For the record: Here is my cut-n-paste reply to every lefty charge of sexism\/racism against the right for the rest of my life:<\/p>\n
2008 Democratic Primary<\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\nPeople disagreed with him, citing the fact that the Republicans' record of nominating white men continues unbroken. A fair point, but not against what OCSteve was saying. The Democratic party in general likes to think of itself as the party where racism is anathema - we like to make fun of Republicans<\/em> as being the racist party. But, this primary clearly shattered that myth - or at least broke it into big chunks.<\/p>\nI wrote (slightly cleaned-up):<\/p>\n
\nNah, OCSteve's 100% right.<\/p>\n
The Dems, to their credit, can now say they've given either a woman or a black man as much of a chance to make it to the top as either major party in the US ever has. But too many of the rank-n-file the Dems have proven unquestionably that they are as racist as anyone could've imagined supporters of any<\/em> party could be.<\/p>\nPersonally, I don't see much sexism in the base (though I can see it in the media, esp. clowns like Chris Matthews), and I've never heard anyone quoted saying they'd \"never vote for a woman\". I know the many of the most vocal of the Clinton supporters on-line see sexism everywhere, in everything anyone does that isn't explicitly pro-Hillary; but they're also innumerate, illogical, disingenuous, hypocritical and frankly, fucking crazy<\/em>. So I pay their arguments no heed (and, just to be clear, I don't think everyone<\/em> who supports Clinton is crazy - I have friends who like her who are perfectly sane - only the people who dominate the on-line discussion). But the racism has been front and center in the Dem base. And to her eternal shame (I hope) Clinton is banking on it.<\/p>\nIt's terribly embarrassing to me that people like that call themselves Democrats. And, though the country will probably suffer for their decision, I'm a little <\/em>happy that they've declared that they'll go with McCain instead of a Obama - get them out of the party for good. I hope they leave and never come back. As far as I'm concerned, the Republicans can have the racist scum. So here, GOP: take them. Enjoy them.<\/p>\nChoke on them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I posted this in comments at ObWi. I'm gonna copy it over here. \"OCSteve\", a Republican-in-exile said: For the record: Here is my cut-n-paste reply to every lefty charge of sexism\/racism against the right for the rest of my life: 2008 Democratic Primary People disagreed with him, citing the fact that the Republicans' record of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}