RSS Feed MenuByron York of the D.C. Examiner directs attention to this new poll from Gallup about the ideological and partisan makeup of the American electorate.
There are a lot of points to draw from it, but here’s my headline:
If it’s right that white conservative Republicans make up 23% of the population and that white conservative Democrats make up another 6%, things do not look promising for advocates of an all-conservative electoral strategy. There’s no winning for the GOP without moderates, independents and at least a slice of the non-white vote.
rbottoms // Sep 3, 2009 at 2:42 pm
We have done great harm to the African American community, combined with the great harm they have inflicted upon themselves.
My father went to war against the Axis in 1941. He traveled to and from Washington to receive his officer commission in the Jim Crow car, and still he was willing to fight for this country
Blacks are now full citizens courtesy of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Whatever problems we have now, as citizens we have the power to change things.
I wouldn’t trade places with my father to live in his time for all the money in the world. If the crack babies and criminals of today are the price of freedom then so be it. I’ve had the power to act on America’s promise for forty-nine of my fifty-four years and that is worth more than any longing for an America that never existed.
We’ll fix the legacy of slavery and oppression through hard work now that the upward mobility that was denied us for two centuries is available.
Save your concern and crocodile tears.
balconesfault // Sep 3, 2009 at 3:08 pm
“What does this mean? Is this a signal to future would be Black Racist Thugs, encouraging more of the same?”
I doubt it, given that the Justice Department obtained an injunction against the one thug carrying a nightstick before it dropped the charges on the other, and on the Black Panther organization (which incidentally suspended its Philly Chapter for this stupidity).
And for menacing thugs, they were pretty wimpy – they didn’t say anything threatening, didn’t stand there whacking the nightstick in their hand the way someone does if they really want to menace someone, and per the video were downright deferential to the local police when they showed up, leaving their posts to go with the policemen with no sign of a fight.
I guess they just don’t make racist thugs the way they used to.
Perhaps the Justice Department ended up not continuing to press charges because they couldn’t … you know … find actual evidence that anyone who was registered to vote in that precinct was actually, well, intimidated by these guys?
EscapeVelocity // Sep 3, 2009 at 6:19 pm
So the KKK should follow suit and just bring a club and hoods only and keep it to a pretty wimpy tolerable level, just shy of menacing, heh?
LOL!
What a wonderful world you would create for us!
Well, we will never know why the Justice Department stepped in late in teh game, when convictions were all but a done deal and reverse the process, because there will be no investigation, as the AG is stonewalling.
I guess we will just have to assume that the First Black President who sat and listened to a racist hatemongering anti American Reverend for 20 years, and his Black AG who is on record as having a big chip on his shoulder (Americans are cowards), acted in good faith….in giving the Racist Black Panthers racially intimidating voters that slap on the wrist and have a good day, treatment.
What a hoot!
I find your lack of curiosity disturbing.
balconesfault // Sep 3, 2009 at 11:57 pm
Well, we will never know why the Justice Department stepped in late in teh game, when convictions were all but a done deal
I’m interested as to where you get the information that convictions were “all but a done deal”.
EscapeVelocity // Sep 4, 2009 at 12:56 am
Holder’s Black Panther Stonewall
Why did the Justice Department dismiss such a clear case of voter intimidation?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203550604574361071968458430.html
barker13 // Sep 4, 2009 at 8:29 am
Re: Balconesfault // Sep 3, 2009 at 11:57 pm (#114) –
Balc.
SERIOUSLY…
(*SHRUG*)
Are you REALLY this out of the loop or are you just being disingenuous?
Dude. Regardless of how (fairly) consistently wrong you are…
(*CHUCKLE*)
…I truly DON’T want to think the worst of you in terms of “character.”
BILL
balconesfault // Sep 4, 2009 at 10:11 am
Barker – it does take me a little while to get clued into certain right wing memes. I appreciate you folks catching me up.
Note that the one person who gave a deposition in this case … the ostensible liberal … vocally supported McCain in the last election, while calling Obama a Marxist.
OK – that doesn’t mean he shouldn’t have the right to vote without being intimidated, granted.
Except that he wasn’t actually eligible to vote in that precinct – he was there as a partisan poll watcher. Again, I haven’t heard of any eligible voters claiming that they were intimidated.
Not a surprise, I guess, given that the precinct in question voted something like 500-13 for Obama … although that means McCain did slightly better than Bush did in 2000, when he drew 8 votes there.
A weird place for the Panthers to pick to intimidate people from the voting polls, don’t you think? If substantial numbers of voters had been scared from the polls, the likelihood is that it would have harmed Obama’s vote tally. And notably, there don’t seem to have been ANY other places where this kind of stupidity took place.
Doesn’t look like this will go away soon, thanks to the 6-2 conservative majority on the Civil Rights Commission, and I’ll be interested in hearing if aside from a McCain-supporting poll watcher, and some college kids who ran over there from U of PA to film it, anyone felt “intimidated”.
They got an injunction against the guy with the club. Good. Should they be throwing him in jail? Had he acted belligerently to the film crew, or resisted the police officers, I’d say yes. I can’t see any justification for throwing his non-weapon wielding counterpart in jail, or doing anything more to the Black Panthers, unless there is evidence that he was instructed to go out and intimidate whitey from showing up at the polls.
So I’ll take an open mind – perhaps there is some smoking … err … club out there (I note that wackjobs are already showing up on Beck to claim that the Obama JD is greenlighting Black Panthers showing up at the polls with guns) that will prove intent to intimidate voters away from the polls, rather than what they claimed, which was to protect voters in a predominantly Democratic precinct from being intimidated by anti-Obama thugs.
And after watching some of Palin’s rallies, or after seeing some of the voter suppression tactics used in the 2004 elections where people stood outside to “challenge” voters IDs when they were coming up to the polls, why would anyone in the black community have been paranoid about white thugs trying to disrupt voting in a heavily Obama leaning precinct?
EscapeVelocity // Sep 4, 2009 at 11:50 am
So in KKK strongholds, its OK to wear hoods and yell at “niggers,” to keep the possible black thugs from showing up and intimidating the whtie voters. Because last election the Black Panthers and ACORN were out in force.
Is that really your apologia?
Good Lord!
balconesfault // Sep 4, 2009 at 12:32 pm
So in KKK strongholds, its OK to wear hoods and yell at “niggers,” to keep the possible black thugs from showing up and intimidating the whtie voters.
Nope.
Because last election the Black Panthers and ACORN were out in force.
If you have evidence of Black Panthers and ACORN being “out in force” doing this, I’m interested in seeing it. So far, we have one incident of a couple Black Panthers from a chapter which was suspended after the fact … and as for slurs we have one McCain supporter who considers Obama to be a “Marxist” claiming he heard them shout “You are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker!”
I would presume that the Justice Deparment sought corroborating evidence of this kind of intimidation. It certainly wasn’t on the videotapes of the incident that have been made public. Had it existed, either in the testimony of others at the voting location, or in video form, I presume we would already be hearing about it?
I’d also like to hear your evidence of ACORN ever making racial threats or intimidating voters in any way.
rbottoms // Sep 4, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty today gave his support to parents and schools wary about showing President Obama’s televised back-to-school address in classrooms next week.
“There are going to be questions about — well, what are they are going to do with those names and is that for the purpose of a mailing list?” the governor said.
What in Hell is wrong with you people?
The GOP has gone frakking insane.
balconesfault // Sep 4, 2009 at 2:22 pm
I’ve heard it said that the most suspicious spouses are often those who are cheating.
Over the last 7 years, the Bush Admin used the Patriot Act to monitor an awful lot of stuff in America. Enough that had it been a Dem Admin doing it, we’d have probably been seeing stuff blown up in retaliation. Now that Obama is in office, all that powder they kept dry since 9/11 is going to be put to use, and they need some good theories to justify it.
sinz54 // Sep 4, 2009 at 7:18 pm
Balconesfault:
During the debates over the PATRIOT Act and other domestic surveillance measures, I pleaded with my fellow conservatives to stop and think how they would feel if those measures were ever in the hands of a left-wing adminstration. (I used President Hillary as a hypothetical example.)
But most folks don’t think that far ahead. They couldn’t conceive of a Democrat, let alone a doctrinaire liberal, in the White House.
EscapeVelocity // Sep 4, 2009 at 8:25 pm
David Horowitz discusses the Democrat Party, Obama Administration, and the New Left Radicals
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/09/04/video-beck-and-horowitz-on-radicals-in-the-white-house/
joedee1969 // Sep 5, 2009 at 2:40 pm
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