Rimmy- I just don't think you have thought this through. The religious right, who I can only assume is what you mean by the base, is not all a bunch of racists. To assert that they are is shortsighted, stupid, and only an attempt to bait the other side. My father is the most conservative man I know. He is far from a racist. He is the guy who taught me that calling people names based in race and thinking less of people because of race is wrong. He probably disagrees with you on almost every issue, but that does not make him a bad guy. That makes him different from you. Any insinuation to the contrary is simply offensive. Even if one can assume that the Republican Party is nothing more than a group of closet racists (insert rolleyes here), then when they nominate a moderate, that is because there is nobody that represents their moral bereftness better. Mike Huckabee or Mitt Romney wouldn't have represented the religious right better? Are you sure about that? We get it...you disagree with them. It is easier to suggest that millions of nameless, faceless people are racists or somehow else defective in character than to admit that they simply differ from you in opinion. Pity.
When the republican party starts to denounce and reject the hateful screeds of people like James Dobson, Pat Robertson and John Hagee (who just endorsed McCain and McCain accepted) then maybe you might have a point.
No. I have a point already. The fact that you can't see it only speaks to you being small minded and having some need to be able to paint your political opponents as a group of bad people so you feel better about bashing them.
I understand what you were saying, and agree with some of it. The point I wanted to make was that conservatives need to police your own Obama gets crucified from both right and left about an endorsement from Farrakhan that he doesn't accept (we get a 6 page thread) and not one word from anyone about McCain accepting the endorsement of someone today who has said much worse. Again, if Republicans want to remove the stigma of racism call your candidates on it
very true But you'll notice that all of them have either grown up and changed their stance to a more humane point of view or have been relegated to the sidelines.
Farrakhan is on the fringe extreme of the left, commonly referred to as a wackadoo. The KKK are the wackadoos of the right. Most rank and file Republicans ragrd these guys a nutjobs and embarrassments. Both sides have their own wackadoos. I thought everybody understood that.
