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uponit7771

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21. I can't argue with this, he MIGHT have not liked the optics but the base reasoning of racist...
Thu Nov 8, 2012, 02:31 PM
Nov 2012

...is prolly what he was at home with.

I can't believe how racist that bastard was....and a punk racist too....the worst kind

It wasn't. Reagan ran far more blatantly racist campaigns. cali Nov 2012 #1
Yep, Reagan ran a racist campaign, too. ywcachieve Nov 2012 #3
Romney is a white supremacist. ywcachieve Nov 2012 #2
Oh for fuck's sake. Queen Ann said it was "our turn". Yeah, supremacist fits. HopeHoops Nov 2012 #5
You are on to him, too. ywcachieve Nov 2012 #9
His church was officially white supremacist until '78, after all. Lucy Goosey Nov 2012 #19
I can't argue with this, he MIGHT have not liked the optics but the base reasoning of racist... uponit7771 Nov 2012 #21
Ya think? HopeHoops Nov 2012 #4
IMO it's the makers vs. takers theme treestar Nov 2012 #6
+1 JoeyT Nov 2012 #7
George Bush and Republicans don't like.... L0oniX Nov 2012 #28
Typical example treestar Nov 2012 #31
Hardly WilliamPitt Nov 2012 #8
i agree that it's been an element of probably ALL previous campaigns at least since nixon unblock Nov 2012 #10
That was in a culture were it was accepted, you're indicating NOTHING has changed since then uponit7771 Nov 2012 #22
It sure got people to show their real feelings stuntcat Nov 2012 #11
As Jon Stewart mentioned, the reaction to the loss is also TwilightGardener Nov 2012 #12
plus the whole idea that re-electing obama would be some disaster of epic proportions unblock Nov 2012 #14
maybe yashoo Nov 2012 #13
ridiculous. cali Nov 2012 #15
+1 onenote Nov 2012 #25
Hi yashoo....WELCOME to DU.. Tikki Nov 2012 #16
Ever? No...In recent memory? Yeah... Blue_Tires Nov 2012 #17
Don't forget the sexism too! Initech Nov 2012 #18
The Dirty Seven... L0oniX Nov 2012 #24
I love it!!! Glad all those douchebags lost. Initech Nov 2012 #30
AMEN!! It's been the most IMMORAL plea for a vote I've EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE uponit7771 Nov 2012 #20
Imagine what the results would have been without the racists votes. L0oniX Nov 2012 #23
I don't think it was the most racist... one_voice Nov 2012 #26
will never forget that birther/race hate they spewed..to hell with that party Sunlei Nov 2012 #27
I agree...in a long time. The blowback, however, was priceless and deadly. A Sleeping Giant libdem4life Nov 2012 #29
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