A Question For Cons...

[jillian]

Since the GOP has spent the last 40 years playing the demographics game and running the southern strategy, why are you so surprised that demographics came back to bite you in the butt?

didn't you think ranting about immigrants and trying to tell women what to do with their bodies was going to come back at you in spades?

oh...and before you say there's no southern strategy... lee atwater thought said differently:

As a member of the Reagan administration in 1981, Atwater gave an anonymous interview to political scientist Alexander P. Lamis. Part of the interview was printed in Lamis's book The Two-Party South, then reprinted in Southern Politics in the 1990s with Atwater's name revealed. Bob Herbert reported on the interview in the October 6, 2005, edition of The New York Times. Atwater talked about the Republican Southern Strategy and Ronald Reagan's version of it:

Atwater: As to the whole Southern strategy that Harry S. Dent, Sr. and others put together in 1968, opposition to the Voting Rights Act would have been a central part of keeping the South. Now [the new Southern Strategy of Ronald Reagan] doesn't have to do that. All you have to do to keep the South is for Reagan to run in place on the issues he's campaigned on since 1964 and that's fiscal conservatism, balancing the budget, cut taxes, you know, the whole cluster.

Questioner: But the fact is, isn't it, that Reagan does get to the Wallace voter and to the racist side of the Wallace voter by doing away with legal services, by cutting down on food stamps?

Atwater: You start out in 1954 by saying, "******, ******, ******." By 1968 you can't say "******" — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "******, ******."[7][8]

Lee Atwater - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

and i know it's wiki, but it's in the book.

so there ya go.

 

[SniperFire]

Let the butthurt flow, tribalist!


LOL

 

[jillian]

Let the butthurt flow, tribalist!


LOL

why are you laughing at your own stupidity?

it's a reasonable question.

what do you have to offer people you've campaigned against for 40 years?\

p.s. and in case you didn't notice, we won... no butthurt. so what are you talking about?

delusion much?