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By mistaB

September 19, 2007 12:41 PM | Link to this

Of all the possible Pres ‘08 candidates from either side Newt has the most experience, the best record, best spoken, provides the most real options for solutions, is not stifled by big interest groups… Unbelieveable that GOP would not engage the PBS debate but the then Dem won’t do Fox. Newt would do ‘em all and would be the olny one left standing!!!

By Manny

September 19, 2007 1:04 PM | Link to this

Newt Gingrich, love him or hate him, is probably the smartest single person in politics. If I was a Republican candidate, I would do everything Newt says.

By Abomi Nation

September 19, 2007 1:33 PM | Link to this

Well now we know that Newt won’t be running for president.

Reading the comments from various ajc.com blogs the right wingers here and in the South will never vote for him now. They seem to think it to be an abomination that a republican canidate might speak to a minority group.

By Lily Toad

September 19, 2007 1:37 PM | Link to this

They are shooting themselves in their feet by not attending debates sponsored by Tavis Smiley, or debates on behalf of Latins or gays.

By SharonH

September 19, 2007 1:51 PM | Link to this

What is Newt so upset about? We already know the Republicans don’t want Blacks or Hispanics. At least they are being honest about it for a change. This open racism is kind of refreshing compared to the subtle, passive-aggressive kind the Republicans usually exhibit.

By VoR

September 19, 2007 5:18 PM | Link to this

SharonH:

Democrats play the race card when they can’t argue a point on its merits. Just call a Republican a racist and people will jump out of the woodwork to club him to death. But the facts paint a difference picture.

Actually, Democrats don’t care about race discrimination. They are the party of race discrimination. George Wallace, Bull Connor, and Bob Byrd—all Democrats. Senator Byrd, a former Klansman, is hailed as the “dean of the Senate” by his colleagues. He used the “N Word” on the Senate floor just a few years ago.

In two important legislative Civil Rights measures, Republican support exceeded that of Democrats by a substantial margin. Eighty percent of House Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but only 63 percent of Democrats. Eighty-two percent of Senate Republicans voted yea, while only 69 percent of Democrats did so. In the Senate’s final vote of the National Voting Rights Act (1965), 49 Democrats and 30 Republicans voted in favor of the measure, one Republican and 17 Democrats opposed. Senator Byrd voted against the measure. Democrat Byrd is the only Senator to have voted against the nominations of both Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas to the United States Supreme Court, the only two African Americans to have been nominated to the court. President George H.W. Bush, a Republican, nominated Thomas to the Supreme Court. Bush 43 chose Hispanic Alberto Gonzales as the nation’s first Attorney General. Under pressure from Democrats, Gonzales left office earlier this month.

Democrats used race discrimination against Judge Bork in 1987 because they believed he would support overturning Roe v. Wade. Judge Bork had filed legal briefs in major civil rights cases and earned the respect of Justice Thurgood Marshall who said that Bork got a “bum deal” and had been “tarred unfairly as an enemy of black people” by the Democrats. Marshall also said “I think he’d have been a credit to this Court.” The Democrats couldn’t honestly debate any differences they had with Bork and reached for the “racism hammer.” And yes, it worked. Democrats also used the racism hammer against the nomination of Charles Pickering for a federal judgeship. Pickering was a Mississippi judge who prosecuted (and testified against) the Ku Klux Klan and whose family had to be protected against Klan death threats. All Democrats had to do was call him a racist and the willing suspension of disbelief ensued.

The NAACP ran ads calling President George W. Bush a murderer and claimed he was responsible for the 1998 death of James Byrd—a Black man who was savagely murdered in Texas. Two of the three defendants were sentenced to death while the third was given a life sentence. The NAACP used the racism hammer by running the ads. No wonder leading Republican candidates refrain from being used as cannon fodder by the Democrats.

Republicans support measures such as school vouchers that would remove Blacks from the permanent enslavement of public schools. We favor strong law-and-order measures that disproportionately benefit Blacks. One example: As Mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani reduced crime by 70% compared to his predecessor, Mayor David Dinkins (a Black Democrat). Blacks benefited disproportionately because of the same-race nature of crime in that city. Expressed differently, more Blacks are alive in NYC than would have been the case in a Dinkins administration.

The racism hammer is the only reliable measure that Democrats can use against Republicans since they seldom win on the facts. Racism and name calling are the “one-two” punch of the Democrat party. At present, Blacks largely tow the line in the voting booth and are a reliable vote for the Democrats.

However, Blacks are slowly but surely realizing the Republican party offers them a home. Black Republicans hold high offices in the current Bush administration and have run or are running for gubernatorial slots in states such as Maryland and Pennsylvania. In Georgia, Herman Cain ran a strong contest a few years ago and would have made an outstanding U.S. Senator (better than Johnny I). SusanH, listen to him on AM750 WSB: You might learn something good about conservative ideas.

By S Shiver

September 19, 2007 6:14 PM | Link to this

Don’t confuse the Libs with facts. They just might go nuts and wind up on disability. I don’t wanna pay for that. Great post VoR.