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In reply to the discussion: Please, someone explain the boots to me? [View all]UTUSN
(77,795 posts)to FL. What that means, translated, is that the rich Rethug wives in TX shunned her, mistook her for their maid, made jokes about mistaking her for their maid, giggled and snickered in their palms, etc., meaning the racism came from their own. Yet Poppy can refer to "the little Brown ones" as his grandkids, and the two Shrubs are about the only Rethugs who can get 40% of the relatively small Hispanic vote because they know the secret of rapport: A smile and a joke and a pat on the back (= "acceptance"
, getting them to vote against their self-interest.
Probably Colomba Columba (am going to have to learn to spell it in 2017) WAS in the group picture, which makes the cropping even worse. On Edit: Just saw the uncropped pic up-thread, Columba standing next to/behind Jeb Crow Shrub. In pics of them standing together she is a full couple of feet shorter than he is.