Democratic Party - Party of Diversity

[bomelia]

The point is, democrats can make racist comments. Republicans may not. And if they do, it is the end of their career. Not so for democrats.

(R) Examples: Trent Lott, Senator Allan, republicans, gone

(D) Examples: Senator Byrd, Harry Reid, democrats, still in power

And this will not hurt Harry Reid (until election day)

Mike

[Bartruff1]

Originally Posted by bomelia

The point is, democrats can make racist comments. Republicans may not. And if they do, it is the end of their career. Not so for democrats.

(R) Examples: Trent Lott, Senator Allan, republicans, gone

(D) Examples: Senator Byrd, Harry Reid, democrats, still in power

And this will not hurt Harry Reid (until election day)

Mike

Mike, you have to take their comments in context...everyone knows that Reid is not a racist and everyone knows Lott and Allen are... I don't know why it would have ended their careers, that was their judgement. Actually Harry is a hell of a lot smarter than I thought he was... pretty good observation...

[bomelia]

Originally Posted by Bartruff1

Mike, you have to take their comments in context...everyone knows that Reid is not a racist and everyone knows Lott and Allen are... I don't know why it would have ended their careers, that was their judgement. Actually Harry is a hell of a lot smarter than I thought he was... pretty good observation...

I don't know you well enough to know where you are coming from. However, I willing to let that go.

All people are racists a one level or another. And if you say that is not true, you prove my point. The real problem for conservatives is they are not allowed to express any racist POV. Dems are. Sen Byrd used the "n" word and not one thing happened to him. On top of that, he was a grand wizzard in the KKK. Pure racist BS. Democrats were the original party of racism. Any person who knows the South knows that.

Mike

[Bartruff1]

Originally Posted by bomelia

I don't know you well enough to know where you are coming from. However, I willing to let that go.

All people are racists a one level or another. And if you say that is not true, you prove my point. The real problem for conservatives is they are not allowed to express any racist POV. Dems are. Sen Byrd used the "n" word and not one thing happened to him. On top of that, he was a grand wizzard in the KKK. Pure racist BS. Democrats were the original party of racism. Any person who knows the South knows that.

Mike

I would agree that we are all racist to some extent...I would also agree that Byrd is very likely a racist, that doesn't cost him any votes... I doubt Lott was....I don't know about Allen...but no one forced them out....Lott would still be in the Senate if he wanted to be, the voters in Mississippi re elected him...the Republican Southern Strategy is a racist strategy...I'm not talking about the Democrates of the 1850's..the Democrats lost the South as Johnson said, when they passed the Civil Rights Legis...Bush's primary campaign against McCain in SC should disgust anyone and it worked in the South...Some one, Dean ? said that the Republican's are mean, old, rich, whiney white men...BINGO.... I don't need any slack...have at it...

[Bartruff1]

The regional cultural differences in America are vast....Texas is so different from Vermont....Mississippi from New Hampshire... that it is difficult to imagine they are in the same Union.... I like a lot about the South...don't care for the heat...humidity...the bugs.... I don't know what to think about Rednecks....don't care to be around them...they scare me..." Momma's in the Graveyard, Daddy's in the Jail " ...been to a couple NASCAR Races...strange people with matching tavern jackets... they apppear to have a deep and abiding resentment about The Feds and things like the Voting Rights Act , the Equal Rights Amendment ..the drive by media....evolution...science in general.. not a comfortable place for a atheist, socialist like me...not prudent