As Puddy Tat always says "Almost every week, Republicans join a competition to see who can say the most outlandish things, and in the process, they push the envelope on just how nutty InsaniTEA can become. I trust that you will believe it, when I tell you that last week was no exception."
3. Jeb manages to insult black voters a la Romney’s 47 percent gaffe.
At a campaign stop in South Carolina, Jeb Bush was jawing away in front of one of his typical lily-white crowds, when someone asked him how Republicans might appeal to African-American voters. First, Bush mentioned that some of his best staff members are black, and explained how when he speaks Spanish, he does not mean it as an insult to America. Then he proceeded to insult black people in a way that immediately conjured up Mitt Romney’s infamous 47 percent remark.
Here’s what he said:
Think about it this way, Republicans get 4-7 percent of the African-American vote…If you double that, you win elections in Ohio, Virginia. And we should make that case, because our message is one of hope and aspiration. It isn’t one of division, “get in line, we’ll take care of you with free stuff.” Our message is uplifting, that says, “You can achieve earned success. We’re on your side."
You gotta hand it to him. Bush packed a remarkable amount of insulting and offensive racial stereotyping in that one little tone-deaf statement. Romney’s 47 percent theory was bad, but not explicitly about black voters, though certainly that code was embedded in his theorizing about the 47 percent of people who would vote for Obama no matter what and are dependent on the government.
Nope, Bush just came right out and said that black voters like free stuff, and they don’t know about “earned success,” so we'll teach them about it.
That "uplifting" message is bound to win over African-American voters big-time.
No doubt Bush, a la Romney, will attempt to explain how he did not actually say what he said, was quoted out of context, or perhaps did not understand the question, or was himself, misunderstood.
This is the third of 5 Nutty Right Wing Moments This Week. Read the rest at Alternet. If they were notso pathetic, they might be funny in their total stupidity!
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1. Rubio: An obvious misogynist who does not understand the health needs of women. Too bad that he viewed the fake tape of Planned Parenthood as a truth. A new "industry" where women can make money by selling their fetal tissue… and sold for a profit.?? Rubio appears not to care nor understand about the health needs for women. Gotta give him credit for coming up with an insane conspiracy theory. lol. I wonder how he treats the women in his family.
Fact: No federal dollars go toward abortion services from Planned Parenthood or any other medical provider. ZERO. Defunding Planned Parenthood would mean leaving these women and their families without access to their main health care provider.
2. Trump waving a Bible… Can he do that… Is he allowed to do that…
3. If Jeb is so interested in wooing the black voters to the polls, he should try to make it easier for those black voters to vote by restoring the Voters Rights Act. Jeb is well known for saying "I'm misunderstood"… Jeb is just plain dumb and suffers from the foot-in-the-mouth-disease on a continuous basis.
4. Rick Santorum should just fade away as quietly as possible and soon. Rick is so "exhaustipated" to the voters.
5. Huckabee has lost his mind… Maybe he didn't have one to begin with in the first place. Huckabee's brand of religious conservatism might be a mental disorder. lol.
Jim, none of them are interested in truth, they only want to stir up the emotions of the right wing evangelicals who follow them.
Oh, is that comment right on target!
1: Rubio: He certainly takes the cake for me this week, but that's probably I'm a woman and not black: “I just think you’ve created an industry now…." Rubio said, "a situation where very much, you’ve created an incentive for people not just to look forward to having more abortions, but being able to sell that fetal tissue.” (bold mine) This is what you get when a GOP candidate lets his hatred run away with him, which is about every 5 minutes. Insane? No, obscene.
2. Trump: He's losing it, can't think of any more topics to shoot his mouth off over, so he starts waving a bible with the price sticker still on it about and babbling about reinstating "Merry Christmas" to prove he's Christian. I bet he took his cue from Sarah Palin here.
3. Bush: Yeah, Jebb, that's going to get you some more black votes: "Vote for me and I'll take away your social security and food stamps because you haven't earned them. Oh, and I forget to tell you that I will take every possibility to earn them like schools, jobs and equal opportunity away from you too."
4. Santorum: Well, what can you do when it's back to the drawing board for you soon and you haven't changed in 20 years? Fall back on what you've always been doing and that is preaching to to the talibangelist choir.
5. Huckabee: Let's hope that Huckabee is out of the race soon because he should never have been in it in the first place and his madness is getting to be a little too aggravating for my taste.
Yes they are awful, yes they are offensive to anyone with a usable brain, but sadly their deluded voters will go on voting for them and listening to radio programmes promoting their lunatic ideas – they do seem to behave like a cult. No-one outside the cult can believe that anyone would believe such rubbish, but inside the cult they accept it as gospel and never question. Scary.
I agree with you and it makes me crazy to know so many people are so deluded.
Ditto Edie!
I have just scared myself. I read the Alternet piece a couple of days ago, but I had to re-read it to comment, because they had all mooshed together in my brain. In other words, idiocy and fraud are getting to be so commonplace that incidents are not even individual any more. (I do still manage to remember an incident if there's blood spilled, but that's an awfully low bar.) These cretins – well, I can just manage to remember that they are all disasters, so all is not lost.
Rubio – "What you've done now is you've created an industry" -Does he think everyone in the world is exactly like him morally? Because, of course, that's what he would do. Tell you what, what this country needs in medical research is to find a way to transfer a fetus from the mother to the father. Rapists want rights to the offfspring, let THEM carry it. Then we'd hear a different tune.
Trump – So he wants to go back (surprise, surprise). Maybe we should start wishing people a Sensuous Saturnalia. That would be going back.
Jeb! – Can you say "tone deaf"? He literally does not know what he is saying. He's not being misunderstood, but he is self-revealing to the point of suicide.
Santorum (google me) – It's not that hard to be to the right of this Pope, but he manages to be to the right of the last two, which is more of a challenge. Hey, Rick, if God forsakes evildoers en masse, how do you explain Jamie Demon and his crowd?
Huckabee – It's mental yoga. He is getting into the most improbable positions to stretch his mental muscles and make himself mentally limber. Should someone tell him yoga derives from Hinduism?
1. I believe Rubio's stance on Planned Parenthood might just qualify him to be certifiably insane. Did he get these ideas from Carly?
2. I suggest Donald walk into a store right now. It isn't even Halloween yet and there are Chrstmas items for sale. What War on Christmas???
3. Jebby didn't learn much from Romney's failed campaign. Did he?
4. Holier Than the Pope Santorum better get his bible straight, Jesus forgave ALL sinners. "Judge not lest you be judged first, Ricky.
5. I've decided not to pay attention to the Huckster. He'll be dropping out soon.
Give Ricky a chance. Every group needs a good ond fashioned pervert!.Adds to the fun!
All I can say is morally bankrupt
AMEN!!!!!
I read all of the article, and I am disgusted beyond belief at the sick perverted statements they all made. The worst part is that they have so many people who believe this garbage.
But, but, FOX says….
Faux can say all it wants, but as Mahatma Gandhi said "An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it."
Thanks everyone!