If Dr Frist was yukking it up about some Democrat addict, the sky would fall.
I imagine that he listens to Rush and knows that Rush spends a lot of his time talking about him, and feels he should reciprocate.
Well yeah, I get sooooooo tired of W going on and on about his Vietnam days as well, It just gets sooooooo boring after awhile. I mean, really, how often should we have to hear all about Alabama.
Dean's addicted to Limbaugh, ew!
dyslexia wrote:Well yeah, I get sooooooo tired of W going on and on about his Vietnam days as well, It just gets sooooooo boring after awhile. I mean, really, how often should we have to hear all about Alabama.
If you can remember Alabama.....you weren't there.
I should be wholly unsurprised were Dean to find himself out of a job before -if ever - DeLay is found to have violated any Senate rule or civil law.
Wager on Dean's longevity?
I feel like I set up a casino with this thread.
<sigh>
You just got a spiritual-plane peek into timber's living room. His Aunt Hetty made all the lampshades from bleach bottles and bingo chips.
When I bet, Dean hibernates.
He said some good stuff today about how the Dems have to go talk to black voters all the time, not just 4 weeks before an election. I remember reading a lot about that, how black leaders were like, sure, NOW I see you...
Dean's point is that they're going to be doing stuff ALL the time, not just in the election window.
Much happier with him than I expected to be.
I like the guy, soz. A fighter for a time it is needed.
Dean steals a page from GOP playbook
The GOP has been treating blacks equally, consistently, and they're improving dramatically. They are power partners with our party.
The Dems use and excuse. I'm glad Howard is paying some attention to the group the Dems have treated so shabbily for so long....but I bet black Democrats are going to start demanding positions of real importance. They won't get them. Then, they'll see how the GOP elevates due to merit--and come on over.
Deans copying the GOP. He's got some kissing up to do.
Lash, we've been over this before. "Improving dramatically?" Anything to back that up?
"Dramatically", mind you.
I was looking for some nimh statistics, found one right here on this thread so will just quote:
nimh wrote:Lash wrote:Unfortunately for me, the GOP AND black Americans---you are right.
As I said elsewhere--Dean could burn a cross at the Black Caucus' Prayer Breakfast. The Dems keep a large contingent of black votes tucked away in their back pocket.
Note: this from the corner where
Dems/libs are said to be racist because of how they treat blacks so
condescendingly - you know, as folks who need help taking / defending their positions or something. Unlike our non-racist conservatives, who look at the 88% of Afro-Americans who choose to vote Democratic and see - not, of course, people who make an independent choice on the basis of personal and group experience and interests, no - it must just be a mass of all too easily deluded and manipulated black folk, ignorants whom the Dems can just tuck in their back pocket at will.
Its interesting, really, the mirror-effect here. They look at blacks and their voting patterns almost exactly like latte-sipping Vermont liberals look at those Republican-voting Southern working class folk: an undistinct mass of people who are so far removed from their reality that they just cant fathom or comprehend what their personal motivations to vote for the "wrong"party could possibly be - and so, derisively, they instead discount them and conclude that it must just be that they're a flock of all too easily manipulated sheep, who just let themselves be put in McAuliffe's resp. Rove's back pocket.
I say, as long as Republicans can not see how 88% of Blacks came to vote Democratic (in the 2004 elections, yes) beyond how it must all be a supersmart/evil scheme by the Dem strategists & populists, they wont ever extend their 11% share much, because they just dont understand. Just like the Dems wont make any new inroads among, say, Christian working folk until they stop explaining away their failure to do so thus far as, you know - just the result of Rove's evil schemes and rhetorics.
Like the article I linked--the GOP is out in the community, listening to blacks and showing them value.
But, most importantly, for the ones maligned and vilified re their relationaship with blacks--they sure have been elevated to the vaunted seats of power,
Not so in "their" party. What we do, we don't do as pay back. If the Dems were to share with blacks in the percentage the blacks back up the Dems--a large percentage of the power positions would be held by black Americans.
What?
Which power positions? The Bush administration is in power. Black people had positions of power in the Clinton administration.
If the GOP is doing such a great job working with that constituency, you'd think they'd get more than 12% of the vote. <shrug>
Meanwhile, nothing about "dramatic improvements", which is what I asked you to back up.
I think both Party's are going to abandon the blacks and go after the browns, Hispandering all the way.
Heh. Cool word.
I certainly hope not (abandoning blacks), Dean's emphasis now sure doesn't seem that way. We'll see.
