I know I'm a little late to the Doughy Pantloads latest journey to the center of his stupid, but I thought I would allow Jonah of the Couch Apes the opportunity to further explain his position on all things racist:
The line peddled by Paul Krugman and countless others, that the GOP majorities and victories of the last thirty years are all the poisoned fruit of the poisoned tree of Dixie is simply untrue. Whatever Helms' personal druthers, his political maneuvering room was constrained by the fact that the GOP is not a racist party.
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Now, a word about the South. I'm no expert, but the story of the South's sloughing off of racism and its movement into the GOP fold, is one of the most egregiously under-told and distorted tales of modern political history. (John O'Sullivan points to one aspect of it here.) The bigotry aimed at the South never ceases to amaze me. Indeed, it is astounding to me how the left tells us we need to understand the nuance of, say, the Jihadi mind in all of its shades of gray, but when it comes to the voting habits of law-abiding white North Carolinians all you need to know is that if a white hand pulls a lever for a Republican politician, that hand must be attached to a racist, and that racism guided the hand to vote for a Republican. The South is a complicated place. Racism was certainly its central shortcoming, but it was hardly its only feature. That so many people can only see the racism, even as its half-life accelerates, says more about their myopia than it does about the region it casts its gaze on.
Finally, I have no problem celebrating Jesse Helms' contributions to this country, and I think the praise he received from so many decent and un-racist conservatives should have been a sign to flummoxed liberals that there was more to the man than racism, rather than confirm their conviction that there's nothing more to the right than racism.
And for the life of me I can't figure out how "flummoxed liberals" could have ever come to that conclusion.
Oh wait, yes I can:
Monday, August 29, 2005
Attn: Superdome Residents [Jonah Goldberg]I think it's time to face facts. That place is going to be a Mad Max/thunderdome Waterworld/Lord of the Flies horror show within the next few hours. My advice is to prepare yourself now. Hoard weapons, grow gills and learn to communicate with serpents. While you're working on that, find the biggest guy you can and when he's not expecting it beat him senseless. Gather young fighters around you and tell the womenfolk you will feed and protect any female who agrees to participate without question in your plans to repopulate the earth with a race of gilled-supermen. It's never too soon to be prepared.
08/29 10:05 AM
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He’s the pantload, pantload
And I’m barely keepin’ my gorge down.
Ever since his mommy bought Jonah the gilled superman jammies, he’s been hanging around the Apollo Theater, waiting for his chance.
And most Southerners AREN’T racist. Just enough of them. And the pull that Helms had in rural NC can definitely be tied directly to racism as that’s one place where most of them ARE. Still.
Cliff Notes to the Pantload: “[…]the GOP is not a racist party […] I’m no expert […] The South is a complicated place. […] so many decent and un-racist conservatives […].”
Ah, I love the smell of Jonah thinking in the morning.
Oh, is that what the smell is?
And here I thought that some tiny-brained incontinent rodents made a nest in the A/C, because it smells like overloaded wiring smoldering in a bucket of shit.
Oh. But that’s a rather accurate description of what goes on in Jonah’s head. Okay, problem solved.
Whatever Helms’ personal druthers, his political maneuvering room was constrained by the fact that the GOP is not a racist party.
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck. . . .
Here in Georgia, both our (white) governor and (white) senators are former Democrats. They “transitioned” sometime in the 1980s. Gee, I wonder why?
. . . and the audience laughed at Lester Maddox too
Oh, and let’s not forget how Doughbob Loadpants suggested that there might be race riots if Obama loses.
Yes but he is a winner…http://www.tagg-lines.com/2008.....feith.html
When every former conservative Democrat in the south decided to join the Republican Party during a single decade, it was because they all just happended to read Adam Smith at the same time.
Damn! Pantload just keeps digging that hole deeper and piling the shit higher. He is raising special pleading to a new artform to match his efforts in inanity, imbecility, and inarticulateness.
I now apologize for having said that this was too lame for TBogg. Even if outside the South the GOP is not racist, the Southern Republicans who have benefitted from whites’ shift to the Republican Party in the 1960s because of racism, such as Trent Lott, say, are not marginalized in their own party. They proudly stand up and tell the rest of us what conservatism is.
I’m no expert, but the story of the South’s sloughing off of racism and its movement into the GOP fold, is one of the most egregiously under-told and distorted tales of modern political history.
+1. Such a story is as distorted as a Fox News headshot; undertold because few are as shameless as DoPa.
Racism was certainly its central shortcoming, but it was hardly its only feature.
I remember my first encounter with slavery, the AA experience, etc., in third grade history: we used to have slavery, and used to treat blacks shamefully, but then MLK came along and cured racism, the end. was was WAS
You can be more subtle. The Republican Party began to build its current coalition based on opposition to civil rights legislation. Even if given the benefit of every doubt that is a negative idea of freedom.
Pseudo-intellectual, pear-shaped moron Pantload wants to be an inner circle gooper so bad he’ll start jew hating if they’ll let him in.
A cursory glance of the writings of both the Republican strategists and election analysts is that the racist suppression of black democratic voters is essential. And where it works best is in the south. Since Nixon, there is no pretense, the GOP EV strategy is appeal to racist whites and suppress black voters.
I am ever so glad that none of my money goes to any Pantload-affiliated organizations.
Gather young fighters around you and tell the womenfolk you will feed and protect any female who agrees to participate without question in your plans to repopulate the earth with a race of gilled-supermen.
I’ll take “Serial Rapist” for $2,000, Alex.
If the Pantload thinks that the GOP is not a racist party, then methinks someone needs to inform him of this:
NJ GOP Club Removes Banner Saying ‘Obama Loves America Like OJ Loved Nicole’
Then there’s always Jonah’s favorite cocktail, the Marion Barry.
At that point, we decided that any mayor who could rally the ex-offender community without losing too many votes from the, say, law-abiding community, deserved a drink named after him. We came up with a concoction of Jagermeister, Kahlua, bourbon and Coke. Why this collection? Because we wanted a drink “so black not even the man could keep it down.”
Not to get all science-nerdy on Loadyboy, but this is BS: “so many people can only see the racism, even as its half-life accelerates“. Half lives do not “accelerate”; a half-life is a set period of time that can be predicted for each substance that experiences it, and without which we wouldn’t have such things as carbon-dating, the decay of radioactive elements, etc. Please feel free to consult any physics book or dictionary to delve deeper into the concept; goddess knows Jonah didn’t bother.
This is yet another example that D’ohna is dumber than a box a hammers. The fact that he is still paid to poop this crap onto the pages of a major US newspaper is proof that the ruling class knows that useful idiots help keep the rabble with torches and pitchforks away from the castle doors. We’ll see how much longer that lasts.
I think liberals are missing the bigger picture on Helms. For instance - he was really great with constituent services. You know, just like Hamas.
I grew up in Virginia in the 70’s and there was a cross burning one street over from mine for some people who shouldn’t have moved in where they did.
In a college town. In northern Virginia.
It gets worse the further south you go.
Like when we were driving through Alabama and saw a billboard that represented a Sambo-type dressed like a jockey running in terror in the foreground with the silhouette of armed men and dogs in pursuit in the background accompanied by this charming missive:
“N***** God Help You If The Sun Sets On Your Ass in Colman County.”
Must have been mid-1980s.
How silly of us to think this kind of shit still goes on.
It only takes about 20 years to heal the wounds of 400 years of slavery, terrorism and murder. Right, Jonah Dixie Cornpone Tobacky Goldberg?
You catastrophically ignorant fool.
Great-great grandfather fought in the 21st Alabama Infantry. Family been Southerners since 1650. Born a Southerner and been one since then, which is way longer that Goldberg has been alive.
The man is crazy. No, today’s GOP is not ALL about racism. Just, 90 percent or so.
Spelled that wrong from memory–should have been Cullman County.
Does Pantload ever make these claims without the “I’m no expert . . .” preface/weaselwords? If there’s anything we know about Lucianne’s spawn, that’s it.
Hey,
I grew up in North Carolina, Y’all, and graduated from the “University of Negroes and Communists” with a degree in theoretical mathematics, and I learned to think. I was there when senator Bigot called it that and I did not see any Negroes on campus. Don’t know about Communists. They aren’t color coded.
All my family are racists. All their friends are racists.
I don’t go there any more. I wonder if some of Pantload’s best friends are from North Carolina.
I forgot to say Y’all.
This English stuff is hard.
But it’s central to his point. I’m sure if you’ve lived as many light-years as Jonah, you’d recognize the gigantic quantum leap his argument makes.
But they took it down! That proves they’re not racist!