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http://www.politicususa.com/2015/06/22/republicans-reeling-white-house-candidates-congressmen-cash-white-supremacists.htmlThe hate speech and anti-immigrant policies of the Republican Party are appealing to racists. Rep. Steve King is a flaming racist who regularly demonizes immigrants. Sen. Tom Cotton has also engaged in the anti-immigrant rhetoric while calling for military action against Muslims in the Middle East.
Attention will focus on the donations to Republican presidential candidates, but this is a party wide issue. Republicans have spent years trying to divide the country along racial lines, and the racist chickens are coming home to roost.
Racists hear the Republican dog whistles loud and clear when it comes to President Obama and other minorities. The Republican Party is the anti-minority party. Republicans oppose equality and citizenship women, Hispanics, gays, and African-Americans. This platform has not only made it virtually impossible for Republicans to win the White House. It has also turned the GOP into the party of racist hate.
I'm shocked. Shocked!
PatrickforO
(14,593 posts)pampango
(24,692 posts)Birds of a feather do flock together.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)cyberswede
(26,117 posts)SusanaMontana41
(3,233 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)are that it hasn't happened before and that it is not at all surprising.
Hayduke Bomgarte
(1,965 posts)I also harbor deep suspicions that it's far more wide spread, among the shart gargling goopers, than what we're hearing.
Faux pas
(14,696 posts)can't believe the rethug party is pretending that they are! lol
Stevepol
(4,234 posts)the comment that it's "virtually impossible for Republicans to win the White House" (now) because of the platform.
With the electronic voting machines counting the votes, it's quite possible for any Republican to win the White House. There's no limit to how far the results can be tilted. Every election cycle there is always one or more election where the result astounds because of the divergence from the pre-election polls or exit polls. In one primary in SC, the winner was a complete cipher. Nobody knew him from Adam, he didn't campaign at all, and nobody campaigned for him, yet he won by a 2-1 margin.
LiberalArkie
(15,730 posts)SusanaMontana41
(3,233 posts)uponit7771
(90,367 posts)... what they "liberal media" isn't going to report
bbgrunt
(5,281 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)families? That when they take money from white supremacist organizations, they hurt their own supporters in more cases than they probably realize???
Do they live behind walls that prevent them from seeing their own reality?
SusanaMontana41
(3,233 posts)and that's about it.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)white...how much more evidence do folks need?
At least the connections in this case of yet another politically connected white supremacist killer is so obvious it can not be ignored....maybe.
Notice there are no "bundlers" here....direct money from white supremacist citizen to white supremacist politicians for white supremacist laws to be passed
If this is not criminal it should be.
tanyev
(42,635 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)stowin' away the time.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)The GOP are not only racists. They are also war-mongers, and corrupted by money. Plus many of them are just down-right stupid. Sadly the ones that aren't stupid are evil geniuses, like Dick Cheney.
eppur_se_muova
(36,304 posts)Who would whie supremacists donate to besides the GOP ?
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)since at least the 1990s. I remember Trent Lott, Bob Barr, and a few others were really active, openly, with that group back in the 90s. I thought it was common knowledge that the GOP was in bed with that group.
http://www.democracynow.org/1998/12/22/trent_lott_and_bob_barr_council
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2004/mississippi-senator-trent-lott-and-georgia-congressman-bob-barr-have-connections-white
ohheckyeah
(9,314 posts)candidates?
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Drip... drip... drip...
ohheckyeah
(9,314 posts)We can be fairly sure there are more.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Racist assholes
Rex
(65,616 posts)Then again, the M$M works for GOP paymasters...so you know they will do all in their power to keep this out of the news!