Cohen Warns Conservatives Using ‘Purely Overt Racist Approach’ To Attack Rep. Ford
Cohen Warns Conservatives Using ‘Purely Overt Racist Approach’ To Attack Rep. Ford
A new right-wing ad targeting African-American Rep. Harold Ford (D-TN), who is running for Senate in Tennessee, features “a scantily clad white woman winking and inviting [Ford] to ‘call me.’” The woman “speaks in a hushed, suggestive tone and says that she met Ford at ‘the Playboy party.’”
Yesterday on CNN, former Republican senator and Defense Secretary William Cohen called the ad a “very serious appeal to a racist sentiment” and said it reminded him “of what happened in North Carolina with Harvey Gantt, a purely overt racist approach.” Watch it:
Some history on Harvey Gantt:
In 1990, locked in a tight race with an African American Democrat, former Charlotte mayor Harvey Gantt, [Sen. Jesse] Helms aired a final-week TV ad that showed a pair of white hands crumpling a rejection letter, while an announcer said, “You needed that job and you were the best qualified. But they had to give it to a minority because of a racial quota.”
Full transcript:
COHEN: I think the Republicans have to be careful, also, in terms of not engaging in conduct. And I was watching the — the Tennessee race, specifically. It reminded me of what happened in North Carolina with Harvey Gantt, a purely overt racist approach.
BLITZER: You are talking about the new RNC ad which has this white woman talking about Playboy and the — the African-American candidate, Harold Ford Jr., the Democratic candidate.
(CROSSTALK)
COHEN: It’s — to me, at least as I watch that, is a very serious appeal to a racist sentiment.
And when the question is always asked, why — he would be the first African-American since Reconstruction elected to the Senate, you say, well, why is that the case? So, why is the South different? Why would they not elect someone…
BLITZER: So, you’re a former Republican senator. Is the RNC playing the racial card against Harold Ford in Tennessee right now?
COHEN: I think they are coming very close to it, if not doing it exactly. And I think they ought to stop it. I think that they have a candidate, and discuss the — the issues on the merits, and not get into that kind of personal type of an attack.
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Their republicans what do you expect from these people. That’s why I find it funny that Ken Melhman is going around to all the african american churches trying to get them to vote for republicans.
October 24th, 2006 at 12:17 pmGeorge Bush and the majority of the Republican party doesn’t care about minorities or the poor. This is obvious to anyone who looks at their policies.
October 24th, 2006 at 12:21 pmBut Clinton?
October 24th, 2006 at 12:28 pmThis is disgusting yet typical of racist Republican scumbag tactics.
October 24th, 2006 at 12:33 pmThe only way to discourage this kind of sleazy Republican racist campaigning is to out the bastards. Attack ads like this need as much national coverage as possible. With enough outrage and buzz among progressives on the Net, who knows–the mainstream media might even pick it up.
As it stands now, however, the scumbags are getting away with it–just like Bush did in 2000 with his racist attacks on McCain’s adopted Bangladeshi daughter.
Bushian loyalty is no virtue–it’s the loyalty of thieves
October 24th, 2006 at 12:34 pmNeosluts are true racists, but smart enough to know to use
October 24th, 2006 at 12:46 pm‘code’ to appeal to the base’s inherent racism.
KKKen Mehlman & KKKarl Rove are driving this wheel, ‘lest
we forget.
As the Repukes scramble to find some kind of message that
will appeal to more, they’re incapable of self analysis. Yes, the
Grand Old Pervert party has had a ‘Come to Jesus’ meeting and,
guess what?.. Jesus declined.
Yeah, Bush doesn’t like minorities. Riiiiight…
Geez, get a clue. I finally found the five missing Lone Gunmen that escaped from Jonestown.
October 24th, 2006 at 12:47 pmYeah, your much better off using a covert approach to your racism.
October 24th, 2006 at 12:53 pmOnly two weeks left. Now the gloves come off, and kicking in the groin is encouraged. How Rovian!
October 24th, 2006 at 1:01 pmAnybody want to wager me that the cute blonde in the ad isn’t from Tennessee?
October 24th, 2006 at 1:03 pmCOHEN: It’s — to me, at least as I watch that, is a very serious appeal to a racist sentiment.
And when the question is always asked, why — he would be the first African-American since Reconstruction elected to the Senate, you say, well, why is that the case? So, why is the South different? Why would they not elect someone…
Did I miss something or did he leave out some words? Did he forget to say the words “from the South” or something? Does Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) not count? (I did not watch the video.)
October 24th, 2006 at 1:05 pmYou know…. While I don’t specifically remember a pro-democratic ad that was racist, I find it hard to be outraged more by the reps than the dems. They’re both guilty of smear tactics. It’s standard election tactics these days. The reps have historically been a little better (ie more sleazy) than the dems. The next time anyone has a notion to say “I’ve had it with the Republicans. I’m voting Democrat.” Just imagine the choice between hitting yourself with a 2 pound hammer or a 1 pound hammer. Then do yourself a favor and image you put BOTH of them down and stop hitting yourself.
October 24th, 2006 at 1:11 pmOh well. Ford voted in favor of the Military Commissions Act. When he loses I hope he feels like crap.
October 24th, 2006 at 1:12 pmPut Senator KKK Bryd on the job. He knows how to spot racist.
The Republicans do have a better track record. More high placed African-Americans than the DummyRats ever did. The DummyRats promise handouts for votes but don’t actually do anything to help. That is why every year more African-Americans vote Republican.
Demographically Republicans are better off financially and better educated than DummyRats (like it or not it is true). So as more and more African-Americans move up socially, buy homes, own things, hold good jobs and get better education they wake up and realize they have been being used all these years.
The Republican party has become the party of inclusion.
Flame-on you delusional lefty conspiracy nuts.
October 24th, 2006 at 1:14 pmwhy would we see any different. reikkkwing was founded on their racist ideologies. we can’t call it nazi in america so we call it republican.
October 24th, 2006 at 1:18 pm“The Republican party has become the party of inclusion.”
Comment by Happy+Guy — October 24, 2006 @ 1:14 pm
Yep… They include everyone who’s a rich control freak.
October 24th, 2006 at 1:20 pm#14-Thanks for that!! I was having a seriously dull day. I needed the comedy spot. Almost lost my lunch laughing. Thanks again….
October 24th, 2006 at 1:20 pmI’m sorry.. I forgot: rich religious control freak…
October 24th, 2006 at 1:21 pmEveryone see that ad? Not only is it irrelevant, it is a disgusting and total smear done just for the sake of smearing – no basis, just a vicious means toward accomplishing the end.
October 24th, 2006 at 1:22 pmCohen may denounce it, but Republicans with a sense of integrity are few and far between these days.
Happy+Guy,
It’s not the upward mobility that wil make african american vote for republicans idiot. They NEVER will vote for republicans in the numbers they want. Afircan american see the racist under-tone in this ad and say to themselves, “there they go again, a black man craving a white women. Nothing makes a white man crazier than the thought of a black man with a hite woman.” This will appeal to the racist and they will come out and vote against Ford base on this issue. Wake up, the republicans have you brainwashed.
October 24th, 2006 at 1:29 pmThat is why every year more African-Americans vote Republican.
October 24th, 2006 at 1:43 pmComment by Happy+Guy — October 24, 2006 @ 1:14 pm
and here, fellow bloggers, is the ultimate strawman!
To which I respond….BACK IT UP, HAPPY DUDE
If you can provide a link that proves this point, then we can debate your silly point. If not….DEBUNKED…AGAIN
Well I have been expecting Karl Rove’s dirty tricks and this racial attack on Harold Ford has Rove’s fingerprints all over it!
October 24th, 2006 at 1:44 pmHappy+Guy: very funny. Republicans have a better record? Ha! You should go read a newspaper or history book.
October 24th, 2006 at 1:45 pm#14 – “The Republican party has become the party of inclusion.”
Well, the Republicans include teen-age obsesed closet case 50 year olds, and more sexual perverts than any other political party in the world.
They include people who are the the far-right, and the even-further-right. They include people who ignore Pres. Bush’s failures and those who ignroe the reality of his failures.
They include fiscally irresponsible conservatives, and fiscally inept conservatives.
They include those who fight for special interests over the average American, and those who own special interests over the average American.
They include those who love big-government and those who want more big-government.
Yeah, I guess Republicans include a lot of people!
You might fool yourself, but you don’t fool anyone with a working mind. The Republicans are the party of “shut up and follow the party line or we’ll kick you out!”.
Democrats are much more broad-minded (no puns about Pres. Clinton!) and include many more diverse perspectives than Republicans will ever consider. That’s why the Democrats have a difficult time getting their message out, because it’s a message of inclusion.
Democrats what to know what your ideas are.
Republicans tell you what ideas to have.
BIG difference.
October 24th, 2006 at 1:50 pmWhile it is a stupid attack ad, I hardly see how it is racist. Most Playboy bunnies are in fact white, so if you were going to portray one to smear Ford for his partying at the Playboy mansion, then the lady would most likely be white.
October 24th, 2006 at 1:56 pmThey’ll keep doing it because it works. Republican voters are all racists, they’re just too cowardly to admit it – they just like to hint and wink about it at election time…
October 24th, 2006 at 2:01 pmKarl Rove has decided that the GOP cannot cheat enough to hold onto the House of Representatives, so instead Rove is focusing all the money, dirty attacks, and vote fraud to keep control of the Senate! Rep. Harold Ford is being targeted to prevent him from winning the Senate seat in Tennessee! Rove’s plan is to cap the Democrats at picking up 3 to 4 Senate seats max, which would mean failure to control the Senate, because pick of 7 seats is needed! Rove only has to rig the Diebold machines for GOP Senators, and not for the House seats which are hopeless! Plus by this plan everything Pelosi does in the House will be countered by the GOP controlled Senate and BUsh can veto stuff too!
October 24th, 2006 at 2:01 pm#28 – “But since when do CRAZY CHRISTIANS need POLLS, when 16 year old POLES satisfy them!!”
Ooooh! That was a low blow! (No pun intended!)
True, but low.
By the way, who will republicans blame for losing seats in the Senate, the House, and among Govorners? They sure won’t take responsibility for their failure, so who will they blame?
Fmr. Pres. Clinton? Naww, too obvious and over-blamed for every failure of Pres. Bush.
The voters? Naww, it might tick off their “base” for the next election.
Usama bin Laden? Naww, they gotta keep him around for 2008 to try and keep the White House.
I think the Republicans will blame Canada for lsoing seats come November 8th. My second guess will be Diebold, for not stealing enough votes.
October 24th, 2006 at 2:04 pmGood for Cohen .He own to go in Tennessee and help Ford . The south should grow up anf free itself from the yoke of racism .
October 24th, 2006 at 2:05 pm#27 Of course you don’t see this as racist as you are probably a White man. But historically their is a fear of Black man with White women and I dare you to deny that’s true.
There are some Black playboy bunnies. Would the ad have the same impact for the GOP base, White, hetero, Christian males, if they had used a woman who was a minority? I doubt it.
October 24th, 2006 at 2:06 pmThe ad is sleazy but I utterly fail to see any racist content.
It’s a real bad idea to cry wolf when there isn’t one — especially when there are plenty of other, real wolves out there.
October 24th, 2006 at 2:10 pmCohen is wrong rethugs don’t need to be careful. They can’t go wrong playing to race in the south.
October 24th, 2006 at 2:11 pm#
The ad is sleazy but I utterly fail to see any racist content.
Comment by The Fool — October 24, 2006 @ 2:10 pm
No, nothing racist about having some blonde White woman asking Playboy Harold Ford to call her at the end of that commercial.
Are you an idiot? The woman was not Asian, Black, or Hispanic, was she?
And what the hell does this have to do with Iraq? The deficit? Immigration?
I hope the GOP is completely wiped out in 2 weeks.
October 24th, 2006 at 2:18 pmMatt+Bors,
Why not just say Ford was hanging out at the Playboy club like a lot of famous people have?? Because it doesn’t paint the picture of a black man with a white woman. But if you show some half dressed white woman giving a wink and saying “Harold give me a call” it means Harold Ford was there having sex or doing something of a sexual nature with a white woman. That drive you white southern guys crazy. It like the push poll that Rove did on McCain in South Carolina in 2000 when he asked the question, would you be least likely or likely to vote for McCain if you knew he fathered a black child?. RACIST!!
October 24th, 2006 at 2:19 pmIt only took 14 posts for some jackass named “Happy Guy” to bring up the KKK and Byrd. Byrd quit the group and apologized publically more than 40 years ago, but that’s all Happy Guy’s got to defend the institutional racism of today’s repub party. Just frickin pathetic!
The question for today is Happy guy, do you approve of the racist anti-Harold Ford ads and if you do, why do you? Stop bullshitting!
October 24th, 2006 at 2:32 pm“The Fool” doesn’t see any racism. Perfect name.
October 24th, 2006 at 2:33 pmCorker has denounced the ad as tacky and has called on the local TV stations in TN to quit running the ad. He said that while he legally can’t communicate with the RNC about the ad (they paid for it), he can talk to the media about it.
Spokesmen from 2 of our local stations said they are going to continue running the ad until the RNC tells them to stop. The RNC reportedly has no plans to do this.
But let 100 “christians” out of a viewership of several hundred thousand call the local NBC affiliate and demand that “The Book of Daniel” be pulled from the air, and watch how quickly the station acts.
October 24th, 2006 at 2:33 pmHAPPY GUY YOU ARE FULL OF IT .tHE RACIST KLAN SOUTH USED TO BE DEMS , REAGAN PULL THE RACE CARD AND THEY ALL TURNED REPUBS. SO THESE REPUBS ARE STILL MEMBERS OF THE KLAN AND AS HATEFUL AS EVER .
October 24th, 2006 at 2:40 pmThe Ford campaign should start running footage of Corker saying “I never said stay the course,” in his last debate right before footage of Corker saying just last month “we’ve got to stay the course.” Corker is a racist moron. Do the voters of Tennessee have any self-respect at all?
October 24th, 2006 at 2:41 pmHappy Guy
Are you Christian?
October 24th, 2006 at 2:44 pmThe ad, IMO, at the very least shows how desperate the RNC is and shows that Ford is a credible threat to Corker. Heaven forbid that the local stations do the right thing and pull the ad on moral grounds. I guess the money the RNC paid them is just too darn appealing. That, and a threat of a lawsuit.
October 24th, 2006 at 2:45 pm#38 – Happy+Guy also likes to conveniently forget that Fmr. Sen. Thurmond NEVER APOLOGIZED FOR HIS RACISM! Not even once!
Happy+Guy also likes to conveniently ingore that the racist Dixiecrats left the Democratic Party to join the Republicans in droves when the Democrats fought FOR civil rights!
Happy+Guy doesn’t want to talk about the NAACP giving Sen. Byrd a 100% civil rights rating. I’ll bet he can’t remember what rating the NAACP gave Fmr. Sen. Thurmond!
Happy+Guy is incredibly good at drinking the kool-aide and repeating party-lines, but never engaging his brain to think about the issues. I wonder why? Is he afraid he might become a Democrat if he uses his brain for something other than keeping his head from caving in?!?
October 24th, 2006 at 2:47 pmThe Ford campaign should start running footage of Corker saying “I never said stay the course,†in his last debate right before footage of Corker saying just last month “we’ve got to stay the course.†Corker is a racist moron. Do the voters of Tennessee have any self-respect at all?
Comment by Bluedog49 — October 24, 2006 @ 2:41 pm
Corker isn’t running the ad. The RNC is. In fact, as I previously posted, Corker has denounced the ad.
As for Corker’s “stay the course” statements, Ford has been running clips of them and then saying we don’t need to stay the course.
October 24th, 2006 at 2:49 pmWC, that’s the SOP for sleazy republicraps — they claim they didn’t approve a given ad and there’s just nothing they can do about it. That’s what GHW Bush said about the Willie Horton ad.
October 24th, 2006 at 2:53 pmPlease. This add is nothing compared to some of crap Democrats have been airing lately. I think that the purpose of this add is point out that Ford went to a party at the Playboy mansion. Point blank. Most of Tennessee is conservative, and most conservatives don’t approve of Hef and his hedonistic lifestyle. It is a brilliant add.
October 24th, 2006 at 2:56 pmverse18 wrote:
Your logic is strange. You say “of course” I don’t see it as racist because I am “probably a white man”, but then go on to say that white men find it racist and wouldn’t have a problem if they used a minority instead of implying interracial sex.
historically there are of course interracial fears. That does not mean any black person and any white person put together is racist.
October 24th, 2006 at 3:00 pmPlease. This add is nothing compared to some of crap Democrats have been airing lately. I think that the purpose of this add is point out that Ford went to a party at the Playboy mansion. Point blank. Most of Tennessee is conservative, and most conservatives don’t approve of Hef and his hedonistic lifestyle. It is a brilliant add.
Comment by Butthole Web Surfer — October 24, 2006 @ 2:56 pm
Well, Bush had a porn star fundraising for him. But I’m sure that’s not the same thing.
Porn Star Shows at GOP Bash
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/06/15/earlyshow/main702007.shtml
October 24th, 2006 at 3:04 pm#50-
Obviously, that whore crashed the party. She was obviously not wanted. She would be better off where she belonged – at some Democratic fundraiser, where selling your body to make a movie is just one more form of individual expression that liberals just love. So, not, it is definitely NOT the same thing. Obviously, Ford embraces the hedonistic lifestyle celebrated at the Playboy mansion, and that is NOT the view held by most Tennesseeans.
October 24th, 2006 at 3:10 pmverse18 wrote:
“#27 Of course you don’t see this as racist as you are probably a White man. But historically their is a fear of Black man with White women and I dare you to deny that’s true.
There are some Black playboy bunnies. Would the ad have the same impact for the GOP base, White, hetero, Christian males, if they had used a woman who was a minority? I doubt it.â€
Your logic is strange. You say “of course†I don’t see it as racist because I am “probably a white manâ€, but then go on to say that white men find it racist and wouldn’t have a problem if they used a minority instead of implying interracial sex.
historically there are of course interracial fears. That does not mean any black person and any white person put together is racist.
Comment by Matt+Bors — October 24, 2006 @ 3:00 pm
My bad. I apologize if I wasn’t clear. My point was is that White men have difficulty seeing anything as racist because they will never know what it’s like to be discriminated against or oppressed soley based on the color of their skin.
Again, had this been an ad featuring a Playboy bunny who was a minority, the impact wouldn’t be the same, especially in the South. It’s the the RNC way of saying to socially conservative Southerners, “Don’t vote for Ford. He wants your White women.”
October 24th, 2006 at 3:12 pmThis add is nothing compared to some of crap Democrats have been airing lately.
October 24th, 2006 at 3:23 pmComment by Butthole Web Surfer — October 24, 2006 @ 2:56 pm
Such as…???
Most of Tennessee is conservative, and most conservatives don’t approve of Hef and his hedonistic lifestyle.
But they can blindly turn their eye away from congressmen making sexual advances (straight or gay) towards underage pages?
It is a brilliant add.
AD (ONE D) as in advertisement, no ADD (2 D’s) as in addition. (example: I know ADD you to the list of uneducated trolls)
geez, trying to play teacher and correct trolling posts, I inadvertently typed KNOW instead of NOW in #53
October 24th, 2006 at 3:31 pmKinda makes my point mute….ah well, you’re still a troll there BWS
Most of Tennessee is conservative, and most conservatives don’t approve of Hef and his hedonistic lifestyle. It is a brilliant add.
Comment by Butthole Web Surfer — October 24, 2006 @ 2:56 pm
I guess that’s why a downtown newsstand in my very red Northeast TN city — a newstand that is quite popular with the public and is what the locals consider an historic landmark and a city treasure — sells Playboy, Penthouse, and other “girlie” magazines behind the counter yet in plain sight of anyone walking in, and no one has yet demanded that they close down. The place is quite popular with the locals, especially at lunchtime as they sell some darned good hotdogs and popcorn. Plus the kids can get a Slurpee and peruse the comic book section.
October 24th, 2006 at 3:32 pmWC, that’s the SOP for sleazy republicraps — they claim they didn’t approve a given ad and there’s just nothing they can do about it. That’s what GHW Bush said about the Willie Horton ad.
Comment by Bluedog49 — October 24, 2006 @ 2:53 pm
Well, nothing except threaten to drop out of the race unless the RNC pulls the ad. Now that would take balls. Something I’m afraid that most candidates (Dem and Repub) don’t have.
October 24th, 2006 at 3:33 pmObviously, Ford embraces the hedonistic lifestyle celebrated at the Playboy mansion, and that is NOT the view held by most Tennesseeans.
Comment by Culture+Warrior — October 24, 2006 @ 3:10 pm
I guess I also support the hedonistic lifestyle celebrated at the Playboy mansion simply because I purchased one of their magazines several years ago, eh.
How many parties did Ford attend? One? Other than a cute blonde telling Ford to call her in an RNC ad, what other proof do you have that supports your accusation that Ford celebrates the “hedonistic lifestyle”???
October 24th, 2006 at 3:39 pmWow, I guess I hit a few nerves. No “blying”, the Republican party has the higher education ratings, the DummyRats rely on on the uneducated, the criminals, the poverty stricken and the illegal. They give them token handouts and tell them the Republicans will take them away if they don’t vote DummyRat. Your parties base is a bunch of people who don’t know better and were lied to.
As for KKK Byrd of course the NAACP gave him a pass. He is a DummyRat. If he was a Republican you would not care how much time had passed or what he did to reform. You would want to run him out of office or worse. That is the double-standard of you party you refuse to address.
I don’t give a pass to the Republicans but you do to the Dems.
Hey DRxJ, do a Yahoo search on African American Vote Republican and here is the first link
http://www.rawstory.com/exclusives/gibson/blackvote.htm
So when you sound like a complete ass by saying things like “To which I respond….BACK IT UP, HAPPY DUDE If you can provide a link that proves this point, then we can debate your silly point. If not….DEBUNKED…AGAINâ€
I guess the debunking can be don’t with a simple search. I don’t know who put the article out (lib site, con site or moderate) I don’t know when is was put out. I didn’t ever read the story. This is a well know fact for years and you would know it too if you took you head out of your liberal websites and newspapers and started observing the real world.
So I did back it up. You answer my claim? If Byrd was a Republican would you give him a pass?
October 24th, 2006 at 3:41 pmThis is sick. To hell with the Republican party.
October 24th, 2006 at 3:46 pmHey DRxJ, do a Yahoo search on African American Vote Republican and here is the first link
http://www.rawstory.com/ exclusives/ gibson/ blackvote.htm
October 24th, 2006 at 4:00 pmOkay Happy+Dude, you’ve linked a totally irrelevant article ran april 04.
I now thoroughly DEBUNK you with this post:
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/US/P/00/epolls.0.html
and just in case you are too lazy to actually link up, it states that 11% African Americans voted for your pal, Dubya, while 88% voted for Kerry.
Hey, if you can use data from 2004, well hell, so can I.
I guess the debunking can be don’t with a simple search. I don’t know who put the article out (lib site, con site or moderate) I don’t know when is was put out. I didn’t ever read the story. This is a well know fact for years and you would know it too if you took you head out of your liberal websites and newspapers and started observing the real world.
First off….WHAT?
this is total gibberish, makes no sense, except for the “I didn’t ever read the story”. Gotcha
NEXT!
Gotcha what? More and more African Americans has gone to the right. You can look at single snapshots but overall it is true.
And you still avoided my question.
If KKK Byrd was a Republican would you give him a pass?
If KKK Byrd was a Republican would you give him a pass?
If KKK Byrd was a Republican would you give him a pass?
Well? Waiting?
October 24th, 2006 at 4:08 pmMore and more African Americans has gone to the right. You can look at single snapshots but overall it is true.
October 24th, 2006 at 4:09 pmyou’re making generalized statements without backing it up.
SO BACK IT UP!
I called up the girl’s phone and Mark Foley answered. What a ripoff!!!
October 24th, 2006 at 4:19 pmGantt, Willie Horton, another racist ad. And this is news? Shit, it’d be news if such an ad didn’t run. And Cohen- if he can’t see that his beloved party has in fact already played that race card, he’s a moron. But, of course, he’s simply being an ass.
Now if Ford, himself, wasn’t such a craven, pandering schmuck, I might actually care. You don’t think the knuckledraggers in Tenn. can’t size up this race? A moderate Repugnacan pretending to be a Democrat running against one of their own, a real idiot Repugnacan. Duh. For me, I hope Cork cleans his clock.
October 24th, 2006 at 4:20 pm#62: More and more African Americans has gone to the right. You can look at single snapshots but overall it is true.
Comment by Happy+Guy — October 24, 2006 @ 4:08 pm
Oh wow. The Republicans got 2% more African American voters in the last election, bringing down the democrat support to 88%. The article you cited was what people THOUGHT was going to happen. It didn’t have any statistics in it about what DID happen. The reps hoped to get 10-15% extra in the last election, so they failed miserably. I don’t think 2% counts as a mass exodus from the dems. It makes your statement sound pretty silly. Got anything else?
October 24th, 2006 at 4:32 pmGood for the former Senator from the Great State of Maine. The ad is racist and is clearly doing what this group of Republicans do best; try to divide us.
I hope the good people of Tennessee see through the racism and the divisive tactics coming straight from Karl Rove in the White House. He sucessfully smeared John McCain in South Carolina in 2000 with racist remarks and he is doing it again.
It is good to know that not all Republicans view winning at any cost good as good for America. It very much is not good for America. Shame on the RNC. Shame on Ken Melman and Karl Rove. How would Ken Melman like it if folks went around calling him gay?
October 24th, 2006 at 4:35 pmDoes anyone remember the fallout from the Terrell Owens commerical with that lady from desperate house wives?? Why was everyone so upset?? You got it. A black man and a white woman. Ford ad, republicans are looking for the same response.
October 24th, 2006 at 4:47 pmcall bob corker at his cell phone and tell him what you think…
1-423-240-2806 1 423 240 2806…its his cell phone…he;’d
October 24th, 2006 at 4:48 pmlove to hear what we all thought about him………….
The Amazing Race Card is all the GOP has left in 2006…
October 24th, 2006 at 5:25 pmGantt, Willie Horton, another racist ad. And this is news? Shit, it’d be news if such an ad didn’t run. And Cohen- if he can’t see that his beloved party has in fact already played that race card, he’s a moron. But, of course, he’s simply being an ass.
Now if Ford, himself, wasn’t such a craven, pandering schmuck, I might actually care. You don’t think the knuckledraggers in Tenn. can’t size up this race? A moderate Repugnacan pretending to be a Democrat running against one of their own, a real idiot Repugnacan. Duh. For me, I hope Cork cleans his clock.
Comment by NYCIC — October 24, 2006 @ 4:20 pm
I live in Tennessee and I’m with you about Ford. He’s a DINO of the highest order. They way he votes with conservatives makes me sick. But I definitely don’t want Corker to win.
Ford may vote with the Republicans 7 out of 10 times, but that’ s 3 times less than Corker would.
October 24th, 2006 at 5:48 pmDoes anyone remember the fallout from the Terrell Owens commerical with that lady from desperate house wives?? Why was everyone so upset?? You got it. A black man and a white woman. Ford ad, republicans are looking for the same response.
Comment by marcus+robinson
I think you have nailed it. This is a racist ad without actually saying so. It is pandering to the southern redneck, who is alive and well, but disinclined to be as outspoken on his bigotry as he once was.
October 24th, 2006 at 5:55 pmFord will NEVER win in TENNESSEE…
…especially after the REPULSIVESCUM placed that ad…
…with the blonde whispering suggestively for Ford to, “call me”…
…that’ll bring put the al Cracker base in droves…
…in defense of white womanhood…
…against the Black ape (Ford)…
…America ain’t changed….sh***T if anything (with the REPULSIVESCUM inbreds in power)…
… it’s gotten worse….
October 24th, 2006 at 6:00 pmAin’t no nation like miscegenation!
Everybody: Go out tonight and find a member of another ethnicity and f**k his/her brains out.
October 24th, 2006 at 7:12 pmI could actually vote Republican if they got rid of racist liars like Lizzie Dole and put grownups like William Cohen in charge.
October 24th, 2006 at 7:26 pmRuCerious – interesting comment. The gal is neither from Tennessee nor cute. Hey, I lived in Tennessee and trailer trash like that got shipped off to the hills or better – to some other state.
October 24th, 2006 at 7:28 pmNo wonder 10% of the black vote is considered a victory for Republicans. Expect it to go dcwn next time.
October 24th, 2006 at 7:46 pmI think “Happy guy” has blown a gasket. It must be hard being a Bush cultists these days. The cognitive dissonance could make your head explode — assuming you’ve got some brains in there.
October 24th, 2006 at 7:48 pmWhen I read comments like “happy guy” and a few of the other simpletons that are so enamored of the Republican party it makes me sad. They are terribly limited people and they have little or no intellect. That ad is a very subtle form of racism. Personally, I think the ad is of poor quality and if I were Ken (the closet queen) Mehlmann I would not be racing around defending it.l
Bill Cohen is absolutely right–his wife happens to be stunning and she is BLACK!!!
So to “happy crappy” and the other trolls, why don’t you go over to your pal Matt Drudges site or do something constructive for a change/
October 24th, 2006 at 8:23 pm
Are there really any playboy bunnies “partying” on?!? I mean, other than at Heffner’s mansion?
I thought they closed all those clubs during the 70s.
October 24th, 2006 at 10:18 pmgive me an half an hour with ropes tied to the bed posts and I will have Corker screaming, “I’m Gay. I’m Gay”.
October 24th, 2006 at 10:28 pmI was at the Playboy party with Ford and others. There wasn’t a single naked black woman present, so the ad is accurate, if a bit tasteless.
October 25th, 2006 at 9:14 amgeez, trying to play teacher and correct trolling posts, I inadvertently typed KNOW instead of NOW in #53
Kinda makes my point mute….ah well, you’re still a troll there BWS
Comment by DRxJ
I take it you’re from Tennessee and home-schooled? The term is “moot” not “mute.” With this ad, the South has proven its unworthiness for self-governance. After the Civil War, we should have just occupied it like the West Bank. We could use it for a dump for our “nook-yoo-lar” waste.
October 25th, 2006 at 10:01 pm