NEW Grand Theft: Pat Buchanan & the SOUTHERN STRATEGY:Nixonians 10

[McCamy Taylor]

New entry in my ongoing graphic novella, The Nixonians, about the parellels between this administration and that one.

http://www.grandtheftelectionohio.com/060410.htm


For those of us who witnessed it, it was a real shocker. Pat Buchannan was on Countdown. He was telling Keith how the GOP could climb out of the toilet and keep control of Congress. To do this, they must make their base very, very scared of a Democratic victory by reminding them of all the awful things that Democrats would do. He listed three things that the GOP should use to terrify the base. The very first was:

Tell Republican voters that Charlie Rangel would chair a committee.

Now, at first glance, this is fall out of your chair funny. Rangel is a staple of these kinds of shows. He is bright, funny, articulate, everyone gets along with him, even conservatives with whom he disagrees. What is there not to like? He is a seasoned politician. He is perfectly capable of chairing a committee.

However, we all knew what Buchannan meant, even Olbermann, though he did not question him about it (???!!!). Patty Boy meant scare the base with images of African-Americans in control.

Yep, we are talking Reconstruction era politics. We are talking red necks and damn yankees. We are talking Nixon's Southern Strategy---which Pat Buchanan knows all about, though nowadays he likes to pretend that it never even existed.

The question I have for Buchanan is this: have you considered the possibility that times have changed, you old fossil? And that forty years of seeing African-Americans over represented in the entertainment and sports industries and forty years of civil rights and the legacy of the 1960's and 1970's (in which you and Nixon played the roles of villains) just might have changed race relationships in America?

[RethugAssKicker]

1. Playing the race issue

still works very well in America.... Actually, its the one thing you can definitely count on.