Bob Shrum just said on MSNBC the Clintons are now "playing the race card." Buchanan defended them

Bob Shrum just said on Andre Mitchell's show on MSNBC that the Clintons are now "playing the race card" with this interview, and that this is very harmful to the Dempcratic party. Strong stuff from Bob Shrum!

Pat Buchanan is now defending Hillary, of course, saying Reagan Democrats are supporting Hillary saying she's using the Nixon successfully strategy of using Catholics/working class whites to divide the electorate. Isn't Buchanan* considered the architect of that strategy, the "Southern Strategy," I believe it's was called. Hell, the Republicans have been using it ever since to divide the electorate and win with "guns, god and gays."

*Not the architect, but perhaps the contractor, since Buchanan worked in the Nixon White House,

Although the phrase "Southern strategy" is often attributed to Richard Nixon strategist Kevin Phillips, he did not originate it,<1> but merely popularized it.<2> In an interview included in a 1970 New York Times article, he touched on its essence:

From now on, the Republicans are never going to get more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote and they don't need any more than that... but Republicans would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That's where the votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

a nazi he didn't like." - Former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman

That is the difference. The Republicans think it is okay to appeal to racist, homophobic, etc. fears to manipulate people into voting for them against their own best interests. They don't care if it hurts society as a whole.


*We* as Democrats know it is not okay. Or at least most of us do.

On a segment with MSNBC's Contessa Brewer and a former John Edwards' spokesman.

there is a reason! He and the other republican pundits have said for years that Hillary will unite and energize their party like no one else. And I am not Hillary bashing anyone following politics on either side knows that is true.

is the one who came up with Nixon's "Southern Strategy," not Buchanan. Unlike Buchanan, Kevin no longer believes in Nixon. He is the author of books including "American Dynasty," which takes the stance that it is undemocratic to have two ruling families in American politics.

I had the great pleasure of hearing him speak at the LA Times book festival a couple of weeks ago. His new book on the economy will give you nightmares, though. :scared:

was also very good. I think it is another of his books that is of value in understanding the 2008 elections.

would use the "southern strategy". To find they have no problem with it is beyond disgusting. I expected it from the repubs for sure, to see the Clintons using it certainly makes me re-look at who they REALLY are.

She's a disgrace.

It's pretty clear the GOP wants Hillary to be the Democratic nominee, and all the rightwing nuts want to run against her.