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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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From: Metacomet9/18/2015 5:41:30 PM
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..and the White House says..

"People who hold these offensive views are part of Mr. Trump's base," said Josh Earnest. "Mr. Trump himself would be the first to tell you that he's got the biggest base of any Republican politician these days. Now it is too bad that he wasn't able to summon the same kind of patriotism that we saw from Senator McCain who responded much more effectively and directly when one of his supporters at one of his campaign events about seven years ago raised the same kind of false claims.Now what is also unfortunate is that Mr. Trump isn't the first Republican politician to countenance these kinds of views in order to win votes. In fact that is precisely what every Republican Presidential candidate is doing when they decline to denounce Mr. Trump's cynical strategy because they are looking for those same votes.

Now other Republicans have successfully used this strategy as well. You will recall that one Republican Congressman told the reporter that he was David Duke without the baggage. That congressman was elected by a majority of his colleagues in the House of Representatives to the third highest ranking position in the House. Those same members of Congress blocked immigration reform. Those same members of congress oppose reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act. Those same members of Congress couldn't support a simple funding bill because they are eager to defend the confederate flag.

So those are the priorities of today's Republican Party. And they will continue to be until someone in the Republican Party decides to summon the courage to stand up and change it."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/18/1422640/-White-House-all-but-called-the-entire-Republican-Party-racist




..as though this should come as a surprise to anyone

..and the cliff is waiting for the GOP as the hated black won't be there to motivate the racist vote next time

..they will have to rely on old school gerrymandering, disenfranchisement, limited poll access and cheating on vote counts in the states they control..just like 2000
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