I’ll Take Racism By Republicans for $1000, Alex

[Stingo]

Post-racial society? Is that what we have here after the election of Barack Obama? Not so we’d notice, judging by all the racist incidents reported across the country. The Secret Service is going to have to pay a whole lot of visits, and the Republican Pundits Gone Wild might be asked by saner members of the GOP to tone it down.

http://allspinzone.com/wp/2008/11/12/ill-take-racism-by-republicans-for-1000-alex/

[bluestateguy]

1. There are nations where racist speech is a crime

I am not advocating that we have such a law here.

But these people should be reminded that they are abusing the freedom of speech.

[Stingo]

2. Would that work?

I don't think so. But if the RNC were to have quiet talks with Limbaugh and Hannity and Coulter and the like, and to all of their dwindling corps of elected officials, that might do some good.

[Demeter]

11. I'd Be Willing to Give It a Try

For one thing, Fox News would go out of business, the GOP pundits would be literally speechless, and Rupert Murdoch would go bankrupt.

[Stingo]

12. And there's a negative here?

Please point that out for me. Thanks.

[T Wolf]

3. "saner members of the GOP" - where? That species does not exist. The backlash is and will be

far greater than any feared.

Any weakness (conciliation) shown by the administration will only encourage the pukes.

They must be crushed beyond any ability to come back.

[Stingo]

4. I will admit

Nobody has proven, as yet, that such a species still exists. Certainly the few who seem sane, such as Lugar, are not very strong voices in the GOP.

[T Wolf]

5. And I do not want them to tone down their rhetoric. Let them speak "their" truth and let

America hear them and know them for the scum they are. They have lied themselves into an image as reasonable and only different than Democrats. If the country learns who and what they really are, I have to believe that enough Americans will reject them. If the country would accept the GOP as it truly is, I would have no hope (or desire) to save this country.

Only by exposing evil can it be confronted and destroyed.

[Stingo]

6. Oh, their rhetoric explains

the poll numbers, no doubt about that. Heck, they're not going to take my advice anyway.

[Nurgel]

7. Hanging a flag upside down isn't racist,

it signals a vessel (or in this case, our country) in distress and in need of rescue. Vanity Fair would do well to do a little more research in the future. Yes, it can be inferred that those doing it had racist intentions, but its possible they simply wanted a Republican to win and not a Democrat.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071104224321AA6JOBz

[Stingo]

8. I've no problem

assuming the person was a racist.

[Nurgel]

9. Indeed

I wouldn't be suprised it they were either. Doesn't change the fact that Vanity Fair is incorrect for reporting it as racism though. :|

[hay rick]

10. Barack was elected despite his race.

He was elected because the Republicans couldn't get away from the catastrophic legacy of GWB.

He was elected because he was calm, eloquent, and professional and McCain was not.

He was elected because the economy tanked while McCain was clinging to Republican free market/deregulation principles that were being exposed as blather.

He was elected because McCain chose Palin for VP- a folly which demonstrated McCain's impulsiveness and undermined the central argument of his campaign- that his experience gave him the virtue of superior judgment.

America's racial problems are alive and well. Barack's election is a baby step in a better direction.