THE ROLAND REPORT

August 04, 2009
Is the GOP re-calibrating the Southern Strategy?
Huffington Post has an interesting lead story today detailing the significant drop among white voters as it relates to President Barack Obama's approval ratings.



The article establishes the point of view that the GOP is defaulting to its long-established plan on driving a wedge between white voters and everyone else when it comes to politics.


When you watch the daily and nightly attacks on anything President Obama does on Fox News, especially cranks like Glenn Beck and Sean "Little Ball of Hate" Hannity, it's clear who they are targeting. It's not like a significant percentage of Fox viewers are Black or Hispanic, and to watch a fool like Beck call the president a racist is a joke. Then, of course, you have Hannity who loves to bring up Rev. Jeremiah Wright anytime he can.


Some tried to take me to task when I blasted a woman who stood up at a town hall meeting and ripped the president over his birth certificate, and then screamed that she wanted her country back!


And then there is Pat Buchanan, the resident village idiot at MSNBC who penned an open letter to President Obama that was so hateful, racist and paternalistic that it is beyond belief. He also advanced some of the most foul white supremacist talk during a recent Rachel Maddow segment. In his letter, this fool basically said African Americans should be grateful for slavery because white slave masters introduced Christianity to us.


What we are seeing, frankly, are conservatives and Republicans who are just flat out angry that this country is becoming less white. They slam federal judge Sonia Sotomayor, acting as if diversity has no value whatsoever. You see these wackos work themselves into a frenzy over the president's birth certificate. You see them ride the backs of Rush Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity and the others, knowing full well they are trying to gin up fake controversies and get the white males they covet to raise their fists and rant at anything the president does.


The critics will say that the president's race has nothing to do with it, but his policies. They will say we're spending ourselves into oblivion, but conveniently not say a word about the spending habits of President George W. Bush.


The GOP doesn't give a flip about African Americans. But what's driving them nuts is what may happen with Hispanics. If and when most Republican senators vote against Sotomayor, they'll say it's because she's a judicial activist, as if John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia are not passive observers on the Supreme Court. The GOP will have hell to pay for their dissing of Hispanics, and you can bet Sotomayor's face will be in every ad against a Republican who didn't support her.


If the GOP wants permanent minority status, keep aligning yourselves with those ranting against African Americans and Hispanics. Keep siding with the crazies like the birthers. All you're doing is guaranteeing that you will be watching Democrats run Congress and the White House for a long time to come.
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