Today’s GOP: Still Cool With Racist Pandering

[UCmeNdc]

The refusal of any major Republican to call for Steve Scalise’s resignation is both completely deplorable and totally unsurprising.
What Steve Scalise did in appearing before David Duke’s group—and in twice voting against a Martin Luther King holiday, and in reportedly referring to himself in a chat with a journalist as “David Duke without the baggage”—tells us a lot about Steve Scalise. But what the Republican Party is now doing—or not doing—with regard to Scalise tells us a lot about the Republican Party, and that’s a little more important.

I haven’t seen that one Republican of any note, from Reince Priebus on down, has uttered a word of criticism of the man. Plenty of conservative commentators have said he should step down from his leadership position. Even Sarah Palin sees the sense in this. But among elected Republicans and Priebus, it’s been defense, or silence.


http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/07/today-s-gop-still-cool-with-racist-pandering.html?source=HuffPoFacebook&via=FB_Page

[trusty elf]

1. Hell, even Ben Carson is cool with it.

http://www.netnebraska.org/node/993230

In the photo at the link BC's tie is even reminiscent of a confederate flag!

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[Gothmog]

2. The GOP base is very racist and so this type of pandering works