Maddow and Hayes: Romney trolling liberals so racists will vote for him

[TroyD]

Saturday, August 25, 2012

Chris Hayes joined Maddow for the second half of the clip, agreeing that yes, there is a racist undertone to the conversation when even at this late date, birtherism is becoming a part of the Republican message. Hayes speculated that the 2012 election will look less like the 2008 election and more like the 2004 election, when Karl Rove used same sex marriage as a prod to bring out the right.

As election day creeps closer and the campaign rhetoric becomes more heated, however, the back-and-forth will result in what Hayes called a “ricochet strategy,” in which conservatives’ inner nastiness can be manipulated to Romney’s favor. They may not love him, but they like anyone who liberals hate. And that, said Hayes, may be their last-ditch strategy for bringing out the vote.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/25/maddow-and-hayes-romney-trolling-liberals-so-racists-will-vote-for-him/

[RKP5637]

1. Birtherism to me now is their code word for Racism. n/t

[Vincardog]

2. That has always been a very transparent "code".

[ilikeitthatway]

3. Reagan did the same thing

going into the deep South and dredging up the old anti-Civil Rights rhetoric to get votes.

This is nothing new.

[JHB]

4. It's much older than Reagan.

The Freedman's Bureau! An agency to keep the Negro in idleness at the expense of the white man. Twice vetoed by the President, and made a law by Congress. Support Congress & you support the Negro Sustain the President & you protect the white man

Digital ID: (digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a41094 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a41094
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-40764 (b&w film copy neg.)
Repository: Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA


Title: The Freedman's Bureau! An agency to keep the Negro in idleness at the expense of the white man. Twice vetoed by the President, and made a law by Congress. Support Congress & you support the Negro Sustain the President & you protect the white man
Date Created/Published: 1866.
Medium: 1 print : woodcut on wove paper ; 45.5 x 58.1 cm. (image)
Summary: One in a series of racist posters attacking Radical Republicans on the issue of black suffrage, issued during the Pennsylvania gubernatorial election of 1866. (See also "The Constitutional Amendment!," no. 1866-5.) The series advocates the election of Hiester Clymer, who ran for governor on a white-supremacy platform, supporting President Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction policies. In this poster a black man lounges idly in the foreground as one white man ploughs his field and another chops wood. Accompanying labels are: "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat thy bread," and "The white man must work to keep his children and pay his taxes." The black man wonders, "Whar is de use for me to work as long as dey make dese appropriations." Above in a cloud is an image of the "Freedman's Bureau! Negro Estimate of Freedom!" The bureau is pictured as a large domed building resembling the U.S. Capitol and is inscribed "Freedom and No Work." Its columns and walls are labeled, "Candy," "Rum, Gin, Whiskey," "Sugar Plums," "Indolence," "White Women," "Apathy," "White Sugar," "Idleness," "Fish Balls," "Clams," "Stews," and "Pies." At right is a table giving figures for the funds appropriated by Congress to support the bureau and information on the inequity of the bounties received by black and white veterans of the Civil War.
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-40764 (b&w film copy neg.)
Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
Call Number: Broadside Collection, portfolio 159, no. 9a c-Rare Bk Coll
Repository: Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Notes:

Title appears as it is written on the item.
Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1866-6.

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3a41094/

[GoCubsGo]

5. Y'all are missing the point.

It's not about racism as much as it is pissing off liberals. Romney knows the base doesn't like him. But, they HATE liberals. And, if he can get liberals to hate him, that will make him more attractive to the nutbags. As the quote in the OP says, they may not love him, but they like anyone liberals hate.