Straight from the are you freakin kiddin me files. Rep. Jenkins: GOP looking for "great white hope" http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090827/ap_on_re_us/us_jenkins__great_white_hope/print 1 hr 34 mins ago TOPEKA, Kan. – U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins told a recent gathering in northeast Kansas that the Republican Party is looking for a "great white hope" to help stop the political agenda of the Democratic party and President Barack Obama. Videotape shows Jenkins, a Republican, making the comment at an Aug. 19 forum. She was discussing the Republican party's future after Democrats took control of the House and Senate in the 2008 elections, when the presidency went to Obama, the nation's first black president. A Jenkins spokeswoman told The Topeka Capital-Journal Wednesday that Jenkins apologized for her word choice and did not intend to offend anyone. Kenny Johnston, of the Kansas Democratic Party, says Jenkins' statement was regrettable and that she should stick to discussing solutions. ___ Information from: The Topeka Capital-Journal, http://www.cjonline.com
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I'd agree it was a slip except for the fact that it was a white Republican from Kansas which falls more into the category of if it walks like a duck and it talks like a duck then it's a duck, especially these days with the ridiculous rhetoric being thrown at Obama.
But shouldn't the Republicans be looking for a "great <insert minority here> hope"? With hope being defined as a minority that can bring the party together?
Bahaha... because believing a person or group to be x based on past history is as bad as actually being x in your looney tunes mind.
Rodan, self-realization is the first step to healing thyself. I'm glad to see you realize that you're a partisan hack, er flap. Also, please do not make a post without a roll eyes. You are making a strong run at the record.
Or the guy who talked about putting lipstick on a pig. Truth be told, a lot of these old, colloquial sayings can be interpreted wrongly, if the listener is so inclined. But that doesn't mean the speaker was inferring anything. I don't think Obama was calling Palin a pig. I don't think the sportscaster was really advocating hate-crimes against Woods. I don't think Rep. Jenkins is really looking exclusively for white people. Why? Because I actually think!
I don't know, should they? Should the goal of the Republican party right now be to seek out only a minority? This thread is silly. Obviously the lady in question was just referencing a cliche without actually considering the words in the cliche.
