I’m sure you’re not kidding. But you’re also not reading Sullivan correctly. She’s interested in getting *enough* swing voters to switch. You and so many others can’t stop jerking your knees every time Sullivan speaks. You’re doing a great job of identifying heretics, instead of looking for converts and allies, like Obama is doing. Successfully, I might add. There’s already a few conservative groups supporting Obama.

Rich wrote:
“Both my minister in my local church and James Dobson wears relgious vestments.”

Oy. Dobson is a psychiatrist.

About Mexicans and immigration, Niewert was recently talking about preservation of white privilege. The Democrats want strong unions, which, in places like Iowa packing plants, would preserve white privilege.

And regarding the supposed racists origins of the Religious Right, don’t forget the eugenics origins of the pro-choice movement. It is beyond ridiculous to think that teh Religious Right could have become what it is today on race. Abortion is what really fueled it’s rise.

It was ironic because there isn’t really such a thing as “soccer moms,” in the sense of a unified body of like-minded women. Moreover, as far as I can tell, most of the soccer moms’ purported opinions can be ascribed to men as well. Perhaps there was a grain of truth to the concept back in the 90s, but these days, I think it’s barely above David Brooks-level journalism. In my post, I was doing the whole politics-as-marketing thing, and the “soccer moms & affiliated suburbanites” was part of the theme.

I was criticizing suburbanites in general. (And no, this doesn’t mean that 100% of suburbanites are politically lazy. Just as criticism of Republicans isn’t criticism of all Republican voters. Same with Christians, etc.)

And now I’ve gotten all convoluted. That’s how classic rock died. Fuck it.

How do you think those of us who have to fly in and out of Washington National Airport feel? [shudder]

I will never refer to it as Reagan. It’s always “National.”

And I still get nauseated whenever I hear someone trying to get his face carved on Mount Rushmore or something.

How do you think those of us who have to fly in and out of Washington National Airport feel? [shudder]

Those are people we can…well, save for lack of a better term. I’m not sure what to with the hardcore racists.

And YES - The fact that more and more people live in the suburbs and are totally disconnected from political life has a lot to do with the ascendacy of the right. No, humorless feminist, it’s not really about you. There’s a fairly wide class of people who might be called “soccer moms”, and has it occured to you that most of them propably wouldn’t even want to have anything to do with someone like yourself who self-identifies as a feminist?

So it looks like you’re right: no Republican candidate who has a shot at the nomination will risk spoiling his chances by associating himself with blacks or Hispanics.

Wow, that’s the stupidest interpretation of what’s going on here in Los Angeles that I’ve ever heard in my life. Do you even live within the county limits, or are you sitting up in Thousand Oaks going, “Fuckin’ Mexicans stealing all the jobs”?

As many, many, many others in this thread have pointed out, it’s not the illegal workers who “stole” jobs from African-Americans. It’s people like you who didn’t want to have to pay minimum wage and decided it would be much better to pay some poor non-English-speaking illegal worker $2.00 an hour, especially since you could stiff him on his pay half the time and he would have no one to complain to, unlike an American citizen worker who could take your ass to court.

So, no, Mexicans and other Central and South Americans haven’t “stolen” anything. YOU handed those jobs over to them because you were a cheap son of a bitch who thought that paying $5.25 an hour for a dishwasher was just too much money.

The GOP base is 100% racist, 100% misogynist, and 100% homophobic. Basic things for all of you to remember. Why else do you think the wingnuts are fighting against Clarendon County and other counties in this country with a black majority and fighting for Lexington County and other counties with a white majority?

100% is a bit of an exaggeration, but it’s definitely over 50%.

While I am sure race is a factor, it is not quite that simple.

Clarendon County is majority black. Lexington County is majority white
Clarendon County is fairly poor, while Lexington County is relatively affluent.
Nor surprisingly, Clarendon County is a Democratic stronghold and Lexington County overwhelmingly Republican.

So, are the Republicans fighting for Lexington County because they are white, because they are affluent, or because they are loyal Republican voters? Good question.