The David Dukes out there have little to fear from Michael Steele
By David Neiwert Monday Feb 02, 2009 5:30am
I see, via Pam Spaulding, that David Duke is all worked up about the GOP selecting Michael Steele, a black man, as the party chair:
GOP traitors appoint Obama Junior as Chairman of the Republican Party
I am glad these traitorous leaders of the Republican Party appointed this Black racist, affirmative action advocate to the head of the Republican party because this will lead to a huge revolt among the Republican base. As a former Republican official, I can tell you that millions of rank-and-file Republicans are mad as hell and aren't going to take it anymore! We will either take the Republican Party back over the next four years or we will say, "To Hell With the Republican Party!" And we will take 90 percent of Republicans with us into a New Party that will take its current place!I think the insanity of nominating "Mr. Amnesty" John McCain and now this Black racist - will lead to insurgency in the Republican ranks, and a lot of dissidents getting elected in Republican Party primaries around the country. This will result over the next four years a real move by millions of Republicans to take the party back to the populist issues that are not only right but can win for the Republican Party. We must end affirmative action, protect our gun rights and all our constitutional rights, have a moratorium on immigration, we must have protectionism, yes I said protect American businesses and their workers from NAFTA and GATT and the lie of free trade, and we must have America First, not foreign interventionism. Our boys should be home protecting the American borders a not being murdered on the borders of Iraq or Afghanistan. The time as come for Republican Party to stand up to Obama and defend American heritage, rights, and freedom!
...Let's make this abomination in the Republican Party, the last major party of White redoubt, as a rallying cry of resistance!
Well, Duke's predictive powers on these matters has never been very good (the Great White Awakening has been Just Around the Corner for many many years now).
To tell the truth, all this gnashing of neo-Nazi teeth reminds me of 2000, when Pat Buchanan, then running as the Reform Party candidate, named Ezola Foster his running mate -- at which Duke, along with Stormfront chief Don Black and WCOTC Pontifex Maximus Matthew Hale and just about every other white supremacist in the country, publicly switched his support to George W. Bush.
Now, it would be nice to imagine somehow that the GOP has indeed finally crawled out from under the shadow of the Southern Strategy and has left the fading cadre of racists in this country with no major party to call home. But I doubt it. No doubt the good ol' boys in places like South Carolina are sore at the Republican party right now, but I doubt that they're going to give up that easily. They sure as hell aren't just going away.
And in the face of that reality, it doesn't seem likely that Michael Steele is going to be the man who brings that change to the GOP. He gives them a nice Sidney Poitier-esque figurehead, but consider his real-life record (via Judd Legum) when it comes to such ethical matters -- especially those cases where racism raised its head:
-- Steele bused in homeless African Americans from Philadelphia to distribute literature in inner-city Baltimore that featured a “Sample Democratic Ballot” with votes for Steele and former Gov. Bob Ehrlich, along with photos of prominent black Democrats.
-- Steele defended former Gov. Bob Ehrlich’s decision to hold a $100,000 fundraiser at a country club that did not allow non-white members, saying that the club’s membership’s policies were “not an issue” because “I don’t play golf.”
I'm sure Duke is squawking because of the symbolic nature of Steele's selection. But the great likelihood is that's all it will be.
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I couldn't tell which I wanted more, for the RNC to pick Steele, thus pissing off all the racists, or for the RNC to pick a racist, thus pissing off everyone else.
Either way, going to be sweet to watch these savages tear themselves apart!
Don't you love entertainment? :-)
Dems have a long history of being racists and bigots not to mention they founded the KKK. So get your facts straight people! Take Duke Back call him what he really is a Democrat.
Duke ran as a Democrat for the Louisiana Senate in 1975. In 1988, he ran in the Democratic presidential primaries. After a poor showing, he appeared on many state ballots in the general election as the nominee of the Populist Party. He received just 47,047 votes.
In December 1988, Duke changed his political affiliation from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party.
The following year he ran as a Republican against fellow Republican John Treen for a seat representing Metairie in the Louisiana House of Representatives. Despite the endorsement of Treen's candidacy by President George H. W. Bush, former President Ronald Reagan, and other notable Republicans,[19] Duke defeated Treen by 51% to 49%.
In 1990, in the open primary, Duke ran as a Republican against incumbent Democratic Senator Bennett Johnston.
The Republican party endorsed state Senator Ben Bagert, but national Republican officials anticipated Bagert losing and fragmenting Johnston's support; so funding for Bagert's campaign was halted, and he dropped out two days before the election, though his name remained on the ballot. [23] In the last week of the campaign, Republican Senator John C. Danforth of Missouri openly endorsed Johnston.
What should the new conservative Party be named?
The Whigs?
The Whignuts?
Racepublicans?
Honkyterians?
The P.O.D (Party of Denial)
PUD
(Party United for Disaster)
that sounds about right.
UPF (United Party of Fear)
UPRL (United Party of Rush Limbaugh)
ABP (American Bigots Party)
NASP (National Socialist Workers Party - oops, forgot, we already have the American Nazi Party)
HSAP (Heads Stuck Up Asses Party)
HSAP has got to be the winner!
Honkyterians.... that's a good one
Whigs Alliance Newly Grouped (WANG).
"Everybody Wang Chung tonight?"
The NASP is a far left party dumb@ss! Think about it... Unions plus Govt. controlled industry, and taking from one group of people to give to another. Thats The Democrats! LOL!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA you are just proving my point!
The Knuckle-Dragging Mouth-Breathers. Dragging American into the dark ages.
The Jackoffs.
The Wife-Beating Coon-Haters?
Once I was taking my trash out to the dumpster and I saw a coon inside it, and I swear it almost stopped my heart.
...hate it?
Well it did look pretty filthy.
Did you...
Mon, 02/02/2009 - 06:02 — FilthyHarry
...hate it?
__________________________________________________
Sure did
With some taters and corn.
Duke ran as a Democrat for the Louisiana Senate in 1975. In 1988, he ran in the Democratic presidential primaries. After a poor showing, he appeared on many state ballots in the general election as the nominee of the Populist Party. He received just 47,047 votes.
The Closeted Homosexual Agenda. Fighting against evil un-closeted homos.
P.O.P.
Party of Pampers
Republican'ts
Party of Epic Fail
Duke ran as a Democrat for the Louisiana Senate in 1975. In 1988, he ran in the Democratic presidential primaries. After a poor showing, he appeared on many state ballots in the general election as the nominee of the Populist Party. He received just 47,047 votes.
Steele isn't even an "Obama Junior." Thanks for at least speaking the truth of how your kind feels...[Deleted. Please don't work blue. Someone's grandmother might be reading. Thank you. Site Monitor]
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Wait, so you're supporting the republican leadership now?
My Grandmother can drink a sailor under a table and out cuss 'em, as well!
blushed during the Super Bowl ads. Thank heavens that PETA fetish spot was banned. They could have sent the broccoli in a box.
are all the networks replaying this quote..over and over again? When is David Duke going to be on Hannity...Bill-O...Dobbs...has opinion been received from Malkin...Coultergeist...have they spoken to moderates like Dick Armey...what is Rush's view on this.
C'mon "fair and balanced"...the country needs to know.
Who should they appoint, him?
Yeah, like that would really help.
unfortunately Hitler, Bull Connor and George Wallace are all dead.
I must have an evil side because I am enjoying watching the republican party eat its own.
They must be more supple than they look.
the BBQ sauce they use
I dunno
Hard to imagine rash limpballs eating his own.
certainly eating something, though.
I wonder if David Duke sees the irony...
I wonder if he, and the other racists, regret the move to bring all this 'free labor' over from Africa?
He hired a black woman to do all his ironying.
a concept of "Cause and Effect."
My first year in college, I had the awful experience of working for a "David Duke" like attorney who never passed up a chance to berate black people no matter who was present. I hated that ignorant bastard. One of my jobs was to pick up stamps for this bitter old man. I always bought stamps with very black faces like Jackie Robinson, Harriet Tubman, Roberto Clemente, etc. I'd say to myself, "lick those, asshole." Sure enough, he stop sending me to the post office.
THAT is hilarious!!
Licking Moms Mabley and Grandma Moses, hahahaha.......
Obama started cleaning house on January 21.
Steele spent his first day appearing on Sunday talkie shows to assure us that there's nothing wrong with the GOP's message and that, in fact, we need to hear more of it. That the problem has been with the messengers, if anything at all.
Hmm. Rush Limbaugh - biggest messenger there is, so big that Republican congressmen have to call him and apologize on-air for even daring to suggest that Rush is anything but the best and brightest. Rush blames the 'mainstream media' and implied that Obama is a terrorist.
But Steele says the future is Sarah Palin. Sarah blames the 'gotcha media' and implied that Obama is a terrorist. Oh, yeah. Lots of change going on there, Steele.
"Nothing's wrong," sounds exactly like George W. Bush and his do-nothing/know-nothing policy on Iraq. It's not a problem if we don't admit it's a problem. And, certainly, if we can blame someone else, it's not OUR problem.
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I have always suspected that some of the money that promotes hate speech comes from deep pockets that have always supported the Heritage Foundation, Cato Institution, American Enterprise Inst., Swift Boaters for "truth",US Chamber of Commerce......oh, and the GOP.
The 2% Mafia can maintain better control the masses by stirring up the hatred an building barriers to common goals. You know the old saying.....divide and conquer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFSXtWrZGEg
http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/02/tell-me-abo...
Good, let them destroy their party. Let Palin be the new leader of whatever remains of it. The rest of the country is trying to save what little we have left while the republicans have nothing left to do but destroy one another.
... will be not to get sucked into the undertow when they sink.
I think we know how to avoid a cesspool
I always wondered about guys like duke.
Were most of his school teachers black, and always paddling his ass?
steamy anonymous bathroom gay sex look about him. I'm guessing he has a map of Louisiana rest stops hidden amongst his voluminous gay porn collection.
when the black racist is in charge of all the white racists.
let the fireworks begin!
I'm not sure how this is going to work, but it'll be interesting to watch.
"Dave's not home man..."
Is it true Hollywood is working on a bio-pic on Barack Obama
Called The Story of O?
Obama names new Homeland Security Head:
http://ccn1.net/POTD/groundhogday.jpg
If Phil sees his shadow, we're in Iraq for six more months?
will be kept in a hot, flat, and crowded gopher hole but listed on the NY Times bestseller list for six more months.
He had a VERY LARGE following in south Louisiana.
A common sentiment I heard among the locals was: "David Duke may not be the best person to say them, but he's saying things that need to be said."
At LSU, those days (1980s and 90s), frats and sororities celebrated "Lee and Jackson" Day on MLK's holiday...
This isn't surprising, really, considering how the Bushites looted and burned everything they could before leaving Washington. It reminded me of how the Confederacy ruined Richmond as they left. The GOP has become the new Confederacy with their perceived salvation among Southern voters and their "Screw the People. If we can't have it, burn it to the ground" philosophy. Steele is a tool, nothing more. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU4q-ZGo_kw
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...that the Confederacy is dead. As entertaining as it no doubt will be to watch Steele attempt to swim the shark and gator infested swamp that is the Republican Party, he will falter and drown eventually. It might be the weight of those standing on his back...the David Dukes, the Jim DeMints, the Sheriff Arpaios.
Keep it up, Dukesie! What a jackass.
But I'm sure you've all heard about the current representative of Louisiana's District 81, right?
http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/09/la...
Where do these people come from?!!?
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Dr. Mengele I presume?
Funny, I thought Duke claimed he was no longer a racist...I guess he lied....
I hope Mr Steele will succeed in bringing voice to the dianfranchised moderates within the Republican party- as up till now, only the ultra right wing had a voice....But seeing how there are so many bigots in the Republican party, i'm having serious doubts.
Their party may very well fragment- The fiscally conservative and secular moderates on one side, and the radical right wing, bigoted Christian fringe on the other....In 1912 Teddy Roosevelt broke off from the Republican party to create the short lived Bull Moose Party- Perhaps in 2012 we will see the Republican Party fragment yet again.
Whether or not the Republican party fragments, my money is on Sarah Palin being their nominee for the 2012 presidential election, and she will be even more xenophobic, uber Christian, anti-science, nationalist and bigoted than she was in the last election.
more fun for us.
I thought that Sarah Palin was the new image of the Republican Party.
Come to find out...
David Duke is the new image of the Republican Party.
If David Duke and Sarah Palin become the faces of the GOP, what a thing of beauty. In a country that is evolving into a culturally , ideologically, ethnically, and sexually diverse nation, we have these two cretins speak for the Party of Delusion. It will be fun watching the catastrophe...kinda like an old Irwin Allen movie from the 70's. Cheesy as hell, but somewhat entertaining.
People like Duke have always been one of the major voices of this rotten party. His problem with Steele is obvious. Steele deserves whatever happens to him for taking this shitty job.
So what. Let them eat each other. Personally, I think Steele is the best thing to ever happen to the Repubs. We should be praising him, talking about how maybe finally the GOP will join us in the 21st century. Eventually it will drive the racist bastards insane and they will dissolve into chaos. Good riddance.
If, like me, you live in one of the few remaining redder-than-red holdout states, you should be talking to your reps about how they should oppose EVERYTHING, vote no, no matter what the issue is. Just vote no. I can't think of a better way to ensure they never have a snowball's chance to hold any kind of significant power.
I guess that's an old photo of Duke?
Uh dave...
The Keith Partridge look is out.
the difference between the Repuke wing and the Rethug wing?
of their ideas take flight.
Seig heil.
...David Duke were correct. I would love to see the unholy alliance that is currently the Republican Party split factions into separate parties. A party for the social conservatives, one for the (so-called) fiscal conservatives, and one for the racist nut-jobs and gun lovers. That way, none of them would have ANY political power.
"This will result over the next four years a real move by millions of Republicans to take the party back to the populist issues that are not only right but can win for the Republican Party."
Oh yes the original strategy to trick the rubes into voting against their own best interests before strategy 2.0 suckered in the Fundies. You go with that Dave.
Don't "David Duke" Sidney Poitier.He is a great actor who was instrumental in establishing black pride and participation in American films. Steele can never match the accomplishments of Poitier.
Poitier would fight with directors against being stereotypically submissive negroes on stage and in film. He fought Lorriane Hansberry(a black woman playwriter) constantly to make the chauffeur, Walter Lee an honorable, family man in the original play "A Raisin in the Sun."
Poitier, a brilliant actor and a man well ahead of his time, is a poor analogical choice.
Thanks for the backup Lefty.
This reference offended me because Mr. Poitier has such class and always conducted himself as such.
Does this give anyone else a warm-fuzzy feeling:
Palin / Duke 2012
"Let's Right What's White"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1GPxcxrBkI
When he says "defend American heritage", he's not talking about Native Americans, is he?
And he's also not talking about Irish-Catholic, Jewish, or Asian-American influence on our cultural heritage. Who woulda thunk it from Duke???
It really bothers me that if you're against illegal immigration then you're a racist GOP scumbag. I'm fully a not racist socialist and I fully believe that all illegal immigrants (whether they're French, German, British, Chinese, Canadian, Kenyan, Mexican) should be booted back to where they came from. My great grandparents were immigrants from Italy. They did it the right way - legally.
This is OT, but I read in my newspaper today, banks who have received TARP funds have also applied for visas for foreign workers to fill top paying positions.
...the RNC appointed Steele as chairman, my first thought was they were just being copy-catters and how typical they would do something like that to win back the black vote. The racist, white supremacy thing never entered my mind. It must be absolutely devastatingly outrageous to the KKK and their like to not only have a President who is of African-American heritage, but the guy who chairs the RNC is also African-American. HOLY CHANGE BATMAN!!!!
The Republican Party will remain the same, and not change
The Republican Party will fragment, which will be good news for moderate Republicans as their oppressed voices can finally be heard.
The Christian zelots will form their own theocratic faction of the party.
A third, seperate Independent party will form, and the main Republican party will still remain.
Uncle Tom getting the RNC job is simply beautiful! I would love to be a bug on the wall of Limpballs humidor. This is absolutely priceless and the best part is Steele(Uncle Tom)actually thinks these racist assholes are happy about this!Man is this jerk in for a rude awakening. Michael, in case you've been in a coma for most of your life, these guys(GOP) hate black folks, unless you're gonna tow the party line and that is help the rich and piss on your own race!Oh yeah, come to think of it you're alright with that!What a slug!
Here is proof that bigotry are not just a right wing problem....
Why didn't you just be blunt and call Steele a ni**er?
There are quite a few on the left out there who don't seem to have a problem using some very bigoted terms when desribing Steele, which terms that would make us flinch if the right used such to describe Pres Obama..
Calling out those white liberal missionary imperialists again?
...second. You come off to me as an unwitting apologist for these nasty racists. Steele is an Uncle Tom and knows that he's being used!
Just wait until the first RNC cocktail party Steele attends and watch all the red necks hand him their empty bourbon glasses. Lol.
You wrote:
"Steele is an Uncle Tom and knows that he's being used!"
Sorry, but that comment is, in my book , pure racism-
Oh wait, thats right, it's impssible for liberals to be racist!
Sorry- racism is not limited to just one party- It is rife in the Republican party, and is present in the Democratic party as well.
I'm a left leaning Independent, I see both parties as being up to their heads in double standards.
Any intelligent black man who joins a party or organization that has as it's members vile hateful people like Limbaugh, Hannity, Coulter, Malkin, Dubya, Duke, Savage as influencial leaders in it's party has sold out his honor and soul.
You are truly confused.
What I take from your nonsensical ramblings. It's acceptable to voice racism because you're obviously a Democrat maybe an Independent, betting a far left kookaburra. Act joyfully as if being a Democrat entitles you to use words that would likely cause you hypocritical heartburn if a Republican used such words towards Obama. Rather delusional to believe that racism only presides in one party over another, believe history has shown party isn't the deciding factor when racism rears its ugly head.
Your body must go into involuntary spasms whenever Obama speaks of Abraham Lincoln (R),like a Native American might when looking at a 20 dollar bill with Andrew Jackson (D). That's how absurd you sound. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican and believed in God (oh no!) I wonder if you see him as you speak of Mr. Steele.
Guess which President fought to have the Civil Rights Act passed? Hint: wasn't a Democratic President. Clear to me you see the Republican Party as the racist party of this country yet I could have sworn the Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan. I guess I need to go reread some of my history or maybe you do.
Uh oh! Sounds like somebody has upset their base.
WHY do WE give a FLYING FIG NEWTON WHAT David Duke says or thinks? C'mon now, really...
Take your 500,000 or 5 million hardcore racists out of the Republican party and start a new party.
If there's anything the Republicans should have learned from this election, it's that the right-wing extremist vote ain't gonna win dick for them. They need the mainstream.
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