Tag Archives: Southern Strategy

Republicans Seek to Eliminate ‘Obamaphone’ Program

Posted on March 14, 2013 at 7:07 am by Bob Cesca

My Thursday column and another Republican attack on poor people: When the Republicans determined that ACORN had somehow helped President Obama win the 2008 presidential election, and following a heavily-doctored video prank by James O’Keefe and Andrew Breitbart, the Republicans … Continue reading →
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They Can’t Let Go of the Southern Strategy

Posted on March 4, 2013 at 8:31 am by Bob Cesca

Romney yesterday: ROMNEY: We did very well with the majority population, but not with minority populations, and that was a failing, that was a real mistake. CHRIS WALLACE: Why do you think that was? ROMNEY: Well, I think the Obamacare … Continue reading →
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WTF? Of Course the Voting Rights Act is Still Needed!

Posted on February 25, 2013 at 11:01 am by Bob Cesca

There’s a discussion over at The New York Times about whether the Voting Rights Act is still needed today, more than 40 years after it finally crushed Jim Crow laws that disenfranchised millions of voters. The fact that the Supreme … Continue reading →
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American Racism’s Greatest Ally: The Republican Party

Posted on February 19, 2013 at 7:13 am by Bob Cesca

My Tuesday column and some familiar territory: In a relative sense the American Civil War wasn’t that long ago. Soon after I was born, my parents took me to visit my great grandfather, Charles Davis, who everyone called “Pappy.” Pappy … Continue reading →
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The Republican Party’s “Black Friends”

Posted on November 26, 2012 at 7:18 am by Bob Cesca

My Monday column: Jonah Goldberg’s recent column, To Appeal to Black Voters, GOP Must Run Gauntlet of Racism Accusations, is hilariously awful. I’ll swing back around to it presently. But first, over the weekend, Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs … Continue reading →

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John Sununu is a Horrible, Wretched Man

Posted on October 26, 2012 at 9:18 am by Bob Cesca

On CNN’s Piers Morgan last night discussing Colin Powell’s endorsement of President Obama: Sununu: Well, I’m not sure how important that is. I do like the fact that Colin Powell’s boss, George Herbert Walker Bush, has endorsed Mitt Romney all … Continue reading →

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Limbaugh on George Will’s ‘Affirmative Action President’ Column

Posted on October 3, 2012 at 9:06 am by Bob Cesca

They simply can’t accept that President Obama has had a successful first term and that their candidate is way out of his depth. So it must be affirmative action latitude at the expense of the white man. And it’s all … Continue reading →

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That’s No Way To Win Elections

Posted on September 18, 2012 at 2:30 pm by JM Ashby

Ta-Nehisi Coates at The Atlantic makes a very good point on the flip side of Mitt Romney’s “47 percent” comments as they pertain to the expiration of the Southern Strategy’s effectiveness. More to the point, as tactics aimed at suppressing … Continue reading →

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Romney’s Video is Nothing Like the President’s 2008 ‘Cling’ Video

Posted on September 18, 2012 at 10:23 am by Bob Cesca

When then-Senator Obama was caught on tape by an industrious Huffington Post blogger, his remarks contained a bit of disdain, but weren’t terribly false or egregious. In fact, he was quite accurate about something that most top level Democrats don’t … Continue reading →

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Rove’s New Pro-Romney Commercial is Hilariously Ironic

Posted on September 17, 2012 at 7:18 am by Bob Cesca

My Monday column dives into familiar waters with the release of a new Karl Rove Crossroads GPS commercial and the continued use of the “lazy and shiftless” dog-whistle: Desperate to reverse the losing streak of the last three weeks, the … Continue reading →

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