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"You don't want someone who's soft on crime." (Original Post) Fantastic Anarchist Nov 2017 OP
Including the crime of child molestation? The Velveteen Ocelot Nov 2017 #1
Time to resurface Trump's rape allegations of a 13yr old... Satch59 Nov 2017 #2
Doug Jones prosecuted the Klan. Let them try to use the "soft on crime" label on him. NT Bleacher Creature Nov 2017 #3
that's Lee Atwater talk. Translation: Decides cases on law, not race. librechik Nov 2017 #4
I hope Mueller has a hard on for treason. GeorgeGist Nov 2017 #5

Satch59

(1,353 posts)
2. Time to resurface Trump's rape allegations of a 13yr old...
Tue Nov 21, 2017, 04:39 PM
Nov 2017

He needs to be taken down on SO many levels...

Every woman in AL should voice their disgust and vote for Jones...

librechik

(30,674 posts)
4. that's Lee Atwater talk. Translation: Decides cases on law, not race.
Tue Nov 21, 2017, 04:54 PM
Nov 2017

I O W, soft on minorities. More crudely, and more true to Atwater's original language, " an n***** lover"


Our racist president

https://www.thenation.com/article/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/

'By 1968 you can’t say “n word”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “N word.”

more about the Southern Strategy and Lee Atwater's invention of dog whistle politics at the link.

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