I saw this last night and yawned mightily-- GOP Chairman Michael Steele admits what has been obvious to everyone else for many, many years: The GOP's "Southern Strategy" was based on racism and divisiveness.
No shit. That's news of the "hey, lookit, the fucking emperor ain't wearing no fucking clothes, dude" grade. Nixon pioneered the Southern strategy and every Republican presidential candidate since then, except maybe Gerald Ford, has followed it. Reagan campaigned on a state's rights platform. Bush the First ran TV ads that implied "Dukakis will release the nigras from prison so they can rape your daughters". Dog-whistling to the racists has been a GOP strategy for 40 years and all Steele is doing is owning up to it.
But no doubt that there will be a lot of Republicans who will want to fire Steele for telling this particular truth.
Smarter than
1 day ago
It's too damn bad that they've ruined the concept of states rights- a perfectly reasonable and appropriate concept, especially now.
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