and, standing next to a burning cross, in editorial cartoons.
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« Reply #3 on: April 16, 2015, 06:36:51 PM »

That's like something that Ted Cruz might say at the 2016 RNC if he gets the nomination (LOL!).
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« Reply #4 on: April 16, 2015, 06:56:17 PM »

That Republican would lead in the polls by 5-10% for a while, because some people think like this. But they may not win.
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« Reply #5 on: April 16, 2015, 07:30:03 PM »

A Republican? Who knows? Sounds more like something a Democrat would say. Didn't they have a Klansman as Obama's 3rd in line after Biden and Pelosi?
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« Reply #6 on: April 16, 2015, 10:57:01 PM »

Fox News and Talk Radio would furiously defend him as a great patriot speaking truth to power. He would almost certainly be invited to speak at the next three CPACs. And there are plenty of places around the country where he could win a congressional seat.
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« Reply #7 on: April 18, 2015, 09:36:36 PM »

A Republican? Who knows? Sounds more like something a Democrat would say. Didn't they have a Klansman as Obama's 3rd in line after Biden and Pelosi?

Byrd? He was in the 40's, he later apologized for it. Whether you think he was still believing it was the question.
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« Reply #8 on: April 20, 2015, 02:21:40 PM »

Holy crap someone from Delaware
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« Reply #9 on: April 20, 2015, 04:19:50 PM »

A Republican? Who knows? Sounds more like something a Democrat would say. Didn't they have a Klansman as Obama's 3rd in line after Biden and Pelosi?

remind me again which party

"I'm sick of these freeloading welfare dopes that hang around the streets all because of our spook president that was elected into office. If we just let people who only pay taxes vote, the situation in Washington would be comparable to what our Founding Fathers had intended.
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come on blackraisin are you even trying?
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« Reply #10 on: April 20, 2015, 08:48:03 PM »

Fox News and Talk Radio would furiously defend him as a great patriot speaking truth to power. He would almost certainly be invited to speak at the next three CPACs. And there are plenty of places around the country where he could win a congressional seat.


Do you think even the racial context of the comment would fly in even heavily Republican areas?  Am I underestimating the racism of many voters in this country or could this be realistic scenario in which such a candidate could be elected into congress?

Yes and yes. Just look at how Fox News has covered Ferguson and Black Lives Matter. Also look at what's happened with Phil Robertson from Duck Dynasty since his interview, becoming something of a regular at conservative and Republican events - his remarks on gays got all the attention due to the crude language he used, but his remarks on race were far more odious.
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« Reply #11 on: April 21, 2015, 08:53:35 AM »

Most Yahoo news commentators are unable to run for office, luckily.
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« Reply #12 on: April 21, 2015, 08:58:12 AM »

A Republican? Who knows? Sounds more like something a Democrat would say. Didn't they have a Klansman as Obama's 3rd in line after Biden and Pelosi?

So those anti-Obama comments are something a Democrat would say?
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« Reply #13 on: April 21, 2015, 09:04:49 AM »

A Republican? Who knows? Sounds more like something a Democrat would say. Didn't they have a Klansman as Obama's 3rd in line after Biden and Pelosi?

So those anti-Obama comments are something a Democrat would say?
Frankly there are registered Democrats who are pretty anti-Obama.  Look at how Kentucky voted for 60-39 for Romney and how the state is still mostly Democratic by registration.  So yes, some Democrats are ignorant enough to say something like that.
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« Reply #14 on: April 24, 2015, 07:43:33 PM »

I read that in my local paper every single day. There was once somebody who wrote in saying how much better it'd be if only white landowners over 40 got to vote.
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« Reply #15 on: April 25, 2015, 01:09:27 AM »

I think that comments like this or coverage of the "backlash" that they bring is a silly distraction and a waste of everyone's time. When has anything worthwhile happened as a result of that kind of routine that couldn't have happened another way? Has it ever really solved a problem?
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« Reply #16 on: May 02, 2015, 07:28:32 PM »

I read that in my local paper every single day. There was once somebody who wrote in saying how much better it'd be if only white landowners over 40 got to vote.
One of my professors said that to us years ago.
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« Reply #17 on: May 03, 2015, 02:11:18 AM »

You would see him depicted in a robe and hood and, standing next to a burning cross, in editorial cartoons.
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« Reply #18 on: May 03, 2015, 03:05:14 PM »

You would see him depicted in a robe and hood and, standing next to a burning cross, in editorial cartoons.

yes, and for good reason.
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« Reply #19 on: May 06, 2015, 08:41:09 PM »

A Republican? Who knows? Sounds more like something a Democrat would say. Didn't they have a Klansman as Obama's 3rd in line after Biden and Pelosi?

Byrd? He was in the 40's, he later apologized for it. Whether you think he was still believing it was the question.

So did Thurmond and Helms, but because they're not fiscal liberals, they didn't get the "all's good now!" treatment.
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« Reply #20 on: May 07, 2015, 01:43:15 PM »

Helms didn't recant.
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« Reply #21 on: May 29, 2015, 11:17:07 AM »

Chris McDaniel?

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« Reply #22 on: June 09, 2015, 01:28:01 AM »

Republicans wouldn't really like this. Maybe at first, and maybe some would, but lots of the more sensible ones (yes, lots of them are more sensible, they aren't the strawmen liberals look at them as, although I do disagree with lots of their positions) and wouldn't like the "Muslims should become Christians or leave" bit (they talk a lot about religious liberty, and I hope they realize at least a little bit that that doesn't just go their way--if anything they'd be against it on the grounds that someone might say it the other way around someday) and I doubt they'd really like the racist parts. I think some Republicans are a bit racist, but very few of them are as racist as liberals imagine them to be. Theocratic, yes, pro-war, yes, but they're not on the whole racist enough to get behind this.

The sayer of this comment wouldn't win most congressional districts and would never survive a primary.
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« Reply #23 on: June 21, 2015, 11:04:00 PM »

No one has said anything that stupid.

Anyone who did would be a political pariah.
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« Reply #24 on: July 23, 2015, 11:55:54 PM »

The only part I object to is the insinuation that the President is Muslim.
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