Reply #22: quote i heard during the jindal/blanco governor's race [View All]

[pitohui]

this was the race in louisiana which pitted democratic white cajun kathleen blanco against dark-skinned east indian heritage republican bobby jindal

"i don't like votin for a woman but i can't vote for a damn hindoo"

i think if the republicans run a black woman for president then their know-nothing voter base will stay home, the elites will still come out and vote their pocketbook, but the know-nothing who votes against his pocket to vote GOP is not going to come out for condi

just my opinion but the GOP gets white male voters by appealing to racism and gets the rich voter by appealing to pocketbook, if they are suddenly going to reject racism, their racist base has no reason to come out