THE GOP ESTABLISHMENT IS GETTING DESPERATE
Don’t look now, but we’ve weighed in twice now over the last week against positions taken by GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump – the guy whose populist candidacy we endorsed prior to this year’s “First in the South” presidential primary.
(See here and here for those columns).
This time, though, we’re coming down decidedly on the side of “The Donald.”
At issue? The Ku Klux Klan – and specifically Trump’s failure to repudiate an endorsement his campaign received from one of the organization’s former leaders, David Duke.
First of all, think about the verbal meandering required to follow this latest example of PC insanity: We’re supposed to be angry at someone for “failing to repudiate an endorsement?”
Really? Sounds a lot like leaving the cap off the toothpaste. Or not putting the toilet seat down.
Nonetheless, people are apparently very angry at Trump for not attacking someone who said something unsolicitedly nice about him. In fact supporters of U.S. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida – Trump’s last real rival for the “Republican” presidential nomination – are positively livid at Trump for not opening up a can of bombast on his endorsement.
“Any candidate who cannot immediately condemn a hate group like the KKK does not represent the Republican party,” said U.S. Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, one of Rubio’s top supporters. “If Donald Trump can’t take a stand against the KKK, we cannot trust him to stand up for America against Putin, Iran or ISIS.”
Sheesh …
Sounds like somebody is upset his “colorful” endorsement of Rubio failed to have the desired effect in his home state.
Anyway, repudiating the KKK might actually be harder than it looks. Seriously, the last time we saw this organization (a week ago in Las Vegas) it turned out #BlackLivesMatter activists were under the hoods. Oh, and they were protesting Trump.
The time before that? The KKK was marching on the South Carolina State House at the behest of its North Carolina-based leader – an undercover federal agent.
Yeah …
This group is a joke. It’s been a joke for a long time. Trump doesn’t need to repudiate it because the rest of America already has.
David Duke? Seriously … we had no idea this guy was even still alive.
So … what should we be repudiating instead of Trump’s “failure to repudiate” an unsolicited compliment? The full retard PC opportunism of those attacking him over this non-troversy.
We’ve found two legitimate reasons to criticize Trump within the last week. Those issues involved serious affronts to liberty – and we minced no words in lambasting “The Donald” for his dangerous viewpoints.
This? It’s just silly political opportunism … and detracts from the bigger conversation we should be having.
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Bullshit Boobio is gettibng desperate.
Didn’t even watch it did you? Tapper gave him a bullshit question that all Trump had to do was say he doesn’t support Duke or the KKK and Trump said he didn’t know who they were. Tapper gave him like 3 attempts to say fuck the KKK and he didn’t.
It was weird (or planned, Super Tuesday is the southern primary…..)
In 2000, Trump claimed he left the Reform Party because of David Duke. What a joke that orange goof is.
Trump knows how to attract racists pricks like a pro.
Jeff Sessions–(via Wikipedia)
Failed nomination to the district court
In 1986, Reagan nominated Sessions to be a judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama.[5] Sessions’s judicial nomination was recommended and actively backed by Republican Alabama Senator Jeremiah Denton.[6] A substantial majority of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary, which rates nominees to the federal bench, rated Sessions “qualified,” with a minority voting that Sessions was “not qualified.”[7]
At Sessions’ confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee, four Department of Justice lawyers who had worked with Sessions testified that he had made several racist statements. One of those lawyers, J. Gerald Hebert, testified that Sessions had referred to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) as “un-American” and “Communist-inspired” because they “forced civil rights down the throats of people.”[8]
Thomas Figures, a black Assistant U.S. Attorney, testified that Sessions said he thought the Klan was “OK until I found out they smoked pot.” Sessions later said that the comment was not serious, but apologized for it.[9] Figures also testified that on one occasion, when the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division sent the office instructions to investigate a case that Sessions had tried to close, Figures and Sessions “had a very spirited discussion regarding how the Hodge case should then be handled; in the course of that argument, Mr. Sessions threw the file on a table, and remarked, ‘I wish I could decline on all of them,'” by which Figures said Sessions meant civil rights cases generally. After becoming Ranking Member of the Judiciary Committee, Sessions was asked in an interview about his civil rights record as a U.S Attorney. He denied that he had not sufficiently pursued civil rights cases, saying that “when I was [a U.S. Attorney], I signed 10 pleadings attacking segregation or the remnants of segregation, where we as part of the Department of Justice, we sought desegregation remedies.”[10]
Figures also said that Sessions had called him “boy.”[5] He also testified that “Mr. Sessions admonished me to ‘be careful what you say to white folks.'”[11]
Where is Bernie?
If he had to disassociate himself from racists half his retweets would vanish. http://gawker.com/donald-trump-will-never-stop-retweeting-white-supremaci-1761721723
This one was funny too. http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/02/28/donald-trump-retweets-post-likening-him-to-mussolini/
He has to know what he’s doing. He’s got to be in this for sheer enjoyment.
Not the only thing he took from Mussolini
https://twitter.com/JRBoh/status/704303373055610880?ref_src=twsrc^tfw
Il Duce was a devout communist turned national socialist once he realized the international community had sold the communists out in Italyz
charles manson endorsed hillary last week. where is the coverage?
Debka.
lol…he’s not that bad I’m ashamed to say.
Hugh Hewitt looks like Anderson Cooper’s retarded little
brother.
Rubio looks like a cross between ricky ricardo and Charles manson. and acts like it too.
So hot. Redneck KKK porn w/black chicks/free charlie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpx4ODP35VQ
The MSM, “We not only report the news, we also make it up as we go.”
A big nothingburger.
A reporter fishing for a story.
Too fellow white racists this wouldn’t be a bid deal. To everybody else though…….
That’s your problem.
Too? How should linguists react?
cunningly
Outstanding. When I hang a fastball chest high on you, swinging is the only option…
I’m thinkin’ Arby’s!
Heard at the Arby’s counter:
“OMG, here comes that green guy with the swollen tongue! Why does he turn those sandwiches sideways to eat them?”
Donald Trump has united the Democrats and Republicans. They have both decided that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. They have a complicit media, including Fox News, trying to help bring him down. They don’t understand that being the anti-establishment candidate is what makes him popular.
Yes, Democrats are voting for Trump in the primaries…..to make sure the Democrat nominee will just cruise into the the White House. He can’t beat Hillary or Bernie nationally.
“Shock Poll: Hillary could lose NY to Trump!”
Shock poll: keep forks out of electrical outlets!
They have a complicit media, including Fox News, trying to help bring him down. They don’t understand that being the anti-establishment candidate is what makes him popular.
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Yes they do.
This is like a reporter asking Hillary Clinton to repudiate Al Sharpton.
You know she is not going to do and Sharpton is responsible for several deaths because of the racial resentment he incited. Sharpton is one up on Duke.
So clueless…
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Anyone willing to admit Republicans are scum yet?
You willing to admit that you are scum for posting Duke’s hateful quotes?
Iz Drunk?
You are dangerous.
thanx.
All day every day!
Trump already dealt with the KKK last August … this is old bullshit.
who’s david duke?
euwe max knows David Duke. You inadvertently posted his anti-Semitic quotes. I called you out on it. The quotes questioned people’s loyalty because of their Jewish heritage and pro-Israel possitions.
Think Chump knowz David Duck?
Dump the Chump
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/Y9uL2QQGqtFfnIshT69d4EgcNHQhEef6912kqrsuFkzIWklGmd-AIukUnhpACNY3XocNMRyFTQSp2y3kADbptVT8AaWCNfz6-O3_WYviNhwJc101ZRqgd3VqULRc_tJNkDShjorNLe6Og4z5ZnUBKigTtOA58jviO5ahA_u7KuPRqNolOSLTyiz0hABdPBzzbxGGVxXQT9IvqAnbc1yVg7NHHG_1CQCumZw0-5TWZLxI3Lj8g4WB1WvWjrI43y8uM3p9Rh_4X_fMgMjWPpsMjpObhvecgSswNDJgOLojoOqD5147C_VSxtR6mmtuig=w5000-h5000
LMAO!!! How true!
TRUMP WINS YUGE
MELISSA HARRIS PERRY GETS SHITCANNED. WWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAA
MSNBC CAPITULATING. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE
Did anyone watch the Academy Awards last night?
I used to think that I didn’t watch the Oscars they because mostly artsy-fartsy box office bombs got the awards but now I found out I don’t watch them because they have a formerly funny, turned useful idiot, racist hosting.
I bet the Pauls are pissed their KKK followers left Rand for the Donald.
Just when it seems that Folks can’t get any more mendacious… This issue is not about being angry about Trump “failing to repudiate an endorsement.” There is much more to it than that and Folks knows it. Trump has a recent history of retweeting tweets from white supremacists. http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/trump-neo-nazi-retweet-218113 He knows full well who and what David Duke is. He was asked a perfectly legitimate question based on the above, and he refused to simply repudiate bigots and their organizations. Why?
They used this exact same attack to brand Ron Paul as a racist, KKK supporter, etc. I don’t think it’s going to have the desired effect this time.
Donald J. Trump ?
?@realDonaldTrump
“@ilduce2016: “It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.” – @realDonaldTrump #MakeAmericaGreatAgain”
6:13 AM – 28 Feb 2016
Loving the Mussolini retweet.
Gay men can be such whiners.
NY Times reporter mumbles “racist says what?”
Trump: What?
NY Times: DONALD’S A RACIST
He doesn’t seem to need to do “research” to learn more about a group if they are either Muslim or Hispanic, only if they are white.
“This? It’s just silly political opportunism … and detracts from the bigger conversation we should be having.”
Kind of like the Rubio rumors you keep posting?
You are correct. Here is the bigger conversation:
NBC NEWS
FEBRUARY 26, 2016
“Trump Tower Got Its Start With Undocumented Foreign Workers”
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/donald-says-controversy-over-his-tower-was-trumped-n397821
ABC NEWS
APRIL 28, 2011
“Donald Trump Blames China for Fact That Much of His Gear is ‘Made in China’ ”
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-admits-gear-made-china-labels/story?id=13472355
BUZZFEED
JULY 1, 2015
“People Are Really Enjoying This Image Showing Donald Trump’s Clothing Made In Mexico”
http://www.buzzfeed.com/adolfoflores/people-are-really-enjoying-this-image-showing-donald-trumps#.tnja6VWZjY
Trump blames bad television ear piece for KKK comments
AHA! I knew he wasn’t to blame for not knowing who David Duke was…. or what white supremacy was…
What is hilarious about all this is the KKK has been supporting Republicans for decades now and not one Republican has bitched about it until now. In fact god old Lee Atwater brought them into the Republican fold. All part of the southern strategy that worked so well and continues to be played in Dixie. Republican are masters at manipulating racists to vote for them.