RNC/Rove Declare War on Black Folks to Win Back Conservative Base

[McCamy Taylor]

Notice the big media coverage being given to a simple touch on the shoulder and a brush off with a hand (aka the assault with the cellphone by Rep. McKinney)? Or how about Rush Limbaugh calling the victim of a gang rape a "ho". There is the mysteriously leaked grand jury testimony that has lead to TWO books about Barry Bonds steroid use that is getting much more MSM coverage that Mark McGwire ever got---he is even getting his own investigation complete with former senator.

The reason is simple. The GOP is being run by a bunch of morons. First they annoyed their base by running on a platform of no gay marriage but then saying "We really meant get rid of social security." Then they ticked them off by telling them "This war is going to last forever, and we lied about why we were invading Iraq." And now, they have made the conservative base as mad as hell by announcing "We are going to give illegal immigrants amnesty, because big business does not want to lose its workers, and big business is more important than you. :P"

Uh oh. Elections are just months away. The conservative base is threatening to stay home in disgust. What is the RNC and its brain (Karl Rove) to do?

Answer: resort to the time tested solution. Start media lynching African-Americans. Papa Bush did it with Willie
Horton. Now, the RNC is doing it with Cynthia McKinney. Who knows whom the next target will be. All the Republicans have to do is keep their conservative base mad as hell at Black people until the fall election. They will displace their anger at the Bush administration and the Neo-cons and they will turn out to vote on the theory that it is better to vote for the Republicans than to do nothing and see the nation plunge into lawlessness, chaos or whatever the RNC tells them it is going to plunge into.

If I had to make a prediction, I would guess that the Republicans are planning to instigate a riot somewhere this summer, for sheer media effect. Maybe in Ohio, where the GOP is not doing well in the polls?

Anyway, keep your eyes open.

[IsItJustMe]

1. I don't know if it's getting worse; but, It's definitely becoming more

blatant and insipid by the people who practice it.

They use to fire a black man and say, I don't like you, you're black.

Now they say, You're fired. We have cuts in our budget.

They use to say, You can't be in congress, who do you think you are, black woman and all.

Now they say, We don't like the way you get along with our security guards.

It's an old old story in America. Many of the feelings are the same, only the tactics have changed.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Racists react

My husband works with some folks who are racist, and they are down on Bush because he called them racists! Oh, not racists about blacks-racists because they oppose the Dubai ports deal. Remember when Bush said that those who opposed it were racially biased against Arabs? Well, the "good old boys" where my husband works got mad because they felt Bush wasn't talking about Democrats but about THEM. They are disgusted because of Bush's actions, which they finally see as hypocritical.

[IsItJustMe]

3. Yep, I've had to deal with the good old boys all my life. It's hard out

there when you're trying to be a good hearted person and yet you have to deal with all of this hatred and ignorance.

[McCamy Taylor]

4. Forgot Dubai. Now, we get Bortz, Limbaugh etc. spouting racist filth

to placate the KKK wing of the Republican Party that has begun to feel neglected. It is as if Karl Rove has given them orders "Make sure that the conservative base knows we were just kidding when we courted those African-American ministers."

The very high profile firing and charges against the White House staffer for shop lifting struck me as odd, too. Ordinarily there would have been an attempt to keep that quiet. Now, I wonder if the WH played it up because he was Afriacn-American.

[cantstandbush]

5. Been happening for years! The "Dixicrats" (now turned Rethug)

used to do it all the time in the south. That's how the south was Democrat for so long. Works like a charm.

[sendero]

6. Well..

.... they don't have any black votes to lose, so why not. Oh wait, it is mostly their "base" that is racist and they had them anyway. I guess it could be perhaps a GOTV effort...

[ShortnFiery]

7. That's so true ... but still ...

every day, as if "made to order" a Black Republican who a LOVES THEIR PRESIDENT calls into C-SPAN journal. It's like clockwork. :P

Due to all the covert racism, characters like J.C. Watts, Condi Rice and these so called Black Republicans who call in daily into C-SPAN would prove to be very interesting case studies?

The fact that Bush tanks on the African American front makes me wonder it Black Republican, with rare exceptions (usually connected people or those with with big bucks) should be noted to be a contradiction in terms?

[TheBaldyMan]

14. not really it's the same with Log Cabin Republicans - they have money

lots of it, so they vote republican.

Black Republican, Gay Republican, Mexican Republican - as long as you are filthy rich there is no contradiction. Only when you come to Poor Republican do you abandon all sanity.

[liberaliraqvet26]

8. I agree but screw Barry Bonds...

he is a disgrace to the game and needs to go

[ShortnFiery]

9. Agreed!

But at least he didn't look into the camera and declare, "I've never taken steroids!" I forget that bozo's name but his arrogance really cracks me up. :P

[AtomicKitten]

10. Good luck to the GOP in turning around their 2% approval rating

with black voters. It should be fun to watch.

[McCamy Taylor]

11. Watch Countdown re-run later, see Buchanan. He outlines GOP strategy

You will see that certain posters here on DU are using the strategy at this very moment.

It mainly involved scaring the crap out of the GOP conservative base. The base which the GOP pissed off by doing bait and switch with gay marriage/social securty. The base that does not want to spend money and lives bringing democracy to a muslim country like Iraq. The base that didnt appreciate being told it was "racist" over Dubai Ports.

Buchanan said to scare the base by harping on the things that a Democratic majority would do. One of the first things he mentioned was that Rangel would chair a committe. This is code for African-Americans like Rangel, Conyers, McKinney would be in charge of things---which scares the crap out of the KKK wing of the GOP.

This is a concerted effort on the part of a lot of Republicans. It is going on right now. It is still in the early stages but it will get worse. I have seen it many times before.

[TheBaldyMan]

12. If you ask me it's part of the ongoing war on blacks since 1860s

I still think they will have to rely on ballot box stuffing just like the last two elections. Well it worked before so why not again.

[McCamy Taylor]

13. Escalation in the fighting. Conservative base threatening to stay home.

GOP may not get enough voter turn out to make election fraud feasible win option.