Reid On Birthright Crowd: 'Taken Leave Of Their Senses Or Their Principles'

'Taken Leave Of Their Senses Or Their Principles'

Can't it be both?

Remember back when Arnold was popular and Republicans were falling over themselves to find a way to allow him to run for President? Good times, good times.

Lee Atwater (a S.C. native, where his training ground began and remains today) is back from the dead as he is every two years during the election season. What is so frightening is that this strategy is know, practiced, sanctioned and condoned by large members of the RNC/GOP, members of the media, members of the public and members of the RNC/GOP leadership.

The Atwater Death Squad: They wanted them dead or alive, it did not matter as long as their opponent did not win (if you are not with us then you are against us thus becoming our target and it is open season - shoot to kill). Mercy did not matter and no one was off limits. Children, Spouses, Parents, Religious figures, Political figures, Institutions, Corporations, Churches, Religions, Their Own - for them it was/is a blood sport and if you died in the process, you became a causality of war. Long term suffering was the sweet nectar of the win, the longer the suffering the better.

Lets look at how Atwater reported the strategy and how it can/has been repackaged while keeping the same meaning/objectives - the faithful know the code words and what they really mean:

Atwater: As to the whole Southern strategy that Harry Dent and others put together in 1968, opposition to the Voting Rights Act could have been a central part of keeping the South. Now [the new Southern Strategy of Ronald Reagan] doesn’t have to do that. All you have to do to keep the South is for Reagan to run in place on the issues he's campaigned on since 1964 and that's fiscal conservatism, balancing the budget, cut taxes, you know, the whole cluster.

Questioner: But the fact is, isn't it, that Reagan does get to the Wallace voter and to the racist side of the Wallace voter by doing away with legal services, by cutting down on food stamps?

Atwater: You start out in 1954 by saying, “N-word*, N-word, N-word." By 1968 you can't say "N-Word" — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "N-Word, N-word, N-word”.

Lee Atwater to the New York Times; * Atwater said the word, he did not say N-Word, this modification has been made to the original actual quoted text.

What Groups/Topics/People have always been on the list? These have been some of the staples since the inception of the strategy beginning in 1968 as communicated by Lee Atwater and the Southern Strategy remains in play for 2010:
1) African Americans ( 2010: Social Services, ACORN, NBPParty (membership ranges between 12 and 40 - best estimates), Van Jones, Tea Party Membership, Shirley Sherrod (this one backfired but hold your horses, the next one is on the way - the main drivers of these in the past will not disappoint us).
2) Guns (2010:they are coming for your guns and the latest is a proposal to make gun
ownership mandatory to defend ones-self against the USA Government).
3) State Rights (2010: Immigration, Gay Marriage, DOMA, and busing in a few states).
4) Cut Taxes: (2010: Do not let the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts expire regardless of the negative impact on the short term and long term negative impact on the deficit. Also lower the corporate tax rates).
5) Balance the Budget is now Deficit Reduction: (2010: Reduce the deficit but keep the tax cuts which will increase the deficit by and estimated $3-$4 trillion dollars - no deficit reduction in actuality but it polls well).
6) Destroy the Unions: (2010: focus on the bad unions but leave the good unions alone).

What Groups/Topics/People are on the target list in 2010 so far; which includes the staples from the inception of the strategy in 1968 as noted above. Be reminded, truth has nothing to do with it, it is about Red Meat (Atwater, from his death bed, apologized to some of the people that he had wronged, openly admitting the he knew what was being said were lies.) The truth did not matter, the only thing that mattered was winning. Win at any cost and step over the bodies in your wake. Remember this is war.
1) Hispanics: (includes Illegal Immigration, 14th Amendment Repeal, State Rights, Border Security).
2) Gays: (includes DADT, DOMA, Amtrak Rider-ship, Gay Marriage, Gay Rights).
3) Muslims: ( includes Sharia Law and the NYC proposed Civic Center).
4) The 44th American President: (Muslim, Citizenship, Socialism, Communist, Marxist, Racist, Hates White People).

Who are the Atwater Death Squad Members today? More importantly, who are the new recruits? It appears there are more women joining the Atwater Party and they are not blind to history and they have members of the old guard as their mentors.

Cue a Rasmussen poll showing that 52% of Americans don't believe that children of illegal immigrants should be granted citizenship via birthright. (I expect it in my inbox either tomorrow AM or the next day) That will probably be followed by Juan Williams or Pat Caddell or some other FoxNews fake liberal whipping boy saying that the Dems are playing with fire if Reid tries to shutdown McConnell's request - "the arguments deserve to be heard, blah, blah, blah) Then queue the FoxNews interview with Scotty Rass followed by days of FNC commentators stating the McConnell is only doing what the people want.

Governing by Rasmussen poll and fear. A lovely state of affairs.

I say we give Reid an attaboy for punching like we keep wanting him to.

The entire right wing has gone completely fucking bonkers. Rampant racism, xenophobia, paranoid conspiracy theories...and who is there to turn it off? No one. There are NO adults in charge of the GOP anymore. Even the so called moderates are hiding under their beds like the moral cowards they are, because deep down they share the sentiments of the radical extremists.

Palin Gingrich 2012 baby. This time, why not the worst imaginable?

Someone needs to ask Rep. Darrell "ima-subpoena-you-all" Issa what he thinks about this, given how his parents fall under the anchor babies category.

GIVE EM HELL HARRY!

Pitch perfect response to this nonsense. Republican Senate leaders are running to the right of Lou Dobbs, yes, Lou Dobbs, on immigration right now.

Here it is in a nutshell people. It's all about limiting political power to those they believe to be true Americans.

Republican principles are spotless, shiny, unmarked, unmarred, and in totally mint condition.

of course it helps that they're still in their original packaging and have never been used....

Senses & Principles are HUMAN traits, you dig?

The so-called party of Lincoln (Lincoln Savings and Loan).

Monty Python warned us.

The Republican Party has become the Silly Party. And it's having a serious problem with those in the VERY SILLY faction!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31FFTx6AKmU

Principles! Please. These are republicans.

They purposely chose an objective standard of citizenship -- birth -- that was not subject to politics.

The fright-wing looney's have already made that postulation non-operative since even birth is a political football with those cretins.9witness the birther nonsense).

Of course that pesky 14th amendment was debated and ratified before Obama was born in Hawaii and had the audacity to be caught Presidenting while black.

They reflexively cowtow to the ignorant, fearful, and bigoted base of theirs. Did ANY of these so-called LAWMAKERS ever read US v Wong Kim Ark in Law school?

Let me explain/ correct you.TheRepublicans have been playing to bigots since Nixon's southern strategy in '68. The Teabaggers are a logical and direct outcome of that strategy. Ignorance,racism, fear, and xenophobia are the levers that move these people. The GOPers have a tiger by the tail, and they dare not let go. So you see, they never HAD any principles. SCOTUS have been looking to(and citing in decisions) British and European law since the beginning of our Republic.For instance, try reading one of the seminal cases on this subject, US versus Wong Ark Kim 1898- http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=169&invol=649. You'll find that the court alludes to '300 yrs' of ENGLISH case law.
You display the unfortunate ignorance that so many of the people that you feel such affinity to(Teabaggers).
Your final point really is quite pathetic. You WANT to more like Mexico or Saudi Arabia? That's just weird.