Perhaps you can define diversity for us old gal?

Then were can assess if it applies given West, Cain, Haley, Jindal and the many other non old white guys abounding in the party.

Deal?

Yeah, I figured you wouldn't want to provide a definition then an objective standard.

Just not the way you roll. We get it.

He added, “I have young professional African Americans, who walk up to me every day and say, 'I'm glad you're running.’”

LoL I want to see some video of this.

But he's right about one thing. If the GOP has become a party of diversity, it was be sudden.

Like earlier this morning.

p.s. am I the only one who had trouble with First Read again this afternoon?

AH.....That's right. GOP/TP isn't racist but embrasses the act of racism or perhaps, they just want to take their lost country back.

AM, two days in a row FR has had issues for me. Been down for a while and just came back.

May I assume the folks that ran that hunting camp in Tejas were.....Democrats?

Who knew?

" If the GOP has become a party of diversity, it was be sudden."

It could happen. I mean, look how much they suddenly embraced 'politically correct' when that terrorist they wanted coddled got assasinated.

So, is Newt saying.....See, see, we like black folk, we got Herman Cain....see, see, he's black!

Off message, but, I saw this last eveing on Countdown with Keith O (currenttv)..

Retroactive recusal, we can only hope?

"Rep. Louise Slaughter and other members of Congress are exploring the failure of Justice Clarence Thomas to disclose that his wife made millions of dollars from clients whose cases were decided by the Supreme Court. Slaughter revealed on "Countdown" that she's exploring "retroactive recusal" in cases like Citizens United, which would nullify Thomas' vote and overturn the ruling."

I saw that too chilled, and it is about time. Can you imagine the outrage from the right if a perceived liberal judge were doing such a thing?

Impeach Thomas, Scalia, Roberts and Alito.

If GOP/TP isn't racist we should then scrap the words, RACIST/RACISM, off all dictionary.

I was stunned Dawning...RETURNED!

and I totally agree, Thomas, Scalia, Roberts and Alito need to go!

So Drive By - all those Dixiecrats in the South that opposed the equal rights movement in the 1950 an 60's were from what party?

Have yyou forgotten that it was teh republicans that supported the blacks in the South, or do you really not know your history?

Either way Drive By.

AM -- No not the only one....Me too...the site is not working properly and I am beginning to wonder about service attacks on our networks. Yesterday and now today......hmmmm. Yesterday it was several websites not working at the same time.

Do you EVER try to stick to CURRENT stuff?

But- what party did the 'Dixiecrats' become?

Oh, and Spanks- you seem VERY intent on defending the GOP against this carge. What's that all about, anyway?? Just interested in a sense of fair play?

DBO

Spanky and Bachman study from the history book written for them only. GOP/TP is trying a re-write of history.

That's funny, PEN- I thought ONE of 'em only read Tax Code publications?? But you might be right about Spanky, though.

President Lyndon Johnson clearly explained the loss of the Dixiecrats almost a half-century ago. He specifically said the south would be lost to the Democrats for at least the next 50 years, and it was precisely because of the passage of the Civil Rights Laws. He was dead-on correct when he noted that racism was alive and well then. That was the reason for the Civil Rights Act, for Pete's sake.

Racism is alive and well today. To believe that there was not and is not a serious element of racism/bigotry in the hatred directed towards President Obama, one must be in a state of total denial or be deaf and blind. I am not going to listen to someone who tells me I'm not seeing what I see, and that I'm not hearing what I hear.

Yessssirrrreeeee Newt. Get back in the clown car.

So Drive By - all those Dixiecrats in the South that opposed the equal rights movement in the 1950 an 60's were from what party?

(emphasis added)

And when they later retired from politics, they were from which party?

Take Strom Thurmond, for example.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_Thurmond

Thurmond later represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from 1954 until 2003, at first as a Democrat and after 1964 as a Republican. He switched out of support for the conservatism of Republican presidential candidate and Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, who shared his opposition to the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Well, that about sums it up, doesn't it?

That and that other fellow, Lyndon Johnson, mentioned by David, who actually got the CRA passed.

I believe Johnson was a Democrat, Spanky.

Racist......I can SHOW and name just as many racist Democrats. There are some in here. The same ones that voted for Obama in an attempt to makes themselves "feel good". That was just a way to cover-up their hidden racism. They might have voted for Obama but I would bet they don't want him living next door.

If the Democrats were so great for minorities, then why are minorities STILL in the same or worse shape? If Republicans are racist then I would rather the shyt be out in the open rather than hidden and sneaky with it like some in the Democrat party.

You cannot blanket an entire party because of a few either way.

Speaking of racist in the Congress::::what about that old, decrepted (msp) azz Grand Wizard Robert Byrd (hmmmmmm let me speak......hmmmmm I got sumptin' to say)....for as many negros I'm sure he was an accomplice in hanging, I know he is shytting flames now.

I guess I spend to much time talking politics with my secretary.

She is a hard core libbie, but I tend to always give her the benefit of the doubt on race issues. And LBGT issues as well.

She also used to live in Texas and assures me Perry is not a racists.

So Drive what is it you are trying to hard to imply?

AM - just a little history, courtesy of the GOP, party that brought you the CRA, over strenuous democratic objection. Were all republicans on board in the south? Nope, but certainly far more than dems, which is why Drive By, my post was directly on topic.

Man, you libbies and context.

The left is a racist group built on thier progressive agenda, based on keeping minorities in line through government depedency.

No hope in self worth.

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.............. I see you're a graduate of Glenn Beck University. hahahahhahahahaha

Gingrich: GOP isn't racist

And the Abominable Snowman isn't abominable.

MRWSR.

The left is a racist group built on thier progressive agenda, based on keeping minorities in line through government depedency.

No hope in self worth.

Where do you people get this crap?

And here comes the Political left, to claim the GOP really is racist, and none of their elected minorities "count", even though to get elected you must get support and votes from your party members.

This would be the same political left that yells "uncle tom" at any black man who 'dares' be conserative or align with the GOP.

But when the left hurls these racial epithets is somehow isn't racist.

yea...right...keep telling yourself that libs

The GOP might not be racist, but if you are a racist, you're probably on the side of the GOP!

at 111pct

yea sure, because Dem leaders like J.Jackson, Al Sharpton, Van Jones et al have NO racism at all LOL

Gingrich is right, the GOP isn't racist...they are all a bunch of bigots. White, older Archie Bunker types who hate anyone different from them, whether race, religion, socioeconomic status, heck they even hate people who are like them.

In reading about companies discriminating against the unemployed for being unemployed, we all know some white, probably male, probably older, even overweight hiring executive is unwilling to hire older workers especially if they are females who are also less attractive or a minority... Come on, who's kidding who? When will America progress?

We are falling behind the rest of the world thanks to Teapublicans like Gingrich who want to take our country back to the Dark Ages, while the Middle East and third-world countries want to join the modern world. Crazy.

It's always encouraging to here these erudite pronouncements from Newt on a wide range of topics. (I'll be somewhat more encouraged when his picture is removed from Webster's definition of the word "liar". . .)

you lefties CRACK ME UP.

every time an african american is conservative you call them an "uncle tom", say they're brain washed and a traitor to their race.

feisty red headed step child in IL: you are a PRIME example of this.

Okay okay... you're not racists. You'll make "exceptions" for anyone... if they have a ton of money... if they agree with your extreme ideology... and will speak against Obama. Now how does that make you "not racist"? I'm not saying you are or aren't, I'm just saying your logic stinks.

feisty red headed step child in IL: you are a PRIME example of this.

Would it be to much to ask you translate whatever point you're attempting to make into English?

PS: You don't need lefties to crack you up - you do a mighty fine job of that all by yourself! ;o))

lmarct-

just so i'm "in the know" every single liberal is poor, doesn't have extreme ideals, is not racist, and worships at the altar of obama? wow, another liberal fitting everyone in a box.

kiki,

I'm not putting everyone in a box... at least I didn't mean to. I'm just observing that having blacks in the party has little to say about whether racism is prevalent in a party... maybe it's a good first step, but it's not conclusive evidence.

That better? Sorry to mislead.

They're not racists. They all have a black friend!

I like to know what or even who changed Cain's mind/review on the "N" word on Perry's Rock? One day is really getting on Perry for being insensitive and taking action to resolve the problem, and then the next day he dismisses the whole thing and said it was just a "bad word".(some statement like that).

i still don't see how you can say that racism is prevalent in the GOP?

the "racism" card is getting old and dated. it's nothing but an act of desperation by a party with nothing else to grasp at. if you throw the word around too many times, when someone actually is racist no one's going to be listening.

feisty red head-

it's "too" not "to". so sorry it's too difficult for you to understand. did your feelings get hurt? you liberals are SOOOO sensitive. NOW i'm cracking my self up. ;o))

it's "too" not "to". nice response. try harder next time. ;o))

Thank YOU so much grammar police sweet cheeks!

You may now continue with your regularly scheduled grazing.... BHAAAAA!

Get back to me when you become somehow relevant! ;o)))

If nasty Newt says the GOP isn't racist you can be damned sure it is! By definition what he says is a lie...

redhead,

thanks for the compliment! i do have sweet cheeks! i guess liberals can be human sometimes!

if someone doesn't follow YOUR comments w/ "you're so right!" "i couldn't agree with you more" and follow you around like a zombie-they are not relevant. another typical liberal keeping the people down...;O)))

Spanked,

As I recall your Presidential Candidate in 1964, Barry "Blowout" Goldwater, voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964. To imply that the Southern "Democrats" such as Strom Thurmond and Richard Russell would be Democrats today would imply that Rick "Ni****head" Perry or Good 'Ole Newt would fit right into the Democratic Party of 2011. The ideologies of the four aforementioned are inseparable.

Another Red Herring argument of yours is the Abraham Lincoln analogy. Today's Republican Party is not the Party of Lincoln. It's the Party of Palin and a host of other narrow-minded intellectually-challenged twits. If Lincoln were somehow transported from the past, he wouldn't recognize the party he founded. Furthermore, if he ran in the 2011 Republican Primaries, he would be trailing Jon Huntsman in the vote totals. He was a liberal!

Nope there hass never been a racist in the dumbocraps party. Just ask the old racist dixiecrat Al Gore Sr. who helped try to filibuster away the civil rights act. Even better ask his cohort The Honorable Racist Robert KKK Byrd.

I am Asian American and a REPUBLICAN. Surprise, Surprise, there are many of us out there!

dave

You mention two Democratic politicians,Senators Gore and Byrd, who changed their views on race issues and refused to become Republicans when it was no longer viable to be both Democrat and racist in the South. They watched as the solid Democratic South became the solid Republican South (with a flirtation with the Dixiecrats for many) in order to fight against school integration, voting rights, and civil rights of many descriptions. Strom Thurmond, George Wallace, Lester Maddox and other former Democrats who retained their racist ideals became stalwarts of the Republican party.

So you can talk about the former racists who stayed with the Democratic party or you can talk about the politicians who wished to remain racist and became Republicans.

Actually redhead has it right. Republicans are not very diverse. Intelligence is required, so that eliminates the majority of libs.

It was a Republican who signed the Emancipation Proclimation to free slaves.

It was a Democrat who stood in front of a high school and refused to let blacks in.

You can't say either party is one thing or another. Those stereotypes do not hold up under reasonable scrutiny.

From what I'm reading here, the vast majority of you are bigots of one sort or another.

Jack

Both of those statements demonstrate your lack of knowledge about political history. Abraham Lincoln certainly was a Republican and his anti-slavery position was opposed by Southern Democrats. The Democrats remained the majority party in the South until the time of civil rights legislation in the 1960's and it certainly was a Democrat who refused to let Blacks in the high school, in keeping with his segregationist views. That Democrat who stood in front of the high school and other racist Democrats became Republicans and continued to fight school integration and other aspects of civil rights. Yes, Jack, Lincoln was a Republican, but Lincoln would not recognize the Republican Party a century after his death and I venture to say he would have been ashamed of what his party became.

The republicans have used the race card ever since Obama won. Chose the easiest path instead of the rightous honorable one. It'll backfire.

Yes...ask N***erhead Perry. There is no racism, it's just how we are down in Texas.

I can't be a racist. I've got a black friend. See?

Not all Republicans are racist, but every racist I know is a diehard Republican.

OK, we can play that game.

I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side ... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds -- Sen Robert Byrd

'Hymies.' 'Hymietown.' -- Jesse Jackson's description of New York City

Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them -- Mary Frances Berry, Chairman, US Commission on Civil Rights

"You cannot go to a 7-11 or Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian Accent." Joe Biden

"I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health." -- Charles Barron, a New York city councilman

"White folks was in caves while we was building empires... We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it." -- Rev. Al Sharpton

So remember if you want to paint an entire party by the acts of a few, realize the above comments were made by prominent Democrats.

Whatever happened to the controversy concerning Maxine Waters husband and the banking scandal. Seems like our friends on the Left keep wanting to keep that obscured in the background. Wonder why ?

The Republican party has never been racist!! Unfortunately most people are so shallow and so superficial to realize that if any party is racist it is the democratic party who constantly insults the intelligence of the minority. One can pick the minority they desire, whether it be Black, women, Hispanice, gay, Native American, etc., etc., I think people fail to realize that the Republican party stands for success and the more Americans that succeed the better for America. Unfortunately, most people fail to realize that the Republican's party defintion of success is different than the democrats, whereby the former is individual success, while the latter is being dependant on the government for one's every need. I think because the Republican party refuses to single out one group and make them their poster child and viewall as Americans, those who for whatever reason are unable or unwilling to stand on their own two feet eagerly throw out the race card to try and hide their own shortcomings and deficiencies. No, the Republican Party is not racist, instead they are of the motto, live and let live, which means don't expect me to support and take care of you and your family and I won't expect the same from you. Wake up people!!!!!!

pandy - republicans are for live and let live? Give me a break. Republicans will take away your freedoms at a drop of a hat if you're not white, male, straight or rich. And Republicans believe in the trickle down theory. By definition, their policies are not directed at ALL americans but a select few (white, male, straight, rich). The rest sit and wait like little birds waiting for their mom to feed them.

Typical 'MSN' headline.... a Republican must say his party is not racist. I'm surprised the reporter didn't ask the ultimate 'Catch-22' question to Mr. Gingrich..."Have you stopped beating your wife" or morphed into a more direct..."Have Republicans stopped hating minorities".

This is a stupid topic, on it's face.

Larry...

I think the Maxine Waters issue was put on a back burner a while ago. And I'm sure any Republicans who look into the matter or comment on it will be accused of 'racism' too.

Although when Maxine Waters gets criticized by a Republican...the charge should really be "stupidism" or "idiotism"...that'd be a whole lot more accurate.

@Govt_Issue,

AL should have said gays. But Africans were the first to teach math, philosophy and astrology. It's all documented in the history books and museums. Backed by world scientist. Go check it out you may learn something.

What a bunch of Bull$h!t....in the GOP utopia...the party would be ruled by all wealthy WASP males...with a few token rednecks thrown in to do the "dirty work". Thank God that reality...at least up to this point, precludes this from happening.

As for you morons talking about the "Dixiecrats"....those lost Southern souls were nothing but DINOs. They are today's core Republicans. The bigoted, selfish, woman-hating GOP party of NO is alive and well...but it's their lie...they can tell it however they want!

mucker...

You need an icebag and a valium. I am a Republican leaning conservation and very libertarian on social issues. It's so nice of those like you who beg for greater diversity to pigeonhole every single Republican or Republican leaning American as "bigoted...selfish...and women hating".

What a great addition your rant is to the conversation.

@Solutions;

NO KIDDING. Thank you for re-hashing something I learned over 25 years ago. Yes, Al SHOULD have said gays, but he didnt. He showed his true colors. But since he is a BLACK man, no one will dare call him a bigot. But if Gingrich (or any other convservative) said something like this, the rainbow coalition would be screaming bloody murder. There would be pandemonium in the streets. First Read would have to shut down the comments on the story due to the sheer volume. Instead, we heard the deafening silence of hypocrisy.

My point is there are bigots on BOTH sides of the aisle. They're not all white males with an (R) following their names...and for one party to claim some kind of moral high ground on this issue is utterly ridiculous, and quite frankly, very insulting to the intelligence of the people on this board.

Govt_Issue

You are absolutely right. There are bigots in both parties. However, if you look at issues in terms of how progressives and conservatives have performed during the history of this country you can't help noticing that conservatives have opposed civil rights, women's rights, voting rights, employee rights, union rights, etc., etc., etc. Sometimes, as was the case during the civil rights legislation in the 1960's, those conservatives wore the Democrat label. Those who were opposed to civil rights switched parties so that civil rights legislation marks the end of the solidly Democratic South and the beginning of Republican dominance in the Southern states.

My point is there are bigots on BOTH sides of the aisle. They're not all white males with an (R) following their names

And yet there are so many NO ALOT from the right that claim they do not see the Bigots and Racist from the right but easily see the same from the Left...many from the Left call it like they see it....Most from the Right listen to the loudest Bigots from the talk machine and believe they are right...Gingrich is wayyyyyy out of touch as most that listen to Fox/conservative radio without questioning their bigotted motives and repeat their racist motives.

don97254,

I cant and wont argue about the points you make. Throughout our history, so called 'conservatives' have often been on the wrong side of many social issues. The only point I was trying to make is there are those people on both sides of the aisle. Just because theres an (R) following your name, or you identify with more of the rights ideals than the lefts, does not mean youre a racist. It just gets a little tiring hearing one side of the argument.

Govt_Issue

It's been said before, but it's worth repeating. Not all Republicans are racist; not all are bigots; not all are on the wrong side of social issues. However, if you are a racist or a bigot, you are probably a Republican (no one in the KKK ever votes for Democrats). It is also true that Republicans are on the wrong side of social issues and the proof can be found by reading the party platforms.

Not all tea party protesters are racists and bigots, but a lot of them carried signs that identified them as racists and bigots and no "non-racist" tea partier ever called them out for it, even when they were spitting on African American legislators.

Actually,

If you are a racist or a bigot you are probably a Republican is not true. Typically people who fall into those categories do not belong to a political party. While I can admit that these people voted against President Obama (if they were smart enough to figure out the voting machine)...these racists were just as angry w/ Bush's choice of Condoleeza Rice and Colin Powell. I would think they dont identify with either party.

GOP isn't racist

I find it intriguing Newtsie had to point this out...

I would question if he has a guilty conscience but he would have to be in possession of a conscience in order for it to matter...

Feisty-----this is too easy----the man left his wife while she was battling cancer---do we think "conscience" is important to him?

Naw- Newtsie and Spankie are good, honest citizens that are concerned about 'fair play' for all.

What? You don't believe me? 'zat why you are trying to stifle that giggle??

Newt is right.

Tulane Professor Melissa Harris-Perry knows who the racists are.

They're the ones engaged in white "liberal electoral racism", too!

Conservatives aren't the only ones, are they, Professor Harris-Perry?

You GO, girl...

Well Steeler Fan,

No better than Edwards, right?

JK---Edwards and Newt are both morally challenged in my book. However, I never heard Edwards blame his affairs on the pressures of leadership.

Glad for you admit that both are "morally challenged"

Wrong! The libs (including the media) will comment on it non-stop. Then, when ever someone has the gall to criticize one of those candidates who happens to be a Dem, the media will comment on it night and day. The ignorant, liberal twits on this board will post on it night and day with your whinin', complainin' and grumblin.'

Liberals do NOT want a color-blind America. Never have. Liberals have created the most color conscious society ever imagined. Just the way you like it. They favor discrimination based on race. They favor quotas based on race. They favor special treatment in all aspects of life, based on race. They vote based on race. I keep telling you people...keep up the race baiting and you send DROVES of people sprinting toward the Republican lever in the voting booth. Not you few on this board, of course. You people are too few and too simple-minded to matter. But if your politicians and media darlings keep it up, it's bad news for you dimwits in 2012. Just watch Rick Perry as he gets a boost because of the bulls*** hit piece done on him in the WaPo Sunday.

damaged... if you're waiting for perry to pull ahead . . . . ?

Too bad none of that aid reached New Orleans, and their police department felt able to shoot black citizens trying to flee the floods to the white suburbs for their lives.

Not that the Democratic city Mayor, and Governor had any authority for dealing with that fiasco. Ever wonder how and why the levee rebuilding had been so mismanaged year after year? Look into the political wheeling and dealing of the Democrat party machine both at the State, Federal, and City levels. Political paybacks, and power politics of the highest order. Of course why look back into that morass of neglect when you can conveniently blame Bush for the fiasco in its entirety.

Larry, it's easier to blame Bush. That's all. We all know there are no bigots in the Democratic party. There are no Independant racists. They ALL reside on the right side of the aisle. You didnt get the memo? Just wait, Im sure the President will give a speech about it here pretty soon....he seems pretty good at that part of the job.

If they are full of minorities, then why didn't they select a minority to the super committee, the Democrats did two, a black and a female (she's not a minority but she isn't a WHITE MALE either).

So the GOP isn't a racist party...ok, I'll give them that for the moment...but it certainly appears that a whole bunch of folks who claim to belong to that party - and yes in particular the Tea Bag wing of the GOP - give the impression that the "white" in "White House" refers to a racial requirement for being the number 1 resident there!

KMan - I'm sure that explains why the Tea Party supports Cain..... you obviously aren't paying attention.

you need to wake up kirk,all that crap about the democrats not improving education... since the fifties the repiglicans have held the power for more than half the time (twenty of the last thirty years) who's at fault???

Bearfoot:

You had better go study your history and see exactly when the Republicans gained Congressional power. It wasn't in the 50's.

bearfoot, its also not about who is in power, but which party has been solidly behind education reform and improving the level of education across the board. Clearly the democrats have been about throwing more money into the teacher's unions coffers and I think both sides strongly feel that teacher salaries are too low. But its the GOP wanting to create merit pay, vouchers, testing, getting rid of bad teachers, charter schools etc plus many different kinds of reforms. What is known is that after 30 years of just throwing money at the education gap, it hasnt moved an inch.

Are you guys glad you cost Hank Jr his job on monday night football too?

No one cost Hank his job other then HANK!

Good riddence to the racist piece of white trash!

"Hank" didn't say one thing wrong. Only stupid thing he did was show up drunk on TV at 9 in the morning. He never comapred Obama to a nazi. Watch the tape, fools. And even if he had, so friggin' what. Liberals did and still do compare Bush and anyone to the right of Hilary to nazis. The ignorant moron poster on this site known as Navy Disabled Whiny Little Bi***, or whatever his name is, calls conservatives "nazis" every day (when he's not posting as his alter ego "Backwash."

Good riddence to the racist piece of white trash!

Second that, and there was a guy I used to wait to party with on MNF, just to get down with his opening game song. But hey, it's good when another "closet racist," exposes him/herself.

Watch the tape of Hank Jr again and come back and tell me where the "racist" comment was. It's not there. You're so attuned to looking for "racism" everywhere that someone making a nonsensical wisecrack about the Prez and the Prez of Israel becomes racist to you. Give it up. The term "racist" is dead. Thanks to people like you all on this board it means nothing. Congrats!

Now mosh, go on and tell me where he said anything racist. Go on. I'll give you ten minutes to think something up. By then, you've prolly moved on to the next manufactured outrage.

Unfortunately, Mr. Williams cost himself his job, no one made him say what he did. Free Will and Free speech do have consequences. His blind hatred for a Black President because he is black is what tripped him up. Having so many witnesses just made the consequences that much more serious.

He didn't lose his job. He was suspended for a night.

I took what he said as 2 enemies playing golf together.

Why don't some of you so-called non-racist white liberals google Hitler/George Bush and see the over 13 million hits.

Hank is living off his entitlement of his father's good name. Otherwise, he's just another ignorant never-been playing bad music for an audience that cares less for music than a good parking spot.

Oh no, her best friend is a negra'. That woman is a dirty azz redneck that comes on a message board and fronts like she is down with the blacks.

OK, I'll play, even though I am registered Independent, with a mind of my own, who votes the person first, regardless of party.

Myself, as a man of color, lives in one of the most racist states in America, Mississippi, town is Carriere, and just as racist.

Good for you Mosh. I notice the regular liberal loudmouths are NOT playing. Probably too busy researching their towns demographics and wondering if their conscience still stings from the time they moved to a "nicer" neighborhood when their own got too umm...."different".

Still waiting...

if we're libs you must be a tory.... do a little research on that

steve you're full of sh*t!

bearfoot:

It is called Google.....try it sometime.

who is a liar stop hiding behind name calling and talk about issues you democrats are all about steryotyping first it was non whites then when they got equal rights you realized you need their votes so you bribed them with entilments and promoted a bull@!$%# steryotype of republicans and DUI roadblocks to prevent blacks from voting how stupid are you are you saying all black people are drunk also are you saying people should be allowed to vote drunk are you even sentient

GOP,

Dude...that has got to be the longest run-on sentence I've seen here on FR...well, BESIDES Spanky's long winded bull@!$%#...either way, you gotta lay off the caffiene!

it is a run sentence because I am not instreted in wasting time a punction I am intrested ideas not time for both to many idoits rebuke or tell to grow up

[it is a run sentence because I am not instreted in wasting time a punction I am intrested ideas not time for both to many idoits rebuke or tell to grow up]

SWEET!

Wow. Just Wow.

GOP, I have to side with punctuation and grammar on this one. Sorry dude.

... it is a run sentence because I am not instreted in wasting time a punction I am intrested ideas not time for both to many idoits rebuke or tell to grow up...

You want to be heard, but will not listen. You want people to take the time to read your writings, but you are too busy to run a spell checker or take the necessary steps to take steps to include basic readiblity a part of your message?

Few of us make completely perfect sentences, after all its "just" a forum and this is the age tweets/texting/emoticons; but to admit that you just don't give a damn (dramatic license) - then get upset,seems like the height of arrogance. Maybe even a case of assumed "entitlement"?

It is not that hard to read it jeez. I manged to read plenty of post full of bad gammar and misspelling that were much worse than mine.

That may be true... but that doesn't mean you complain when someone points out the obvious disconnect of someone wanting to taken as a "source" rather than another case of background noise, produced by the multitude of bottom-feeding, mouth-breather, great un-washed - who come here when the police or multiple restraining orders prevent them from connecting with their regular victims.

Given the time restrictions and need for brevity in these forums ... the occasional spelling error, lack of pucntuation or brain fart - will occur, and even more often - proof reading/correction is prevented by the 2 minute / 4 minute rule.

...but as you said - Jeez 'us "H" Christ... lets not look at (vomiting even on on these soiled pages) as a badge of honor. Even Pee Wee Herman had to plead guilty for his "indulgences" in the theater. On some things " I meant to do that" is a PP excuse.

“You can't attack our team as being racist with Herman Cain running a campaign.”

At least he is a step up from the GOPper's last concession to diversity ... Shara Palin. He can at least put together a decent sentence (maybe even a few paragraphs) regularly, without saying something stupid.

... but then you do have the male equivalent, Rick Perry, to carry on Republican traditions ... did he actully attend McDonald University? or were the entrance exams too strict, as some have claimed?

Its funny ... the only time Republicans seem to mention African-Americans by name, is when its in praise of or response to an attack on another African-American?

Most of the time its "Them", "Those people" or why don't "they".... (whatever the complaint of the day is spotlighting).

did you learn anything about the unenlightened mccarthyites, nixonites and raygunites?

Just because you changed the name of the Club ... don't mean the philosophy of the members changes. If they were "Democrats" 20, 30 + years ago and were lynching citizens - changing the name to "republican" and still lynching citizens - that's still not much of a change.

The South, if nothing else, is the bastion of its Traditions. Cities, businesses may have to change to survive - but thats just dressing the donkey, There is still an ass underneath the all the finery.

Yes they are Racist. As a whole.

That's quite a list.

I count 29 black Republican elected officials and 99 Democratic elected officials.

Hmm...have you ever taken a statistics course? Would you like to bet that the difference between 29 and 99 is statistically significant at, oh I don't know, let's say the 1% level? Even the 0.1% level?

I think you failed pretty miserably if your intention was to show that Republicans aren't racist.

It would seem your being over generous. The Republican party of today is nothing like the party of Lincoln and your numbers show that. There are less than 5 African Americans in congress that are in the Republican party. The vast bulk in the current day congress are Democrats.

Some 535 members of congress, and Newt is holding up one? It just looks bad when you pull the "Some of my friends are black" card. You would think he would have a better PR campaign. That was outright cinge-worthy.

In fact, looking at a much easier to read list, there are only 2 current African American GOP members. All of the others in the last four decades lost re-election.

All of the remaining African American members of congress are Democrats.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans_in_the_United_States_Congress

......and not one of those black Congressional leaders represent diverse districts. They all come from predominently black districts. This is the reason most of them continue to be re-elected over and over again without any opposition or with sometimes 150 votes.

Abraham Lincoln was a Republican

It should come as no surprise that Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr. was a Republican. In that era, almost all black Americans were Republicans.
Why? From its founding in 1854 as the anti-slavery party until today, the
Republican Party has championed freedom and civil rights for blacks. And as one
pundit so succinctly stated, the Democrat Party is as it always has been, the
party of the four S's: slavery, secession, segregation and now socialism.

It was the Democrats who fought to keep
blacks in slavery and passed the discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.
The Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan to lynch and terrorize blacks. The
Democrats fought to prevent the passage of every civil rights law beginning with
the civil rights laws of the 1860s, and continuing with the civil rights laws of
the 1950s and 1960s.

During the civil
rights era of the 1960s, Dr. King was fighting the Democrats who stood in the
school house doors, turned skin-burning fire hoses on blacks and let loose
vicious dogs. It was Republican President Dwight Eisenhower who pushed to pass
the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and sent troops to Arkansas to desegregate schools.
President Eisenhower also appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the U.S.
Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision
ending school segregation. Much is made of Democrat President Harry Truman's
issuing an Executive Order in 1948 to desegregate the military. Not mentioned is
the fact that it was Eisenhower who actually took action to effectively end
segregation in the military.

Democrat
President John F. Kennedy is lauded as a proponent of civil rights. However,
Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Act while he was a senator, as did
Democrat Sen. Al Gore Sr. And after he became President, Kennedy was opposed to
the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King that was organized by A. Phillip
Randolph, who was a black Republican. President Kennedy, through his brother
Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy , had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by
the FBI on suspicion of being a Communist in order to undermine Dr. King.

In March of 1968, while referring to Dr.
King's leaving Memphis, Tenn., after riots broke out where a teenager was
killed, Democrat Sen. Robert Byrd (W.Va.), a former member of the Ku Klux Klan,
called Dr. King a "trouble-maker" who starts trouble, but runs like a coward
after trouble is ignited. A few weeks later, Dr. King returned to Memphis and
was assassinated on April 4, 1968.

Given the circumstances of that era, it is understandable why
Dr. King was a Republican. It was the Republicans who fought to free blacks from
slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom (13th Amendment),
citizenship (14th Amendment) and the right to vote (15th Amendment). Republicans
passed the civil rights laws of the 1860s, including the Civil Rights Act of
1866 and the Reconstruction Act of 1867 that was designed to establish a new
government system in the Democrat-controlled South, one that was fair to blacks.
Republicans also started the NAACP and affirmative action with Republican
President Richard Nixon's 1969 Philadelphia Plan (crafted by black Republican
Art Fletcher) that set the nation's fist goals and timetables. Although
affirmative action now has been turned by the Democrats into an unfair quota
system, affirmative action was begun by Nixon to counter the harm caused to
blacks when Democrat President Woodrow Wilson in 1912 kicked all of the blacks
out of federal government jobs.

Few
black Americans know that it was Republicans who founded the Historically Black
Colleges and Universities. Unknown also is the fact that Republican Sen. Everett
Dirksen from Illinois was key to the passage of civil rights legislation in
1957, 1960, 1964 and 1965. Not mentioned in recent media stories about extension
of the 1965 Voting Rights Act is the fact that Dirksen wrote the language for
the bill. Dirksen also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968
which prohibited discrimination in housing. President Lyndon Johnson could not
have achieved passage of civil rights legislation without the support of
Republicans.

Critics of Republican Sen.
Barry Goldwater, who ran for President against Johnson in 1964, ignore the fact
that Goldwater wanted to force the Democrats in the South to stop passing
discriminatory laws and thus end the need to continuously enact federal civil
rights legislation.

Those who wrongly
criticize Goldwater also ignore the fact that Johnson, in his 4,500 State of the
Union Address delivered on Jan. 4, 1965, mentioned scores of topics for federal
action, but only 35 words were devoted to civil rights. He did not mention one
word about voting rights. Then in 1967, showing his anger with Dr. King's
protest against the Vietnam War, Johnson referred to Dr. King as "that @!$%#
preacher."

Contrary to the false
assertions by Democrats, the racist "Dixiecrats" did not all migrate to the
Republican Party. "Dixiecrats" declared that they would rather vote for a
"yellow dog" than vote for a Republican because the Republican Party was know as
the party for blacks. Today, some of those "Dixiecrats" continue their political
careers as Democrats, including Robert Byrd, who is well known for having been a
"Keagle" in the Ku Klux Klan.

Another
former "Dixiecrat" is former Democrat Sen. Ernest Hollings, who put up the
Confederate flag over the state Capitol when he was the governor of South
Carolina. There was no public outcry when Democrat Sen. Christopher Dodd praised Byrd as someone who would have
been "a great senator for any moment," including the Civil War. Yet Democrats
denounced then-Senate GOP leader Trent Lott for his remarks about Sen. Strom
Thurmond (R.-S.C.). Thurmond was never in the Ku Klux Klan and defended blacks
against lynching and the discriminatory poll taxes imposed on blacks by
Democrats. If Byrd and Thurmond were alive during the Civil War, and Byrd had
his way, Thurmond would have been lynched.

The 30-year odyssey of the South switching to the Republican
Party began in the 1970s with President Richard Nixon's "Southern Strategy,"
which was an effort on the part of Nixon to get Christians in the South to stop
voting for Democrats who did not share their values and were still
discriminating against their fellow Christians who happened to be black. Georgia
did not switch until 2002, and some Southern states, including Louisiana, are
still controlled by Democrats.

Today,
Democrats, in pursuit of their socialist agenda, are fighting to keep blacks
poor, angry and voting for Democrats. Examples of how egregiously Democrats act
to keep blacks in poverty are numerous.

After wrongly convincing black Americans that a minimum wage
increase was a good thing, the Democrats on August 3 kept their promise and
killed the minimum wage bill passed by House Republicans on July 29. The
blockage of the minimum wage bill was the second time in as many years that
Democrats stuck a legislative finger in the eye of black Americans. Senate
Democrats on April 1, 2004, blocked passage of a bill to renew the 1996 welfare
reform law that was pushed by Republicans and vetoed twice by President Clinton
before he finally signed it. Since the welfare reform law expired in September
2002, Congress had passed six extensions, and the latest expired on June 30,
2004. Opposed by the Democrats are school choice opportunity scholarships that
would help black children get out of failing schools and Social Security reform,
even though blacks on average lose $10,000 in the current system because of a
shorter life expectancy than whites (72.2 years for blacks vs. 77.5 years for
whites).

Democrats have been running
our inner-cities for the past 30 to 40 years, and blacks are still complaining
about the same problems. More than $7 trillion dollars have been spent on
poverty programs since Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty with little, if any,
impact on poverty. Diabolically, every election cycle, Democrats blame
Republicans for the deplorable conditions in the inner-cities, then incite
blacks to cast a protest vote against Republicans.

In order to break the Democrats' stranglehold on the black vote
and free black Americans from the Democrat Party's economic plantation, we must
shed the light of truth on the Democrats. We must demonstrate that the Democrat
Party policies of socialism and dependency on government handouts offer the
pathway to poverty, while Republican Party principles of hard work, personal
responsibility, getting a good education and ownership of homes and small
businesses offer the pathway to prosperity.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16500

Sorry the link i just post lost the writer you can go to that site and see it.

that is directly copied pasted

Except my statement about Abe Lincoln

Pretty small list...

Didn't George Wallace used to say the same thing. That he supported segregation because it was "good" for both whites and blacks but that he wasn't racist?!!! Yeah, segregation isn't racist at all. Neither is the Republican policy of feeding the rich white man, starving the minorities, shutting the boarder to brown people and kicking working parent's children out of their schools!

are you serious, were you born at nite and was it last nite??

Can someone please give me a helpful answer? I am genuinely curious why people think republicans are racists. No offense logicalVoter but I think that's circular logic.

1.Minorities vote Democrat because Republicans are racists.

2.You can tell Republicans are racists because their conventions aren't diverse.

3.Their conventions aren't diverse because minorities vote Democrat.

Back to one.

There have been some amazing republican civil rights leaders. There have also been some infamous racist democrats. Wouldn't that prove that racism exist in both political parties? Couldn't it possibly be that most minorities agree with the democratic agenda and that's why its more diverse? That wouldn't make republicans racist.

Is there something specific the GOP stands for that you feel is racist?

The dems and repubs switched 'sides' in the 60's, have you accounted for that?

Thanks Jersey,

I'll have to look up more information on that to better understand what happened. I found one article written by a college history professor that explained the party switching. That would discredit major civil rights activist being republican but wouldn't mean that republicans are racist.

Is there something specific with republican agenda that people find racist?