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Surprise! The Democrat Party Plays the Race Card!

 

 

 

“Garrisonian theories may do for village lyceums, and he-woman and she-man abstractionists, but the people of Illinois—the white men of the prairie state—who deal in facts, and take the world as it is, will never submit to the amalgamation theories which the black republican aspirant for senator bases upon his construction of the declaration of independence—that the negro is the white man’s equal—that he is entitled to political privileges equal with the white man.”

Illinois Register editorial attacking Abraham Lincoln during the 1858 Senate Race in Illinois

Throughout its history the Democrat Party has always used racist appeals and appeals to racial paranoia to gin up votes, especially when it looks as if the election may be close.  Therefore it is absolutely no surprise that in the closing weeks of the 2014 campaign Democrat political strategists reach for the race card from the bottom of the deck.  John Hinderaker at the Powerline Blog gives us the details:

Faced with major electoral losses this year, the Democratic Party is pulling out all the stops. For them, that means descending, again, into racism. As Glenn Reynolds says:

Democrats used to use racial fearmongering to get white voters to turn out. Now they use racial fearmongering to get black voters to turn out. Not much else has changed….

The Democratic Party is trying to use the shooting of Michael Brown by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri to stimulate black turnout. There is zero reason to believe that the Brown incident had anything to do with race. Is there any evidence that Wilson, if attacked by a 6′ 4″, 292 pound white man, would not have shot him? No. Wilson may or may not have overreacted; we may never know for sure. But connecting the incident to race is sheer political opportunism by the Democrats.

In Georgia, the Democratic Party is circulating a despicable flyer, which doesn’t refer to any particular campaign but likely was intended to stimulate turnout on behalf of Michelle Nunn:

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Meanwhile, in Ferguson, a cadre of professional protesters continues to stir the pot in order to keep the Michael Brown story in the news. I wrote here about Ferguson protesters who disrupted a performance of the St. Louis Symphony, where they got a predictably genteel reception. I said I would respect them more if they demonstrated at a St. Louis Cardinals game. Which they did, not long thereafter, with not very happy results.

 

Go here to read the rest.  Needless to say, stirring race hatred for political advantage is despicable, which is a fit term to apply to the party of abortion.

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T. Shaw
T. Shaw
Wednesday, October 22, AD 2014 7:44am

10/11/2012: John Hinderaker: “One of the persistent phenomena of post-modern times is the Left’s ability to engage in the most dishonest and shameful conduct imaginable, while simultaneously assuming a pose of moral superiority.”

Patrick Duffy
Patrick Duffy
Wednesday, October 22, AD 2014 10:52am

Except that there is now a movement among Ferguson’s black community to vote Republican this year, on the grounds that this whole situation was created by Democrats taking their votes for granted. Hummmmmmm.

David Spaulding
David Spaulding
Wednesday, October 22, AD 2014 4:49pm

It will please me very much if that happens Mr. Duffy but that thinking is sadly beyond most Americans, reflexively voting the same way we always have and expecting a different result. What was the definition of insanity again?

Steve Phoenix
Steve Phoenix
Friday, October 24, AD 2014 12:06pm

On a closely related note, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz provided high comedy to the situation of the DemoRats in the impending campaign outcome, by actually becoming speechless. She was asked “What specific races is the President actually campaigning in, like President Clinton used did?” Uhhhhh. The whirring liar mechanism in her brain was tripped completely for about 10 secs. This is 1:30 of your time you HAVE to invest in this video short, at Townhall.com:

http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/michaelschaus/2014/10/24/todays-miracle-debbie-wassermanschultz-goes-speechless-for-a-second-n1909424?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

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