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2 STATE GOP COUNTY CHAIRS USE ETHNIC STEREOTYPE TO DEFEND SENATOR
A pair of South Carolina County Republican Party chairmen came to the defense of U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint Sunday by using a not-so-defensible comment about Jewish people.
Bamberg County GOP Chairman Edwin Merwin and Orangeburg County GOP Chairman James Ulmer penned a piece together responding to criticism by state Rep. Bakari Sellers over DeMint’s opposition to Congressional earmarks.
The defense of DeMint, however, was anchored in an ethnic stereotype.
“There is a saying that the Jews who are wealthy got that way not by watching dollars, but instead by taking care of the pennies and the dollars taking care of themselves,” Ulmer and Merwin wrote. “By not using earmarks to fund projects for South Carolina and instead using actual bills, DeMint is watching our nation’s pennies and trying to preserve our country’s wealth and our economy’s viability to give all an opportunity to succeed.”
Umm… who in mainstream America thinks it’s a good idea to write something like that in a guest editorial? Especially in light of the racially-motivated attention garnered by South Carolina Republican activists over the past few months.
It’s people like Ulmer and Merwin that make many folks fear for the future of the once Grand Ole Party.
How long before this gets picked-up by MSNBC?
And how dumb are these two county chairs? I mean, it takes a special kind of stupid to actually write something like that in an op-ed.
Is there really that small a number of Republicans living in Orangeburg and Bamberg that we can’t find two county chairs that at least have a second grade understanding of what is and isn’t a good idea in politics?
Nope, no racism here in the Republican party. Keep moving…
What really has to be questioned is not whether these idiots understand modern politics. I want to know how they can get these words out of their throats. I know there are certain phrases and words that just get stuck in my gullet because they are so mindless and mean spirited that I can’t bring myself to say them, regardless of my emotion at the time.
I’m not better or worse than the next guy but what in the Sam Hill century are these fools living in?
I live in Flori-duh, but thank you South Carolina – you are passing us in the fast-lane to Idiotville!!
So James,
The only problem here is the fact that these guys are stupid and it’s okay as long as they just don’t say it?
I think the real problem is this is very typical of the current Republican mindset. They say they are inclusitory but have not shown that lately, or at least there have been MANY “bad political ideas”
Classic example of the racist mind. They wrote a hurtful, damaging stereotype about Jewish people because it is normal in their world. Imagine what they say behind closed doors about african-americans, women, hispanics, union workers, the poor etc. Their poll numbers will probably go up amongst their bigoted GOP populous however. Guaranteeing us at least one more generation of ignorant republicans polluting our politics.
Bring em on.
Some decades ago, Bill Buckley wrote a brave book about the anti-Semitism of the right. It was an amazing and thoroughgoing view of the subject. Bill Buckley is probably turning over in his grave at this.
I live in TX, and I thought that our Gov. and Texans, were stupid. Boy, was I wrong? The people of S.C. make Texans, look smart. I never thought, that an entire state, could be stupid, and poor.
I just sent an email to the editor of that paper–she’s responsible for allowing this claptrap to be published, she needs to be taken to the woodshed over this. If she owns the paper nothing can be done, but if she works for the paper she needs to be demoted or fired.
Well now it’s gone MSM-Huffington Post just picked up this article, so it will only be a matter of moments before it makes it to the evening news. Just how incredibly stupid are these 2? Guess that question answers itself.
that stereotype is a compliment to anyone who’s jewish. all it says it that they stereotypically are tight with their money. i can see why poilticians wouldn’t want to listen to that kind of message and, instead, shoot the messenger.
Re: comment #9…the person signing as “baked” who thinks these idiotic remarks about Jews are compliments. In modern culture, one of the meanings of the word “baked” is someone who is so stoned on pot that they say stupid things. I guess it’s true…and I don’t mean it as a compliment.
Yeah. For what it’s worth, as an American Jew, “you Jews are rich because you watch every penny” is not a compliment.
It’s akin to telling your blind date, “Huh, you don’t sweat much for a fat girl.”
Might sound complimentary. Isn’t.
[...] “It’s people like Ulmer and Merwin that make many folks fear for the future of the once Grand Ole Party,” wrote the conservative Palmetto Scoop. [...]
“South Carolina, too small to be a republic and too large to be an insane asylum.” These ignorant rednecks were actually published in the T&D, which also thinks Katherine Jean Lopez is a great thinker. The dry cleaners here are overloaded when the Repukes have a convention, pressing all those Klan robes and all.
Interestingly, the online paper has this at the bottom of their “comments” page. I wonder now if “racism” isn’t included in he “etc.” category.
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[...] thinks it’s a good idea to write something like that in a guest editorial?" the publication asked in a no-byline piece. "Especially in light of the racially-motivated attention garnered by South Carolina Republican [...]
Number 11 – the stereotype about Jews is like making a supposedly positive comment about black folks’ dancing abilities.
It’s patronizing as ^@%!
The origin of this stereotype goes back to the middle ages when Jews were banned from most professions and Christians were banned from loaning money at interest. Because of these circumstances Jews were the only money lenders in Europe at that time. So the myth was born that all Jews are rich, tightfisted money grubbers. Not much of a compliment. Since then this stereotype has been used by many leaders in Europe to blame their country’s economic problems on Jews, Germany in the 1930s and 1940s being a particularly successful example. There are still many Americans who believe that there is a world-wide Jewish conspiracy to control the world’s wealth. History has shown us that these ideas are not only derogatory but dangerous.
Myself, I’m of mixed origins. I never heard my Jewish relatives use that saying but my southern Catholic relatives were the ones who said, “Watch your pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves.”
Michael Steele has just posted a statement saying, “Hey y’all, chill. The cats were giving props to our bagel-eatin’ brothers. Ain’t no thang.”
#11: Sounds like you’re saying that you, too, somehow believe that all Jews are both wealthy and “tight” with their money, you just don’t think that politicians should be saying this in public. Newsflash: This stereotype is (a) racist and (b) not factually true.
[...] is ‘watching our nation’s pennies’ Jump to Comments Even a Conservative Publication, The Palmetto Scoop, a conservative e-zine in South Carolina, reacted to the letter with disgust: Umm… who in [...]
Now calm down folks, this is a South Carolina site, and while those New York Jews might find that letter offensive, Edwin and Jim weren’t talking about them. They were paying a complement to our good Charleston Jews. The Charleston Jews know Republicans love them. Hell you can’t buy a decent suit or a diamond ring for your wife without em; and we like movies too. Just look how many of us love watching Charlton Heston part the Red Sea and then race chariots. We liked him so much we made him head of the NRA. How much more love can we show.
Meh. What do you expect from the state which started the Civil War?
Why, we’ll all be just as nasty as two Jews fightin’ over a penny, don’t you know it? And we’ll make copper wire outta that penny before we let them federal Yankees spend it!
Ha ha ha ha ha! Thanks, Southern Republicans! We knew ya had it in ya!
My grandfather, a Jew, used to say this all the time. It’s like one of the fundamental principles to family finance – take care of your pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves.
Since when is this type of thing bad? Ridiculous! It is folk wisdom of the type in the Farmer’s Almanac. You know, the real, honest and true stuff.
Far better economic principles than credit default swaps, second derivative options and securitized mortgages, eh?
All I can say is wow! These idiots need to be removed from their positions in the Republican Party. Racist sentiments should only be accepted by the Democrat Party in America. I am a Republican & would be ashamed to be associated with these two grown men. I also have some very good Jewish Republican friends. None of us are going to change our parties nor our points of view due to the ignorance of some Deep South morons. But regardless, they need to be kicked out of office.
In other news, Senator Jim DeMint is a great senator. I say that as a conservative Republican from the State of Arizona. Sadly though, Senator DeMint will now be sidetracked and will need to join the chorus of people demanding that these idiots lose their party positions. And he’ll have to do so sooner rather than later.
Re: Jack No. 19. I’ve known many Jewish people in California and Texas; every one of them had friends and/or relatives in New York. Those in New York have relatives or friends all over the world, so I expect this little SC site will get a lot of attention and be found to be most offensive.
# 13 Adam -
You are funny. I am still laughing.
It is folk wisdom of the type in the Farmer’s Almanac. You know, the real, honest and true stuff.
I agree! I am looking forward to some more Southern honesty. Sing it out, brother!
And you wonder why all reliable polling shows young people (under 35) fleeing the Republican Party in droves. In another five years the only grist for the mill will be racial bigots, homophobes, and Fred Phelps. Maybe the Jews in the area will sell tickets to the quick sinking of the SS South Carolina Republican Party.
[...] First is the column by two Republican Party county chairmen in South Carolina. Next is an editorial by the Palmetto scoop. One would think that after a year of racial gaffes by Southern Republicans [...]
That a person in leadership in 2009 would first of all, think something like that, and then, SAY IT IN PUBLIC in an attempt to coalesce political support. I mean, wow! You stay classy, southern GOP. (Recent SC GOP examples of boorishness: Michelle Obama-is-a gorilla “joke”; Joe “You Lie!” Wilson; Katon Dawson, SC GOP head, only recently recinded 12-year membership in whites’ only country club; I could go on…) Just imagine what they say behind closed doors. With their “Southern Strategy,” the GOP has essentially spent decades rehearsing for a society that doesn’t exist. It shouldn’t be a surprise that the SC GOP routinely embarrass everyone, including themselves, with their regular displays of ignorance.
I’m a liberal Jewish Democrat who came to this page after seeing the link on Huff Post. I wish to compliment the conservatives writing on this blog for their outspoken, appropriate, and appreciated disgust at these bigoted comments. I’m surprised and pleased to see the near-universal response.
If only your party didn’t appeal to those base instincts so often . . .
As a female who is jewish I can honestly say that I am not offended by the sayings of the 2 men from SC. I am however offended by all the pompous indignation being posted here about republicans.
Let me make it clear: unless you are jewish, you have no right to make a judgement about whether this statement was considered “racist”.
Those that are jewish and consider this statement racist, I respect your views but disagree with you.
L’Chaim
Man! This is just a recycling of old fashioned European anti-Semitism disguised as a compliment. How is that different from ” Wanna make a wire? Put a penny between two Jews!” Those morons knew what they were saying and the source of the offence is the thinking behind the words.
Wow. In other words, nothing a Republican says can ever be offensive. Only criticisms of Republicans can be offensive. Gotcha.
Wow again. I’m neither Jewish nor female, so I guess I’m completely off the hook if I make what I consider an inoffensive remark about you being a Hebe bitch. I’m in no position to judge, so how can you hold me responsible?
Not surprising, we all know the Republicans are a bunch of Jew hating Black hating Neo Nazis
At least they are now coming out of the closet more, it must suck to be bottled in the closet like that
What these people have done to America is virtually unforgivable
We are all paying for the civil war and the fact that the Union didn’t let the south secede so they could live with their slaves
What these people have done to America is unforgivable, it doesn’t surprise me the Republicans are now gonna blame the problems and the blacks and the jews just like they always did
What? So DeMint is a good Jew. I bet Michelle Obama makes some good fried chicken and Barney Frank knows how to throw a good Oscar party. There are good and respectful n*ggers out there!
As a poster on this site I can honestly say that I am not offended by the pompous indignation being posted on this site.
By Beatrice’s logic the allied powers, by not being Jewish, had no right to make judgment about the anti-semitic policies of Nazi Germany.
Shalom
Did I see a version of this on Curb Your Enthusiasm? If not, then I hope Larry David is looking in.
#35: Wrong, wrong, wrong. You are wrong to say I don’t have the right to recognize racism, simply because you choose to ignore it.
Do you really think those two gentlemen’s generalizations stop at a supposedly positive stereotype? If so, you are naive beyond belief. If your have gentile friends say such things in your presence, what do you think they say once you leave the room? Stereotyping is as much a show of intolerance as the hurling of racist insults. There is a long history of anti-Semites throwing around supposedly positive comments about Jews (something pointed out by Wm. Buckley) in an attempt to cover their true prejudices.
#26-Richard
If your Jewish grandfather used to say “Watch the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves” he was quoting that great American, Benjamin Franklin.
It’s not an old Jewish saying. It’s an old Franklin saying. So how did the SC GOP manage to misconstrue the origins of that adage?
Ms. Cohen #35-
So, if they’d said “We hate all f—–s!” only a gay person could say it was bigoted? I’m sorry, but that’s absurd.
These two were promoting a stereotype that has historically been used to promote the hatred of Jewish people. There is no magical force blocking every gentile brain from recognizing this fact.
Stupid ( South Carolina Republicans) is as stupid does.
Re: #35 Beatrice Cohen remark that only Jews can call people out as anti-Semitic.
That’s a rather silly and dangerous statement. So only African-Americans can label someone as “racist.” If a politician — or my neighbor — were to refer to someone as a “polack,” only a Polish person can speak out against bigotry?
Unless people of all religions, races, creeds refute these ugly remarks as forcefully as possible, the brittle roots of hate will continue to survive and eventually flourish .
Beatrice, what you are saying is ugly: If non-Jews had spoken out against Hitler’s virulent and demagogic hate, maybe more Jews would have survived the Holocaust. It was by keeping silent that so many non-Jews played a complicit role in Nazism’s Final Solution.
Anyone who studies actual history will see the nature and character of the International Jew is making money off other peoples struggles.
You Jew folks cant have it both ways. Either the “jews” are the same as us or they are different and should be described as such.
Who is “semitic” anyway? I consider myself also semitic but not a Jew.
Lourie is more than jewish,he is communist.
This should be Senator Demint’s “Waterloo”.
Paling around with bigots
As an SC Democrat, I would like to offer this observation: The Republican Party is becoming a party of the old Confederacy, anchored in religious fanaticism, populated by the ignorant, revelling in bellicosity and awash in hypocracy. And this is positive criticism. The Republicans sold their souls for power starting with Bush I (vide Lee Atwater) and nearly wrecked the country under Bush II. The positive role that conservatives have played in fiscal responsibility, sketicism on foreign adventures, care in social experimentation were thrown over to Rule. Now republicans have lost their bearings and moral authority. Getting it back would be like restoring virginity.
Oh, GIVE US A BREAK! You can’t say anything about Jews unless it’s in a hushed, reverential tone? You word-Nazis are going to take us all the way to Orwell’s Newspeak — only 100 words left in the language, never in criticism of the power mafia. Political correctness is strangling the former free world. You self-hating, minority-worshiping whites are going to find there’s nothing left of whitey in another 100 years at this rate, and the world that’s left will NOT be an improvement. Whites are already a minority in California – what’s to stop it from happening elsewhere? High taxes hinder white family life and feed the never-ending tidal wave of third worlders into ameriKa.
Another thing – MicHELLe (sic) Obama is so rotted with corruption it’s a great favor to leave it at calling her part gorilla. Not to mention her communist, yes COMMUNIST husband. For you too young to know what that word means, it’s the name of an ideology that’s killed over 100 million innocent people over the past century with the full blessing of pussyfooting, pettifogging, PC-prissy so-called LIBERALS here and around the world. And COMMUNISM IS PROFOUNDLY JEWISH despite its tactical use of gentile traitors as frontmen.
“Getting it back would be like restoring virginity.”
SteveinSC: There’s surgery for that now, you know.
Sort of like a face-lift really does turn back the clock?
[...] than 48 hours after publishing a guest editorial that used an ethnic stereotype to defend U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint, one of the two authors are apologizing for their remarks. Well, [...]
Yee-ha Nelson, you go girl! Kick them godless Comm-unistic pinko LIEbruls. Mouth foaming, spittle, red-face and all. Put that Klan robe on and further embarass the Palmetto State!
Remember folks these are the same people who once proudly publicly proclaimed that “Race Mixin’ is Communism”, and once called MLK (who they try to co0opt now) a communist. These people still believe it (they’ve just shortened their signs), hence ho President Obama can magically be a communist, socialist, and a Nazi.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/09/the-latest-insanity.html#more
Hey Baked – it’s not a complement and it’s not true. Jews give far more per capita to charity than Christians – and guess what? Those with money got it the same way you would if you worked harder and spent less time doing whatever it is ignorant rednecks do.
Congrats, Nelson Waller. You’ve just identified the South Carolina GOP’s target audience: racist schmucks like yourself.
See ya at the next Klan rally.
“Y’all gotta understand, Yankees, we got our Jews down here too. That there Jim DeMint? He ain’t whacha call your regular Jew, but he’s so cheap we here like to call him one a-them honorary Jews. That’s right, Jim DeMint’s one a-our South Carolina honorary Jews. The boy watches the pennies, if y’all know what I mean.”
Ha ha ha ha ha ha!!
@51 DeMint is Presbyterian
i mean @59
They have horns, too, you know. The jews do. So when DeMint votes for Ag subsidies for cattle ranchers, well, its a Jewish thing, too.
Jim DeMint says what he feels and does not need anyone explaining his comments. If the voters of SC arent happy with him, we wont re-elect him. To the nonresidents of SC, look at the idiots you put in office, Palosi, Schummer, Kennedy, etc. Clean your own state up. We will take care of ours.
Mr. Waller
That’s right…you can’t say anything about Jews…or Latinos, Christians, LGBTs, African-Americans, Muslims,or even Whites…as a group without using at least a little thought. No group is monolithic. Doing so is indulging in, at the very least, sloppy thinking.
Now, commenting on the remarks on an individual, that’s totally appropriate. And all I see in your comments, Mr. Waller, is someone is terribly afraid. Afraid of change: changing demograhics, an increased tolerance for others who are not like us, or maybe it’s the passing of an ideology that should’ve been stillborn.
And, yes, I am liberal. But…I am also a middle-aged white male that lives in the Deep South. I bring my son to church regularly. I served my country overseas, and I am a veteran of the U.S. Army. In many ways, prob. not that different from you.
Finally, I do not hate white people. I don’t have to. Respecting myself AND others is not mutually exclusive.
I fee a little sorry for you. Although your thinking is toxic, for you and people who share your thinking, y’all’s suffering will be over in generation or two.
God Bless the Republican Party! Ensuring that anything it says that is actually intelligent is ignored because it has been taken over by Crackers, religious fanatics, neo-cons, and tea bagging uneducated droolers.
[...] some on the right denounced the comments. Adam Fogle at the conservative Palmetto Scoop wrote: “It’s people like Ulmer and Merwin that make many folks fear for the future of the once [...]
This has been too easy.
You folks are throwing fits and insults and doing everything but taking the ISSUES head-on. The issue is freedom of speech, in particular regarding Jewish subjects. The fact is that Jews are in the forefront of crushing the First Amendment, and the more “diverse” everything gets (largely thanks to Jews in law, politics and media) the more Orwellian. Jews hatched the idea of hate and speech crimes at a conference at Hofstra about 20 years ago, and now it’s law. They’ve spawned People for the (ha, ha, HA!) American Way, the NAACP, the A-C-L-Jew, you name it. Don’t have a cow, that’s what one of my proudly Jewish friends calls it!
You can revile God in every movie and TV, you can out a crucifix in a bottle of urine and win awards for it as “art”, but you can’t take the name of the Jew in vain — i.e., as I said, use it publicly in a non-worshipful, non abject vein. This exempts Jews from the rules every other ethnic group is expected to live by (a process increasingly applied to every “minority” group), and it’s a matter of objective fact that communism is a Jewish product. I’d suggest that before anybody disputes this they read Britton’s book Behind Communism. You can get to a full PDF of the book’s text in seconds online – free of charge.
Your argument is with the worldview that saw the Western world through millennia of spectacular achievement, including the forging of the Bill of Rights through untold blood, sweat and tears — not with me. And your argument is with most working Americans – they don’t happen to want your agenda. But I get the impression you (my critics) don’t care about history or facts the majority’s wishes, you’re passionate about political correctness, period. You are entitled to your own viewpoint but I don’t think most of you can exactly call yourselves tolerant.
Surprise! I’m not even a Republican, and I don’t even have much use for Jim DeMint. But I think the idea of pillorying him because of some passing SEMITICAL INCORRECTNESS is rather lame, rather unreal, rather… Pavlovian.
“Pavlovian?” Nelson, now come on old boy. Use some reasoning when you’re trying to make a point. Throw in a few facts. Just linking non-sequiturs and half-baked assumptions with bad grammar won’t convert anyone to your point of view.
The problem with stereotyping is that it cuts both ways. Making an offhand ethnic stereotype of this sort can unfairly leave an impression that such comments reflect the views of those who live in South Carolina. I would politely suggest that just as Governor Sanford does not reflect the citizens of South Carolina, neither do these two gents.
Those who attend the much-hyped “tea party” events and carry posters showing the President with a Hitler mustache drawn in have the same confusion about what the average American thinks of our government and the President.
Is it a long-term risk to the Republican Party? It is probably early days to judge that, but as some individuals have started to attack more centrist figures like Senator Lindsay Graham, the idea that this anger could spawn a third party seems increasingly real. If our country was a Parliamentary democracy that more extreme group could ally with the more mainstream Republicans to form a coalition government. But our country isn’t set up that way. Whether one likes the Republican Party, or not, the weakening of a strong second party is not something anyone stands to benefit from.
Watching things like this and other public gaffes like Joe Wilson’s performance seem increasingly to suggest that the friends of the GOP need to set up an Intervention, in order to talk with it about its thinking problem.
Well, more wisdom from South Carolina’s GOP. Does anyone know that in addition to the fact that Jews zealously save pennies, Asians are really good in math, Blacks excel in dancing and basketball, Latinos are vibrantly hotblooded and lastly all Italians are really “connected”. All these startling insights will soon appear on the GOP’s new website (as soon as it stops crashing).
I am jewish (Cohen) and I do not find anything said by either chairmen to be offensive at all. My father has used the same quote for years. Looking after the small stuff is important.. the small stuff adds up to the big stuff. You democrats, you know who you are, want people to pay close attention to the big numbers so your back room dealing can manipulate the small numbers.
I am in the minority but This jewboy republican continues to support Jim DeMint! He is one of the few good guys in office. Most politicians are on my shit list because they earmark every bill to death and spend all the pennies. And yes the small change adds up.
Shalom!
As a person of the Jewish faith, I can’t believe how ridiculously sensitive all of society has become to comments referring to any group of people.
I did not read the comments as anti Semitic at all. I thought: yes, we are an old people with an amazing wisdom which has served us well on many fronts including the financial.
This was a comment of admiration. If all governments would watch their pennies then we would have dollars. Well, we watch the dollars fly out the window and all we’re left with are pennies.
That is the tragedy of our time and we can’t even begin to imagine the results that will follow.
Ned in Vermont
while you are burning crosses and trying to outspook each other and point fingers and talk trash, us voters are getting bored. get a job!
[...] than 24 hours after The Palmetto Scoop first shed light on an anti-Semitic statement in a guest editorial by two South Carolina Republican Party chairmen, [...]
Good, Ned in Vermont — excellent, “turbo”! People need to hear a common-sense point of view on this NONtroversy from Jews. But will the self-appointed thought police even notice? I seriously doubt it! So far, comment #74 spits tacks and #75 doesn’t seem to say much.
I will point out one thing, though, which in a way changes everything. Ned says “I can’t believe how ridiculously sensitive all of society has become to comments referring to any group of people.” Uh, ahem…. “all of society” is no such thing! It’s the kind of political prudes seen on this page and the liberal media and pasty-faced preachers et al that go ballistic at perceived slurs, but only those regarding “accredited victim groups” as Wilmot Robertson trenchantly dubbed them. Blacks, hispanics, Jews, Asians are protected species with the establishment while it’s always open season on Christians and whites. Indeed, hatred of these and discrimination against them is now the way it is in ameriKa.
Well, liberals — there you have it. The two Jews that have weighed in agree with ME, NOT YOU, about DeMint’s comments, not you, and even up his ante with “unthinkable” words like “jewboy” USED IN FUN. There’s life beyond the PC matrix…. come on in, the water’s fine!
Sure, other Jews don’t like it, but maybe they need to lighten up? (I predict some will post more gripes below.)
I have seen the story of Joel Lourie, South Carolina’s only Jewish senator and a democrat, being offended that someone would say Jews were penny pinchers. Well I can see how a “Tax and Spend” democrat would be offended by being included in a group of “penny pinchers”. I too was offended by the Orangeburg Republicans’ comments. They grave credit to the wrong group. With names like Faircloth and Bagley in my family tree, I have thrift in my blood. I believe it was an old Scottish saying that if you take care of the pennies, the dollars will take care of themselves. I have two questions for democrats presently in government. Can a penny pincher be a democrat and can a democrat really be a penny pincher? From what I have seen lately the term “Penny Pinching Democrat” is an oxymoron.
You’ve answered your own question rather well. Reminds me of the joke about how copper wire was invented — well, let’s not go there.
As a former passionate GOPer (and member of the National Committee in junkmail terms) the main question in my mind is how can there be ANY fiscal hope as long as EITHER major party is in business? They are in fact ONE and have been for a long time, don’t anybody kid themselves.
You Democrats are pikers. I HATE the Republican Party. Lots of you do too, but are to polite to say so in public. It’s not nice to hate, say the kindergarten teachers.
About the above joke about copper wire, that’s an invitation for somebody to jump in and palpitate “Ya see there, Waller? You ARE a naziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews. It’s insensitive to even mention that joke. The hell with you, evil anti-Semite©!”
I predict this thread will be taken down soon.
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