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arely staircase

(12,482 posts)
Sat Mar 16, 2013, 06:53 PM Mar 2013

CPAC Event On Racial Tolerance Turns To Chaos As ‘Disenfranchised’ Whites Arrive

A CPAC session sponsored by Tea Party Patriots and billed as a primer on teaching activists how to court black voters devolved into a shouting match as some attendees demanded justice for white voters and others shouted down a black woman who reacted in horror.

The session, entitled “Trump The Race Card: Are You Sick And Tired Of Being Called A Racist When You Know You’re Not One?” was led by K. Carl Smith, a black conservative who mostly urged attendees to deflect racism charges by calling themselves “Frederick Douglass Republicans.”

Disruptions began when he started accusing Democrats of still being the party of the Confederacy — a common talking point on the right.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/03/tea-party-event-on-racial-tolerance-turns-to-chaos-as-white-supremacists-arrive.php?ref=fpa

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CPAC Event On Racial Tolerance Turns To Chaos As ‘Disenfranchised’ Whites Arrive (Original Post) arely staircase Mar 2013 OP
Wow, truly bananas. klook Mar 2013 #1
cesspool of greed and reactionary politics began with nixon's southern strategy arely staircase Mar 2013 #2
I sure hope they continue self destructing. klook Mar 2013 #3

klook

(12,151 posts)
1. Wow, truly bananas.
Sat Mar 16, 2013, 07:18 PM
Mar 2013

Reading about these exchanges that took place at CPAC is like a window into a weird cesspool of political uncorrectness. It's literally like they step all over each other trying to out-asshole one another.

arely staircase

(12,482 posts)
2. cesspool of greed and reactionary politics began with nixon's southern strategy
Sun Mar 17, 2013, 07:56 PM
Mar 2013

then came Reagan and his welfare queen lies, all of this while forming a coalition with the Religious Right. This coalition is now coming apart at the seems. Clinton did retarded their advance but really only slowed it down.

now, after being beaten twice by the "socialist kenyan" they are in full circular firing squad formation.

klook

(12,151 posts)
3. I sure hope they continue self destructing.
Sun Mar 17, 2013, 11:31 PM
Mar 2013

They do have a problem keeping the Teajadi loons in check enough to let the party as a whole pass for rational.

The poetic justice of these morans trying unsuccessfully to "pass" (for half-way sane, in this case) is truly delicious.

I'm afraid to count any blessings since the Republicans seem to crawl out of the grave more times than the vampire in a B horror movie, but it is good to see signs of the Great Unraveling.

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