The Verdict On The New GOP.com: FAIL
It's no secret that effective and intelligent use of the internet has escaped the Republican Party. That said, it should come as no surprise that the reviews are in on the new and improved GOP.com, and it's not good. Of course, progressive blogs give it the thumbs down, but let's see what right wing blogs have to say -- starting with Townhall:
As Jillian subtly points out, GOP chairman Michael Steele is not 13-years-old and, therefore, should not have a blog entitled "What Up?"
But along with the chairman's new blog, a new GOP site has been unveiled as the party attempts to re-brand itself. "Something is happening at GOP.com," booms the voice of Steele as the page loads. No joke: a digital Michael Steele struts across the computer monitor to explain the new website and how "that something new -- is you!" Sure this tiny Michael Steele and cheesy line is enough to make you roll your eyes, but it gets worse. Much worse.
In fact, it gets downright embarrassing.
And how about Little Green Footballs?
And even worse, the new website violates one of the cardinal rules of web design: web pages should never make sound without the visitor’s consent. The GOP home page has a little Javascript-animated Michael Steele who comes walking out and starts talking, like one of those incredibly annoying advertisements you see on cheesy websites.
It’s the political party with a website that’s not safe for work.
Red State loves it, but it must be discouraging that the "Future Leaders" page doesn't actually have any names on it. As I looked around the site, I noticed that each time I changed or refreshed pages, a new face would pop up on the page, just like my screen cap above. Strangely, a disproportionate number of those photos were of African-Americans and there were plenty of fresh, young faces too. You know, people who don't belong to the Republican Party, and never will? They even have the nerve to try to claim the ghost of Jackie Robinson!
Everything the gop touches lately just turns to FAIL.
Lovin it.
How embarrassing that they choose a true American Hero in Robinson to push a racist agenda...Shameless!
these gop assholes...they just can't seem to grasp reality....
Well how many of us can grasp things with our butts?
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Well there was this one time.........uh, nevermind.
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Well, I knew this stripper once...well, hehe. she could do this thing with her..ah well you get the idea.
Did ya know her Biblically?
I always want to laugh when I hear people yelling, "Know your Bible!"
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"Which one?"
"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
Famous "Reality Based" Commentator
But I'm glad I didn't...found out later, she had teh herpes.
...on another thread, tho....(teaser: there were Majic Markers, Ping Pong balls, LIVE EELS, and a whole family of Japanese tourists including ancient granny and 13-ish daughter in Hello Kitty teeshirt-she ran out pale as a ghost because of the eels....)
"Ronald Reagan is DEAD! His policies live on but we're doing something about THAT!"
you know how to party!
all having to deal with the reverse gold... :S
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This is funny in about a zillion kinds of ways. Oh and thanks for the warning about the audio on that site. Had I clicked on it and heard a voice it would have scared the stuffing out of me.
Oh, Michael Steele, the funny that just keeps getting funnier.
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I guess Steele is trying to appeal to the young people with his hep jive but by approaching it this way he is insulting a whole lot of people of all races. Maybe being serious and sincere might have more of an appeal to people who are serious and sincere about their party.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
... the family member who tries to use hip terms and FAILS, repeatedly. Everyone just smiles and nods, but privately, they're thinking, "God, Uncle Mike is just such a loser."
try and win more younger voters, so I would presume, but this is the worst way to go about it. The younger voters are laughing their asses off, largely because there's no way of hiding the fact that the GOP is comprised almost entirely of older folks (and the college Republicans are assholes, thus a lot of younger people want nothing to do with them), and also, many many young people are serious about the future of this country, and many of them don't even use that kind of language to begin with.
Epic fail indeed!
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Rebranding is like so...you know...kinky...
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of George W. Bush's fraternity. Phi Chapter, Delta Kappa Epsilon.
Maybe that is why Kinky Friedman first ran for office as a Republican during Bush's tenure as Governor.
"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
Famous "Reality Based" Commentator
You've got it all wrong. It's not the Republicans new site. It's GP, Gomer Pyle's new site.
What, mikey couldn't get the bouncy paperclip with googly eyes?
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The stench of Reslug desperation is stinking the place up. They are such losers and just can't do anything right.
You mean degeneration?
Their homeworld was a place called Earth, located in an uninteresting part of the galaxy. They had an expression: pride goeth before a fall. Their pride was their undoing. I know. I was there....They did not listen, of course. Arrogant men never do.
I was hoping he would walk on saying, like, ..."Yo, dawg..wassup witchoo? Y'all ready to get down and boogie, Republican-style?"
Too much. And that sickening blood-red color ties in nicely with the Republican platform of war, death and destruction.
Good job!
They even have the nerve to try to claim the ghost of Jackie Robinson!
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I ain't scared of no ghostesses!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3h4o5AiLuM
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Just got done plumbing the depths of stupidity (yes, I was at the GOP site). WOW! What can I say? The "Republican Heroes" section is a hoot; Half those people I've never heard of (Pinckney Pinchback? Now there's a name that sounds like somebody who would care about the poor, working class, and minorities of this country. BTW, who the fuck is he?). Naturally, St Ronnie's on there, but they'd better check with Ike's family to see what they think of him being featured in that rogues gallery of retards. More fail from the GOP - I love it!
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
Wasn't that the name of a Charles Dickens character?
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He was quite interesting.
"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
Famous "Reality Based" Commentator
Now I'm concerned. Will there be enough popcorn to last these next few years? Looks like we are gonna need lots.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
One more observation about that site, if I may. The GOP braintrust can't seem to grasp the idea that Republicans of Lincoln's time were a completely different political animal. I seriously doubt that Frederick Douglass would have associated himself with the modern day GOP. In fact, he'd probably puke at the thought.
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
They need volunteers to finish the website (badly it seems). They are asking for them (patriot programmers for America).
I am giggling. Yes, I can code .. but .. but. Can't stop laughing.
They can always do what the rest of their corporate buddies do, just outsource the coding to India and China.
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
veterans. Surely XE has some boys coming back available. Are any Log Cabin Repubs among those separated by DADT?
"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
Famous "Reality Based" Commentator
...to help 'em out....and leave 'em a nice little hidden Easter Egg!
"Ronald Reagan is DEAD! His policies live on but we're doing something about THAT!"
It looks as though if you have a valid email address yu can upload a photo anf short bio. This looks ripe for comedy.
I just uploaded this:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/141/376396554_...
under the name
Prince Mantecore du Sheffington
He is a registered Republican.
Go for it everyone!
ah, now THAT'S the way to freep a site. Good one, conseratoire!
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
gainful employment outside the wingnut welfare circle. Perhaps he can pen a cook book for bulk sales to those who need an added gift to subscribe to National Review.
"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
Famous "Reality Based" Commentator
sez:
"I can haz mor warz plz?"
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Either the GOP responded quickly to the criticism or r2d2 was damaged before I could download the tiny Michael Steele to find out the name of the star system where our rebel forces were organizing.
"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
Famous "Reality Based" Commentator
What were your plans for the tiny Mickey?
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It is tiny Mikey I am missing. What I do with little animated figures on my screen in the privacy of my home is private. Sometimes corporal.
"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
Famous "Reality Based" Commentator
If you did get tiny Mikey, he would probably fail within a week.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
I was thinking about trying the forum out using my alternate persona "Beckimbaugh" where I post the most insane fact free rants and see how people at the site respond.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfILAj0etkE&fe...
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Clearly Nicky Chinn was not from Dickens. Maybe Dick Tracy?
"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
Famous "Reality Based" Commentator
"...how living a life of personal responsibility, thrift and charity has helped your families and your businesses...."?
I'm Boycotting NewsCorp! Heres what not to buy: http://www.cjr.org/resources/index.php?c=news...
"Michael Steele questioned what has Obama accomplished. Well, if it weren't for Obama, you wouldn't have a job."
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
No truer words were ever typed!
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Pathetic to the Max
Like OMG!
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I've never seen change without a fire
What up.
Who the Hell is this minstrel talking to? Kids here would challenge this sorry black man.
A complete miserable failure.
I know you are in touch with today's youth, but would they even bother?
"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
Famous "Reality Based" Commentator
They would see right through Steele's bullshit. He wouldn't be safe.
Best analogy I could make would be a black man wearing blackface.
I can see right through it and I am white and not a kid. Let's just say that Steele is transparent to all people.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
I just signed up at the GOP.com website with the screen name "gaybasher". No problem. I will leave comments to see if my screen name posts. Should be a hoot!
Mostly from teens living in moms' basements, but hey, some might be good meth cooks...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
that the GOP's top computer guy recently died in a small plane crash after he was subpoenaed to testify in the Ohio election fraud case.
That was only months ago, but that fact has been thrown down the memory hole with all the others that we're not supposed to remember or think about.
Hey, it just occurred to me! Duhbya's not listed as a "Republican Hero" - neither is his dad. And where's Nixon, Rockefeller, etc, etc.?
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
Is cheney listed? I just showered so I don't want to go there and get taint on me.
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No, he's not (at least not when I checked last time). But they've got all these other losers nobody's ever heard of, featured, as well as people (Lincoln, Douglass, Clara Barton and, I dare say, even Ike) who would puke at the notion of being a member of the modern GOP
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
So they are choosey about who they call their BFFs
Hey, Maybe Steele could use that line in his next cool dude speech. Hey bro, we are choosey about who we call our BFFs and we aren't LOLing when we say that.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
I'm surprised Joe Lieberman and Zell Miller aren't featured. After all they've done stabbing the Democratic Party in the back - what ingrates!
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
start calling them "Know Nothings" again?
How about we just call them the Fat Chancers?
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The GOP knows that they could take back mainstream America simply by fighting corruption in the White House and big business. Instead, they are so completely self-indulgent and spoiled that they would rather indulge in shameless racism, sexism, stereotyping, and clutching corporate dishonesty to their chests like a C-street congressman's whore.
And the Democrats, regrettably, are little better.
quick! go to the GOP photo page and see the Sarah Palin picture painted up to look like the joker, uploaded this morning!! rate it high and it will make the 'highest rated' column of pictures. They took 24 hours to catch the Mark Foley picture!
It's down already tho :(
While at about the same time I was trying to connect to Windows Messenger, and it wouldn't let me connect as long as the page was up. A minute into loading the page (not a good sign), my Outlook attempted an automatic send/receive, and IT failed. What the hell is the GOP trying to do to my computer?
That's one of the many reasons I don't want to go there. If they are so stupid to allow anyone to put anything on their site, how do they know what might be on there.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
The good part is they might crash all the GOP users' computers. That would send a signal out about the 'new' GOP.
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
Will somebody please do us all a favor and find the image of that large black man on iStockphoto and post it here, lest we believe that this man is an actual GOPer? Thank you.
... to think, "Hey, wonder how many of those are stock photos?"
It'd get blamed on an unpaid intern, of course ...
I put another one up.
This is Charlie "Skunk Face" Wickers
http://nrvliving.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c36d...
another fine registered Republican
How I wanted to upload a picture of a guy in Klan robes and for the accompanying reason "I" was a republican, I would be slightly ironic and talk about the importance of tort reform.
A bunch of guys in Klan robes and hoods is known as a toga party to them.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Do little 3D animated Klansmen come out and chase the 3D Michael Steele off the page?
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
I always thought of them as rather one-dimensional...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
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is currently one of the "most popular" photos. Wasn't he one of the original geniuses behind the neo-conservative movement?
The words "genius" and "neo-conservative" should never be used in the same sentence.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
I am not crazy, does this website look like it was designed for China, with the red and gold hued stars? I mean some variation on red, white, and blue, would probably have been appropriate. Perhaps the GOP knows something we don't.
sub-menu items to open in separate tabs, each just opened the homepage again! Way to go douchebags!
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Would nekkid photos of ann colter help?
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BAAAAARRRRFFFF!!!!
That's how ann keeps her weight down.
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You may insult those amongst us with eating disorders.
keeps those away.
"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
Famous "Reality Based" Commentator
Ain't nothin' but a house party!
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
What do I see?
Frederick Douglass. Frederick Douglas?
LOL.
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a Lunatic Asylum. -Havelock Ellis
and the GOP?
It's their way of reminding us that the President is a communist. Beck can't be everywhere all the time, so he needs a little help with his message.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
They could use puce, mauve and turquoise.
Queer Eyes For Straight Blogs.
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I just got back from there and this is something that I noticed:
On the "Who We Are" page the last thing it says is
Does anybody think that today's Republican would be for abolition? Free speech? How did that work when Bush put anybody who protested him, into a cage a mile away? Woman's suffrage? "Put Nancy Pelosi in her place" by a macho general? These people have balls to insinuate that today's Republican Party is anything like the Republican Party of the last part of the 19th century. Barf.
Looks as if, they also have, issues with, comma splices. I would like to comment more, however, I cannot.
Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water.
LOL – I didn’t notice that before. Funny.
One of my favorite sequences in the book “Flowers for Algernon” is how Charlie Gordon changes his writing style as his intelligence grows. In one entry of his diary he learns of punctuation, yet doesn’t quite understand it. But at that point he sure likes to use it. It seems that’s the point where the GOP is with this paragraph.
“We!, in the GOP; would like everyone?!?,,; to come over’ &and& join @!, our party. --? Even if your BLACK!.”
Looks like a comic strip character swearing.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons...
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Shouldn't that read, "Even if you're BLACK.”
And @and@ translates as and and and.
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Yes ysb, that's why it's in quotes.
Wouldn't it translate to, at and at?
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They had Frederick Douglass as one of their "heroes".....it left me utterly speechless!!!!!
Do you know what GOP stands for?
Gas, Oil & Plutonium
Of course RedState loves it. It is stupid, incompetent, ineffective, puerile, and tacky. Everything they love in life (actually does not have enough racism, sexism, and homophobia for much of the base, however).
GOP.com? Hmmm...was Scrooge.com taken?
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
Apparently Steele got the message pretty quick. The name of the blog changed to "Change the Game". Not much better.
is intended to be a factual statement
just keep that in mind.
so they can control it? NOT
They can't even destroy it, they built it so it couldn't be nuked out of existence....now they're stuck with it.
"Ronald Reagan is DEAD! His policies live on but we're doing something about THAT!"
it looks like some of the tags still remain. That might be an opening for some new and more interesting content.
Or a sign of some serious embarrassment.
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The GOP really has a lock on teh stupid, don't they.
Their base is so proud. Their Party really is a reflection of them.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
Hmmm....the party that pictures a black President with WATERMELONS...
Back in the old days, they used to call guys like Michael Steele OREOS.
That hasn't changed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znQe9nUKzvQ
Go to the gop.com site and click "skip the video" to watch Steele come out. But wait until the end because, and I could not believe my eyes or ears, but he finished talking and just stands there. I was wondering what is he was going to say next? But incredulously, you can hear the director of the video say something off camera and then the video ends. I mean WTF???? Can they not even edit a video properly?
Please watch and comment on this. It is just LOL funny.
If you're wondering about the faces here is a web page I made to show you all the instances they have on gop.com. There appears to be 1 to 44 versions. My favorite is Face #16 which belongs on Photoshop Disasters more than it belongs on the major party home page...
I would like to eat #3's liver with a nice bottle of Chianti
I noticed right away that the website requires quicktime to open it. It also tries to install quicktime into the startup list on one's computer. My computer has a safeguard against anything trying to install itself in the startup (startup monitor). So, unless you're willing to add quicktime to your startup routine (which I am not) you can't even get the full functionality of the website. Another big fail, in my book.
When I went there, in the Facebook section, someone was using the "Sons of the Confederacy" logo with a Confederate flag as their Facebook avatar. That pretty much sums it up doesn't it? If you want some real laughs go to their comment section at "Why Are You A Republican?" From Michael Orchant:
Why am I a Republican? What a good question! In light of the national political climate, I might as well start off with healthcare. I was born healthy, this is an evolutionary advantage (gotcha liberals!) and I shouldn't be forced to pay for the care of other, worse-adapted people. If they are meant to live, God will save them. The idea that I somehow owe my hard earned tax dollars to illegal aliens getting abortions is preposterous. I haven't even gotten to how communist healthcare will affect me and MY family. The thought of grandma going before a panel of government bureaucrats to explain why she should be allowed to live is terrifying. This job is currently handled wonderfully by private insurers, with no death panels. Of course, the liberals seem to think we're all going to die anyway... Which brings me to energy policy. That's right, it's called energy policy, not "crazy sun is gonna burn up the world" theory policy. The implausibility of the idea that human beings are capable of destroying God's creation without his direct intervention would be amusing, that is if we weren't run by a government that's basically handing out tin foil hats. The President, probably as part of his Kenyan domination conspiracy, is proposing that we tax carbon emissions, only the most common element on earth! Hey Mr. "Science" President, did you know that humans emit carbon every time we breathe? It brings a whole new meaning to "drowning in taxes"! But those are just the hot button issues. There are others that make me a Republican, (abortion, gun "control", and family values among them) but for the time being, I'll let these stand .
I rest my case.
Oye!
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
methinks this comment has to be a sendup. Are they really that stooooopid?
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"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
Famous "Reality Based" Commentator
If Clownhall finds a site embarrassing, I can't even imagine the level of fail involved. I'd go check it out on my own, but I have better things to do.
I found this on a blog, http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/3563/gopwe...
The Stars align lol
I did check it out. The comments section is worth reading. There are more people who say they used to be a Republican than there are who will admit to being one today. For some, the party has become too crazy. For some, it isn't crazy enough. Lots of Ron Paul acolytes. It's worth a read.
James Dale Guckert.
What's to stop the bored from getting mischievous with this thing?
Bad idea to welcome the submission of names, surely. People use the internet as an avenue for misbehaving with reduced consequences. It's AWESOME for that.
...is in da hizzie! Whutup wit dat? LOL!!! What a maroon!
they have to offer now is Caribou Barbie and Michelle Bachmann and tons of experience in misogynist legislation and statements?
Alrightyyyyy then...
The GOP really is bad joke with a painful punchline!
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in the Senate, one of the things she'd be up to is joining those cavalier Republican "gentlemen" in voting against protecting rape victims' rights to prosecute their attackers, even if their attackers are affiliated with an military contractor!
/ angry sarcasm
I've never seen change without a fire
The few faces that were recognizable on GOP.com we're interesting in the fact that most of them were African Americans. Hmmm? Project much, GOP?
The first I saw was Hiram Rhodes who said something that if he had said it today it would apply to the party he belonged to.
"Since reconstruction, the masses of my people have been, as it were, enslaved in mind by unprincipled adventurers, who, caring nothing for country, were willing to stoop to anything no matter how infamous, to secure power to themselves, and perpetuate it..... My people have been told by these schemers, when men have been placed on the ticket who were notoriously corrupt and dishonest, that they must vote for them; that the salvation of the party depended upon it; that the man who scratched a ticket was not a Republican. This is only one of the many means these unprincipled demagogues have devised to perpetuate the intellectual bondage of my people.... The bitterness and hate created by the late civil strife has, in my opinion, been obliterated in this state, except perhaps in some localities, and would have long since been entirely obliterated, were it not for some unprincipled men who would keep alive the bitterness of the past, and inculcate a hatred between the races, in order that they may aggrandize themselves by office, and its emoluments, to control my people, the effect of which is to degrade them."
Make no motto of love that worships war
Although not African American, Clara was a woman, one of two women between the G and the P that was familiar-
"While various authorities have called Barton a “Deist-Unitarian" or freethought or deism; in a 1905 letter to Mrs. Norman Thrasher, she called herself an "Universalist”[5] The term was used then to describe those believing the Universalist Church doctrine, which was also the Church her parents belonged to."
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He was a firm believer in the equality of all people, whether black, female, Native American, or recent immigrant. He was fond of saying, "I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong."
He'd sure fit in nicely with today's brand of conservatism, eh?
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"Brooke served as a U.S. senator for two terms, from January 3, 1967, to January 3, 1979. In 1967, he served on the President's Commission on Civil Disorders. He was a member of the liberal wing of the Republican Party and organized the Senate's "Wednesday Club" of progressive Republicans who met for Wednesday lunches and strategy discussions. Brooke, who had supported New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller's bid for the 1968 GOP presidential nomination against Nixon's, often differed with President Richard Nixon on matters of social policy and civil rights."
Hmmm? Bet he'd love be a fly on the wall in one of today's RNC meetings.
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"Dr. José Celso Barbosa (July 27, 1857 – September 21, 1921) was a medical Physician, sociologist, and political leader of Puerto Rico. Known as "The father of the Statehood for Puerto Rico movement", Barbosa was also the first Puerto Rican with an American (United States) medical degree."
He'd probably have to prove citizenship in order to remain in the US today and would be considered alien in today's GOP.
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"In 1870, Rainey was elected to the State Senate of South Carolina. Later that year, he was elected to fill a vacancy in the Forty-first Congress of the United States as a Republican. This vacancy had been created when the previous incumbent, Republican Benjamin F. Whittemore, was censured by the House for CORRUPTION and subsequently re-elected, after which the House refused to seat him."
Whittemore would be a hero in today's GOP and easily elected. Rainey would be a Democrat. Go figure...
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disenfranchised over the years, and not vote.
Now that they feel empowered and registered in record numbers and voted in record numbers, they realise they will NEVER BE ABLE TO WIN AGAIN, unless they pander to blacks.
Can you say, "Too little, too late?"
BTW, the Republican party of old is NOT the Republican party of today. If you recall, Lincoln freed the slaves, but when the Dems under LBJ introduced Civil Rights laws, all the Southern Racist Dems switched to the Republican party.
I forget his name but there was a web usability guru who had a great book called something like "Learning good design from bad sites" He had around 20 sites that ranked from poor to awful and he used them to illustrate all the things you shouldn't do when designing a site. It was a great book, informative and entertaining. If he does an update this site should go in it.
http://our.gop.com/post/JWhite/photos/2zxshp3.html
I've gone to the new gop website three times now and nowhere is Mini-Michael to be found. I think they took him off. Bad sign, Michael. Today, Mini-Michael; tomorrow...?
The GOP site has a list of Republican Heroes that includes Susan B. Anthony and a whole series of Black folks, and even one Puerto Rican. But it ignores the fact that for all of these people the Republican Party was the party of Reconstruction and civil rights, and that in the 1960s and since it became the home for the Jim Crow politicians no longer comfortable in the Great Society Democratic Party.
I searched for the words Reconstruction (appears nowhere on the site), Dixiecrat (same), Klan (one reference to legislation in 1871) and racist. (Two references by people denying that they are one.)
Ignoring the contemporary politics, it is simply shameful that folks with such a whitewashed version of history would dare to feature Frederick Douglass on their website.
http://www.user.shentel.net/llyates
or does that banner look suspiciously like the Chinese flag?
http://the-billablog.blogspot.com/
Black Republican. Sort of like being a Jewish Nazi isn't it? Can you say Clayton Bigsby!!
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