Q: Why can't the GOP find a single candidate for president who isn't overtly racist?

[HopeHoops]

Last edited Mon Apr 2, 2012, 11:03 AM - Edit history (1)

Updated to fix wrong word in OP.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. You mean overtly racist.

Everybody is "racial," i.e., they belong to a race or races. Not everybody is racist, but it certainly appears the GOP candidates are.

But to answer your question, the GOP doesn't want non-racist candidates because their base is racist.

[HopeHoops]

8. Thanks. I fixed it. I edited the line a few times before posting but STILL fucked up.

[Scuba]

2. A: It's what their base expects from their candidates.

[CBGLuthier]

3. Is Romney? I know his church "used to be."

but has he spewed forth to join Santorum and Gingrich and Paul and Perry and, yes, even Cain?

[cash__whatiwant]

11. he loves and connects with black people

just look at this video

[Hippo_Tron]

22. That one gets me every time

Mitt Romney is totally comfortable around blah people...

[rhett o rick]

4. Because the Democratic Party with their huge tent, now includes conservatives.

Those with any sense can see that the Republican Party has gone over the edge. The Oligarch-Elites love it. Now only one party to corrupt. They never liked the two party system.

Now we have the Left out in the wind with no party, a huge "centrist Party" and a wacko Republican Party.

[MADem]

5. Because the tweet-tweet-tweet of that particular dog whistle gets the nitwits to the polls. NT

[louis-t]

6. They can't even find one they actually like.

[Drale]

7. Because the Republican party is in its death spiral

the closer to the end they get the more right wing and dangerous they will become.

[HopeHoops]

9. We call that "fascism".

[bowens43]

10. why would they? They represent their base? nt

[center rising]

12. They had one in Jon Huntsman

[HopeHoops]

13. Well, that's true. It's probably why they got rid of him so quickly.

[Blue_Tires]

16. The funny part is I remember when everyone was touting him as

the ONE candidate Obama was scared of...

And he ends up dropping out around the same time as Bachmann

[JohnnyRingo]

14. The Tea Party is a racist movement

And they're much more influential than they should be in this run for the White House.

The Republicans have created a hate filled Frankenstein monster by throwing everything they have at Obama, and now they have to finish the walk down the aisle with it.

[Stan Smith]

15. Because they all are racists.

[BamaFanLee]

21. Ding ding ding

I am yet to meet a conservative who isn't a racist. If being a racist were a crime, Alabama's prisons would be overflowing with right wingers.

[surrealAmerican]

17. because they aren't looking for one.

They probably could find one if they were, but appealing to racists is part of their strategy (as is appealing to sexists, xenophobes, homophobes, etc.).

[HopeHoops]

18. Well now, that really could simply be it, couldn't it?

[baldguy]

19. Because such a candidate would loose the nomination. Very, very, very badly.

No question.

[Jamaal510]

23. Just ask John Huntsman.

[Jakes Progress]

20. Being racist is one of their requirements.

I think it's in their by-laws.

[Jamaal510]

24. I think the reason why the GOP has a racism problem is because

of their conservative ideology. The essence of conservatism is about either maintaining the status quo or returning to how things were in the past.