Something to share and let sink quickly.

[Whovian]

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Edited for Mr. Pitt: Americans Against the Tea Party scrubbed the Everlasting GOP Stoppers tag and reposted it as their own.

[Raster]

1. Why let it sink? It is the absolute truth. This should be on billboards across the country.

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And this should be on the Greatest Page with a thousand recommends.
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[Whovian]

4. Not really. It just seems things like this sink quickly.

[Overseas]

26. Hard to tell why some stuff sinks. Sometimes because we commented on an earlier posting about it.

[bemildred]

2. K&R. nt

[Cirque du So-What]

3. Somewhat praiseworthy

although I ask why it's still *his* party. The GOP is inherently racist, as the so-called 'southern strategy' has a stated goal of stirring up prejudices among poor whites in the south. I would further argue that GOP domestic policy oppresses the poor of all races, although it hits blacks, hispanics & other minorities disproportionately.

There's no chance in hell of the repugs altering methods that have worked so well for them in the years following enactment of the Civil Right Act, so I would be far more impressed if this military man announced that he was switching party affiliation altogether. Is he hoping to reform the party from within? Fat chance of that! Will he support the next gooper to come down the pike who doesn't wear his racism quite so blatantly on his sleeve? I think that's well within the realm of possibility, considering that it's still *his* party.

[Raster]

6. The Colonel made this comment on The ED Show Friday evening.

I was absolutely blown away by his anger and his sincerity. And not only was he calling out Sununu and his hideously racist comment, he was calling out his entire racist party.

I do recommend watching the original if it is available YouTube.

[Whovian]

7. Found this from when he was with Ed.

[Raster]

8. sorry, Big ED. I will correct.

That's the comment. Notice: this guy is PISSED!

[MynameisBlarney]

20. Whoa!

That's pretty much what I've been saying to people, but it's good that someone is on natl. teevee saying it.

[Cirque du So-What]

11. Yes, I appreciate all that you mention

but I wonder how anyone who is so taken aback by the institutional racism embraced by the GOP could - in good conscience - remain a member?

As a personal example, I hold ideals that are more commonly found among social democrats, so I am deeply disappointed with obvious corporate influences within the Democratic party. Accepting reality, I have little faith that a serious challenge from the left could succeed - either monetarily or ideologically. Instead, I work toward reform within the Democratic party. Why would I support a quixotic campaign, siphoning votes away from the only candidate with any chance of defeating the reactionary party candidate? At least I still believe that change from within is still possible with the Democratic party.

The GOP, however is a different story. In the face of shifting demographics that are already working against them, is there any likelihood whatsoever that they will give up pandering to racial prejudices? As we look at the campaigns currently being waged nationwide - in the 2nd decade of the 21st century, mind you - that answer is obvious. At least there is a glimmer of hope that *my* party can be changed from within; can any reasonably intelligent gooper make that same claim?

[Raster]

14. Remember the GOP at one point in time was the party of Lincoln. A long...

time ago and in a country far, far away, the GOP was against slavery.

And yes, I agree, the corporate influences, even in our Democratic party, are tremendously unsettling.

And unfortunately, you are correct about the GOP. They've sold their soul and their ideology to remain a political contender, and what the GOP has become is ugly, at best.

[Cirque du So-What]

19. I would go so far as to say

that the GOP in its present form is anti-humanity, catering instead to a miniscule segment of rich and powerful. This is no more evident than in the current campaign against any & all efforts to curtail hydrocarbon emissions anywhere in the world. The powerbrokers behind the GOP cannot be so blind that they fail to recognize the monumental death and destruction that will result on a global scale if the current path is maintained. They expect to emerge unscathed in the event of catastrophe, and those who work on their behalf expect to be rewarded for their efforts with whatever handouts they can wheedle out of the powerbrokers.

That's another reason I consider the GOP irretrievably evil, as the world never before faced such a likelihood of destruction from climactic changes. The GOP's evolution from Lincoln's time to the present day is nothing compared to the reforms necessary to bring that party back from the precipice of worldwide annihilation. The powerbrokers are committed to retaining those reins of power by any means at their disposal, including disinformation, pandering to racism, financial manipulation, wars of conquest, etc. There is no hope of meaningful reform where the GOP is concerned.

[Wounded Bear]

29. But even Lincoln said....

"If I could save the Union by freeing no slaves, I would do so."

[The Wizard]

28. The big question

Which Republican, either elected or in the media, will just come out of the closet and say, "We just don't like the coloreds having the same rights as whites."

[Overseas]

27. I agree.

[james0tucson]

36. Sincerity?

Sincerity? If he were sincere, he would be talking about his former party.

[John2]

24. I'm

looking at the early vote of the former Confederate State of North Carolina so far and the vote for the GOP appears to be breaking almost 97 percent white for them and only 3 percent others. When they claim 95 percent of Blacks breaking for President Obama because he is Black, then how would they explain almost 97 percent of the Republican Party in North Carolina being white? Have you ever seen a Party 97 percent of one race? Especially when you consider the Demographics of North Carolina.I also do not think North Carolina has a lot of white people in the one percent. I do not see how Romney's Policies would benefit most North Carolinians who depend on Government assistance either. I was listening to one white woman who was a longtime Democrat at 90 years old give a reason for voting against President Obama. She stated that she did not vote for him in 2008 either. She claimed that she wasn't dependent on Government help and Obama should be ashame of himself. She said that she would pray for him and all the bad things he did.

[AAO]

47. I won't pray for her. She can bypass GO and go directly to Hell.

Racist POS.

[Lucinda]

45. Perhaps he resents what these people have done to his party

and doesn't want to abandon it to them.

I know a LOT of Republicans. None of them are racist. And they aren't happy about being identified that way because of those who are...

[treestar]

5. K&R

A lot of Republicans would be opposed to him. But now their "got to get him out" of the WH attitude seems much less to do with policy and more to do with racism.

[mgardener]

9. Why?

Why would you stay in a party like that?

I would be embarrassed to be associated with a party that hates blacks and women.

[WinstonSmith4740]

15. They're seriously stuck in the 50's...the 1850's.

I would be embarrassed to be associated with a party that hates blacks and women.

Exactly why my late husband changed his party affiliation in 1992...Buchanan at the Repub convention put him around the bend...he said he just didn't want to be associated "with these people" anymore.

And might I add, not only blacks and women...they seem to hate any non-white in general, and whites who don't go along with their tunnel vision of the world.

[Posteritatis]

30. I can see someone wanting to try to fix things from the inside

Wouldn't want to be that person, mind, especially with that basketcase, but still.

[happyslug]

33. JFK, LBJ, HST,and FDR were all members of such party

The Democratic Party before the 1960s was the most racists of the two parties, it was the price the party had to keep the South Democratic. Strom Thurmond's infamous state of 1948 election summed it all up, when asked why he opposed HST's support for Civil Rights for African Americans, when it was the same position FDR had in 1932, 1936, 1940 and 1944, Strom Thurmond said "But Truman Actually means it" (Paraphrased).

Sorry that was the same Democratic Party that supported Woman's right to vote, labor rights, minimum wage, over time limits, restrictions on Wall Street and won WWII. It was the same party that had to fight itself over the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Sometime you have to work with people you do NOT agree with 100%, that is the key to being a member of an actual electable party (If you are an idealist, there are third parties you can join, the Prohibition Party still exists). I have to concede that same attitude to the GOP that I give to the Democratic Party of the 1896-1964 period (Supported Labor, woman's rights, other progressive laws as while as segregation). Coalitions need to be built and sometime you have to deal with people you tend to dislike.

[GoneOffShore]

10. Well done -

Good misdirection.

And here's a kick

[Raster]

12. And another Kick!

[coalition_unwilling]

13. Emphatic K&R - n/t

[abelenkpe]

16. K&R nt

[Logical]

17. Shouldn't sink!

[tavalon]

21. Accidental truth spillage

[Whovian]

37. LOL. So that's what you call it.

[tavalon]

51. Yeah, I can play word games, too.

The Republicans are usually far better at it. That's all they are better at.

[patrice]

22. Snagged. Tks!

[mountain grammy]

23. My racist, Christian (oxymoron, anyone) in laws think Obama is the anti-Christ

but the jokes on them.. it's really RMoney!

[Whovian]

32. Had a (breif) in law that told me his aunt believed Obama was the AC

Before I could consider manners I blurted out "Your aunt's and idiot." We never had much conversation after that.

[AAO]

48. We have a whole Teabag section of congress full of anti-Christs as far as I'm concerned. n/t

[JanT]

25. finally the truth is there in the open

i always thought the reason for the hate was the color of his skin. this message needs to be on every billboard in the nation. i have republican friends who won't say it out loud. but i know why they hate him so much. glad to see it in writing and going viral.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

31. Kick!

[reusrename]

34. I grew up with people like this, some in my own family who I do love dearly.

It was something we just accepted about folks around here. What we didn't have to put up with was hurtful speech. There was a social contract of sorts. It was rarely broken, and those who did were looked down on.

[alfredo]

35. knr

[Quantess]

38. I read it as "let it sink in quickly".

Which made me wonder, why wouldn't it sink in slowly?

[spanone]

39. you're correct lawrence, it IS despicable.

[Up2Late]

40. Yup, now why someone stay in a party like that....?

....that's the real question.

[Raster]

41. 199 recommends and still not sinking!

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

42. Your image link is broken.

[Raster]

43. Image added to first response.

[Dustlawyer]

44. Post this to EVERY SITE MILITARY FOLKS FREQUENT!!!

[Kindly Refrain]

46. Ideologically, the Republicans are the same party as the southern secessionists during the Civil War

I don't get how people don't see that. They cry, "Oh but Lincoln was a Republican!" the worst of the worst southern Democrats who were Democrats because Lincoln was a Republican, those Dems jumped ship in the 1960s when LBJ started his Civil Rights push. Today's GOP are the racists from the Dem party from the south who took over the GOP when somebody decided that nobody can win a Presidential election with out the south. You can track the lineage of today's' Republican party directly to Southern traitors, racists and slave owners from the Civil War.

[AAO]

49. I think as lot of people on DU understands this history - at least they should!

[Raster]

50. This is no longer the party of Lincoln, this is the party of racist, batshit crazy!

[EmeraldCityGrl]

52. K&R