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Eh, it's plenty diverse. (0.00 / 0)

Just not "that kind" of diverse, y'know...

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by: dennisl @ Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 14:25:26 PM UTC

Diversity Perversity (0.00 / 0)

Scott asks a profound question,

"And if the New Jersey GOP is as "diverse" as Bill Baroni says it is, why is there not a single African-American Republican delegate?"

Surely there must be a few African American Republicans in New Jersey.

Either the Republican party establishment is too politically stupid, or too racially....shall we say, insensitive, to have recruited a few African Americans to run as delegates.....or they tried and failed to find any.  

Either way, it speaks to the de facto racism that has been at the core of the Republican party ever since it sold it's soul to the devil and went along with Richard Nixon's "southern strategy" as a way of winning elections.

Let's face it, racists have found a home in the Republican party.   (John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson essentially kicked them out of the Democratic party in the early sixties),  That doesn't mean that people like Christie Whitman and Bret Schundler actually are racists; it means that they are willing to be passive and quiet in the face of an ugly truth.

Let's get to the present moment.  If John McCain were a decent human being; he would issue a statement condemning racism and condemning racists and bigots....and he would say that he rejects and support from people who have a problem with Barack Obama based on the color of his skin or, his middle name for that matter.

Of course, McCain will not issue such a statement, after all, he doesn't want to offend a significant part of his most rabid "base".

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by: Nick Lento @ Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 14:28:04 PM UTC

Tom Wilson on Diversity (0.00 / 0)

Don't forget this brilliance from the State chair earlier this week...

"When you have a quota system, it guarantees the result you saw in Denver," Wilson shot back. "Look, you have one million Republicans in New Jersey, and 52 New Jerseyans sitting on the floor, representing them. These 52 people are there day in and day out doing the hardcore party activism.

"Our hardcore party activists are predominantly middle class, white New Jersey," Wilson added.

Yes, much diversity.

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by: Jason Springer @ Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 14:30:08 PM UTC

Typo Correction.... (0.00 / 0)

(Normally I let them slide...(as you know ;-) but this needs to be fixed... (correction is in bold)

Let's get to the present moment.  If John McCain were a decent human being; he would issue a statement condemning racism and condemning racists and bigots....and he would say that he rejects any support from people who have a problem with Barack Obama based on the color of his skin or, his middle name for that matter.

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by: Nick Lento @ Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 14:31:14 PM UTC

Hey, easy on Bill! (0.00 / 0)

He didn't say it was the party of young people, he said it was the party of younger people ... you know, people younger than his candidate for president. (That's a LOT of people ... )

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by: denniscmcgrath @ Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 14:49:55 PM UTC

GLBT (0.00 / 0)

diversity can mean a lot of things, and by most metrics, the GOP loses.

I understand (via CNN) the total GOP delegation in St. Paul was 2/3 white dudes.....which I assumed also meant "heterosexual."

activist for hire.

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by: Jay Lassiter @ Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 14:56:41 PM UTC

Remember this quote... (0.00 / 0)

"A young Republican has no heart.  An old Democrat has no brains."

I know a lot of people who started off blue, turned purple, then went red as they got older and started working.

I fully expect Democrats to have a lot more younger people, and that is ok.

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by: AreYouWithMe? @ Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 15:28:07 PM UTC

Remember this quote (0.00 / 0)

"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives."

As evidence by the misquote of Winston Churchill's famous retort: "If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain."

Of course, Churchill was talking about the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party, but American conservatives never let a little thing like truth get in their way, do they?

By the way, Churchill started out as a Conservative, became a Liberal when he was turned out of office, then switched to the Conservative Party after the Liberals backbenched him because of the Battle of Gallipoli.  As Secretary of the Exchequer for the Conservative Party, he mismanged economic policy to the point where he plunged all of Europe into recession.  Was that using his head?  I prefer the Churchill who used his heart.

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by: Thurman Hart @ Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 15:55:43 PM UTC

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