George Allen will be a featured speaker at Virginia GOP rally reaching out to minorities.
George Allen will be a featured speaker at Virginia GOP rally reaching out to minorities.
On Saturday, Northern Virginia Republicans will be staging a “unity” rally to “improve their appeal among the region’s large ethnic population.” One of the planned speakers? Former Republican George Allen, who in 2006, called a young man of Indian descent “macaca” (a racial slur). TPM reports:
“George Allen has an excellent record on issues of diversity, reaching out to people,” Gerry Scimeca, communications director for the state party, told us. “His whole career, his whole life have been a testament to a guy who’s treated people equally across racial lines, across every kind of line.” [...]
Scimeca argued that Allen’s father was a football coach who held up his players, many of whom were African-Americans, as role models for his children. “This is not a racist man,” Scimeca said. “He never did anything — this was totally out of character.”
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Only the Republicans would think this is a good idea.
September 18th, 2008 at 4:48 pm“George Allen will be a featured speaker at Virginia GOP rally reaching out to minorities.”
lol That headline along is a joke. Macaca Allen reaching out for minorities is like saying Bill O’Reilly’s favorite dish being hamhocks and rice. The GOP is really scraping from the bottom if you have of all people the King of YouTube racist George Allen pandering to minorities.
September 18th, 2008 at 4:49 pmAnd Harlan Sanders will be a guest speaker at an ethical treatment of chickens rally.
September 18th, 2008 at 4:49 pm//laughs at 49erDem
Too funny.
September 18th, 2008 at 4:51 pmFor entertainment they invited that “Kramer” guy.
September 18th, 2008 at 4:57 pmMy only question is, will George have another ‘macaca’ moment before or after the luncheon?
Of course, the lunch menu includes fried chicken and watermelon.
snark
September 18th, 2008 at 5:04 pmDo they plan on having David Duke reach out to minoritiesin Louisiana? WOW just how clueless can you POSSIBLY get?
September 18th, 2008 at 5:07 pmWhoo-hoo, it’s friggin’ Howdy Doody Time ya’ll.
September 18th, 2008 at 5:08 pmFor an encore, the GOP invites minorities to a ceremonial KKK cross-burning and a rally of the Aryan Nations.
September 18th, 2008 at 5:08 pmConsidering the track record the GOP has with minorities, I don’t think it’s going to make much difference whether George Allen is the featured mouthpiece or if it’s some other Republican. I doubt minorities will be flocking to such an event.
But why are the Republicans courting the minority vote now? Oh — right. They’re desperate. It’s not like they are going to actually take any minority concerns seriously or anything.
September 18th, 2008 at 5:08 pmIsn’t the horse facing the wrong way?
September 18th, 2008 at 5:08 pmHow did my post wind up at the number one slot? I posted after Guido’s two posts.
September 18th, 2008 at 5:09 pmThis is just nuts.
Couldn’t the Republicans find a more suitable racist for this?
Was David Duke busy?
What a freakin’ joke the Republican party has become.
September 18th, 2008 at 5:10 pmPerfect. He is the RNC’s best face for minority outreach – the puffy, ruddy, liquour-soaked complexion, the big white 10-gallon hat, the cowboy shirt,the bolo tie – minorities just love that stuff.
September 18th, 2008 at 5:11 pmmissmolly:
I, too, am flummoxed at gay Republicans, black Republicans, women Republicans . . .
I mean, these people do know the Republicans don’t really like them, right?
September 18th, 2008 at 5:11 pmOn Saturday, Northern Virginia Republicans will be staging a “unity” rally to “improve their appeal among the region’s large ethnic population.”
I guess if your record, or behavior doesn’t convince people, your hold a “No Really, I’m Not A Racist,” Rally.
This should be special, but remember to bring your sunglasses; the sunshine reflecting off all that white flesh could blind you….
*rimshot*
September 18th, 2008 at 5:12 pm“This is not a racist man,” Scimeca said.
Right. Of course, this is coming from someone who doesn’t see calling a person “macaca” as a problem.
If you asked most white people in the South if racism was a problem before the 50s, they’d say NO.
September 18th, 2008 at 5:12 pmWell, Its good that Allen is trying, I suppose.
September 18th, 2008 at 5:13 pmFrosty Cupcake Says:
How did my post wind up at the number one slot? I posted after Guido’s two posts.
I have seen my replies to someone end up showing before that person’s comment after i post it today. TPs server seems to have a hiccup.
September 18th, 2008 at 5:13 pmEven forgetting Allen and Macaca, considering the record of the Bush regime, how many people of color are loyal republicans ?
September 18th, 2008 at 5:15 pmGood move GOP. You couldn’t have picked a better spokesman to reach out to minorities than George Whathisface…
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September 18th, 2008 at 5:16 pmThis is a victory for
September 18th, 2008 at 5:19 pmMacacan-Americans.
Allen’s picture reminded me of Chicken George WTF’s legacy of “all hat and no cattle.”
Will flailin palin Palin be all hat and no hair spray? Or (I know I’m gonna get killed!) All pad and no flow?
September 18th, 2008 at 5:19 pmthis is the kind of
lunacy the modern
gop has descended into.
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September 18th, 2008 at 5:19 pmYou better believe that they are trying to rehabilitate his image, knowing he lost because of maccaca and his racist background. It is on record that he had a noose and a Confederate flag hanging in his law office. This is what the GOP always does- misrepresent their candidates weaknesses so they can spin them into strengths. He must be planning to run for governor again next year.
September 18th, 2008 at 5:21 pmThe only close-to-rational reason I can come up with is that the Repubs are trying to look as loony as possible and loose as badly as possible this year so that in 2012 they can actually say, with a straight face, Hey, look how far we’ve come! 2008 is crash-and-burn time for them, so the best they can do is wait till next cycle.
September 18th, 2008 at 5:22 pmImpeach Pelosi, Cheney and Bush and Save the Constitution!
Impeach Pelin and Restore the Rule of Law.
The man had a NOOSE in his office!
September 18th, 2008 at 5:25 pmhttp://www.brendan-nyhan.com/blog/2005/05/george_allens_h.html
Displaying a noose, together with the Confederate battle flag–
–oh no, he’s just a ‘flag collector’, and the noose is just ‘Western memorabilia’.
Historically, his kind of ‘ethnic outreach’ tended to end badly.
Okay, it’s crystal clear now. The GOP has a death wish. They employ Mr. Macaca in an effort to woo minority voters and field Lady de Rothschild to claim Obama is an elitist? As Ed Grimley would have said, “They’re as doomed as doomed can be, you know.”
September 18th, 2008 at 5:29 pmWere Ron Christie, Alan Keyes, and JC Watts busy? Perhaps Rush or Drudge can sit in with Allen, too.
September 18th, 2008 at 5:32 pmI just posted after reading #24 by Viking and it ends up at #11. Weird.
September 18th, 2008 at 5:33 pmsorry O/T:
Report: Voting problems in several swing states
(CNN) — A new Government Accountability Office report on voting system testing finds that the Election Assistance Commission has not notified election officials across the country about electronic voting machine failures.
And a new study by Common Cause and the Century Foundation finds that 10 very vital swing states have significant voting problems that have not been addressed since the last election.
Those 10 states, according to Common Cause, are Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.
LINK
September 18th, 2008 at 5:38 pmYou can’t make stuff like this up. What’s next, a rally featuring Mark Foley at a boys boarding school?
September 18th, 2008 at 5:41 pmGood move GOP. You couldn’t have picked a better spokesman to reach out to minorities than George Whathisface…
September 18th, 2008 at 5:42 pmI swear you can’t write this stuff. Too funny This guy Allen is as white as they come. Look at the fricken picture. Come on,,how does he reach out? For money? That’s about it.
September 18th, 2008 at 5:45 pmIsn’t everyone “ethnic”?
September 18th, 2008 at 5:46 pmAnd, of course, Larry Craig will be the men’s room attendant.
September 18th, 2008 at 5:46 pmI hear there is going to be a “F**king for Virginity” rally directly afterwards!
YAY!
September 18th, 2008 at 5:50 pmThe Republicans are really imploding! Who could have thought this up, even in a bad Disney movie!
September 18th, 2008 at 5:55 pm“This is not a racist man.” This is a racist Republican. Is a Republican a man? That question is a moose of a different color.
September 18th, 2008 at 5:55 pmWhen asked if jokes about his intelligence offended him, Allen replied, “Not really.”
September 18th, 2008 at 5:57 pmWow. do repugs think this is funny too?
September 18th, 2008 at 6:05 pmLooks like VA could go to Obama if they’re trying something this pathetically desperate.
September 18th, 2008 at 6:08 pmLooks like they’re trying their hardest to help.
September 18th, 2008 at 6:21 pmWell lookie there! A horse and a horse’s ass!
“Wilbur, who is this clown to my left?”
September 18th, 2008 at 6:50 pmAre they being serious?
September 18th, 2008 at 7:12 pmAnother lincoln wantabee.
September 18th, 2008 at 7:15 pmHe ought tho consult GWB about mascarading as a hero.
I was just thinking…
1. How fast do you think George Allen would run if you told him that his horse is an Arabian-American?
2. Are the expected 1000 “Korean, Arab, Chinese, Taiwanese and Latino” immigrants voluntarily attending this rally or are Michael Chertoff’s ICE henchmen providing “chartered transportation”?
3. Exactly which of the GOP’s bright young minds chose this Reagan-lovin’, Nixon-huggin’, Vietnam War-supportin’, deferment-takin’, cowboy boot-wearin’, racist and privileged white dude to do community outreach to anyone other than his fellow country club/Klan members?
4. Doesn’t this kind of community outreach (i.e. to specifically non-white and not exclusively rich folks) technically qualify George Allen as a sort of “community organizer“? You know, like the ones that the Republican party likes to mock & look down their collective upturned nose at?
Republicans are so very stupid.
-AF
September 18th, 2008 at 7:23 pmAndrew Sullivan Is A Fraud
And what will this doofus say to fire up the republicans in attendance? Will he recount his college experience harassing a black family or will he chant Macaca, Macaca, Macaca for hours on end?
September 18th, 2008 at 7:34 pmdidn’t he usta keep a lynch-noose and a confederate flag in his office?
September 18th, 2008 at 7:37 pmAnother lincoln wantabee.
He ought tho consult GWB about mascarading as a hero.
September 18th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
what a charming, albeit inadvertent, little double entendre…(golf clap)
September 18th, 2008 at 7:39 pmYep, “this was totally out of character for him”. The “macaca” slur must have come on a day that he had just had way too much of that repub ‘kool-aid’.
Me thinks that the Virginia creepublicans are trying to bait the O8ama campaign into somehow using this in their campaign. However, me also thinks that the O8ama campaign staff is much more intelligent then that. That’s why these creepublicans just can’t get a grip on young O8ama. I mean, hell, the creepublicans would use something like this in a heartbeat.
eh, eh, eh!!
September 18th, 2008 at 8:38 pmwhen you have a post
that even backup the troll
won’t comment on then you
know that the republicans
have really f’d up.
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September 18th, 2008 at 11:01 pmWow! doesn’t this party have any bench strength at all. They just keep rolling out their losers. I see more and more of their rejects being recycled every day.
September 19th, 2008 at 1:47 amThis is such a crock. I know George Allen. I was in the Jaycees with George Allen (same chapter). His “Macaca” moment wasn’t surprising to anybody who knows him. This is a guy who wore a confederate flag pin in his high school senior portrait. In proclamations honoring COnfederate History and Heritage Month, as governor he referred to the Civil War as “a four-year struggle for independence and sovereign rights.”
To present him as the face of GOP diversity in Virginia is amazing hypocritical, even for the VA GOP. He;s definitely not a “reach across party and racial lines” kind of guy.
This does speak to the ongoing decline of the Republican Party in Virginia, so that’s a good thing. And I’m proud of George for the part he’s playing in that!
September 19th, 2008 at 4:14 amwait, does anyone hate when white people qualify their anti-racism by saying “i love black people. my nanny was black”. or something to that affect. when will we realize that racial and ethnic groups aren’t monolithic and that the idea that once you know one you know all isn’t very logical…?
September 19th, 2008 at 5:33 amIn desparate times desparate people do really stupid things. This is a perfect example.
September 19th, 2008 at 9:32 am