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"maff" |
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12 Aug 2004 02:57:15 AM |
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OT: Bush needs to change the subject |
Bush needs to change the subject
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1281237,00.html
The party that Nixon built has become one of rote instincts
Sidney Blumenthal
Thursday August 12, 2004
The Guardian
The drama of Richard Nixon's resignation 30 years ago this month has
long overshadowed his political achievement. Nixon's criminal White
House seemed an aberrant episode rooted in only his pathologies. But
Nixon was the father of the modern Republican party.
It was Nixon who created a brand-new coalition of Southern
conservatism in reaction to the civil rights movement. He absorbed the
Dixiecrat followers of George C Wallace - urban ethnic Catholics and
white-collar suburbanites fearful of racial turmoil and the breakdown
of law and order and resentful of student protests, assertive women
and the loosening of social mores; and he shifted the locus of power
in the Republican party from the north-east and midwest to California,
the south-west and Florida. Nixon's natural cynicism allowed him to
juggle the volatile elements that gelled for Ronald Reagan.
Sidney Blumenthal
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Richard Nixon
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Southern Strategy
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| User: "Doc Smartass" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Bush needs to change the subject |
12 Aug 2004 06:27:44 PM |
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(maff) wrote in
news:18510aff.0408112357.5b82ba6@posting.google.com:
Bush needs to change the subject
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1281237,00.html
The party that Nixon built has become one of rote instincts
Sidney Blumenthal
Thursday August 12, 2004
The Guardian
<snip>
The funniest bit:
<quote>
Meanwhile, the state Republican party has imploded: unable to find a
credible Senate candidate against the star of the Democratic convention,
Barack Obama, it has now come up with its own African-American, Alan Keyes.
A screeching religious right fanatic, Keyes, who has worn a lapel pin
featuring the feet of a foetus, is Jerry Falwell as played by Little
Richard. Obama is beating him 67-28, undoubtedly Keyes's peak.
</quote>
Freakin' ALAN KEYES?!
I like the "Little Richard" part. NPR had this frothing whack-job in a
sound-bite. He sounded even more frothing than usual.
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Dr. Smartass -- BAAWA Knight of Heckling -- a.a. #1939
The Fundamentalist
== Knows no greater joy than the sound of his own voice.
== Knows no greater terror than the god he creates in his own image.
== Knows no greater evil than an unfettered mind.
== Knows no greater blasphemy than being told "NO."
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