Campaign 2012

Democrats Playing the Race Card, Again

Mark Noonan14 Comments

From Legal Insurrection:

Democrats must be in trouble if The Daily Beast is running a headline White Supremacist Stampede, with this opening line:

“Add to the growing list of candidates considering a bid for the GOP presidential nomination in 2012 America’s most famous white-power advocate: David Duke.”

Ah yes, the David Duke card gets played.

Duke is an anti-Semitic kook who is far more likely in recent years to be hobnobbing with anti-Israel European leftists and Islamists than with anyone associated with the Republican Party or the Tea Party movement.

Yet The Daily Beast trots out a possible (inevitable?) Duke run for President to try to back up a false meme, that there is a “stampede” of Neo-Nazi candidates running in elections as Republicans…

Hadn’t heard much of David Duke lately – last I heard of him he was at some Holocaust-denial conference in Iran, or some such.  But as Democrat desperation grows about 2012, I guess they are really going to leave no stone unturned – wouldn’t surprise me if some liberal Democrats were trying to egg Duke on…get him to declare for the GOP nomination and then put him in the MSM over and over and over again (naturally with some TEA Party emblems in the background).  The fact that Duke is no Republican and has been entirely and absolutely rejected by the GOP makes no matter – we GOPers are racist in the liberal/MSM view, Duke is a racist and thus must be a Republican…and if he can be used to scare up minority voters for Obama, so much the better.

In 2012, this will not work – I think that far too many people are on to the Democrat scam on racial matters.   The Democrats have shouted “racist” far too many times for it to be an effective scare tactic and, anyways, having people like Presidential candidate Cain, Representative West, Representative Scott, Senator Rubio, Governor Jindal, Governor Haley, Justice Thomas, Governor Martinez, former Representative Watts, Representative Ros-Lehtinen, activist Connerly, former Secretary of State Rice, economist Sowell, Florida attorney Bush (yes, the son of the former governor…his mother is Mexican and that makes him Latino; we’re becoming racially integrated in our families) and a host of others gives lie to any concept that we are racist.  People are tired of this nasty sort of politics and will reject it.

In 2012, the fight is not over the past, but about the future.  Democrats can raise the specter of racism and hope it brings a few more voters to the polls for Obama and his Democrats…but the overwhelming majority won’t be voting on that.  We’ll be voting on what kind of America we want – and there is no place for Obama, the Democrats or their foul, disgusting race card in that America.

Is the Minnesota Government Shutdown Intentional?

Mark Noonan

From the Star-Tribune:

…Did Dayton intentionally try to provoke a shutdown? We can only say that if he had wanted to, he would have acted precisely as he has in recent months.

Throughout the budgetary process, Dayton refused to give legislators the details they needed to take his priorities into account in crafting their own budget bills. He refused to negotiate on individual bills until he had seen them all.

The Legislature sent its bills to Dayton six weeks before the session ended, but he frittered away the time for negotiation. He vetoed all nine bills at the end of the session, so legislators had no chance to rework them to address his concerns.

As shutdown loomed, Dayton refused to resolve small differences and sign major portions of the budget, such as K-12 education, judiciary and public safety, on which agreement was close. The Pioneer Press called this “hostage taking,” not “compromise.”…

But, as the linked article goes on to note, this budget fiasco could make excellent anti-GOP campaign material next year – “those mean, horrible Republicans stopped education so they could provide tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires”. It is an article of faith in Democrat circles that the 1995 federal government shut-down is what won Bill Clinton a second term – the Republicans were cast as lousy obstructionists bent only on serving the rich while Democrats were the moderates who just wanted to get the business of America done.

It wasn’t quite like that, of course – a thumping economy (courtesy of GOP policies), a weak GOP Presidential nominee (Bob Dole), a third party splitting the GOP vote (Perot) and a slavishly devoted MSM in those pre-New Media days gave Bill Clinton a victory, while House and Senate Democrats went down to defeat. But, Democrats believe it was the shut down – so now they are always going to see a shutdown as a political winner.

We’ll see if it works – we’ll see if the people of Minnesota buy it in 2012. If they really believe that the GOP is just currying favor with the rich while Democrats are fighting for the little guy, then they’ll elect a Democrat legislature to go along with their Democrat governor…and then they’ll get all the massive spending and tax hikes a liberal can want with no chance of a government shut down. If that is what the people of Minnesota want, then that is what they’ll get…but I suspect the people of Minnesota will see right through this scam.