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Ann you are soooo hot.
(you gay boys, take my word for it)
Posted by heterosexual guy]]> Sun, 01 Feb 2009 06:11:53 -0800 The Stranger I don't know a single conservative who thought America wouldn't elect a black man.
If Republicans had run Colin Powell in 1996 -- back when he was a Republican -- he would have been the first black president. As Powell himself said, he received the strongest support from Southern white men, who admired his military background.
The first serious black candidate to run for president in America won, so blacks are one-for-one in a country liberals would have us believe is teeming with Ku Klux Klanners.
Posted by Ann Coulter]]> Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:36:58 -0800 The Stranger
Plus, the racist half of the Republican party will have to find some other place to go, politically speaking.
Posted by fawxer]]> Sat, 31 Jan 2009 08:35:36 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Gabriel FL]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:52:04 -0800 The Stranger Posted by I Love IPA]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:06:41 -0800 The Stranger oh.. and do i have to be dead to start spinning ?
Posted by reverend dr dj riz]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:01:28 -0800 The Stranger
Republicans from Baltimore: Steele, Alan Keyes, Linda Chavez ...hmm you'd think a Republican from Baltimore would have won an election in the last.. oh since WWII maybe?

Or Not.

Oh, btw, Nancy Pelosi is from Baltimore too. There is a history of actually winning elections in her family...
Posted by digimediafinance.com]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:49:47 -0800 The Stranger Democrats ran on a platform in 1864 (after the Civil War was virtually won) of ending the war and preserving slavery.
After the Civil War Democrats invented Jim Crow and forced segregation, as well as the KKK.
After the Civil Rights laws were passed Democrats substituted economic slavery for actual slavery- Blacks became enslaved by welfare and poor schools (run and staffed by Democratic union 'educators') and dependent on the Democratic political machine, the Black family disintegrated and that brings us up to today.
When Blacks are ready to free themselves from the enslavements they currently find themselves entangled in (drugs, unwed birthrate, lack of education options, culture of dependancy) they will find their emancipation once again in the Republican Party.
Posted by Freedom]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:28:44 -0800 The Stranger You are indeed correct. I recall seeing a campaign commercial for Eisenhower (from a documentary) featuring an African-American male touting him for Pres. Its no surprise that the GOP is trying include more African-Americans. I believe the GOP is already the party of Asian-Americans. The Republicans merely want to expand their base. Bully for them.
Posted by lark]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:26:43 -0800 The Stranger
I judge the Republican Party by what they have done, and their overall M.O. for the past 50+ years. Electing a single black member of your party as head of your National Committee does not make them suddenly enlightened. Let's see how much progress Steele even makes. I'll be surprised if he lasts a year.
Posted by hal]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:06:39 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Will in Seattle]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:03:48 -0800 The Stranger Posted by rob]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:57:44 -0800 The Stranger
Blame Nixon's Southern strategy, and also Nixon courting the anti-busing, anti-quota northern white voter. By the time Reagan began his campaign in the town where 4 civil rights workers were killed in Mississippi, and later appointed an unknown and unqualified Clarence Thomas to head the EEOC solely because of his race, it was all over for the "party of Lincoln."
Posted by Trevor]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:54:23 -0800 The Stranger
-- an enlightened conciliator who will help lead the Republican Party into the 20th century, then maybe even the 21st.

-- a co-conspirator on the level of fellow black man Ken Blackwell, a Bush/Rove lapdog who (incredibly, in our "democracy") held dual roles as Chief Elections Official of Ohio and honorary co-chair of the "Committee to re-elect George W. Bush" during the 2004 election.

Which is it gonna be? Inquiring minds want to know.
Posted by blackhook]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:53:07 -0800 The Stranger
(He beat him thoroughly, but it's the thought...)
Posted by Black Elephant]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:51:14 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Trevor]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:48:02 -0800 The Stranger If only more people would understand political history.
Dixiecrats became and are still the heart and soul of the Republican Party. Who woulda thunk it. The Republicans are becoming a regional party. It must be fucking killing the country club money republican golf course types!!
Posted by Mark in Colorado]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:47:52 -0800 The Stranger Posted by smade]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:41:53 -0800 The Stranger
From reconstruction to the 1930's African Americans overwhelming supported Republican candidates. Of course Jim Crow prevented many from voting, but southern Democrats enforced poll taxes too.

And glossed over with all these Obama/Lincoln references... "the Great Emancipator" was a Republican
Posted by judge not by skin color]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:30:26 -0800 The Stranger Posted by TheMisanthrope]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:25:42 -0800 The Stranger Posted by michael strangeways]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:24:43 -0800 The Stranger Posted by maxsolomon]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:16:11 -0800 The Stranger Posted by wisepunk]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:03:04 -0800 The Stranger required to hate black people to be a Republican. It just helps.
Posted by devilsmoke]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:57:49 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Y.F.]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:46:04 -0800 The Stranger