tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post6781700204925226436..comments2024-03-28T08:13:03.545-04:00Comments on Just An Earth-Bound Misfit, I : "When I Feel the Heat, I See the Light"; Campaign EditionComrade Misfithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15404477636451308763noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-28034701988976962792012-01-22T21:14:05.237-05:002012-01-22T21:14:05.237-05:00"Nixon's Southern strategy" ring a b..."Nixon's Southern strategy" ring a bell?<br /><br />How about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics#United_States" rel="nofollow">this,</a> by GOP guru Lee Atwater?Comrade Misfithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15404477636451308763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-369141715851483202012-01-22T12:17:26.873-05:002012-01-22T12:17:26.873-05:00"...stood up against the Vietnam War within a..."<i>...stood up against the Vietnam War within a party which was very much pro-war.</i>"<br /><br />Uh, he was a Republican, unlike Kennedy and LBJ. Of <i>course</i> he was opposed to the Vietnam War. Remember that both Obama and Nixon ran on antiwar tickets (and showed their true colors once in office.)<br /><br />Also, I don't know why it's "courageous" for a Northern politician of the party of Lincoln to have taken a pro-Civil Rights stand in the sixties. Now if he'd been a Democrat, especially a southern one, <i>that</i> would have been bucking a trend.Tamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.com