Georgia Republicans like to use the word ‘uppity’ when referring to black people.
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
We’re rednecks,
We’re rednecks,
We don’t know our ass from a hole in the ground,
We’re rednecks,
We’re rednecks,
We’re keeping the niggers down.
They crackers.
I called up westmoreland’s office and asked him just that question. “Since it’s OK to call Obama “uppity” would it be ok for those of us opposed to westmoreland to call your boss a georgia cracker? No? what about a toothless hill billy? No? What if I suggested his wife and sister were the same person? No? Well, what if…”
they eventually hung up on me. I was on a roll.
Once is a slip, twice is a plan. How many votes will the Georgia GOP lose by putting race front and center? Nada? If the good people of Stone Mountain, Georgia are asked to decide between voting for some uppity (n-word) or a good old boy, who do you think most of them will vote for?
Now, if they’re given a choice between voting to bring their sons and daughters home from Iraq or to send them back for two or three more tours then who do you think most of them will vote for?
If they’re given a choice between voting for universal health care and voting for obscene profits for the insurance and pharmaceutical companies then who do you think most of them will vote for?
If I were a Georgia Republican, looking at an Alzheimer’s patient at the top of the national ticket along with his trusty sidekick Trailer Park Barbie, I’d be screaming (n-word) at the top of my lungs too…
You appear to believe that 1) if Georgians associate the GOP with racist statements and ideas that 2) they will have bad feelings about the GOP due to that fact.
Where do you come up with THAT logical deduction?
I see no evidence that 2) follows from 1). In fact, ~2) may follow from 1).
I’m saying that if the basis of their decision is race then Obama loses, but if the basis of their decision is Iraq or the economy or health care then Obama wins. Therefore, the Georgia GOP would naturally do everything that it could to make the basis of their decision race.
I discount the notion that election decisions are made by adding up lists of pros and cons.
Nope, only intellectuals do that. For most people, they make their decisions on voting on a simple basis:
Impression is very very important.
I have to say that I had an experience this summer where I asked a couple of college Republicans to tell me what they found appealing about McCain’s message. Their answers:
“I’m a born and bred Republican”
“I believe in his conservative values” (from the male in the group)
The third had no answer of her own, just handed me the preprinted campaign literature.
When I asked them for something more concrete about why his policies appealed to them personally (and I wasn’t being rude about it), they proceed to get angry, yell at me that I must be voting for someone else, and unbelievably, tell me how they were much more informed than I was because they were political science majors.
That’s the kind of stupid we’re up against. Unfortunately, it appears that their lack of persuasional argument skills are offset by the ability of stupid people to breed.
believe that people draw up a sheet, write down policies, and add up the pluses, and subtract off the minuses.
Nope. No one does that.
Rather, what people do is go on impressions, and that’s why WE need to manage the impression-forming process.
The news media does not do the impression checking. Obama must do that. He must damage McCain’s persona, by any means necessary, and he must do it so that his fingerprints are not on it. He needs to get Joe out there, TRASHING McCain. And VERY IMPORTANTLY he needs to STOP saying how “honorable” McCain is. He is not honorable. Honorable men do not act like McCain has acted.
It would be best if a 3rd or 4th line surrogate would take out after Palin. Barbara Boxer, Jan Schadowski, Amy Kloboshar, someone like that – just rip her, over and over.
From the Colbert Report, 9/5/08
Better know a district – Lynn Westmoreland Update
This isn’t a direct link to the video, but its currently the 3rd video on the list, impossible to miss it.
Wow that guy is stupid.