Are We Deaf, Blind, and Stupid

Over the past months the Romney campaign and the GOP campaign and their "allies" in big money have run out the post '64 GOPer rhetoric.  You might remember '64 or you might have read about it and the little matter of the Civil Rights Movement and the Dixiecrat exodus.  The GOP, the "Party of Lincoln," took the South and they took it in the ugly way you'd have to - pounding race.  After awhile they realized they'd have to pull a white sheet over their racism and use dog-whistles.  "Don't say nigger, put that thin cloth over it and use welfare or..."  It didn't quite play to use the "N" word with people who'd watched, live, fire hoses, German Shepards, and kids dug out of dike and couldn't quite get along with it.

Some of us were young and didn't know; our hearts were broken and a fierce rage was lit.  No, the "N" word wasn't going to work and a hell of a lot of us got the tune played on the whistles.  In our country the issue of where to eat and sleep, of going to school, and trying to vote ended in being buried in a goddam dike.  That dike was the end point of the "discussion."  That is what they mean, that is the level of resentment that got the GOP the goddam South.

A couple of pundits are starting to get actually angry, Chris Matthews is having trouble being polite and some are surprised - forgetting where, when, and how he was raised.  Some people seem to forget or not know that a large chunk of the Civil Rights Movement was white and that those people were deeply hurt by what our nation was doing and tolerating.  One of the results was that a lot of white people who are not (words fail) race conscious are not pleased when the whistles are exposed for what they are.  Their racism is primarily ignorance and avoidance - different is unsettling, but buried in fucking dike - uh... no.  They'd be really pleased if, "nobody asked for my birth certificate," could be passed off as a bit of awkward moment of humor.  "It's just a joke, fer pete's sake."  Yeah, and a burial in a dike is pretty goddam funny, also.

Those black people are soooo sensitive...  Cripes on a crutch - I sit here white and far from my dotage and I can remember how and what got us here and feel that rage at what is done in my country being fanned into white hot flames.  I have not had my daily existence shaped by what these cretins espouse so I'm less sensitive, but I'm not deaf, blind, and stupid; and neither are a lot of people if someone jumps up and down and yells.  Hey, you - I'm yelling.  I'm so goddam mad my eyes start leaking when I reflect on what got us here.

Nineteen Sixty goddam Four was 48 years ago, almost a half century, and here we are.  A candidate for the Presidency and his allies are playing at race hate.  That seems like piss poor improvement over that length of time from dead in a dike.  Yes, you cretins, the end point of your shit is dead in a dike.  That is what you goddam mean.  Yeah, I do judge you on that basis.  I'd throw away a pair of shoes I got you on.

If you're white working class you might want to ask yourself why this is what Mitt has got for you... if you don't wonder - you could point it out to your friends. 

Mitt Romney's Gay Problems

Former Gaymarrychusets governor Mitt Romney has to run hard against gays to cover that particular job, oh that and some of his other "previous" incarnations of a liberal sort. Now he has another problem, his co-Senate Liaison Senator Larry Craig (R - ID) who has been dogged by gayness allegations pleaded guilty in Minneapolis to disorderly conduct in a men's restroom. That wouldn't be a big problem other than Larry's anti-gay stance and his support for Mitt. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulp21rOFxKA would be where you would go to hear and see Larry Craig share his thoughts on Mitt Romney, it is, however, no longer available. http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=GovMittRomney (Gov. Mitt Romney's Videos) is the user who pulled the video, but this person seems to think it should stay, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTLpS8KTnXI and I particularly like the part about their shared "strong family values." http://idahoansformitt.wordpress.com/2007/03/14/idahoan-senator-larry-craig-supports-mitt-romney/ used to have Craig for Romney, seems to have gone away.

Now I personally don't care if Sen Larry Craig likes men, restrooms is tacky, but what kind of frosts me is his record on gay bashing legislation and his runs on "family values" coded as anti-gay theocratic agenda. I'm not real sure those "conservative" Idahoans will much like his arrest and guilty plea. Hypocrisy is what offends me, and the politics of creating "devils" enrages me. This nation has some rather serious issues, even leaving Iraq out, and these people waste time and emotional energy on "better than" crap. Oh well, I'm sure this will all turn out to just be a leftist media conspiracy...

Mitt keeps having campaign people go away for not too nice reasons, that kind of makes one wonder what it is about him that attracts them in the first place. Actually they seem to congregate in Republican circles, but maybe that's just the attraction of unmitigated greed. Watching the majority of the Republican candidates try to out-hawk and out-god each other makes me wonder is they've noticed that Karl Rove has left DC and GWB's polls are in the toilet. While they blame Bill Clinton for everything they manage to make him and Hillary look principled - and that's going some...