Chairman Steele? Call on line one...

To regain power, the GOP needs the most help in the following 3 demographics: Minorities, the young and college educated whites...

A political strategist, Rush ain't.

Lou Dobbs racist? Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo

I love Bill Maher's take on this... "Not all Republicans are racist... but you can bet all Racists are Republican."

These clowns are "gunning" for Obama and have been from day one. The GOP has become a sham of a political party and is full of the birthers, racists, sexist pigs who are in Congress as corporate whores! They do not represent the common person and will never be a populist party. I want to see and hear democrats start calling them out and being just aggressive of their tricks and ploys!
We need to be burying them GOP and Blue Dogs as Anti-American who have become so fat off the public dollar!

I hate these people, angry, raging,hate!

And the supreme court thinks we no longer need affirmative action......guess they're on the email list.

On the one hand, you've got Barack Obama, whose language about race is nearly always advocating reconciliation and understanding. On the other, you've got Rush Limbaugh, whose language about race is intentionally divisive and routinely involves denying the validity of minority grievances while fabricating and amplifying those of Whites.

Who's the racist?

Unfortunately; for the Republicans, AMERICANS are no longer buying racist dogma in mass. I was skeptical at first; but time and time again White America has proven they are not nearly as racially motivated as they were in the past. They helped elect a Black President for God’s sake.

Oh, there are screwballs...no one is Pollyannaish about that...but White folk have all moved on quite a bit.

Republicans can continue to talk to racist people they covet as their base. They (their base) and Republicans are a dying breed until they wake up and realize you can't beat President Obama on race alone. Let's pray they keep marginalizing themselves.

God Bless America.

Seems like a fake "trend" to me.

They've been as racist all along, such as attacking Michelle, and the Wright thing, and the muslim rumors.

Looks like more of the same.

And I think eventually, people just start tuning out the rhetoric. Only he Glenn Beck kooksters and that crowd are revved up. I think they've played the race card too many times for it to be anything other than a ritual of grievance and (ironically enough) white identity politics.

Listening to these white assholes make ME hate white people and I'M WHITE!

Thankfully, most of the people in our country who aren't white are far more decent, tolerant and forgiving than the white population as a whole deserves and certainly far more so than anyone like Beck or Limbaugh deserve.

The wingers won't be happy till they provoke another federal building bombing.

Rush and Lou look like biological brothers. I never noticed that before. And if Beck puts on a few pounds and loses some of his hair he would look like baby brother.

I grew up an army brat virtually all over the world .Saw many cultures and points of view . When my father retired we moved to southern Arkansas and I finished high school there . I suddenly found myself surrounded by mostly racist bigots .
The funny thing is they don't see themselves that way the least little bit . To them everything is in it's place . But that in itself is the problem .
People of all races feel like they are equals (and of course they are) and feel it strongly enough they now demand proper treatment in all levels of society .
Well these southerners suddenly made republicans by the Dixiecrats in the sixtys and seventies quite frankly just cannot cope . Their world is falling apart all around them, it seems to have lost all order and cohesion .
Since 1999 when the big push to use the southern religious beliefs and abortion and homosexuality as wedge issues the GOP of today is what we see .
The youth and those new citizens of the south don't see the world through the GOP lens. They see old rebel rednecks still clinging to their swords . But the south is changing as well as the demographics . Wallace is dead , the young whites and blacks listen to the blues together and socialize together .
I guess all I am saying is It's happening right now in the open all over the south , change is taking place . The GOP had better wake up or maybe their supposed to die out . Maybe we are simply watching their death throes .
Long live the GOP, NOT .

POssibility #1: At some point, they're going to go so over the line that even the MSM won't be able to ignore it.

Possibility #2, they're going to incite some poor soul who has a tenuous grasp on reality to begin with into trying to harm the Obamas or some other prominent Democrats.

Possibility #3: The number of hate crimes against minorities will start to steadily increase and the blowhards will never be held responsible for it.

God, I hope it's possibility #1. It's starting to feel like the 90s all over again, and in a bad way.

I hope it's possibility #2.

What is it with all these puffy cheeked doughboy wing nuts, Limbaugh, Beck, Dobbs, Dobson, Rove. They are look like off-spring from the same religious commune.

Good grief, the three stooges are alive and well!

Don't you think that this racial stoking is trying to stir up the fire for assassination? I recall how Rush pretty much called for that for Tom Daschle but his hatred for President Obama and constant carrying on can only be destructive. After all, if he's not "one of us," is dangerous, foreign, socialist, hates America and isn't even white, then he can be killed. This is just like the Nazis.

Beck the dingleberry claims the President has a deep-seated hatred for white people/white culture... WTF is white culture? Oh I know: baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet! I'm pretty sure our president likes those things just fine.

As for hating white people, the Three Idiots never state outright that our President's mother was white, which makes him half white, and that is something they cannot get over: Our President is half white/half African, that's one mix that they just can't deal with.

Perhaps the demographic and cultural changes in the country are jarring and unsettling to some people, and sending some of them over the edge.

Just a few years ago, Rove was talking about a permanent majority, housing prices were soaring making, and the GOP controlled the entire government. America was defined a countrified, very Christian, and mostly white, or at least whitebread.

Obama represents the dawning of a new America. It's diverse, multi-ethnic, and tolerant. It has room for people of different backgrounds, with funny names.

This had to be a shock to the system to the people who thought they were dominant in the culture, and who assumed that "America" was them. They were "real America", in Sarah's phrasing, and not those immigrants or minorities.

This is the sound of hegemony dying.

I live in the South, and know how redneck speech works. During the campaign, there were actually people going around saying in the same breath that Obama was (simultaneously) a Communist, black Christian extremist, Islamic terrorist. I am beginning to wonder whether the GOP deliberately chose that doofuss Michael Steele as a way to pump up the racist hatred while saying "hey, we can have a black guy as a party leader, too." Every time Steele opens his mouth, he makes a fool of himself. And then in the back rooms the GOPers can snicker "Typical clueless black guy, just like the President." And the brownshirt rubes hear the ultrasonic dog whistle.

My concern is that republicans are not really trying to regain power electorally but rather stirring up an armed revolt. The only remaining question is who will the military side with when it happens? One one hand, the military is heavily infiltrated with evangelicals and still largely run by good ol' boys. OTOH, it is one of the most integrated institutions in the country.

It is increasingly hard to believe that there ever was a controversy over Hannah Arendt's phrase 'the banality of evil'.

Add another to the list, Michelle Malkin on NBC this morning. Is it just me or is the Today Show putting on air republican / conservative nuts more often than not?

Maybe there's some sort of long term benefit to these people coming out of the closet and declaring themselves. Nothing has changed - they're exactly who they've always been, they just never felt free to be so bold about it. I think they might be marginalizing themselves and doing themselves in - one can only hope.

Since when did a corpulent pig (Limbaugh), and an obese crybaby (Beck) become the mouthpieces for whites, or "white culture?"

Are they conversant in the language of Opera, jazz, classical music, Emily Dickinson, Ezra Pound, William Faulkner? Do they embrace scientific rationalism (certainly one element of modern Euro-American culture)?

From what I know about the Obamas, they're both into classical music, jazz, and given their Ivy League educations, have probably read more of the Western literary Canon in sheer tonnage of books than Limbaugh and Beck together have devoured donuts.

Sorry, but "white culture" is not synonymous with "racist white trash" as Limbaugh and his fellow fatso Beck think it is.

You can look back to the 2008 campaign, with the Jeremiah Wright controversies, the phony rumors of a tape of Michelle Obama defaming whites, and the slow but steady emergence of the Birthers. And these days, the Birthers seem to be getting more and more bellicose.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Obama denounce Rev. Wright's inflammatory rhetoric?